What should a Product Manager do?

Once the decision is taken to establish the PM function - the questions regarding interfaces - who should be responsible for what - surfaces.

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P-Camp ’10: Thinking Like an Agile Product Manager

At Silicon Valley P-Camp ‘10 (March 13th), Rich Mironov led a session on “How Agile Changes Waterfall PM Processes and Thinking.”  This was a tall order

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Let’s Fire a Few of Our Customers

We may be over-investing in a few outlier prospects and neglecting our core customers. How do we frame this and get support to fire one or two?

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Hearing About Accounts, Listening for Segments

B2B sales teams deal with the world one account at a time; product managers deal with customer segments. This creates friction which good companies anticipate.

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Four Laws of Tech Product Economics

We considered some fundamental laws of tech product economics (especially software) that should drive executive-level business and product strategies.

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