By Rivi Aspler 5 Interview Questions for Hiring Great Product Managers Product managers are required to demonstrate a broad and heterogeneous set of skills. The best product managers are those [ … ]
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The New RIM – Relaunching a Former Industry Juggernaut
by Saeed Khan Back in May 2011, I wrote the following post: Addressing Market Shifts or Why RIM is not down and out just yet. As the news of RIM’s [ … ]
Why getting rid of spiffs is good for your tech business
In tech marketing, product marketing managers from a distant past employ sales spiffs to motivate the sales teams to sell their product over or in combination with another product. The [ … ]
The Case Against The Traditional Business Case
By Shardul Mehta Note: This post was originally published on Shardul’s Blog, the Street Smart Product Manager. It is reprinted here with permission. Shardul also published a follow up post [ … ]
Why don’t Product Managers go to Club?
It’s that time of year when companies are having their annual sales kickoffs and also announcing which members of the sales force sold enough in 2012 to qualify them to [ … ]
Estimation Tips to Create Realistic Product Roadmaps
by Steve Johnson, Under 10 Consulting Did you ever have this conversation growing up? You: “When’s dinner gonna be ready?” Mom: “Seven-ish.” You: “Uh, can you be more specific?” Mom: [ … ]
Do you really understand the true benefits your product delivers?
By Saeed Khan At the most fundamental level, virtually everything we do is driven by some very fundamental needs: we want to remove what pains us or increase what makes [ … ]
Ramping Up a New Product – This is where you really Start to Sweat!
By Rivi Aspler You have been working like hell for the past few months. You have been gathering requirements, prioritizing, defining, following up, getting everyone aligned, facing constraints and hence [ … ]
The shokunin spirit for product leaders
It is mid January. Are you still looking for a New Year Resolution? Here’s a recommendation. Please watch this movie and think about your approach to your craft. Japanese-English [ … ]
Getting buy-in for your roadmap
By Steve Johnson, Under 10 Consulting Whether you’ve built your roadmap up from a set of features or down from a set of strategic initiatives, you want to get buy-in [ … ]