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Taking Stock of the Competition

A product profile allows you to get to the basics of your product, and then see how it compares to your competition.

Posted by miranda on July 3, 2008 3:49 PM

Technology Does Not Eliminate the Need for Good Design

Design is essential, and should not be forgotten in the rush to implement the latest technology.

Posted by miranda on June 4, 2008 11:28 AM | 1 Comment

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.

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

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...

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

Are You Ready to Meet Challenges?

But whether we are heading for, in the midst of, or even on track to avoid, a recession, it is important to be prepared to meet challenges.

Posted by miranda on April 16, 2008 11:32 AM

Innovation Essential to Product Management

Question not only what is happening, but also why it is happening.

Posted by miranda on April 9, 2008 12:18 PM

A tale of two monkeys..

On a recent business trip to the UK, I took the opportunity to go to Croatia and visit some family. I came across an interesting story relating to some of the country’s problems in transitioning to a democracy. In the...

Posted by Peter Ganza on April 4, 2008 9:24 AM | 2 Comments

Futureproofing 101

Do you employ a fortune teller to help you gauge future product requests? If not, you're probably the closest thing to it. We've all experienced the pain of dealing with something that seems like a trivial product-wide requirement having a...

Posted by Bob Schmonsees on September 26, 2007 11:28 AM

Mapping Marketecture (from new blogger Bob Schmonsees)

The entire focus of my postings to the Product Management Blog will be on helping Product Managers & Marketers improve their strategic impact by becoming more of a driving force behind their company's transition from a product marketing and selling model to a solution marketing and selling model. So, if your company is not serious about selling solutions, or if you don't think that solutions marketing is any different than product marketing you can skip my posts ...

Posted by Bob Holt on June 5, 2007 11:05 AM | 3 Comments

Your Product Framework

I really like Adam's post, The Party of Four. His premise is that there are 4 building blocks you need for your product.

Posted by Stewart Rogers on September 22, 2006 10:25 AM

Technical Debt

Johanna Rothman at Managing Product Development has defined a term that I had not heard before - "technical debt". Technical debt is the accumulation of "work still to be done" in order to get the features delivered on time. I imagine that most of your products are suffering technical debt. Check out her post "Paying off Technical Debt" to see what you can do about it.

Here is another link to an article about technical debt.

Posted by Stewart Rogers on August 18, 2006 11:29 AM

Past Webinar - Product to Market Methodology with Neil Parrott

Neil Parrott, Senior Marketing Manager at FileNet Corporation stirred a lot of interest amongst the users with his presentation at the recent User Group meeting. He is responsible for implementing and managing FileNet's Product to Market Methodology - PMM52 which includes the following activities:

Posted by Suzannah Baum on June 21, 2006 12:00 PM

Release Notes

We had a question from the community and I thought I would post it to the rest of you.

What is the most effective format for release notes?

Any help with Release Note best practices?

Posted by Stewart Rogers on May 26, 2006 3:17 PM | 3 Comments

Feature Driven Development (FDD)

With so many methodologies available, how do you choose which is best for you?

Personally, I think all of them have an equal chance to succeed. The keys to all of them are good communication (I know this is hard but you can do it!), the ability to read (thoroughly) and write (clearly). With these 3 qualities and a strong team, it almost does not matter which methodology you choose. With that said, I like where Feature Driven Development is heading.

Read Scott's post at Tyner Blain, he does a fantastic job of explaining FDD.

Enjoy!

Posted by Stewart Rogers on April 17, 2006 10:25 AM

Another "Fun" Post

As an extension to Adam's post "Specification Packages", Harry Nieboer discusses here the structure of a product positioning statement that can be found in the Vision document.

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Posted by Stewart Rogers on March 31, 2006 8:19 AM

The Easiest Job in The World

A friend of mine said to me the other day that the easiest job in the world must be product manager for a company that makes razors.

Posted by Bob Holt on March 30, 2006 8:00 AM

Sony Admits Misses - Interesting Article..

Interesting take on Sony's management changes in light of being too development driven and, not wining in the market

Posted by Peter Ganza on March 29, 2006 9:56 AM | 1 Comment

How to Eat an Elephant

Recently my five-year-old daughter came to me distressed by the Herculean task that stood before her - a page of pre-school arithmetic. When I saw how daunted she was by the job at hand I remembered something my dad told me when I was small - there is only one way to eat an elephant: one bite at a time...

Posted by Bob Holt on March 23, 2006 9:07 AM

The value of Release Contracts

Common postives and negatives for internal Release Contracts.

Posted by Peter Ganza on March 8, 2006 4:52 PM

Owning the Gap

By Rich Mironov
Here's an interesting article from Rich Mironov's blog. In it, he describes how product executives should apply "Gap Principles" to shape the organization to succeed at the overall task of designing product and shipping for revenue - enabling product managers to focus on driving product efforts....

Posted by Robin Lowry on March 6, 2006 2:51 PM

What is a requirement?

There is an interesting discussion going on here. Roger provides the IEEE definitions of what a requirement is and also provides a related link to a fairly spirited debate on a related topic. Interesting question isn't it - what is...

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Taking Stock of the Competition

Technology Does Not Eliminate the Need for Good Design

Developing a PM Process Roadmap

Using roadmaps to communicate strategy

Are You Ready to Meet Challenges?

Innovation Essential to Product Management

A tale of two monkeys..

Futureproofing 101

Mapping Marketecture (from new blogger Bob Schmonsees)

Your Product Framework

Technical Debt

Past Webinar - Product to Market Methodology with Neil Parrott

Release Notes

Feature Driven Development (FDD)

Another "Fun" Post

The Easiest Job in The World

Sony Admits Misses - Interesting Article..

How to Eat an Elephant

The value of Release Contracts

Owning the Gap

What is a requirement?

Why won't you take my money?