25 Feb 2014
Should you have a Minimum Viable Product Strategy?
The less you build, the faster you can launch and the sooner you get revenue. So why isn’t everyone doing it?
3 Dec 2013
A superb product manager
What makes them so damn good? Some wonderful comments from product managers in this blog entry.
13 Aug 2013
Best product management courses
There are a range of product management training options available and it can be difficult to decide which to choose. Use the following to help decide the best option for…
13 Aug 2013
What is product management?
Product management is the job of looking after a specific product within a business. There are two parts to the job – bringing new products to market and managing those…
18 Jun 2013
Get out of the office
“You’ll learn more from spending an hour with a customer than you can from 50 market research reports” says Adrian Slywotzky. So get out of the office and speak to…
16 Apr 2013
Is your desk a dumping ground?
As a product manager are you constantly sweeping up the mess made by someone else? Of course we’re sympathetic … but I sometimes wonder if we bring some of this…
18 Jan 2013
Do sales let you down?
Do you get frustrated when your sales people don’t deliver what they forecast. Yes? So what can you do to get them back on track…
30 Oct 2012
The analyst racket
As product managers and product marketers our role can bring us into contact with the big technology analysts – with their magic quadrants, waves and cycles. But are there some…
2 Mar 2012
Firefighting – is that your job?
Product managers spend nearly half their time firefighting. But is this wrong? Well it depends on what you think product management is for.
21 Nov 2011
Agile hype and Scrum dogma
So, is Agile better than Waterfall? Scrum better than Stage-Gate? We don’t necessarily think so. There is no single best way of developing even though some people would like us…