by Matt Volpi Salespeople and product managers aren’t always the best of friends. A salesperson is driven by their individual goals and compensation. They are often too busy or uninterested [ … ]
Category: SaaS/Cloud
The Fine Line Between Strategy and Fantasy
A favourite topic of many entrepreneurs, product managers, marketers and executives is strategy. You hear it all the time. People talking about company strategy, product strategy, marketing strategy, sales strategy [ … ]
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. [ … ]
A tale of two companies: The discounter and the price leader
Tweet this: New post @OnPM: “The discounter and the price leader” by @AWArmstrong http://wp.me/pXBON-2mq #prodmgmt #sales #negotiation #strategy #price By Alan Armstrong On Monday I met with two companies with [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Conway’s law and organizational design for cloud computing firms
by Prabhakar Gopalan Conway’s Law It is worth recalling Conway’s law (first published 1968) for this discussion: Any organization that designs a system will inevitably produce a design whose structure [ … ]
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 [ … ]
The Cloud needs a greater Product Management focus
By Saeed Khan In the technology industry, 2010 will be remembered for a number of things. From a consumer perspective, the winner was the iPad. No other technology product had [ … ]
Tom Grant Kicks Some SaaS
Forrester’s Tom Grant has written 2 excellent pieces rebutting some rather uninformed blog posts and comments made by Rick Chapman over at SaaSUniversity.com. Many people, myself included, left comments directly [ … ]
The value of Scrum
Richard from AgileCommons.org left an interesting comment to one of my Agile/Scrum/PM posts that I think is worth discussing. I agree with some of what he said, but of course, [ … ]