The longer I live, the more I internalize it: We succeed or fail to a large extent because of our ability to establish and sustain good relationships. Yes, you need a [ … ]
Category: Project Management
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 [ … ]
Vote For Us! ComputerWeekly IT Blog Awards
It must be that time of year. We have been nominated (for the second year running) for the ComputerWeekly IT Blog awards. And just like last year, you can vote [ … ]
ProductCamp Toronto – Oct 4, 2009
In just about 3 weeks, we’ll be hosting the 2nd ProductCamp in Toronto. Last year, at the first event, over 100 people came out to participate in a day of [ … ]
Upcoming ProductCamps
ProductCamp New York was last weekend and it appears to have been quite successful. Alan attended and wrote up this post about it. If you missed the New York session [ … ]
The problem with “find an unsolved problem…”
The common wisdom for developing new products, goes something like this: Find an unsolved problem or an unmet need Identify who values that need Build a profitable solution for that [ … ]
Competitive intelligence using lost deals
Another idea for PMs who lack permission to do win/loss analysis Many PMs and PMMs complain that they lack the authority to perform Win/Loss analysis. And yet Win/Loss is one [ … ]
Product Strategist Blog or is it a Nooz?
Just came a cross a great set of articles written by David W. Locke on the web site Noozit.com. I don’t know what “Nooz” means (a play on the word [ … ]
A 5th element for the Agile Manifesto
Robert Martin gave a keynote at the Agile 2008 conference. Entitled Quintessence, he talked about adding a 5th element to the Agile Manifesto. His suggestion was: Craftsmanship over Crap After [ … ]
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 [ … ]