The Seven Deadly Sins of Product Planning
Product planning is a big topic that many product organizations struggle with. It spans a range of activities including business...
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How To Kill Innovation
Last week I ran into two different software technology companies (neither in Silicon Valley) that had just recently brought in...
read moreGetting Past The Gatekeepers
Readers of my articles know that I believe that the single most important thing that a product manager does is...
read morePleasure is Not the Absence of Pain
This time of year always gets me thinking about the nature of great products. Recently I was forwarded an article...
read moreLeft Of The Line
I picked up this phrase “left of the line” from my friends at the e-commerce site kbb.com. At the highest...
read moreProduct Management and Risk
In a very real sense, every product manager is in the risk management business. Every investment decision we make represents...
read moreAvoiding Design By Committee
One of the big advantages that startups have is that there aren’t many people. As companies get larger (even a...
read moreMarket Discovery vs. Product Discovery
In earlier articles I’ve written about the product discovery process – discovering a product that is valuable, usable and feasible....
read moreHigh-Fidelity Prototypes
In several earlier articles I have talked about aspects of prototypes. I’ve talked about using them as the basis for...
read moreWhat Product Management Is Not
I find that many companies remain stuck in old, failed models of product management, and don’t always realize how important...
read morePersonas for Product Management
Product management is all about choices. Making decisions about what opportunities are worth chasing, which problems are worth solving, what...
read morePrototype Testing
Readers of these articles know that I view the high-fidelity prototype as the primary means of describing the product to...
read moreProduct Discovery
Have you seen this situation before? Your company gets all excited about a product idea, and as product manager you...
read moreProduct Management vs. Product Marketing
Industry pundits claim that 9 out of 10 product releases are failures in that they don’t meet their goals. I...
read moreProduct Management vs. Product Marketing
Industry pundits claim that 9 out of 10 product releases are failures in that they don’t meet their goals. I...
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