A Blog - Practical Tips & Articles on High-Tech Product Management. No Highfalutin Theories!
I recently read an excellent book – “Making Ideas Happen” by Scott Belsky.
The book has a lot of great ideas that are very beneficial to those of us in product management – whether you’re a VP/Director of product management, or a product manager.
The book covers the general topic of “How to make ideas happen” and innovation. In this post, I’d like to share with you a really cool equation in the book – it’s directly applicable to product managers…
Greg Cohen is the author of the new book “Agile Excellence for Product Managers“. We did a quick interview with Greg to get answers to some important questions we had about product management within Agile teams.
If you’re responsible for product management in an Agile team – check out this interview, then go get Greg’s book. As a former President of SVPMA and a certified Scrum Master – Greg knows as much about this topic as anyone. Here’s the interview – drum roll, please!
If you’re a Director/VP of a Product Management team or otherwise responsible for hiring PMs, there are many qualities to look for in candidates.
Analytical ability, communication skills, technical competency, ability to lead without authority, and organization skills are – and should be – at the top of the list.
But the one skill I look for more than anything else is this…
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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.
(Please note that these tips are for working with your company’s development team that is located offshore, not outsourced teams). [Read more…]
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