Creating a product and selling it to the end user are two entirely different facets in any product life cycle. As a product manager, you have to understand that repeat sales are what determine whether your customers were really satisfied by whatever product they purchased from you. This means you have to develop a product…
Guide to Product Development Life Cycle
This is another one where it seems like I just talked about this. The product development life cycle is really not complex at all. It’s a series of steps a product goes through from conception to mass user consumption. It varies in length, and some of them have more steps than others, or more clearly…
What is the Product Development Process?
Explaining the product development process is going to be a painful and tedious process. It’s not that the process is difficult, nor is it a problematic field in any way. It’s just painfully difficult to explain this in words. It’s impossible to not miss describing something important, resulting in an incomplete view of what the…
Best Product Management Articles Of the Week
Product management is a very wide topic on which ones needs to stay up-to-date. This “Best of Week” article is sure to leave you updated with the latest news, reviews and innovations in the world of product management. #1 How Not to Advertise Your Company Bad advertising can wreak havoc to your brand. Saeed Khan…
3 Things Really Successful Product Managers Avoid Doing
For a product to be successful, product managers must make sure they are working hard to keep everything in order and avoid making any mistakes. There are some mistakes that some managers make that cause a whole product launch to fail. This can be very frustrating especially when the whole reason behind a new product…
Product Management 101 – Short Guide
So you want to be a product manager? Congratulations, you’ve got some brass. This isn’t an easy job, in fact it’s one of the hardest jobs in the business world, because everyone wants a piece of you and everyone blames you when the ship takes on water. But, it’s a rewarding career and one of…
Best Practices for Product Management Budget
When I discovered it was time to discuss the product management budget concept, I cringed, I moaned and I groaned. Why? Not because I think it’s unimportant or something. It’s tremendously important, and it’s a challenge. I just, like so many people who aren’t bean counters or mathematicians, hate financial topics. Death and Taxes: Unfortunately,…