ProductCamp New York was last weekend and it appears to have been quite successful. Alan attended and wrote up this post about it. If you missed the New York session [ … ]
Category: Leadership
Announcing ProductCamp Toronto 2009
The time and place for the next ProductCamp Toronto has been set. It’s Sunday October 4, 2009 @ the Ted Rogers School of Business at Ryerson University in downtown Toronto. [ … ]
Go to school, get an education, create a job!
By Saeed Khan As my kids are getting older – my eldest is now entering high school – I’m turning into one of those dads who tries to impart wordly [ … ]
Podcast with Tom Grant of Forrester
I recently had a good conversation with Tom Grant of Forrester Research. We discussed a number of topics including organizational structures for Product Management, the maturity level of Product Management, [ … ]
Guest Post: Awareness, Persuasion and Shelf Life
NOTE: The following is a guest post by Gopal Shenoy, author of the blog Product Management Tips. If you feel inspired to write a guest post of your own, click [ … ]
So why do we undermine ourselves?
My recent post about Tom Grant and Rick Chapman got me thinking. Is Rick alone in his misunderstanding of Product Management? To be honest, I knew what the answer would [ … ]
Tom Grant Kicks Some SaaS
Forrester’s Tom Grant has written 2 excellent pieces rebutting some rather uninformed blog posts and comments made by Rick Chapman over at SaaSUniversity.com. Many people, myself included, left comments directly [ … ]
Should I deliver bad news?
This one is a little personal, but I need some advice. I have a friend who is working on creating a new web-based product/business. It’s in the consumer space and [ … ]
Innovation Lessons from Scott Cook
Here’s a great presentation Scott Cook (founder of Intuit) gave back in 2005 on how Intuit develops new products. Needless to say, their approach is very problem oriented, customer research [ … ]
American Idol and New Product Development
Creating new successful products is tough. There’s absolutely no debating that. Virtually every Product Manager I know has worked on some new product that — despite their best efforts to [ … ]