Category: 1. Product Management
03021 (FREE) Product Champion: What Does That Mean?
June 3, 2003
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You often see job listings for Product Managers that describe the role as “product champion.” It sure sounds interesting, but what exactly does it mean? Just what do you have to do to be the champion of a product?
Product Managers are also often described as the “owner” [...]
03019 The Product: Not Just Software Anymore
May 20, 2003
As the software industry has developed from its infancy, companies have learned to provide very specific services around the core software product. They have gradually come to understand that these services - such as project management, implementation consulting, training, and software customization - are essential to the product’s success. Companies that have pushed the envelope [...]
03015 An Interview With Alyssa Dver
April 15, 2003
Alyssa Dver is the author of the book Software Product Management Essentials
Today’s issue is devoted to an interview with Alyssa S. Dver, author of the newly published “Software Product Management Essentials, A Practical Guide for Small and Mid-Sized Companies.”
“Often, we Product Managers get so caught up in what we have to do, that we don’t [...]
03013 Become an Industry Subject Matter Expert
April 3, 2003
One of the conundrums for Product Managers is that in many ways, their area of expertise is product management of a software application, yet companies increasingly require them to have experience in the industry that uses the software.
There are good arguments for doing it this way, and equally strong ones for having Product Managers whose [...]
02001 The Two Types Of Product Managers
December 7, 2002
Although most of us in the software industry use the term Product Manager like any other job title, positions that go by this name actually involve two separate flavors, or types, different enough that in any other area you would find two distinct job titles. Both flavors of Product Manager involve a considerable amount of [...]
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