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November 30, 2014

Battlecards - Cheat Sheets on Your Competition. (A Template)

Sales people are known for having a short-attention span -- they are always focused on the needs of their in-progress deals. Many won't put in the time to learn all about the competition until they absolutely need to. So, you…

Product Management Product Marketing PM Process Work

November 29, 2014

Escalations: What to do when product issues are critically affecting a customer

What do you do when you have an important customer who is experiencing serious issues with your software -- issues so serious that they can't successfully use the product? I'm not talking about customers who need a little hand-holding and…

Product Management Development PM Process Work

November 29, 2014

Presenting Your Product Strategy: Tell A Story.

You Should Use Frameworks & Templates When Developing Your Product Strategy To develop a product strategy, most PMs use two or more strategic frameworks to make sure they’ve considered  the business environment and potential futures from all angles. Many PMs…

Product Management PM Process Work Product Strategy

December 18, 2011

The 5 Types of Beta Testing Programs and Why 4 of Them Suck

We all know the supposed purpose of Beta testing programs: to get customers to actually use about-to-be-released software, in order to find and fix problems that would not have been found by internal-only testing. So why (why?!?!) do so many…

Product Management PM Process Work

November 29, 2011

Pros and Cons of Pre-Announcing Upcoming Features

In general, I advise against pre-announcing upcoming product features until you are so close to releasing it that you can practically taste it. But your circumstances might differ, so here are the The Cons: Reasons to NOT pre-announce upcoming features…

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Thoughts of a born-again software engineer, former product management consultant, adoptive mother of boys, trail runner, tinkerer, no-bull communicator, wannabe writer, room mother.

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