Achieving Fast, Flexible Flow
If we consider product management in a linear fashion, our job is to:
- understand customer pain points,
- create insights, More »
Working in Small Batches
In the previous post, I discussed how queues hurt product development cycle times, quality, and efficiency and as one reader pointed out, revenue as well. When queues become large, they can truly hamper our ability to compete effectively in the marketplace. Thus if we want to regain control of our schedules and be more responsive to the market place More »
Why Queues Hamper Our Success
If you map out the path your product takes from idea to launch, you will find many queues. There will be at least one for each stage your product must go through More »
Product Management Productivity Tip#3: Work from ONLY one to-do list
This tip is going to dramatically cut down your stress level – work from only one mastere To Do list. Once you try this you will find More »
The Myth of the Iron Triangle
I am always amazed at how often accepted truths turn out to be false. I am further astounded at how liberating it is to throw off the constraints imposed by those beliefs. The first myth More »
Product Management Productivity Tip #2: Mastering Outlook
I‘ve heard lots of people complain about Outlook — they hate it, it’s confusing — it’s a Microsoft product. I was one More »
Product Management Productivity Tip: Mastering Email
This is the first in a series of posts on how to become a more productive product manager.
The first productivity-killing topic we will talk about is email. Even though I can’t see or hear you I imagine there’s a big groan More »
It’s time for product management to become lean…
I think it is time for us product management professionals to take a good look at ourselves and ask how are we measuring up as a discipline. Further, we need to ask how are we going to evolve to address the business challenges over this next decade. As I look into my crystal ball, I think the 2010’s will be the decade that we as a profession will move from More »
Join us for “How to tear apart your competition”
Brian Lawley will be presenting at the Northern California Business Marketing Association in January.
To sign up go to: http://norcalbma.org/programs/productmarketing_html
Competitive Analysis remains an underleveraged – yet – powerful tool in the product More »
When to quit your product management job
Not sure whether to leave your current product management job? In my opinion one of the worst things you can do is stay too long if you are unhappy. If you do then More »
