By accompa on Apr 20, 2008 in Product Management, User Experience | 1 Comment
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, […]
By accompa on Apr 7, 2008 in Product Management | 3 Comments
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 […]
By accompa on Mar 16, 2008 in Product Management, Sales | 2 Comments
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 […]
By accompa on Mar 14, 2008 in Design, Product Management | 1 Comment
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 […]