I recently came across a LinkedIn survey asking the above question – what is the most important qualification for a product manager. Curiously, the answers were: Energy and Passion Visionary Demonstrate Leadership Multitasking Problem Solving Granted, all of the above are great qualities for any employee, especially a leader in a cross functional organization (like most product … Continue reading »
Like many of my colleagues, I love the conceptual idea of agile software development – forgo with the ancient ways of a long release cycle and move forward with quick bursts, course-correcting when needed. The lure, for the feature greedy product manager, is immense: you quickly “see” results, and have higher transparency into the product development cycle. … Continue reading »
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Do you have a social strategy for your product? “The world is becoming more social!” “users want to interact with peers!” “it’s the new age of web 2.o!” – if these topics have been circulating the watercooler, beware. Before jumping in and adding that “person” entity, implementing a “feed”, allowing people to put each other … Continue reading »
This post is instigated by Adobe discontinuing mobile Flash. With this move, Adobe did one of the bravest, most difficult moves a company can do: venturing away from a safe market and into an uncharted future. It is also clear this move affects every one – it will dictate how video and all other rich … Continue reading »
It happens constantly, all over the world. An application is out there, usually making money, with an unassuming roadmap of features. Suddenly, there’s a commotion in the engineering dept. A dev rushes in: “the code is useless! we can’t find our way in this spaghetti soup! we need to rewrite!” It’s a constant temptation, in … Continue reading »
Common product management pitfall, and how to avoid it: the access control bitflag Continue reading »
It happens often: you wait for a specific capability and one day your vendor supplies it. Excited, you rush to the product, to test it out.. the feature is there! But — you can’t really use it. Something crucial is missing. That self-explanatory next step is simply not there. It is frustrating to miss out on … Continue reading »
Recently, my company launched a new service. Part of developing the service was a long process of crafting a UI which is usable and clearly understood. However, I insisted on one feature which provides no clear usability enhancement: a 3D carousel to select a virtual machine template from a list. A big hug goes out … Continue reading »
You can empower your product team and eventually create better products. In many organizations, preparing the product roadmap involves feature-level discussions: a basket of features is presented, along with estimated costs for each, and a decision comprised of the main new features is reached. These types of discussions severely limit your product managements ability to … Continue reading »
