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Product Manager – Strategic or Not?
Product Management / Product Strategy

Product Manager – Strategic or Not?

Posted on: February 21, 2012July 25, 2023

Are product managers really involved in strategic discussions, or are we just order takers? Adrienne Tan has poked the beehive and started a great discussion with this article. Joining in from here, hopefully adding folks to the conversation. Check it out, and chime in here or on the brainmates blog.

Why Do Products Fail?
Ishikawa Diagram / Product Management

Why Do Products Fail?

Posted on: February 8, 2012July 25, 2023

Why do products fail? Trying to organize all of the reasons that your product might fail is a Herculean effort. Understanding how your product did, will, or might fail will help you focus on what you need to do next.

Specializing Generalist
Agile / People management / Process Improvement / Software development

Specializing Generalist

Posted on: February 1, 2012July 25, 2023

The ideal agile team is made up of specializing generalists – but what does that really mean? The goal isn’t to prevent functional silos of expertise, it is to allow people to cover for each other.

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