As many of you may have read back in December, Twitter announced they were hiring a PM to help them figure out how to generate revenue. I’m assuming Twitter has [ … ]
Category: Innovation
The problem with “find an unsolved problem…”
The common wisdom for developing new products, goes something like this: Find an unsolved problem or an unmet need Identify who values that need Build a profitable solution for that [ … ]
More ProductCamps!
I’m happy to see that a number of cities are holding ProductCamps. Previous ones have included Silicon Valley, Austin, Boston and Toronto. Now two new ones are in the works [ … ]
The Lowdown on “Social Media” pt. 4
The Circle of Life So we’ve come full circle, with technology finally starting to catch up to how we’ve interacted with each other since the dawn of time. Marketing and [ … ]
The Lowdown on Social Media pt. 3
Customer Service. How can we ignore you? Back in 2000, I was living in California and had a cell phone from Sprint. I was having a lot of problems with [ … ]
The Lowdown on “Social Media” pt. 2
The Way Back Machine To understand Social Media better, it’s important that our frame of reference start further back then the 1940s. It cannot start with the age of “mass [ … ]
The Lowdown on “Social Media” pt. 1
Take a look at the following video, and then read the rest of this blog post. OK…now read the rest of the post. Don’t cheat. If you didn’t watch the [ … ]
Six Characteristics of Product Managers
After an unintentional and rather protracted break from blogging (a bad flu in February, followed by a really busy work and personal schedule for the last few weeks), I’m returning [ … ]
Adam Bullied vs. Enthiosys: Don’t Fight!
Adam Bullied has a post last week entitled “Are agile PMs baloney?” First off, great title. No burying the lede here. You can read the post on Adam’s site, here’s the [ … ]
Reorg time: Put PMs and PMMs in the same department!
Wow! At the time of writing this post, almost 80% of respondents to my poll, asking If Product Management and Product Marketing should be part of the same organization, answered [ … ]