Today, while working on a different blog posting (to be posted soon), my browser, Firefox, froze. I use FireFox almost exclusively these days, mostly because it works well, and I [ … ]
Category: Interaction
Goodbye File menu, hello throbbing Orb
We recently upgraded from Microsoft Office 2003 to Microsoft Office 2007 at work. Clearly Microsoft has put a lot of effort into upgrading the UI in the various components of [ … ]
What’s the deal with Personas?
The CrankyPM recently posted a good little rant on personas. It’s drawn some interesting comments from both sides of the persona camp (PCamp? 🙂 ). BTW, I’m totally jealous as [ … ]
Product Manager vs. Product Management (part 6)
In part 5, I showed how you can begin to decompose the areas where teams, particularly Product Management, provide key deliverables to other teams. Here’s what the heat map looked [ … ]
Product Manager vs. Product Management (part 4)
I received a number of requests for the “20 page document” mentioned in part 3 of this series, that defines the activities in the Product Management Deliverables grid. (see below) [ … ]
How different people handle change
As a Product Manager, you are required to deal with all parts of the company, from marketing to development to finance to operations to the executive team; you need to [ … ]
A no-demo tradeshow…
So, a few weeks back, a number of Product Management bloggers were invited to participate in a “blogfest” (blogapalooza?), responding to Steve Johnson’s post entitled “Why Demo at Tradeshows?” Both [ … ]
What’s the deal with tradeshow demos? (abridged and full versions)
In a blog posting, Steve Johnson of Pragmatic Marketing asks “Why Demo at Trade Shows?” Good question. Abridged version Why demo? Steve writes: Do we think that the product will [ … ]
Quick Links: Don’t ask for what you want when you negotiate
Alan wrote about negotiations before. Penelope Trunk, in her great Brazen Careerist blog, writes about negotiations: Don’t ask for what you want when you negotiate. Now, her examples focus mostly [ … ]
Some Product Management reading
Over the last few years I’ve written several articles that have been published by the folks at ProductMarketing.com. I discussed one such article, Product Management Axioms, in another blog post. [ … ]