Recently, the gadget-reviewer crowd has caught on to something we’ve known for a long time. Comparing products is not about comparing specs, it is about comparing how well the products solve problems that customers will pay to solve. That begs the question – how should you compare products? Read on […]
Agile / Business Analysis / Prioritization / Process Improvement / Product Management / Project Management / Requirements / ROI / Software development / User Stories
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Agile Estimation, Prediction, and Commitment
Your boss wants a commitment. You want to offer a prediction. Agile, you say, only allows you to estimate and predict – not to commit. “Horse-hockey!” your boss exclaims, “I want one throat to choke, and it will be yours if you don’t make a commitment and meet it.” There’s […]
Business Analysis / Data management / Product Management / Product Strategy / Requirements / Requirements management software
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Requirements Management Journey – Part 0
Requirements Management – I’m embarking on a journey to help several teams manage their requirements with their existing systems and tools. This is the first in a series of articles, where the rubber meets the road. I’ll look at both the theory and the realities of what works (and doesn’t) […]
Product Management
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Trust Pyramid – A Customer Model
In last week’s article (and the GrandView webinar) I talked about using models of customer behavior as a method of understanding and investing in your markets. One example I used is what I call a trust pyramid – representing how people have different levels of trust in the assertions of […]
Kano Analysis / Product Management / Product Strategy / Requirements / Requirements Models
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The Value of Insights
Intellectual Property. The legal jargon definition of this term has come to effectively mean “something I’ve patented, copyrighted, or hold as a trade secret.” A more general interpretation is “an idea.” For product managers, the most valuable ideas are insights.
Organizations / ProdMgmtTalk / Product Management / Product Strategy
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Product Managers & Innovation
Thanks everyone for the great conversation in the most recent #prodmgmttalk chat session! This week, Roger Cauvin inspired us to think about product managers as innovators – or enablers of innovation. Each week, I find myself thinking about at least one of the #prodmgmttalk questions long after the hour is […]
Business Analysis / Product Management / Product Strategy
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Nokia’s Smartphone Strategy – Maximin
Nokia, the Finnish mobile phone manufacturer, is getting clobbered as their market rapidly moves away from them. Recent analyst reports show that Android and iOS (Apple’s platform) based phones are rapidly gaining market share. Nokia sells neither. Nokia has a major press event in a few hours, where they will […]
ProdMgmtTalk / Product Management
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Market Insights and Collaboration
In this week’s #ProdMgmtTalk, one of the livelier discussion topics was around gaining insights into your market – and what does that mean (to you)? Steven Haines was the speaker for this session who prompted us to think, and pushed us to rethink our views on market insights. What a […]
Business Analysis / Ishikawa Diagram / Requirements / Requirements gathering / Requirements Models
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Everything Old is New Again
A lot of teams that I’ve worked on and with get hung up when thinking about defining requirements for “migration projects” and “system upgrades.” There’s some intangible barrier to being market focused when it comes to improving existing internal systems. Every new product represents a solution to an existing problem. […]