Archives for November 2006
You Can’t Start Fresh
For most Product Managers, when you come into a company, you are asked to research the Market and identify problems that can be solved within the scope of your company’s products. There is another 800lb. gorilla that is easy to overlook - the existing products you will be asked to take over and manage. [...]
The Perils of Over Engineering
Up late and unable to sleep, I’m doing one of my favorite veg-out activities - watching one of the endless Military Channel documentaries about WWII. I am fascinated by WWII; in hindsight there were so many decisions made by the Axis powers that were strategically and tactically wrong, that I shudder to think what [...]
Pre-Thankgiving Potpourri
Here are a few items that were too small for their own post but go great together. It’s a pre-Thankgiving link feast!
First, The CrankyPM took me to town a bit for my post on Burnout in Product Management, where I discussed responsibility versus authority in PM. I stand by the post and contend [...]
Roadmap versus Release Plan
Most people are familiar with the concept of the roadmap. The roadmap contains forward looking statements about your product direction, with new products and features listed usually on a per quarter basis. Roadmaps aren’t commitments, but once Salespeople see them, the dates become burned into their memories and they start to ask for [...]
