Principles of Product Portfolio Planning
Over the last several months I have been working with some clients to revisit how they do product portfolio planning. ...
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Lessons from Amazon
Several people pointed me to this great little talk by Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon. If you...
read moreLessons From Incubators
In the last couple articles I discussed product portfolio planning lessons we can learn from the Venture Capital industry. In...
read moreYour Business Plan is Wrong
In my last article on “Lessons From the VC Industry” I included some thoughts suggested by a VC friend of...
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In earlier articles we discussed the purpose of product portfolio planning and the frustrations with current product portfolio planning. In...
read moreFrustrations of Product Portfolio Planning
Continuing with the series on product portfolio planning, earlier I enumerated the purpose and objectives of the product portfolio planning...
read morePortfolio Grooming
I have never seen a technology product company that didn’t have more ideas they wanted to pursue, than capacity for...
read moreThe Purpose of Product Portfolio Planning
I am in the midst of a series of articles on product planning, but I’ve received several e-mails asking where...
read moreBusiness Strategy vs. Product Strategy
In keeping with my recent theme of product planning, I’d like to focus in this article on an important distinction...
read moreThe Board of Advisors
In my last article I began a series on the product planning process. I wanted to start by emphasizing that...
read moreThe 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...
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 moreEstimating Project Costs
Even though we’ve been estimating project costs since the beginning of software, it’s remarkable to me how much confusion remains....
read moreBuild New or Fix Old?
Often I’m asked what the right balance is between new product development and investing in improving existing products. I suppose...
read moreEngineering Wants to Rewrite!
Few words are more dreaded by product managers than being told by engineering: “No more new features! We need to...
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