The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is dealing with a real PR problem right now. There have been a number of photos and videos taken by transit riders and posted on [ … ]
Category: Research
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 [ … ]
Bill Campbell says, It all starts with great products!
Here’s a bit more from the Bill Campbell interview. I posted the first excerpt in “Bill Campbell says hire Product Management first!“. Michael Moe is the interviewer. This exchange takes [ … ]
Canada’s Innovation Gap (part 2)
In part 1, I discussed the findings described in an article entitled Canada’s Innovation Gap, which was published in the Globe and Mail earlier this year. In short, it indicated [ … ]
8 lessons we can learn from Infomercials
You know you’re a Products Geek, when you find a show like Pitchmen appealing. Pitchmen, on the Discovery Channel, is a behind the scenes docudrama about infomerical marketers and how [ … ]
Canada’s Innovation Gap (part 1)
While this post is targeted at the innovation, funding and technology issues in Canada, it may apply to other geographies as well, particularly if you don’t live/work in technology hot [ … ]
5 benefits in thinking about revenue models right from the start
There are a number of Web sites and applications — two of the most well known examples being Twitter and Facebook — that offer very good, free services. And over [ … ]
Guest Post: Triangle Offense and Scrum Mania
NOTE: The following is a guest post by anonymous blogger GeekMBA360, author of the blog by the same name. If you feel inspired to write a guest post of your [ … ]
Summer’s here: Do something different
Yes, summer is here, and the vacations are beginning. Many of your co-workers are using this time to check out of their responsibilities, take a slower pace, to take some [ … ]
Podcast with Tom Grant of Forrester
I recently had a good conversation with Tom Grant of Forrester Research. We discussed a number of topics including organizational structures for Product Management, the maturity level of Product Management, [ … ]