1. Acting like a Requirements Monkey. 2. Punting on strategy. 3. Not focusing on a particular target market. 4. Not meeting with enough customers often enough. 5. Not meeting with prospects and non-customers (aka potentials) often enough. 6. Not truly…
Product Management
A collection of 60 posts
Market interviews GONE BAD (ooh, with comics!)
Ever wonder why so many startup entrepreneurs put out misguided and doomed products, even after attempting to take four steps toward an epiphany and reading the "Lean Startup"? Face Palm Alas, I have witnessed similar "attempts"…
The Economics: NoSQL vs "New SQL" vs Relational Databases
Economics are a big deal when deciding whether to go with a NoSQL, NewSQL [http://blogs.the451group.com/information_management/2011/04/06/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-newsql/] , MPP DBMS, or traditional RDBMS. Many of the products (in all four of these categories) claim…
Are 'Product Manager' and 'Consultant' Mutually Exclusive?
When I tell people I’m a Product Management Consultant, it sometimes throws them. “Product Management Consultant? I haven’t heard of that,” they say. Then, “how does one use a consultant to help with product management? Isn’t product…
Product Managers and the Fear of Selling
Most product managers and product marketers I know have a fear of — or at least a strong dislike of — selling. They find selling unpleasant and often think they are bad at it. Especially the closing the deal part. Alas, this…