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October 13th, 2009

Modeling User Competency

Perpetually intermediate (competent) users.  Users who briefly exist as novice users and never become experts. Most of your users are competent, and you should design for them.  Competent users have different needs and different expectations than novice or expert users.  How do you know your user’s competency levels, so you can design for them?

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October 5th, 2009

Strategy and Product Roadmaps

Steven Haines, author of The Product Manager’s Desk Reference, recently gave a webinar on effectively using product roadmaps for the Technology Product Management Council at Forrester Research.  You should check it out.

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September 28th, 2009

Kano Analysis for Product Managers

Kano Analysis, while initially created to understand customer satisfaction with features, can be used by product managers to better understand customer problems.  I gave a presentation last week for the Product Management View webinar series on Kano Analysis for product managers.

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September 15th, 2009

The Conversation Circles

In the previous article on the Conversation Ecosystem, I introduced a hierarchy of increasingly valuable conversations.   Some great feedback from you inspired a better visualization.

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September 8th, 2009

The Conversation Ecosystem

The previous article, The Conversation Economy, lays out a perspective of approaching the success of your business, and of your product, in light of the conversations that flow around them.  You can view the ecology that defines your market in terms of the kinds of conversations you’re having with your customers, users, and prospects.  This article explores that ecosystem in more depth – categorizing the types of conversations that are critical to the success of your product.

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September 1st, 2009

The Conversation Economy

The industrial age is behind us. It was surpassed by the knowledge economy, rapidly evolved into the attention economy. Successful companies realize that attention comes as a result of conversation. We’re now in the conversation economy.

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August 24th, 2009

Product Manage Your Website

  • You website is not just a tool, it is a service, and therefore a product.
  • Your prospects make buying decisions based on your website.
  • Your customers make repeat-buying decisions based on your website.
  • You risk losing future customers because of your website.

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August 3rd, 2009

Concise Requirements

Concise requirements give your team a useful, easy to read and easy to change understanding of what must be done.  Great requirements exist to do three things:

  1. Identify the problems that need to be solved.
  2. Explain why those problems are worth solving.
  3. Define when those problems are solved.

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July 29th, 2009

Valuable Requirements

Writing valuable requirements is important.  It doesn’t matter how well your teams execute if they are off building the wrong products / capabilities / features.  The right products and capabilities are the ones that have relevant value.

  • Valuable requirements solve problems in your market.
  • Valuable requirements support your business strategy.
  • Valuable requirements solve problems for your users.
  • Valuable requirements meet your buyers’ criteria.
  • Valuable requirements don’t over-solve the problems.

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July 23rd, 2009

ProductCamp Austin Summer 2009

Austin’s 3rd UnConference for product managers and product marketing managers is coming up on August 15t.  If you’re in Austin or can come to Austin, you should definitely plan on participating – it’s free, and a great opportunity to network, share, and learn.

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