A common question for Product Managers, is how to work effectively with other teams; in particular, Sales and Marketing. Over the coming months, I’m going to spend more time on [ … ]
Category: Process
ProductCamp Toronto – A Success
Today, we held the first ProductCamp Toronto downtown at the Ted Rogers School of Business. About 100 people showed up in the morning to listen and participate. Some of them [ … ]
Is Product Management Agile?
There’s a lot of talk about Agile Product Management these days, and for obvious reasons. The thinking is that because of Agile development, Product Managers need to change how they [ … ]
Agile/Scrum and Product Roadmaps
By Saeed Khan A common question that come up when discussing Agile/Scrum is how to develop and maintain a product roadmap in an Agile environment. The confusion seems to come [ … ]
Agile/Scrum – Reality Check
I’ve written a number of posts of late (1, 2, 3, 3a) on the topic of Agile/Scrum and Product Management. My goal was to discuss some of the issues I [ … ]
Agile/Scrum and Product Management (part 3a)
Chris posted the following comment to Part 3 of this series. Look forward to pt. 4, because so far pt. 3 has done little to bring clarity to the issue. [ … ]
Agile/Scrum and Product Management (part 3)
Continuing from part 2 of this series, I want to respond to one of the comments that was posted by a reader. James Peckham commented: Why wouldn’t you have your [ … ]
Making better decisions faster
As I wrote recently, a lot of what Product Managers do is make decisions that impact the business. Given the nature of these decisions, it’s important to define a method [ … ]
ProductCamp Toronto — Date AND Location
ProductCamp Toronto is taking shape. The Wiki has a lot of updated information: over 60 people have indicated they will attend 40 proposed topics are listed and best of all, [ … ]
Product Management is everything!
In 1991, Regis McKenna wrote a seminal article entitled Marketing is Everything that was published in the Harvard Business Review. The article paints a picture of technology as an agent [ … ]