Like Him or Hate Him, Donald Trump is the Ultimate Product Manager. No matter where you stand on the political spectrum, you need to give credit where credit is due. It’s hard to avoid Donald Trump’s brand. Everything has his name on it and it’s always big, shiny and gold. Trump gold courses, Trump Towers,…
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How to Position Your Product in a Competitive Market
* This article is part of a book called “Product2Market- How to Market a New Product and Introduce New Features” “Positioning is not what you do to the product; it’s what you do to the mind of the prospect. It’s how you differentiate your brand in the mind. Positioning compensates for our over-communicated society…
4 Tools Successful Product Managers Use to Stay Relevant
“Today’s most successful product management teams are not only highly responsive to changes in market conditions, but are highly focused and communicative of their intent, and are always trying to outpace the competition.” – Thoughtworks If you’re trying to outpace the competition, and you surely are, you’ll need to stay on top of cutting-edge…
Bad Product Management – Lessons on How NOT to Build a Product
There are those videos that you’ll come across where you just know they will stick with you forever. As a product manager this is one of those videos. The Pentagon Wars movie perfectly encapsulates what can go wrong if there is too much input for a product and why a strong product manager is important.…
7 Product Management Blog Posts to Meditate On
This month has been an especially interesting month, blog wise, for me. I’ve found many posts that I feel like I have to share with the rest of the product manager community and I just wasn’t happy with limiting it to a week’s worth. The blog posts this month really helped me through my weekly…
What Can Product Managers Learn from Microsoft’s Big Start Button Mistake
Remember when you excitedly installed Windows 8 only to restart your computer to a completely different user interface that left you confused. Where did the Start Menu go? Well, you weren’t the only one – the poor reception to the Windows 8 upgrade was, in large part, because it wasn’t user friendly. Microsoft learned the…
Your Checklist to Balancing Agile Development with UX
* This article is part of a book called “How a Product Manager Can Keep Customers Happy when Releasing a Major Product Update“ Where did the start menu go? Microsoft learned the hard way that changing the user interface can kill an upgrade and lead to customer confusion and frustration. With customized solutions, the…