We re-analyzed some of our earlier numbers with the final data, including compensation by region and state. We also looked at some other factors, like who you report to, how large your company is, and if your company is public or private.
2007 Product Manager Survey – Technical Product Managers
Pragmatic Marketing’s 2007 survey of product managers includes questions that identify product managers as having technical backgrounds. Product management involves many responsibilities that require some level of technical acumen. In this article, we look at the survey responses to see if the degree of technical skill has a correlation with […]
2007 Product Manager Survey – Management Salaries
We wrote previously about some of the salary data from Pragmatic Marketing’s 2007 Product Manager survey data. Since that time, we’ve had the opportunity to analyze the complete data set. One of our readers asked if we could crunch the numbers for more senior positions – directors and executives – […]
Requirements for Enterprise Architecture: First Look
Traditional requirements happen after a multi-system architecture has been defined. But what about the requirements that feed into that architecture? The requirements that drive the enterprise architecture decisions in the first place? We haven’t talked about those before.
2007 Product Manager Salary Survey Data
Pragmatic Marketing’s 2007 survey results are in, and we’ve done some number crunching – looking at total compensation data. Total compensation is salary plus bonus. See how the numbers come out across experience, sex, age, state, and international region.
Pragmatic Marketing 2007 Survey
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Ten New Product Manager Tips
Welcome to product management! Over the the better part of three months, Adrienne Tan at brainmates, product management people, put together a series of posts with ten tips for new product managers. Check out our article for a quick summary, and links to all the articles at brainmates.
Avoid the Abilene Paradox
An excellent article by Jonathan Babcock raises a thought provoking idea. When gathering requirements, we can end up with requirements that no one actually wants, because everyone thought someone else wanted it. This is apparently known as the Abilene Paradox, a term coined by Jerry Harvey. We can apply our […]
Why Prioritization Matters
I am a big fan of boxes and arrows, but this time, Jeffrey Davidson found a great article by Dan Willis before I did, and told me about it. Thanks Jeffrey! The article is about how to deal with the what and how of requirements and design – and it […]