Real-World Tips and Advice for Software Product Managers
Product management topics provide an unmatched source of real-world tips and advice to make software product managers more effective.
Let me just come out and say it. I think being a Product Manager is an awesome job. From the time 24 years ago when I was tapped for my first Product Manager position, through the succession of product management jobs that played out through good economic times and bad, journeying through a motley succession of ...
When I entered the working world, it came as a big surprise to me that what I had learned in school, while valuable and interesting, hadn’t really armed me with what I needed to know to succeed in my career. I needed to learn a whole different set of subjects and skills. And this wasn’t ...
One of the central reasons that companies hire a Product Manager is to make sure that they have someone who sets and drives the direction of the product. In a world where there is never enough time to implement all the ideas that come along for great new features, you need to choose the right ...
I am attending Product Camp in NYC and have proposed a mini-workshop about applying risk management to your product. Attendees at Product Camp vote at the beginning of the event to select which proposed sessions will be presented. In the interest of providing a little more details about risk management and some of what I'll ...
My experience with Product Management has been one of trying to take the best ideas, and best practices, and applying them to each aspect of my job. It has involved lots of hard work. Yet with those top ideas and hard work, it seems as if it remains just as difficult to achieve results each ...
With the holiday season upon us, I can't help but think about what every Product Manager needs and wishes for in order to watch their product succeed and to flourish in their career. Watching your product succeed provides plenty of gratification, and the success of the product rubs off on the Product Manager. Such wishes as ...
Companies strive hard to create new software products that address an unfilled need in the market. When a product hits the mark, it enjoys success, and if it goes beyond innovative to transformational, it becomes an unqualified success. Just about every company and Product Manager hopes for such a product, one that brings in customer ...
As a Product Manager, your scope of responsibilities calls upon you to get involved across the board in all aspects of the product. There's plenty of work to be done for product requirements, Marketing, Sales, Development, and Professional Services. In order to be effective as a Product Manager, you need to identify those areas in your ...
I have just returned from the Product Management conference provided by the Association for International Product Marketing and Management. The 2006 west coast conference, called the PMEC, or Product Management Educational Conference, was held in Indian Wells, California (near Palm Springs) for two days on April 20 and 21, with an optional day of pre-conference ...
Product Management is not a job that people can go out and get a degree in. You can get a degree in Computer Science that covers the knowledge you need in order to start out as a programmer. You can get a degree in Marketing that gives you the basic foundation to get started in ...