The Cult of Customer Satisfaction
Rating and reviewing customer experiences has become excessive and meaningless, with companies desperately begging for top scores and even withholding raises based on satisfaction scores.
Why does scope creep?
Program delays and scope creep plague product development despite talented teams, leading to changing requirements and added pressure.
Faith Based Product Development
"Faith-based product development" and its consequences on engineering teams, senior management, and product managers are explored in this edition.
Product Definition by Specials Request
Sales-driven organizations can lead to product managers continuously accommodating special customer requests, creating an unsupportable mess.
Pricing, the dark side of Product Management
Finding the right price for your product can be complex, but determining its value is crucial to success.
Rockstar Product Management
The scarcity of true rockstar product managers and the need to focus on nurturing and developing talent.
User Experience is more than UI
Developers often don't experience what the User see. They don't need to be on lousy hardware, but you should ensure that testing happens on systems closely resembling what ships.
The Dreaded Zombie Product
Product Obsolescence: The challenges and resistance faced when trying to let go of outdated products, including executive friction, sales pushback, and production hesitation.
Product Management Truths
Dude's truths for product management: hardware projects are software projects, trade-offs between speed, cost, and quality, launch dates will be dictated, engineering overcommits early.
Product Management Dog Whistles
Painful realities of product management: refactoring troubles, sales blame game, unrealistic expectations, tactical work value, and product delays.
What Does a MVP Really Mean?
The MVP concept is often misinterpreted and misused in various groups, causing confusion and misunderstanding.
How to handle your Exit Interview
Exiting your job? Here's why you should be careful and positive during your exit interview.
Motivation, Why Big Corps can’t function like a Startup
Working harder at a large corporation may not lead to more success due to lack of incentives and limited salary increases.
Team Size, does more members always mean better?
Accelerating progress by throwing more resources at a project doesn't work, optimal team size is key.
What to do when you go to Dinner with the Boss
Tips for successfully navigating a dinner with your boss: don't drink too much, don't hog the conversation, don't order the most expensive thing, and recommend good restaurants.
You Don't Manage a Sexy Product. So what?
Managing a less exciting product can still lead to success and make a difference in the market.
Is Product Management like Winston Wolf?
Product managers handle day-to-day firefighting and task switching, while juggling a backlog and limited resources.
Attributes of a Successful Product Manager
Attributes of a Successful Product Manager: Observant, continuously learning, creative, communicators, analytical, decisive, negotiator, leader; certification isn't enough.
Marketing and Product Management are Intertwined
Marketing and product management are evolving, with marketing becoming more focused on communication and product management taking on the role of real marketing.
You can’t do Product Management w/o Some Marketing
Debates between product managers and product marketing managers are futile; both roles are essential and must work together for success.