To a decent amount of fanfare, a search engine named Cuil (pronounced cool) was launched this week. Founded by ex-Googlers, Cuil was positioned as a direct competitor to Google. Now, [ … ]
Category: Marketing
How to LOSE customers!
One final installment in the APC UPS saga. Read these two posts if you want to get caught up. Bad Design on a UPS How NOT to talk to customers [ … ]
What’s in a name? A PM by any other name…
The Cranky PM has gotten herself into a big snit over a Business Week article about a day in the life of a “Product Manager” at Microsoft. Among other things, [ … ]
How NOT to communicate with customers
I had a post a couple of weeks back entitled Bad Design on a UPS, describing what I see as a problem with the UPS I bought last year. One [ … ]
The Software Product Management Blues
First off….apologies to Bob Dylan and any Dylan fans out there. This should be sung to the music and tune of Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues. And scroll down to the [ … ]
The price is never right
I’ve been thinking a lot about pricing recently. It’s one of those topics that we all deal with, but my guess is that none of us, myself included, deal with [ … ]
We’re running a business, not a technology company
One thing I always try to remind myself of, is that in the end, my job is to make the business successful. Product Management is a business optimization function. In [ … ]
What’s the deal with Software Product Management?
OK…this one has been bubbling inside me for a while, and tonight I decided to lay it out and see what feedback comes in. I’ll put on the flame proof [ … ]
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 [ … ]
The Benefits of Focus
Most products do a lot. It’s tempting to try to sell all that functionality at once. But a lot of products benefit from having less as opposed to more. Yesterday [ … ]