You know, sometimes I wonder why I’m not working in consumer products. Not consumer software, but consumer products. I’ve joked about this with my software product management friends before. Life [ … ]
Category: Process
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 [ … ]
What’s the deal with Personas?
The CrankyPM recently posted a good little rant on personas. It’s drawn some interesting comments from both sides of the persona camp (PCamp? 🙂 ). BTW, I’m totally jealous as [ … ]
A test when hiring Product Managers?
A quick question here, hope some of you out there can help. What kind of tests or test questions do you give to Product Managers when hiring them? When hiring, [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Product Manager vs. Product Management (part 4)
I received a number of requests for the “20 page document” mentioned in part 3 of this series, that defines the activities in the Product Management Deliverables grid. (see below) [ … ]
Product Manager vs. Product Management (part 3)
How important a role does Product Management play in your company? Is it truly a strategic role, or is that just what is written in the job descriptions when hiring [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Prioritizing Features does not equal Product Management
I came across this blog post today: How to Outsource Product Management to Customers. With a title like that, I had to read it. The post starts out well: Product [ … ]
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 [ … ]