I recently completed a six part series of articles entitled: How to be a GREAT Product Manager I started writing the series as an analogue to Ken Norton’s posting on [ … ]
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How to be a GREAT Product Manager (part 6)
Own the product from conception to completion and beyond In my early product management jobs, I focused a lot on the process of product management. A CEO of a startup [ … ]
How does a PM gain insight?
In a comment on one of Alan’s posts, a reader, Michael, asks, how product managers can gain insight into market and customer needs. He then lists a number of ways [ … ]
How to be a GREAT Product Manager (part 5)
Be an integrator, translator and communicator. Don’t be a terminator. I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase that Product Managers are “the hub of the wheel”. I really don’t like that [ … ]
Honey, I bought the Phone. Confessions from the Cambridge Apple Store.
I have a perfectly good Blackberry 8200 series, but I’ve been waiting for a chance to hit the Apple store to check out the iPhone. If you’ve been reading our [ … ]
How to be a GREAT Product Manager (part 2)
Be technical, without becoming a technologist Product Managers need to focus on the “what”, and not the “how”. The charter of the PM is to define what needs to be [ … ]
Lessons from Harry Potter
So tonight is the big night for all those muggles who have waited for the final installment of the Harry Potter series of books. To all those Harry Potter fans, [ … ]
On Product Design
I was going to write a big entry about ethnography as a design tool, but that got me to thinking a more basic question: in your organization, who does product [ … ]
Why I hate PowerPoint
I hate PowerPoint. I hate what it has done to modern meetings, and I hate the fact that it is expected that one will produce slides for each meeting. Am I being a little strong here? Maybe the verb should be lament. Yes, I lament the dominance of PowerPoint in today’s meetings.
I gotta camp out to get me some of that … iPhone camping guide
It’s a phone. It’s really just a phone. But it’s also internet, chat, camera. All of which exist. But this, this is the iPhone. Here is a site that helps [ … ]