By Prabhakar Gopalan Here’s a little weekend inspiration from a Stanford Speaker series lecture recorded in Nov, 2010. The speaker is AB InBev’s CEO Carlos Brito. AB InBev is the [ … ]
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Managing People vs. Managing Technology
By Fred Engel A company wanting to succeed in the marketplace needs to have strong product strategy as well as a strong engineering organization capable of executing that strategy. In [ … ]
Demos, Founders and Marketers
By Prabhakar Gopalan This post is inspired by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s detailed product review of Windows 8. Click here to see Paul Allen’s review. If there’s one thing about [ … ]
How to Unify Multiple Product Strategies into a Single Overall Strategy
By John Mansour When you’re a one product company, a product strategy is invaluable because the product and the company are one and the same. But when you have 5 [ … ]
Roadmap Planning – Top Down View
By Rivi Aspler Acknowledging the fact that roadmap planning actually deals with the planning and then the daily monitoring of budgetary items that are competing over a limited budget (total [ … ]
Mind the Product 2012 – An Online Overview
By Saeed Khan The Mind the Product conference was held last Friday in London. It was probably the largest gathering of product managers, product market in Europe. If you wanted [ … ]
The fallacy of endorsing command and control leadership
I came across this recent HBR blog post “Why Command-and-Control Leadership Is Here to Stay“. A professor in organizational behavior is advocating command and control leadership backed by no real [ … ]
Product Demos are like First Dates – Here’s Why
How often do you see a product demo and think, “OK, this is 20 minutes of my life that I’ll never get back.” The fact is, most product demos, particularly [ … ]
Roadmap Planning – Bottom Up View
By Rivi Aspler A product roadmap can be easily compared to an ambitious architectural plan. Very much like a new type of building, the product roadmap should draw a vision [ … ]
A Product Management Flow Chart
By Rivi Aspler Getting a new product manager on board, I realized recently that there are so many tasks to handle that one can easily get lost. On one hand, [ … ]