Product Management and Product Marketing

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Greasing the Wheels

You are a Product Manager, and you are in complete control.  You write out requirements, and development builds the product. 100% of what development does is the result of your unique insights into the market.  Only…it’s not working out that way is it?
Every company has limited development resources.  In order to efficiently utilize those resources, [...]

12 November 2007 | Development, Executives, Lessons Learned, Product Management, Tactics | No Comments

Product Management at Google

Ah, Google. A product has come of age when people say “What did we do before [product name]?” The search engine itself may have entered the mature cash-cow part of it’s lifecycle, but the company who prides themselves on how they’re quirky and different are now putting a new spin on our favorite [...]

5 November 2007 | Product Management | 3 Comments

Did PowerPoint Crash the Space Shuttle?

Seth Godin’s ebook Really Bad PowerPoint is now 6 years old. Unfortunately, the lessons it teaches are still lost on most presenters: Cut down on your words. Sell, don’t tell. Use pictures to invoke emotion. Slides back up your voiceover, they don’t replicate it. Today, PowerPoint has replaced the Company [...]

1 November 2007 | Product Management | 1 Comment

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Product Beautiful is a blog for Product Managers and Product Marketers about building successful Product Management and Product Marketing processes. Some topics that other people have found interesting include a three part series on using overseas manufacturing, an analysis of Google APM's and Dell outsourcing its product process, and how Product Management can work effectively with developers and software programmers on free and open source software. You can also find information about Product Management theory and tactics, such as using a RACI. Product Beautiful is written by Paul Young, a Product Management and Marketing professional with experience working in hardware, software, and services from Fortune 50 companies to startups.

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