A Blog - Practical Tips & Articles on High-Tech Product Management. No Highfalutin Theories!
I was reading a recent, excellent post by Tom Grant over at Forrester.
One sentence in particular caught my eye:
“Managing the enhancement list is not the same as understanding the reasons behind those requests.”
I feel this is such a critical (yet routinely overlooked) point, I’m writing this short post to share my thoughts on it.
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At companies of all sizes, product managers are increasingly working with development teams that are either partly or mostly located offshore. Usually at countries like India, China or countries in Eastern Europe.
Our own development team is distributed between the US and India. In this post, I’d like to share some tips our product management team has learned over time – on working effectively with our offshore development team.
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As we usher in the new decade, I can’t help thinking that this decade is going to be the best one yet for the discipline of high-tech product management.
Why am I so optimistic, you ask? Here are my primary reasons:
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I received a fun email recently from one of our customers.
As many of you know, at Accompa we make a popular SaaS tool used as product management tool (by PM teams) and requirements management tool (by Engineering teams). Some of you may also know that I manage the Product Management & Marketing teams at Accompa.
Our customer was wondering in his email how it’s like to do product management for a product management tool! I hadn’t consciously thought about it a lot before – but his question got me thinking.
The more I thought, the more I realized there are indeed several differences. In this post, I give you an “inside peek” into the key differences in doing product management for a product management tool. Read & enjoy! 🙂
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Just a quick post to address a question that seems to come up quite frequently.
Should “User Interface” (UI) be a part of requirements? Do UI specs constitute requirements?
Here is my quick answer to this question…
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