By Steve Johnson, Under 10 Consulting “The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.”—Princess Leia in Star Wars IV: A New Hope. My [ … ]
Category: Product Management
3 Ms That Are Critical for Creating High-Impact B2B Solutions
By John Mansour The three Ms for B2B solutions are analogous to the four Ps for consumer products with one key exception. The four Ps emphasize individual product success while [ … ]
The Difference Between Good and Great Solutions – “What-if” Scenarios
By John Mansour There are plenty of good B2B solutions in the market, but as a percentage there are only a few great ones. What’s the difference between the two? [ … ]
My Agile Product Backlog Template
By Rivi Aspler When I started using Agile, I was looking for a good backlog template. Naturally, I found several examples online, each very different from one another and none that [ … ]
Defining Millennial-Friendly Products
By Rivi Aspler I’ll admit that for the past few years, I disregarded trends such as the social enterprise, consumerism or gamification. The ‘Big-Data’ notion was the only trend that I [ … ]
Zero Based Budgeting as a Tool to Set Your Products Strategy
By Rivi Aspler Have you ever thought of taking the financial method of Zero Based Budgeting and applying it to products portfolio budgeting decisions? Privileged with the opportunity to rethink [ … ]
Is Your Product Ready to Be Released?
By Rivi Aspler When is a product ready to be released? The answer depends on many things, but quite significantly, it depends on who is answering the question. If you [ … ]
Worth Repeating: The Price is Never Right
by Saeed Khan It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about pricing. Product pricing is as much art as it is science, and while it’s possible to come up with [ … ]
Product Strategy in Light of the Sunk Cost Dilemma
By Rivi Aspler Wikipedia defines a sunk cost dilemma as: a dilemma of having to choose between continuing a project of uncertain prospects already involving considerable sunk costs, or discontinuing [ … ]
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 [ … ]