Real-World Tips and Advice for Software Product Managers
Some of you may be familiar with Sisyphus, the Greek king who was punished in the afterlife by being condemned to roll a boulder up a hill. Whenever he neared the top of the hill, the stone would roll all the way back down to the bottom again. For those Product Managers who are only just ...
(Today's issue has a fun challenge question that demonstrates just how much the software industry has changed in the past 20 years. See Can You Answer This? below.) Requirements are the fuel that Product Managers produce to feed the company's software development engine. As part of refining the quality of those requirements, it's helpful to understand ...
With product requirements, one temptation a Product Manager has to fight is the desire to jump into the details. You already know what you want, lord knows you've heard what people want often enough, someone's got to actually put them on paper, and that someone is you, so you might as well get started. But there's ...
Product Managers are tasked with managing a product. Yet they do not have control over the many departments who do the work of building, marketing, selling, and delivering the product. This means that Product Managers must learn to manage by influence. For Product Managers, having to manage by influence can lead to a mindset where they ...