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 […]
Business Analysis / Kano Analysis / Prioritization / Product Management / Requirements / Requirements Models
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Don’t Prioritize Features!
Estimating the “value” of features is a waste of time. I was in a JAD session once where people argued about if the annoying beeping (audible on the conference line) was a smoke alarm or a fire alarm. Yes, you can get to an answer, but so what?! The important […]
Organizations / Process Improvement / Product Management / ProductCamp
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Product Management Slowing You Down?
Does product management slow down your company?
Administrivia / Slightly off-topic
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Tyner Blain – Five Years and Going Strong!
Hooray! Tyner Blain is well into its fifth year, and I’m thrilled to say, going strong. The Tyner Blain blog turns 5 tomorrow – on Nov 24th 2010! Thanks so much to everyone who comes here to share, learn, teach, critique, and read!
Product Management / Quick Post / Slightly off-topic
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Bad Product or Bad Positioning? Intel’s Unlockable CPU
Intel introduced the G6951 unlockable CPU consumer product this month. Most of the press has been critical. Is this new chip / upgrade process a bad product, or a good product with bad positioning?
Kano Analysis / Product Management
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Customer-Centric Market Model
A market can be thought of as the collection of contexts in which you might sell your product. You can split your market into a set of market segments. Each of those segments represents a group of customers, each of whom shares a set of problems for which they would […]
Interaction design / Product Management / Requirements / ROI / Software development / User Stories / UX
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Measuring Great Design – Mad Libs Input Form
I came across a really interesting article LukeW.com, showing how making changes to the way an input form on a website increased interaction by 25 to 40%. The changes reflect the value of thinking outside-in, investing in user experience, and performance measurement. Bonus: the idea is cool.
Administrivia / Agile / Business Analysis / Prioritization / Product Management / Project Management / Requirements / Requirements gathering / Requirements Models / ROI / Software development / Use Cases
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Most Engaging Articles of 2009
Engagement – that’s what this whole product management blogging thing is about. Check out what Tyner Blain readers found to be the most engaging articles in 2009.
Product Management / Uncategorized
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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.