Product Management Insights

Hi all,
Just wanted to let you know that starting today our blog has a new name.
We used to call it “Practical Product Management” - since we write about topics covering practical aspects of product management.
It turns out that our friends at Pragmatic Marketing, Inc have trademark rights for the phrase “Practical Product Management”!
Since we’re known […]

There was an excellent post recently at the Product Management Tips blog by Gopal Shenoy that discusses how the usability of a product is severely affected when you add a lot of features.
Gopal compares his stand-alone GPS unit vs the built-in GPS unit in his new Toyota Camry car, and poses a question:
The system controls not only the GPS, […]

There is a good discussion going on at the Ask A Good Product Manager blog run by Jeff Lash on the topic of how a Product Manager who doesn’t have direct access to customers can gather feedback to help define product requirements. Adam Bullied (of Write That Down blog) has a great, detailed post on […]

There has been a good discussion over the past couple of weeks at the How To Be A Good Product Manager and Ask A Good Product Manager blogs run by Jeff Lash on the topic of how Product Management can work effectively with Sales.
One of the questions that was discussed caught our attention:
How much should […]

Last week, Paul Young at the Product Beautiful blog made an excellent post titled “Is Product Management Incompatible with Passion?“. His post is based on a recent Fortune magazine article titled “The Trouble with Steve Jobs“, and Paul asks the question:
“Is Product Management incompatible with creating products that inspire passion? Product Management’s function is […]

Hello everyone - We have finally launched our blog!
Our goal for this blog is to make posts that cover the practical aspects of Product Management - based on our experience doing product management at various companies in the Silicon Valley since the mid-1990s. We hope to make 1-2 posts a month.
Let us get […]