From the monthly archives:

September 2006

Burnout in Product Management

September 30, 2006

My wife is a Licensed Specialist in School Psychology (LSSP). For her trouble of a four year undergraduate degree in psychology plus three additional years of graduate level study, she works with the most difficult children the school system has to offer – the severely emotionally disturbed and mentally retarded. She is paid just slightly [...]

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How Product Management is like … StarCraft?

September 30, 2006

I anticipate that this post will bring out the PM old-guard. This may come as a shock to those of you over 30, but many of the skills necessary to be a successful Product Manager can be learned by playing video games. Lots of games could be applied to this analogy, but I’ve chosen one [...]

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How to Kill a Product Management Team’s Morale

September 29, 2006

As a Product Manager, you can have: An effective process Market feedback A viable financial model A well written MRD But none of these things matter if your Executive team subverts or ignores the process or market data that the Product Management team brings to bear. As an example, I was once in a product [...]

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Why Product Beautiful?

September 27, 2006

When I told my wife that the name of the new Product Management blog I was creating was going to be Product Beautiful, she wrinkled her nose and asked if it was going to be about good looking products. Well, yes and no. With a name like Product Beautiful you might assume that this is [...]

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Open for Business

September 26, 2006

My name is Paul Young, and this is the inaugural story for Product Beautiful. Product Beautiful is a concept I’ve been running in my mind for the last few years but never unleashed – a blog about high technology Product Management and a place to exchange ideas with others about what works and what doesn’t [...]

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