I came across an interesting post on this topic, and I have to say, that I really agree with what the author, Kareem wrote. In it he mentions three key [ … ]
Category: Leadership
What’s the opposite of “analysis paralysis”?
I was discussing something with Alan today and during the conversation he said something like: Well, you don’t want to get stuck in analysis paralysis but you don’t want to [ … ]
How much revenue for each PM in your company?
Someone asked me a question recently and I couldn’t find an answer on the Web, so I decided to ask all of you for help. After reading my article, “You [ … ]
Seth’s Advice for Product Managers: Quit Now
Seth Godin gives some advice to real estate agents. Allow me to paraphrase his advice for Product Managers: Here’s my best advice (everyone knows a product manager or two, so [ … ]
Little features and a lesson for Product Management
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 [ … ]
Product Managers need time to breathe…
I’m going to make an assertion here, and please correct me if I’m wrong. I believe that the vast majority of software product managers are running full tilt in their [ … ]
Forrester on Product Management
I’m quite happy to report that Forrester Research has started a blog covering Product Management: http://blogs.forrester.com/product_management/ Here’s link to the bio of the analyst writing the blog: http://www.forrester.com/rb/analyst/tom_grant IMHO, [ … ]
Product Manager vs. Product Management (part 5)
In part 4, I discussed processes, and talked about loosely-coupled and tightly-coupled processes. The reason I wanted to introduce those is because when I talk about understanding the Information Supply [ … ]
Does your company have the RIGHT kind of problems?
Having worked at several companies, and known well many others, I’ve seen some patterns, both good and bad, within those companies. WRT problems in companies, some companies can be described [ … ]
Product Management and Open Source initiatives
Ran across this posting on the Infoworld site. Some interesting tidbits here. And if you think working as a PM in a commercial ISV is tough, it’s much more complex [ … ]