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 [ … ]
Category: Interaction
Is it possible to measure the impact of Product Management?
by Saeed Khan One of the very first articles I wrote on Product Management was titled “You can’t never have too many Product Managers“. I think that was back in [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Customer Analytics – a Double Edged Sword
The following is a guest post by Lorraine Chapman, Director Research at Macadamian. If you want to submit your own guest post, click here for more information. With the rise of [ … ]
Open Question – How can you minimize subjectivity in UX/UI Design?
By Saeed Khan Here’s a question that’s troubling me a fair bit. As much as we can talk about what is or isn’t good from a UX/UI perspective, the fact [ … ]
Apparent value vs. Discoverable value
By Saeed Khan Not all features are created equal. Not all features are useful or evident upfront. The value we derive from products can be multi-layered or multi-faceted. In [ … ]
Why Social Media is insufficient if you want to truly ‘engage’ with customers
By Saeed Khan It’s interesting to step back from time to time and reflect on how we work and communicate with coworkers, friends, customers and others. Of course, Social Media [ … ]
Why the “Backlog Manager” fits best for Scrum focused ISVs
by Saeed Khan I’ve written a lot lately about the dissonance in the way Scrum defines the “Product Owner” role and responsibilities and the reality of what occurs in many [ … ]
Worth Repeating: Innovation Lessons from Intuit’s Scott Cook
by Saeed Khan I had a post a couple of weeks back entitled Product Management lies at the heart of Innovation. In it I discussed the differences between invention (i.e. [ … ]
Design: Forethought or Afterthought? How to use design to increase differentiation
“Design” has the ability to differentiate your company and your product, yet few of you are investing in real design. If I were starting a software company, I would start [ … ]