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When I was a kid, I used to love Aesop’s fables – short stories with a moral. I even learned some valuable lessons from them, lessons that have helped me as I’ve grown older.
For this holiday season, here’s my little parable for those of us in product management and product marketing (it’s not a fable, it’s a parable!)
Drum roll please… [Read more…]
At most companies – old or new, Fortune-500 or startup – most of the departments are looking out for the company. They’re doing things in the best interests of the company. Even optimizing everything to maximize the self-interests of their company.
Often, even the CEO and executive staff may constantly seek to maximize self-interests of the company. This is rational behavior, often encouraged by compensation models.
I believe PM teams should act differently. Here’s why… [Read more…]
Ben Horowitz is a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. He was the CEO of Opsware before he became a VC – so he has real-world operating experience as well, and I follow his blog regularly.
I was reading one of his recent posts, which linked to a document titled “Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager”. Ben wrote it when he was the Director of Product Management at Netscape. The purpose of the document was to share his expectations with product managers in his team.
Even though it was written during a simpler, happier time (1996!) – it is still very relevant today. Read on for the link to Ben’s PDF and my favorite part of the document… [Read more…]
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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