Here’s a great presentation Scott Cook (founder of Intuit) gave back in 2005 on how Intuit develops new products. Needless to say, their approach is very problem oriented, customer research [ … ]
Category: Product Marketing
Evolving company…Evolving responsibilities
Why is there no well understood and widely recognized definition for technology Product Management? Sales doesn’t have this problem. Marketing doesn’t have this problem. Engineering doesn’t really have this problem. [ … ]
Gilbert and Sullivan present: The High-Tech Product Manager
I’ve always liked the Major General’s song from The Pirates of Penzance. If you are not familiar with the song, first watch the two videos at the bottom of this [ … ]
Ideas for Twitter’s Revenue Model – pt. 2
In part 1, I described some of the responses received from a survey I ran a couple of weeks ago asking readers for ideas on how Twitter could generate revenue. [ … ]
Help Twitter Generate Revenue
As many of you may have read back in December, Twitter announced they were hiring a PM to help them figure out how to generate revenue. I’m assuming Twitter has [ … ]
More ProductCamps!
I’m happy to see that a number of cities are holding ProductCamps. Previous ones have included Silicon Valley, Austin, Boston and Toronto. Now two new ones are in the works [ … ]
The Lowdown on “Social Media” pt. 4
The Circle of Life So we’ve come full circle, with technology finally starting to catch up to how we’ve interacted with each other since the dawn of time. Marketing and [ … ]
The Lowdown on Social Media pt. 3
Customer Service. How can we ignore you? Back in 2000, I was living in California and had a cell phone from Sprint. I was having a lot of problems with [ … ]
Adam Bullied vs. Enthiosys: Don’t Fight!
Adam Bullied has a post last week entitled “Are agile PMs baloney?” First off, great title. No burying the lede here. You can read the post on Adam’s site, here’s the [ … ]
Reorg time: Put PMs and PMMs in the same department!
Wow! At the time of writing this post, almost 80% of respondents to my poll, asking If Product Management and Product Marketing should be part of the same organization, answered [ … ]