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. […]
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!
Agile / Business Analysis / Requirements / Requirements Models / Software development / User Stories
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Agile Documentation
Agile values working software over comprehensive documentation – it is 1/4th of the original manifesto. That doesn’t mean don’t document! It means don’t document more than you need to document. Documentation does have value, but the practice of documenting got excessive – that’s why a reaction to the bad stuff […]