Today’s article is a harvest of pointers to articles about the focus on problems. An idea farm, so to speak, with really good articles about the importance of solving problems, not just eliciting requirements.
Agile / Prioritization / Product Management / Project Management / Requirements / Requirements gathering / ROI / Software development
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Successful Products: Lucky or Intentional?
Is your product successful because you were lucky, or because you were methodical and intentional? Do you want to build a plan where you are dependent on good fortune, or do you want to make your own “luck?” Both approaches work, but only one makes sense as an intention. Slide […]
Product Management
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Your Problem Statement is The Problem
Problems are the reason why we create software. We solve problems. For the business. A “Goal” is an acknowledgment that you are going to try and address the problem. One mistake people commonly make is to describe problem manifestations and not problems. Read on to see the difference.
Interviews / Product Management
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Interview with Woopra’s John Pozadzides
Woopra is a new hot web-analytics product in beta release. There is a lot of discussion around the differences between product management in startups and product management in enterprise companies. In this article, we take a look at the product management around Woopra, and gain a little insight into how […]
Austin TX / Product Management
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ProductCamp Austin 2008
No, not that kind of camp. Product Camp
Business Analysis / Prioritization / Product Management / Requirements
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Improved Prioritization And Market Segmentation
Prioritization is about maximizing the value you provide to your customers. When you have multiple sets of customers with different priorities, what do you do? You could try and find the lowest-common-denominator, and please everyone a little bit. But that would be the wrong thing to do – by trying […]
Administrivia / Business Analysis / Product Management / Requirements / Requirements gathering
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Recycling An Active Listening Article
We’re dedicating our “blogging time” this week to doing some infrastructure upgrades – we have to address some security issues on the site. Until we get through these changes, we’ll be recycling some of our existing content. For our recent readers, it will be “new to you” and for our […]
Agile / Prioritization / Product Management / Requirements / Software development
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Plan For Today, And Plan Correctly For Tomorrow
Instead of Prioritize the present when planning your product. Neglecting the future is almost as bad as over-emphasizing it. The key is to incorporate your plans for the future correctly by making them play second fiddle to the present needs of your market. Serve both today and tomorrow – but […]
Product Management / Slightly off-topic
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Michael Arrington’s Inbox is Fat!
Michael Arrington has 2400+ unread emails in his inbox. And he needs someone to fix it. If you are the person with the idea to save us all, send me an email and tell me all about it. Actually, strike that. Drop by my house and tell me all about […]