From the monthly archives:

November 2007

Greasing the Wheels

November 12, 2007

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 [...]

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Product Management at Google

November 5, 2007

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 topic: product [...]

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Did PowerPoint Crash the Space Shuttle?

November 1, 2007

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 Memo as the communications tool [...]

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