by Saeed Khan There’s a lot of talk in product management and product development circles about Customer Development. Customer Development is an iterative process of learning by working closely with [ … ]
Category: Requirements
Good Bye “Product Owner”, Hello “Backlog Manager”
by Saeed Khan A few weeks back, I wrote a pair of posts about the title/role of Product Owner in Agile development environments: The Scrum title “Product Owner” must die! [ … ]
Worth Repeating: Do Product Managers need Domain Knowledge?
Here’s an oldie, but a real goody. Back in 2007, I posted this piece about the problems that occur when Product Managers (and thus companies) don’t have proper domain knowledge. [ … ]
A new (and better) definition for Product Owner
by Saeed Khan Last week’s post entitled “The Scrum Title ‘Product Owner’ must die!” on changes to the Scrum “Product Owner” title and responsibilities drew a lot of comments and [ … ]
Worth Repeating: Devil’s Dictionary for High Tech
by Saeed Khan The Devil’s dictionary is a book created in the early 20th century by American Ambrose Bierce containing sarcastic, ironic and witty re-definitions of words. e.g PAINTING, n. [ … ]
Customers – How to Work with Product Management and Influence our Product Direction
by Saeed Khan This is an open letter to B2B (enterprise software) customers, though much of the following also applies to customers of other types of products. Do you want [ … ]
You can build it, but can you market, sell and support it?
by Saeed Khan I recently received the following question from a reader – Adam Turner. He wrote: I am looking for a little guidance on this one. I have recently [ … ]
Product Management is spreading…technologists take note!
By Saeed Khan Back in 2000, before the tech bubble burst, I saw an interview with Steve Jurvetson – now a Managing Director at venture firm Draper Fischer Jurvetson. Steve [ … ]
Guest Post: The need for Empathy in Product Management
NOTE: The following is a guest post from Prabhakar Gopalan. If you want to submit your own guest post, click here for more information. ———– I was recently re-reading Paul [ … ]
6 rules to help ensure you’re asking the right questions
I was in the Bay Area last week, and had the opportunity to attend a meeting of the Silicon Valley Product Management Association. The meeting had a good interactive panel [ … ]