by Steve Johnson A desire not to butt into other people’s business is at least eighty percent of all human ‘wisdom’… and the other twenty percent isn’t very important.—Robert A. [ … ]
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UX and product managers
On the Mind the Product blog, Martin Eriksson writes, I’ve always defined product management as the intersection between business, technology and user experience. A good product manager must be experienced in at [ … ]
Don’t discover; observe
It’s not that problems are invisible; it’s that no one is looking for them.—Steve Johnson, Under 10 Consulting. I often chat with company leaders who ask me how to do [ … ]
Don’t let other departments hide their headcount in your budget
Don’t let other departments hide their headcount in your budget.—Steve Johnson, Under 10 Consulting. I’m often asked how large a product management team should be. And my reply is, “how many other departments [ … ]
A single set of priorities
by Steve Johnson If you don’t know where you’re going, any road’ll take you there.—George Harrison When I started a new job as a product manager, my company president said, [ … ]
Passion and product teams
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.—Charles Kingsley, [ … ]
Can marketing learn from agile?
By Steve Johnson Failing to focus, failing to choose one discipline and stick to it, is exactly what leads firms to a state of mediocrity.—Michael Treacy & Fred Wiersema When [ … ]
Help! I’m a secretary to development
Or, Why a developer can’t also be product manager In small companies—and in some not-so-small companies—the development lead often serves as the product leader or product manager. Is this a [ … ]
Help! I’m demo boy for sales people
Or, Be careful what you teach your sales teams A VP wanted to improve the visibility and perception of product management with the sales people so he created a series [ … ]
It’s difficult to manage P&L…
It’s difficult to manage the P&L, when you don’t have control of the “P” or the “L.”—Rich Nutinsky, Pragmatic Marketing It’s fairly common for product managers to be asked to [ … ]