Archives for the 'Personal' Category
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 [...]
Just Demo It!
Pragmatic Marketing asked me to participate in their first BlogFest on the topic of demoing at trade shows, which Steve Johnson kicked off with his article Why Demo at Trade Shows?
What is a trade show? Breaking down the word, a trade show is the place where you show your trade. If you [...]
Triumph’s Product Development Process
I’ve been out of pocket for awhile and unfortunately too busy to post! As I try to get back in the swing of things, I’ve begun to look at the products from companies I most admire. Triumph is British manufacturer of classic cruisers (think: Harley’s), tourers, and crotch rockets (if the Japanese companies [...]
Book It!
I maintain a bunch of links to other blogs on my sidebar. Someone coming here for the first time might assume that I just went out and gathered the top bloggers in the space and did reciprocal links to bump up the “authority” of my site, but that is not the case. I [...]
Sales: OMG! Teh Raodmap sUxOr!
Situation: The Sales MonkeysTM are hanging from the trees on their weekly sales call crying “You only give us a 90 day product outlook! How are we supposed to sell without a 2-year roadmap!” Well monkey-boys, the reason you don’t get the full roadmap anymore is because the last time we made the [...]
Resturant Service as a Metaphor for Product Management
Last night my wife and I hit our favorite tex-mex diner for some enchiladas (for her) and fajitas (for me). They’re a family owned and operated business so I cut them a lot of slack in their service since some of their kids work as wait staff. However last night everything seemed like a metaphor for Product Management.
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 [...]
Solving a Latent Need: Nike+iPod
As Product Managers, we know that what makes a product really powerful is when it solves a clear problem for the customer. We discover these problems through research and living in customers shoes as much as possible. If we do it right, it’s not hard to discover new features, product line extensions, and [...]
Biotech Product Management
I, as well as most of my readers, are in high tech: audio/video, networking, personal computing, etc. I don’t know any Product Managers in the biotech industry (yet). I would be very interested in meeting one, and find out how PM is different in biotech vs. high tech. For one it’s just [...]
