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Product Manager/Product Owner Dilemma: Source for 40-60% More Work Quote

On Thursday at the PMC event on Confronting Agile, Bruce quoted a statistic; when Product Managers become Product Owners, their workload increases 40 to 60%. The source is Rich Mironov, CMO for Enthiosys. He's got a great slide show which is sure to spark further conversation.

The show details the roles for product managers, product marketers, product owners and the super human jobs we do to bring products to market that delight our customers and make money for our companies. It's a… Continue

Added by Val on April 24, 2010 at 2:47pm — No Comments

Thinking about Innovation!

We're preparing for our May event, which will be all about Innovation and Product Management. We met with our speaker today, Linda Williams, and there's so much ground to cover, we could put together an entire weekend!

As you think about your jobs as Product Managers, Product Owners, Product Marketers, and the rest of you who interact with the Product Peeps, what do you want from a conversation about innovation?

Do you want to know how to come up with the big idea?

Do you… Continue

Added by Val on April 23, 2010 at 6:27pm — No Comments

Usage Stories: Good article at product-arts.com

I just read a good article on using Usage Stories to help define requirements. Unlike use cases, which help define a user's actions with the application in specific situations, a Usage Story is a very high-level scenario. No if this, then this modeling, just one or two sentences on what the user is trying to accomplish and what, if any, top-level constraints are there.

At blinkx, we use Agile as our development methodology. Getting epics and user stories 'developer ready'…

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Added by Val on February 21, 2010 at 3:27pm — No Comments

Creating Value

Warren Buffet tells us that price is what you pay, value is what you get. As product managers, our job is to create and sustain value in our product and service offerings for both our company and our customers. At first, this sometimes seems like an impossible task.

The puzzle looks something like this: The company needs to sells a certain number of units at a set gross profit within a defined period of time; the market needs to buy at the lowest price possible to still meet their… Continue

Added by Val on April 26, 2009 at 3:41pm — No Comments

Product Manager's Job: Manage for Speed

In today's global, 24/7 world, time-to-market is a key strategic factor. 40% of the major American corporations that existed in 1975 do not exist today (source: Winning at New Products, Robert G. Cooper). Windows of opportunity are smaller, and more crowded, than ever before with more companies trying to get to market with new and innovative products. SPEED IS THE PIVOTAL COMPETITIVE WEAPON. Yes, I'm "shouting" this. It's all about speed. Sort of.

This shouldn't be translated into… Continue

Added by Val on April 19, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

Need a laugh? Read the Cranky PM. This one made me LOL.

Reblogging:

GUEST POST: THE CRANKY ENGINEER RESPONDS TO A PRD

by THE CRANKY PRODUCT MANAGER on APRIL 1, 2009

in DEVELOPMENT, GUEST POSTS

Today we have a super-duper-uber-fantastic guest post from the Cranky Engineer, aka DGentry of codingrelic.geekhold.com. Check out his blog. It’s WICKED AWESOME.

Also, you might recall that DGenery was the BIG WINNER of the Cranky Product Manager’s caption contest for the “7 Types of Engineers.” He won a fancy pants coffee mug.… Continue

Added by Val on April 16, 2009 at 6:08am — No Comments

Marketing as an Operational function?

In his article, Social Media Marketing: Marketing and Operations Take Another Step Closer, Dave Evans, ClickZ writes:

For the past 5 to 10 years, it could be explained by what's now called social media. Consumers have been steadily chipping away at a marketer's ability to influence a mass audience. First, it was fragmentation: Jim Stengel, former Proctor & Gamble CMO, noted that in the mid-'60s, 80 percent of all U.S. adults could be… Continue

Added by Val on April 15, 2009 at 7:53am — No Comments

Using Strategic Vision Statements to Prioritize Feature Requests

Sorting through the cacophony of feature requests to determine which one(s) come next, which come after that and which ones never get done is one of the most challenging aspects of product management. Product Managers are lobbied, bribed, bullied and threatened to include this sales manager's pet feature or this developers bright idea. Big, valuable customers demand changes. Market leaders bring out new versions and you immediately want to hit back.

After the dust settles and the… Continue

Added by Val on March 27, 2009 at 11:50am — No Comments

Building Sustainable Products

Every day we hear about sustainability. Mostly the discussions revolve around energy, the environment, agriculture and building green. The principles of sustainability though are equally applicable to products, product lines and companies.

Whether you consider the Hannover Principles, established for the 2000 World's Fair in Hannover, or the… Continue

Added by Val on March 17, 2009 at 7:49am — No Comments

Reinventing your product.

I don't know about you, but I'm seeing articles, webinars and blog postings touting the need to 'reinvent ourselves' during these challenging economic times. Maybe we don't really need to reinvent so much as simply do what good product managers do and take stock of our products, our markets, our customers and our resources and build a growth plan that works for today's reality. Or maybe reinvention is called for and we as product managers and product marketers have to lead the… Continue

Added by Val on March 10, 2009 at 6:41am — No Comments

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