Pretty much everyone agrees that resilience is good, especially in software. When one of a million external dependencies fails you don’t want your software falling over like a poorly designed [ … ]
Category: Ethan
Why A Real Market Of A Few Is Better Than A Mythical Market of Millions
From OnStartups: Why A Real Market Of A Few Is Better Than A Mythical Market of Millions. There is an overlap between entrepreneurship and product management; sizing markets and opportunities [ … ]
Amusing Tales of Product Managers
From the NY Times: “Yeah,” he said, “I couldn’t tell you at the time, but your review was right on. I wouldn’t have used one of those units on my [ … ]
Doing Better Demos
A post today on Adaptive Path’s Blog seems apropos to the discussion of tradeshows. Want to do a better demo? Learn the secrets of pick-up artists!
Why Demo At Tradeshows?
By Ethan Henry So I have to go with Saeed here in response to Steve’s posting on tradeshows. Just because a lot of companies handle trade shows badly doesn’t mean [ … ]
Fantasic Followups
Recently I got a fantastic followup email from a service I had signed up for online: This is amazing. It’s short, it’s to the point and it’s dead easy for [ … ]
Quick Links: Don’t ask for what you want when you negotiate
Alan wrote about negotiations before. Penelope Trunk, in her great Brazen Careerist blog, writes about negotiations: Don’t ask for what you want when you negotiate. Now, her examples focus mostly [ … ]
More On Being A Great Product Manager
I wish I had a funny link to something on YouTube showing a moron being a product manager, but I guess there are some things too obscure even for YouTube. [ … ]
SWOT Analysis
Every product manager has to do a SWOT analysis at some point in his or her career. The only trouble is that they’re often so few and far between that [ … ]
On Product Design
I was going to write a big entry about ethnography as a design tool, but that got me to thinking a more basic question: in your organization, who does product [ … ]