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TPMA Meeting: Product Management in Consumer Markets

The Toronto Product Management Association (TPMA), will be hosting its next meeting on Tuesday, May 27th. This session will cover Product Management in Consumer Markets. So, if your in a high-tech consumer market, and a PM in the Toronto area... read more...

Posted by Peter Ganza on May 13, 2008 8:11 AM

Offshore Development, will it work for me?

People often ask me for opinions on offshore development, and potential questions they should ask internally to determine if it makes business sense to pursue. There are a few factors to think about in making this decision: - Cost. This... read more...

Posted by Peter Ganza on May 9, 2008 9:18 AM | 1 Comment

Next Product Management Webinar, May 14, 12:00pm EDT : How SaaS is Setting ‘Sale’: elected Highlights from Softletter’s 2008 SaaS Report with Rick Chapman

Rick Chapman
Managing Editor
Softletter
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Merrill R. (Rick) Chapman, Managing Editor of Softletter (www.softletter.com) will discuss key highlights and excerpts from Softletter's recently released SaaS Report. The Softletter 2008 SaaS Report, released in March 2008, contains the results and analysis of Softletter's recent and comprehensive SaaS surveys. The presentation will analyze why software companies are transitioning to SaaS, current trends in sales compensation, international sales, the impact of SaaS on sales of maintenance and professional services, SaaS and Open Source, effective marketing programs, and much more.
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Managing Product Requirements

With the help of special software, it is possible to map out your requirements, and integrate them into your development and release cycle. read more...

Posted by miranda on May 9, 2008 9:02 AM

Past Webinar : Grocers and Chefs: Service-Model Thinking for Product-Model Folks with Rich Mironov

Rich Mironov
Chief Marketing Officer
Enthiosys
As most new software development moves from licensed software to online Software-as-a-Service, product managers need to conceive of their offerings in completely new ways. Especially for "product" product managers, service models change our basic assumptions about how we build, release, market and support our products. read more...

Posted by Glenn Imperial on May 7, 2008 12:00 PM

Past Webinar : Driving Visibility into Product Requirements Management with Mike Cottmeyer

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Requirements Management Software Podcast

Mike Cottmeyer
Product Expert
VersionOne
Once requirements are given to developers, a critical issue Product Managers have is monitoring each requirement’s status. Now, imagine having easy access any time to the status of all requirements including whether they will be completed for the next release. read more...

Posted by Glenn Imperial on April 30, 2008 12:00 PM

Developing a PM Process Roadmap

When creating your PM process roadmap, you need to make sure that things are ordered logically, and that the roadmap is clear to all team members. read more...

Posted by miranda on April 30, 2008 9:06 AM

Webinar: High Performance Solutions Marketing & Sales Enablement

NOTE: This is not a Product Management View Webinar

Bob, a member of our community is doing a webinar for SPI on high performance solution Marketing and wanted to make the PMV community aware of it. Here are the details:

Using roadmaps to communicate strategy

A roadmap is often thought of as a timeline of releases and what features will be rolled out during each release. It tells me what new features we're going to add to my product in the next release or in... read more...

Posted by Derick Workman on April 25, 2008 8:12 AM

There is Help in Solving New Product Problems

This is disturbing. Steven Wheelwright and Kim Clark write in their book, Revolutionizing Product Development that there are a few main problems in new product and new process development: the moving target, mismatches between functions, lack of product distinctiveness, unexpected... read more...

Posted by Byron Workman on April 24, 2008 8:16 PM

Are You Marketing Your "Green-ness"?

Part of the product management process is marketing. And, as Stewart pointed out yesterday, Earth Day earlier this week had a lot of people thinking about going green. When you are developing a product, are you thinking about its effects... read more...

Posted by miranda on April 24, 2008 10:58 AM

Past Webinar - How to Build a Compelling Product Roadmap with Brian Lawley

Brian Lawley
President
Silicon Valley Product Management Association (SVPMA).

Product Roadmaps can mean the difference between success and failure when delivering and marketing software products. They can be one of the most effective tools in a Product Management professional's arsenal. Done correctly they can help win and keep large customers and partners, and can guide the engineering and strategic planning efforts of a company. Unfortunately most Product Roadmaps are created "On The Fly" and under pressure when sales or the company management makes a last-minute request. As a result they don't have the impact they should. read more...

Posted by Glenn Imperial on April 23, 2008 12:00 PM

A bunch of random thoughts

First, yesterday was Earth Day and it reminded me of a previous post about a "Green" requirement type. I think every MRD/PRD should address what your next release is doing about the environment. See this post. What is doubly interesting about.........

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