Well, I know it’s kind of like this in some countries, but try some of these strategies when paying for your next restaurant meal or other service provider… Saeed
Category: Enterprise Software
Product Management by Committee? – pt. 2
By Saeed Khan There were some very interesting responses to my post “Product Management by Committee?”. I also posted a question in the LinkedIn Internet Product Management Group [LinkedIn login [ … ]
Product Management by Committee?
I came across an interesting blog post entitled “Product management by committee. How sustainable is it?“. The topic is a very good one as many early stage technology companies are [ … ]
What can we learn from Cassatt’s demise?
There’s an interview with former BEA co-founder Bill Coleman in Forbes about the last days of his company Cassatt. Bill Coleman is now the founder and CEO of Cassatt Corporation, [ … ]
Contacting lost accounts
Customers will normally schedule time to speak with you, but it’s not easy to get ahold of lost accounts. My hit ratio is about 50%, meaning that if I want [ … ]
Win/Loss Analysis: What to do if you’re not allowed to call customers
My bottom line is that proper win/loss analysis is crucial to a company’s revenue, profit, and decision making at all levels of the company. If you are responsible for product decisions, but you don’t have authority to do a good job of the analysis, you are flying blind, and doing a disservice to your investors, your customers, and your own career.
The Agile Disease…
Having written a fair bit recently about Agile/Scrum, I found the following post provided an interesting perspective. The Agile Disease by Luke Halliwell I don’t agree with everything the Luke [ … ]
A 5th element for the Agile Manifesto
Robert Martin gave a keynote at the Agile 2008 conference. Entitled Quintessence, he talked about adding a 5th element to the Agile Manifesto. His suggestion was: Craftsmanship over Crap After [ … ]
Agile/Scrum and Product Roadmaps
By Saeed Khan A common question that come up when discussing Agile/Scrum is how to develop and maintain a product roadmap in an Agile environment. The confusion seems to come [ … ]