In Part I of Product Manager Team Composition and Communications Survey Results, I just published the raw numbers. For this article, I have converted some of the numbers into pie charts...

Last week on Twitter, we engaged in a conversation around the number of clicks, et.al. Afterwords, I went off to the bookstore and took up reading some more of "Whats Next?" by Max Brockman...

The Product Manager Team Composition and Communications survey was intended to discover the structure of a product manager's communications with the various teams involved in a product release. The results of this survey pointed to the need for another survey that would capture drivers like organizational size and maturity, product lifecycle position, number of products managed, and competitive position of product in its category...

1. As a person working in product management, what is the next step in your career?..

Out on Twitter, I said that product managers need to manage with some level of economic indifference. Economic indifference has to do with the sensitivity to utils, a unitless measure of utility, in decision making...

I've been out of commission lately with the failure of my transformer connection to my laptop. The laptop could not receive any power...

The Productologist offers his lessons learned from #PCamp09, in his blog post What I Learned @ #PCAMP09. Various participants tweeted from the sessions they attended, so last Saturday was a busy day...

Last week as I read AgileProductDesign.com post "The new user story backlog is a map" at http://tinyurl.com/c3gk3c, the sketch and then fill in the details of this approach reminded me of Go. I know I’ve mentioned Go from time to time here...

Interactive media experts, web marketers, and web designers like to tell the world that print is dead, brochures have no ROI, and that the web content can prove it's ROI. They compete with printers...

In this article, I'll comment on Tim Roche's post "The other death spiral" on his "Musings on Software Product Mangement and Marketing" blog at http://tinyurl.com/ajlj3k. Under Moore's technology adoption lifecycle (TALC) approach, assumptions made in any one of the serial markets would have to be reworked when you transitioned to the next market...

In the days before you went SaaS, a bug showed up on your bug list. It would hang around one release cycle or more...

Today, I'm building on yesterday's post on Freemium and Multisided Markets at http://tinyurl.com/bhpy66. I used my triangle model notation yesterday...

Early in the week, I read the Tyner Blain post "Freemium Business Model" http://tinyurl.com/cm7vkw. As I read it, I jumped to multisided markets...

A few days ago, I read a post "The product owner and the product-shaped hole" on AgileProductDesign.com, see http://www.agileproductdesign.com/blog/2009/product_owner_and_problem_shaped_hole.html. So I've wanted to post on this topic...

In this post, I'll move from concept maturity that is signaled by bibliographic maturity, see http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee84ea0, to commercialization. A concept will be either convergent or divergent...

Many advances in computing and communications technology originated in DARPA and DoD funded research programs. Some of these programs reveal themselves in SBIR RFPs...

As software vendors, we build products and we ship them. We don't have the same view of software development as the programmers in an IT shop...

Yesterday, I came across a comment to the On Product Management blog post "Should Product Management and Product Marketing be parts of the same department?" at http://tinyurl.com/db5xad. The commentor claimed that marcom is tacticle...

In Product Strategy: Conversions for Features, I wrote about how the use of a control is equivalent to a conversion on a website. SaaS converts functionality into a collection of conversions...

On twitter today, alsargent tweeted, "Short, insightful presentation on the stock market from @behaviorgap "Average is not Normal" http://tr.im/fsl6 [.]" Take a look. While the behaviorgap organization is talking about the stock market, there is some relevance to product strategy, product marketing, and development...