Archives for the 'Product Management' Category
Cisco Marketing Has Gone Crazy…Like a Fox!
Cisco is trying to use new media in innovative ways to connect with a highly technical target market. One of these methods is an online game called Edge Quest.
ProductCamp Austin Announces Location and Austin Ventures as a Sponsor!
ProductCamp Austin is a free, one-day ‘unconference’ for product managers and anyone involved in product management or product development. It will be held on June 14, 2008 in Austin, Texas at St. Edwards University’s Professional Education Center.
Why Product Management is Open Source’s Fatal Flaw
Free Open Source Software (FOSS) is great - I have released code under the GPL, LGPL, and similar licenses. There are mountains of FOSS available right now for download from sites like SourceForge and others that save businesses millions of dollars. More importantly, open source software offers feature sets and mixes that often [...]
The Curse of the White Sunglasses
Mandy and I went to the mall this weekend to get her some new maternity clothes. While she browsed the Motherhood store, I took up a strategic perch outside so as not to bump bellies with a bunch of pregnant women. Next store was a sunglasses shop, so I figure why not burn a few [...]
Announcing ProductCamp Austin!
Announcing ProductCamp - a collaborative, user run event, focused on Product Management and Marketing topics.
Who *Really* Runs Your Company?
“We’re a Marketing driven company?” “We’re Engineering driven, but we’re trying to change that.” “We’re Sales driven.” I’m sure you’ve heard many of these and more. From the outside looking in, sometimes it can be difficult to tell who is driving the decision making at a company, but here is one sure-fire way [...]
Do You Have Great Customers or Power Pissers?
Great Customers are the one’s who want to be your best friend. They are hyper consumers of your product, the ultimate power users, they’re on your forums helping novice users and advocating for you. They might have become this way because your product inspired so much passion in them that they are now [...]
To Startup or Not to Startup
A few months ago, John Milburn of Pragmatic Marketing approached me about writing an article for their magazine about my experiences building a product management organization in a startup. After a lot of collaboration and some good debate, we have an article in this issue of The Pragmatic Marketer entitled “To Startup or Not [...]
Margin Analysis
Financial analysis is a key skill for any great Product Manager, yet it is one of the least discussed, taught, or blogged about. Maybe it’s because finances are not sexy or “the accounting team will handle it.” If you are CEO of your product, you had better have a handle on your products’ [...]
Nominated
I was nominated for the Association of International Product Marketing and Management’s (AIPMM) 2008 Excellence as a Thought Leader Award. That’s cool! Wish I could have gone to PMEC, it looks like they are putting on quite a show. Between that and P-camp, I’m getting really jealous of all the fun PM stuff happening on [...]
