I've blogged in the past about the Seven Pillars of Product Management and indicated that theactivities of each of the pillars are asynchronous. We tend to think of the Seven Pillars as if they were aframework of process flowing from left to right, which isn't correct. The Seven Pillars are asynchronousactivities working concurrently. Each Pillar consumes and produces stock piles of product managementassets such as the problem statement or market requirement. The Seven Pillars are adapted to man...

The strategic nature and importance of product management is beginning to be accepted. Before 2009, many companies had an approach to product initiatives much like one would approach the lottery. Today, stakeholders demand an increase in corporate competitive advantage from every product initiative. There are too many examples of the severe penalties resulting from poor product management for it to be ignored any longer. Because product management is so important, a short blurb on what I've fou...

It seems like everyone is talking about this. I have to laugh and wonder if this is like hunting for Waldo or Carmen. Well, I was asked my opinion...so here we go, one more silly love song. First of all we need to be clear: the product manager is part of a team. Which makes this whole blog post kind of simple. The product manager is always on the product management team. That's where he or she is. Really, a pretty short blog post. But...it's not so simple and many issues arise because of poorly ...

For many of us, we begin our product management career by doing what is basically feature management: defining what the development team will be working on. In its simplest form, all you need to do in this position is calculate the number of development cycles you have available for a given release and then try to jam as many features into the product as possible. If you are lucky enough, you end up getting sufficient customer feedback (or complaints) that leads to some level of feature ranking...