NOTE: Shortlink for this article is: http://wp.me/pXBON-178 Boy, you can’t throw a stick these days without hitting someone who’s got some kind of social media activity going on. And it’s [ … ]
Category: Process
The Ugly of Product Management
Finally (sorry for the delay) here is part 3 of the results from my survey. Part 1 — the Good , and Part 2 – The Bad — were published [ … ]
Open Question: How and When do you define usability requirements?
Open question to everyone. Most of the requirements Product Managers create are functional requirements. i.e. indicating what the product or service must do or provide. i.e. the what. But in [ … ]
Top 7 posts from the past year
The blog turned 3 earlier this month. As a belated present, here are a few of the most popular posts from the past year. A couple are personal favourites of [ … ]
Rules and Laws Product Managers Should Understand (part 2)
Continuing from Part 1, here are more Rules and Laws to help Product Managers in their jobs. Thackara’s Laws John Thackara can best be described as a thinker, designer and [ … ]
The Importance of Perspective
Steve Johnson has a video on his site that shows a wonderful optical illusion. I’ve embedded it here for your viewing convenience. This video is a great example of how [ … ]
Product Management Metrics (part 2a)
My conference call on PM Metrics with Tom Grant went quite well yesterday. It was a round table discussion with good points made by several participants. While we did talk [ … ]
Questions for Product Managers
It started with an interview on Red Canary, talking to Product Management leaders in Toronto, including Alan Armstrong, Stephen Pollack, Lee Garrison and Roy Pereira. Interestingly enough, I know all [ … ]
Toronto Transit Commission – How not to handle bad PR
The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is dealing with a real PR problem right now. There have been a number of photos and videos taken by transit riders and posted on [ … ]
What Origami can teach us about Product Requirements
Tom Grant has started an interesting series of posts entitled Against a Grand Theory of Product Management. The articles are interesting reading, but make sure you have your thinking cap [ … ]