Archives for the 'Theory' Category
Scheduling Accuracy
Release dates are driven by two factors: Internal and External. External examples would be a tradeshow - you need to release by August 25th because the tradeshow starts on the 30th. Internal factors also apply - Development will usually come back to you and say “There’s no way we can meet August 25th [...]
High-Tech Services Product Management
You hear a lot about Product Management for software and products. You don’t hear a lot about product management in high tech services. I wonder why?
Imagine an assembly line in a factory. Rolling down the line are chocolates that you have to wrap, only the line is moving too fast for you [...]
Intelligent Design, it’s Not Just for Religion
There are three predominant modes of bringing products, software, and services to the market today. The first is the “Extension Method,” which is used at commodity based companies. The second is what I call the “Divination Method,” which is used by most startups by people who believe they have cracked the code of [...]
How Product Management is like … StarCraft?
I anticipate that this post will bring out the PM old-guard. This may come as a shock to those of you over 30, but many of the skills necessary to be a successful Product Manager can be learned by playing video games. Lots of games could be applied to this analogy, but [...]
Why Product Beautiful?
When I told my wife that the name of the new Product Management blog I was creating was going to be Product Beautiful, she wrinkled her nose and asked if it was going to be about good looking products.
Well, yes and no. With a name like Product Beautiful you might assume that this is a [...]
