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By Michael Shrivathsan on Sep 23, 2009 in General, Product Management | 23 Comments
Last night I got an email from a company with the subject “Saas and the death of software product management“.
And… with the subtitle of “Or, While You Weren’t Looking, Your Product Manager’s Job Became a Zombie”.
The email said the following:
The growth of the SaaS business model spells the end of product management as it’s been […]
By Michael Shrivathsan on Sep 22, 2009 in Requirements Management Basics, Use Cases | 7 Comments
In my previous post, I provided a definition of Use Case along with an example. I also took a strong stance against considering UML diagrams as use cases.
Matt Klein made a good observation on Twitter today on how use cases are often not used well when documenting requirements:
Use Cases are important and very often not […]
By Michael Shrivathsan on Sep 19, 2009 in Requirements Management Basics, Use Cases | 28 Comments
A question that frequently comes up in my conversations nowadays is:
What exactly is a Use Case?
Let me try and explain it in this short blog post.
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By Michael Shrivathsan on Sep 15, 2009 in Product Management, User Experience | 1 Comment
An hour ago, I did something without much conscious thought at all. I uninstalled the Twitter client I used to like (Tweetdeck), and installed a new one (Seesmic). And there I went, merrily tweeting.
Then, I caught myself and started thinking why I did that. The more I thought, the more I realized that there are […]
By Michael Shrivathsan on Sep 9, 2009 in Product Management, User Experience | 9 Comments
Mark Kromer at TechProdo blog recently wrote a nice blog post titled SaaS Product Management: Is there a difference?
In his post Mark poses the interesting question (applicable to a lot of product managers):
I was wondering what differences I would find in my role as a product manager if the products that I was managing moved […]
By accompa on Sep 1, 2009 in Product Management | 20 Comments
Here’s our definitive list of the top-10 blogs on Product Management. We’ve found that all of these blogs consistently produce posts that are useful to product management professionals.
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