This week, I’d like to share with you 5 blog posts that will help you in 2016. This time of year is usually the best time to sit with a cup of tea and enjoy some downtime by the fireplace, unless you’re in California, then grab an iced tea. Whether you want to become a product…
How to Succeed as a Product Manager in 2016
As someone who studied martial arts for 15+ years, the one thing that my sensei would never let go of was the basics. It doesn’t matter if this was your second class, or your one thousandth class, we went over the basics at least once a week. If you are not familiar with the basics,…
3 Steps to Superior Product Decisions
Product Managers are the mothers of invention. You need to decide on the features that will go into your product. What message will you be using to communicate the value that people will get out of your product? Who is your target market? Here are 3 steps to making Superior Product Decisions. Voting by the…
Mark’s Reading Corner – This Week’s Top Articles
As the year comes to an end, we can’t help but thinking how to improve in the year to come. While having New Year resolutions have sort of become a cliché, a kind of thing you say but never follow through, I find it more important to make a resolution regarding your professional life, and…
How Product Planning and Development is Helping Product Managers
Product planning and development is actually pretty glamorous. Everyone wants to be a part of the process through which a company comes up with new ideas. A product management team will analyze ideas and come up with a plan to convert them into tangible items. The next step is to come up with policies…
10 Product Fails To Be Happy You Aren’t Associated With
The central goal of product managers is to plan, forecast, produce, and market products. Product managers set out by finding out what consumers want, making sure the product will sell, and ensuring that it is easy/pleasant to use or consume. With extensive research, testing, retesting, and changes, product managers spend long hours designing the perfect…
Know Your Product: Kobe Bryant 2.0
It’s no secret I love the Lakers, and that I love being a Product Manager. I’ve always kind of felt that my product management style is that of Phil Jackson, that I have that Zen-like radiance. The products I release are Kobe Bryants, Shaquille O’Neills and every once in a while – a Nick Young.…