A mentor of mine used to repeat this line fairly often to me: The main thing is keeping the main thing the main thing. The quote comes originally from Stephen [ … ]
Tag: Product Management
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, [ … ]
A Plethora of ProductCamps
The ProductCamp movement seems to be picking up steam. Last year there were 3 such camps in total, in Silicon Valley, Austin and Toronto. So far this year, there have [ … ]
Product Management by Committee? – pt. 2
By Saeed Khan There were some very interesting responses to my post “Product Management by Committee?”. I also posted a question in the LinkedIn Internet Product Management Group [LinkedIn login [ … ]
Six Characteristics of Product Managers
After an unintentional and rather protracted break from blogging (a bad flu in February, followed by a really busy work and personal schedule for the last few weeks), I’m returning [ … ]
Adam Bullied vs. Enthiosys: Don’t Fight!
Adam Bullied has a post last week entitled “Are agile PMs baloney?” First off, great title. No burying the lede here. You can read the post on Adam’s site, here’s the [ … ]
Reorg time: Put PMs and PMMs in the same department!
Wow! At the time of writing this post, almost 80% of respondents to my poll, asking If Product Management and Product Marketing should be part of the same organization, answered [ … ]
Initial Results: Problems in Technology Product Management
So, the survey is now closed. I’ll be looking at the responses, sharing them and commenting on them over the next few days. While there were a variety of responses, [ … ]
Open Question: Why doesn’t Engineering report to Product Management?
There are lots of discussions about how Engineering and Product Management should be structured and interact. But one I rarely hear discussed is that of Engineering reporting into Product Management. [ … ]
The future of Technology Product Management
A few people have responded to the survey I posted, asking about problems facing Technology Product Management, but we need more of you to participate. We need the collective input [ … ]