By Rivi Aspler A few months ago, I linked the type of product manager that you want to hire, to the product life cycle stage that your product is at, [ … ]
Category: Innovation
What is a Successful Product? An Overview of Metrics and KPIs to Track Product Success
by Anders Linsdorf Every company wants to be a success, and of course, that means having successful products. But what is a successful product? Different companies will have different goals [ … ]
Stop saying “No” and start asking “Why”
by Saeed Khan Every day, it seems, I see another blog post or article on product development that tells people to say “No” to feature requests. Don’t believe me? Just [ … ]
Your user interface defines a conversation – does it always make sense?
By Saeed Khan What is the difference between these two sentences? He eats, shoots and leaves. He eats shoots and leaves. The first describes a gunman, most likely in a [ … ]
When Did Apple Become a Market Laggard?
by Saeed Khan In case you were sleeping yesterday, let me fill you in on the big technology announcement from Apple. Live from Cupertino California, and streamed (rather problematically) on [ … ]
Experience or Vision — How to make great products
By Anders Lisdorf Reading Steve Jobs’ biography set in motion a train of thoughts that took me from the Jobs/Gates controversy over history of religion and philosophy to what we [ … ]
The 3 biggest problems in Product Management today – Part 2 – Process
by Saeed Khan In part 1– I listed the following problems as the biggest ones I see facing high-tech product management. poor definition of roles and responsibilities significant gaps in repeatable [ … ]
Want insights? Go outside and observe!
By Saeed Khan I returned recently from a business trip to Germany. Whenever I travel, whether for business or pleasure, I find it difficult to take my “product manager” hat [ … ]
If I Were Building the Ultimate Technology Solution for Product Management & Marketing…
By John Mansour It’s been on my mind for years, even to the point where we seriously considered developing it at Proficientz a few years ago. But we decided to [ … ]
5 Tips for Building Tablet-First Business Applications
By Rivi Aspler Congratulations, you have just gotten approval to build a tablet-first business application. This scenario is nothing new when your product has been designed initially for the mobile [ … ]