by Saeed Khan Back in 2007, just a couple of months after we started this blog, I wrote a series of 6 articles under the banner: How to be a [ … ]
Category: Organization
The Most Important Characteristic of Innovative Companies
by Saeed Khan Over the years I’ve working in a number of companies, and I’ve had good working relationships with people in many more. And when looking at those companies [ … ]
Frustrated with your annual performance review?
by Prabhakar Gopalan It’s February and if your organization follows a calendar year (Jan-Dec) cycle for employee performance evaluations, chances are, you have completed your 2010 assessment and filled out [ … ]
Join us on Twitter for upcoming Product Management talks
by Saeed Khan The team at Brainmates have started a series of weekly Product Management discussions on Twitter (@ProdMgmtTalk). They go by the hashtag #ProdMgmtTalk. You can find a full [ … ]
Conway’s law and organizational design for cloud computing firms
by Prabhakar Gopalan Conway’s Law It is worth recalling Conway’s law (first published 1968) for this discussion: Any organization that designs a system will inevitably produce a design whose structure [ … ]
Guest Post: Do you have a roadmap for your Product Managers?
NOTE: The following is a guest post from Leslie McKay. If you want to submit your own guest post, click here for more information. —– There’s little doubt that Product [ … ]
Product Management lies at the heart of Innovation
By Saeed Khan Ask 10 people for a definition of the word “innovation”, and you’re likely to get 10 different answers; maybe more depending on who you ask. Don’t believe [ … ]
Product Management is spreading…technologists take note!
By Saeed Khan Back in 2000, before the tech bubble burst, I saw an interview with Steve Jurvetson – now a Managing Director at venture firm Draper Fischer Jurvetson. Steve [ … ]
Ousting the middle manager in PM/PMM organizations
After reading an interesting post in HBR (The End of the Middle Manager), I’m compelled to offer my response. I find the HBR post timely and noteworthy. Here we go. [ … ]
Here’s what you said…
By Saeed Khan In December, I asked you to provide some input and help influence our content this year. There were several reasons for this, which I’ll get to shortly. [ … ]