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Archives for September 2008

Apple’s App Store: The Rise of Transitionware?

Apple’s curious app store design choices is carving out a new pricing strategy: apps that start free, then later move to a paid model - “Transitionware.”

22 September 2008 | Development, Product Management, Product Marketing, Sales, Theory | 1 Comment

How Technical Should a Product Manager Be?

Recently, a developer response to a CrankyPM post re-raised the age old Product Management qualification question: “How Technical Should a Product Manager Be?”

18 September 2008 | Development, Executives, Lessons Learned, Product Management, Tactics, Theory | 3 Comments

For the Record

In case you’re just tuning in, I’ve recently changed jobs.  I now am running Product Management for several SaaS products for Dell.  Thankfully, Dell is more progressive on blogging than many other large companies.  They actually have a blog policy that makes sense, and as such I’m making this post to let you know that [...]

3 September 2008 | Personal | 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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