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Leadership in Product Management (2) – People & Organizational Culture

In the first post on leadership in Product Management I laid out the case for leadership in product management and outlined three primary aspects of a company [Leadership in Product Management – Effecting Organizational Alignment].   This post will address the importance of effecting leadership within the context of two of those aspects: people and organizational [...]

Bullet-Proof your Business Case in less than 8 hours

In a previous post, I presented a method that product managers can use to integrate the stakeholders’ inputs into their business case, rapidly assess their impact on specific goals and, as a result, increase everyone’s confidence in the quality of the decision regarding the business case.
In the same post I then made the claim that [...]

Leadership in Product Management – Effecting Organizational Alignment

Leadership as a topic has a great deal of breadth and depth.  With respect to product management the term “leadership” usually evokes the context of product or market leadership.  While these are worthy goals to which many of us product managers aspire, there is much work to be done in laying the groundwork for the [...]

Product Managers Beware – Misaligned Incentives May Be Holding Up New Features in Your New SaaS Implementation

As I wrote in some of my earlier postings, the SaaS world differs greatly from the standard packaged and installed software.  The basic ideas are the same, but there are many organization, technology and budget differences that can trip up any product manager.  Let’s take a look at this scenario…
You sold your management on offering [...]

A GPS for Product Roadmaps

One of the biggest challenges I’ve faced as a product manager is attempting to arrive at a consensus when identifying what enhancements, bug fixes and other development items should be included in the product roadmap. Perhaps you, too, will identify with a few of the themes in this *mostly* fictional dramatization…
Bob, a product manager at [...]