Archives for January 2008
Pride and Job Satisfaction
I had to ship an item today, so I took it down to our Shipping and Receiving guy. I was adding work to his plate, so he had every reason not to be happy to see me. Instead, he was the opposite - excited to pack my item well, assured me that I could count [...]
Ankle Biters: Quarterbacking Tradeshows
We’ve talked about tradeshows on before during one of Pragmatic’s BlogFests. Tradeshows can be nasty ankle biters because of the amount of pre-work required. Depending on the size of your organization, where Product Management falls, and how technical your Marcomm and Product Marketing teams are, you’ll have varying levels of involvement with tradeshows. [...]
Ankle Biters: Project Management
This is the first post in a new series I’m entitling Ankle Biters. Ankle Biters are the little tactical things that you need to do to keep the lights on, but aren’t strategic to Product Management and consume resources from the most important job, being the Vox Mercati. I’ll use this series to talk about [...]
Vox Mercati
How do you know when you’ve arrived as a Product Manager? When you’re in a planning meeting with your Executive team and one of them makes a statement about the Market, or what product you should make next, or what they think your customer base needs - and you stare them straight back in [...]
Forrester Takes on Product Management
Just a quick note that the Forrester analyst group has started a Product Management blog. It’s great to see the big boys giving PM the attention it deserves!
Interviewed!
Derek Morrison is running a neat series of interviews with other Product Management bloggers. I was his 4th interview, and as usual I wrote too much for just one post, forcing him to break it into three parts. That’s what I refer to as brute force marketing - overwhelm your audience with content until they [...]
