Panning for Gold in the Input Stream
As a product manager, you’re constantly getting input from customers, prospects,
salespeople, company executives, developers, user groups, surveys, tweets,…
Requirements
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Does Your Product Suck?
It’s been a tough week on the technical front, with a variety of products
failing to perform their core…
A Journey of 1000 Miles is Still 1000 Miles Long
It’s easy to confuse actual progress with intentions to make progress.
Why point out the obvious? I’ve just…
Magical Thinking and the Zero-Sum Roadmap
Recent conversations at several clients highlight an often-repeated set of magical thinking: beliefs by internal clients that development resources…
“What If Dev Doesn’t Think Product Mgmt Represents Customers?”
Recently, I put up a small assessment tool for product management teams. This tool is intended to generate discussion and…
Market Facts, Judgment, Fallibility and Ownership
Or how I learned to stop worrying and love market uncertainty.
Every few weeks, I find myself itching to play…
Kindle version of “Art of Product Management”
Rich Mironov’s “Art of Product Management” has been converted to Amazon’s Kindle
format, and is now available for…
Site Licenses and Other Real-World Intrusions
We recently finished a major pricing exercise with a start-up in the enterprise software space: tuning up their prices,…
EOL from the Customer’s POV
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Profitably Pairing Software and Professional Services
Wearing our software product management hats, it’s easy to think that all problems should be solved with software. (To…
More Chefs and Agile Restauranteurs
As more of our clients have moved to agile software development, we’ve seen a growing need for business agility:…
How Well Can You Predict The Future?
It’s been a very tough quarter for economic forecasters, quota-carrying sales teams and CEOs. The sudden downturn even…