The ProductCamp movement seems to be picking up steam. Last year there were 3 such camps in total, in Silicon Valley, Austin and Toronto. So far this year, there have [ … ]
Category: Leadership
Product Management by Committee? – pt. 2
By Saeed Khan There were some very interesting responses to my post “Product Management by Committee?”. I also posted a question in the LinkedIn Internet Product Management Group [LinkedIn login [ … ]
What can we learn from Cassatt’s demise?
There’s an interview with former BEA co-founder Bill Coleman in Forbes about the last days of his company Cassatt. Bill Coleman is now the founder and CEO of Cassatt Corporation, [ … ]
Ideas for Twitter’s Revenue Model – pt. 2
In part 1, I described some of the responses received from a survey I ran a couple of weeks ago asking readers for ideas on how Twitter could generate revenue. [ … ]
Ideas for Twitter’s Revenue Model – pt. 1
The survey I ran last week is now closed and here is a summary of the ideas and comments collected. Some are fairly traditional and some are rather novel. Take [ … ]
Help the Twitter Product Manager
Only a couple of days left before the survey ends. The survey will close at 11:59 PM EST on Friday April 17, 2009. Let’s face it, we ALL like FREE [ … ]
Help Twitter Generate Revenue
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]