Just a quick note. I’m speaking on a panel this evening at the Toronto Product Managers Association (TPMA). The topic is Career Smarts for Product Managers. The meeting is in [ … ]
Category: Leadership
Adam Bullied vs. Enthiosys: Don’t Fight!
Adam Bullied has a post last week entitled “Are agile PMs baloney?” First off, great title. No burying the lede here. You can read the post on Adam’s site, here’s the [ … ]
Reorg time: Put PMs and PMMs in the same department!
Wow! At the time of writing this post, almost 80% of respondents to my poll, asking If Product Management and Product Marketing should be part of the same organization, answered [ … ]
Should Product Management and Product Marketing be parts of the same department?
Here’s another organizational structure question for you. Given the tight working relationship that Product Management and Product Marketing (ideally) should have and knowledge, roles and objectives that they have, should [ … ]
Product Managers: Do the opposite!
If the product management surveys are to be believed, most product managers spend very little time doing the things we know that we should be doing, and instead spend all [ … ]
Why Doesn’t Engineering report to Product Management (redux)
Not only did original my post entitled Why doesn’t Engineering report into Product Management generate a lot of comments, but it was by far the most read piece on the [ … ]
Another new Product Management Blog
Here’s another new blog worth following. http://marketada.com/ Make sure you read the article entitled Utilize Patterns to Catalyze Innovation. Good stuff. One very good point in the article: I thrive [ … ]
Book Review: The Product Manager’s Desk Reference
There aren’t a lot of really good books available for Product Managers. That may be simply because only a few people truly understand what Product Management is, AND have it [ … ]
Product Strategist Blog or is it a Nooz?
Just came a cross a great set of articles written by David W. Locke on the web site Noozit.com. I don’t know what “Nooz” means (a play on the word [ … ]
Initial Results: Problems in Technology Product Management
So, the survey is now closed. I’ll be looking at the responses, sharing them and commenting on them over the next few days. While there were a variety of responses, [ … ]