Archives for February 2007
Dell Outsourcing Product Management to Its Customers
Dell has made a habit out of bucking the system with their unique business model. They have made a lot of money driving the cost out of servers, PC’s and laptops by cutting out the middlemen like CDW and selling direct. Most of Dell’s major innovations have been in operational improvements like supply chain management, packaging efficiency, and squeezing suppliers. This is part of the reason their performance has been suffering.
You Might Be a Product Manager If…
You’ve created a roadmap through 2012
You can’t remember working less than 70 hours a week
You’ve lost your hair (if you haven’t consider yourself warned!)
At your annual customer summit, you stay late to setup and test products for the next day while Sales runs up a historic bar tab
You used to be a programmer but were [...]
The Joy and Horror of Blogtag
I’ve been blogtagged by Stewart Rogers over at the Product Management View. To keep the game of tag going, here are 5 things you didn’t know about me, until now:
My degree is in Radio-Television-Film from The University of Texas. I decided Austin was too good to leave and who in their right mind [...]
Paul’s 3rd Postulate of Product Management
This is the 3rd in my series of The Postulates of Product Management. Closely related to an earlier post about accuracy in scheduling, this also deals with Development:
Development’s initial estimate of time to develop a product or feature will be at least 50% aggressive or 50% conservative.
The fun thing about Product Management is you [...]
