Product Management

Creating an Effective But Agile Product “Roadmap”

As companies transition from traditional, more waterfall-oriented approaches to their products, they often struggle with understanding how agile practices fundamentally change the ways in which they need to plan and develop their product roadmaps, both for internal use as well as for discussion with key customers and market prospects.  The old-school method of assigning specific […]

Product Management

The Troubles with “Transparency”

The common wisdom in the Product Management world is that more transparency is always better — transparency into the planning process, the roadmap, the product strategy, prioritization, design, development, etc.  And while transparency is certainly important, generally speaking, it can also have its dark side, especially when the culture in which you are being transparent […]

Product Management

Fail Fast, Fail Cheap, and Fail OFTEN!!

In the world today, it’s no longer efficient or effective for a Product Manager in any company to devote months of time, effort, and expense in designing and developing new products or new product features.  The market moves faster than that, and even in traditionally slower markets like B2B customers are increasingly exposed to the […]

Product Management

The “CEO of the Product” Myth

I’m fairly confident that anyone who’s worked as or interacted with Product Managers for any extended period of time has run into someone talking about how the Product Manager is the “CEO of the Product.” The implication is that the Product Manager has some form of ultimate authority for what’s in, what’s out, and when things ship; […]

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