by Saeed Khan At ProductCamp Boston this past weekend, Steve Johnson of Pragmatic Marketing asked a very simple, but telling question during my session. He asked the other attendees: How [ … ]
Category: Research
Why Disruption is Driving the Need for Elegant Products
by Saeed Khan Last week I wrote a post called The Need for Elegance in Product Design. In it I said that calling something elegant is high praise, and although [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Open Question: How high is security on the Product Management agenda?
by Saeed Khan With ever increasing frequency, we hear of some site or system getting hacked. Whether it’s Google, Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page , the Nasdaq, the Advanced Physics Lab [ … ]
4 questions to help determine the value of your new product
By Saeed Khan Way back…I mean way, way back — I think it was in the 1980s — yes, that far back, I started a small consulting business with a [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Worth Repeating: When Form Doesn’t Follow Function
NOTE: This post was originally published in January of 2009. It’s interesting to note that almost 2 years later, Aptera has yet to ship any vehicles to customers, and is [ … ]
Guest Post: 3 Steps to a More Effective Voice of the Customer Program
NOTE: The following is a guest post from Christine Crandell. If you want to submit your own guest post, click here for more information. —– A well run voice- of-the [ … ]
In Defence of the Big Freaking Requirements Document
You’ve all seen them, probably had to read them, and maybe you’ve even written them. Some of them are so bad, you have to wonder what was going through the [ … ]