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 [ … ]
Category: Product Management
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 [ … ]
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, [ … ]
Guard Your Intended Roadmap – By Reguarly Asking Yourself These 4 Questions
By Rivi Aspler Can you say ‘No’ to customers’ requirements? Should you? Good product managers always keep their intended (and yet dynamic) product strategy in mind, i.e. the list of [ … ]
What A Product Manager Can Learn From The New Sales Playbook
By Josh Duncan HBR Insights recently had a podcast with author Matt Dixon on the topic of The New Sales Playbook. While aimed at the sales executives, I found the talk [ … ]
User Stories That Developers Can Actually Work With
by Rivi Aspler Devout Agile evangelists will define a user story as a short, simple description of a feature told from the perspective of the person who desires the new [ … ]
“Product Editor”? You’ve got to be kidding!
By Saeed Khan I came across a post on Andrew Chen’s blog entitled “Why companies should have Product Editors, not Product Managers“. Obviously I had to respond. 🙂 Yes, Product [ … ]