Categories: Product Management

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…

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…

Another year has gone by and boy, what a year it was. With hundreds of new products being released, some making it big, some flopping, I really learned a lot. Much of what I learned was through the great articles that are published daily by product managers all over the world. I started this blog…

* This article is part of a book called “How a Product Manager Can Keep Customers Happy when Releasing a Major Product Update” The road to churn is paved with idiocy and tales of incomprehension. Having driven on it, let me tell you that it makes the potholes in central Detroit look like lilly pads.…

I’d like to think of myself as a pretty good product manager. Product managers by definition have to be very confident in their abilities to lead and to make the correct decisions. After all, that is the role of a product manager; you need to be the steering wheel of a NASCAR racecar.  Your tech…

Seems like Halloween came earlier this year, right? After the 4th of July I started noticing orange and black colored candy everywhere. It’s also one of the first years I’ve noticed all the big companies are making Halloween flavored candy. Many of the candies are not too tasty, and it got me wondering whether they…