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	<title>Product Management Insights</title>
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	<description>A blog: Practical insights into technology &#38; software Product Management, with special focus on building more successful products by managing requirements in a better way.</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>What Product Management Teams Can Learn from Apple Stores</title>
		<link>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2011/11/28/what-product-management-teams-can-learn-from-apple-stores/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Shrivathsan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Product Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I read a nice blog post on the Harvard Business Review website by Rob Johnson who worked with Steve Jobs to create the wildly successful Apple Stores. The following quote caught my eye:
So the challenge for retailers isn&#8217;t &#8220;how do we mimic the Apple Store&#8221; or any other store that seems like a good model. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Product Managers Should Avoid Product Complexity</title>
		<link>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2011/07/13/why-product-managers-should-avoid-product-complexity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2011/07/13/why-product-managers-should-avoid-product-complexity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 05:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geoff_roland</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Product Management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Product Roadmap]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently came across a blog post by The Cranky Product Manager about product-line complexity. It’s an entertaining post. More importantly, it makes good points regarding the pitfalls of complexity. In this post, I will share my thoughts on this.
Product and product line complexity happens when we add too many features or when we add [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Product Management vs. Product Marketing: Who is Responsible for &#8220;In-Product&#8221; Messaging?</title>
		<link>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2011/05/24/product-management-vs-product-marketing-who-is-responsible-for-in-product-messaging-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2011/05/24/product-management-vs-product-marketing-who-is-responsible-for-in-product-messaging-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 05:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Shrivathsan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I saw a question on LinkedIn:
Product Management or Product Marketing, who is responsible for messaging in the product to convert trial users to paying customers?
This is a great question, and is especially important for companies building SaaS applications.
Here is my opinion&#8230;Similar Posts:

How to Hire Product Managers for Startups (5 comments)


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		<title>How a Director/VP of Product Management Can Develop His/Her Team</title>
		<link>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2011/04/18/how-a-directorvp-of-product-management-can-develop-hisher-team/</link>
		<comments>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2011/04/18/how-a-directorvp-of-product-management-can-develop-hisher-team/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 05:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Shrivathsan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Product Management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Product Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just saw a nice blog post by Marty Cagan. If you are a:

Director of Product Management
VP of Product Management
Or aspire to be one of the above (I think that should cover just about everybody in product management, don&#8217;t you think?!)

, then check out Marty&#8217;s post.
Having said that, there is one point about which I don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Hire Product Managers for Startups</title>
		<link>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2011/03/22/how-to-hire-product-managers-for-startups/</link>
		<comments>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2011/03/22/how-to-hire-product-managers-for-startups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Shrivathsan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Product Management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Suster (who has founded and built two successful software startups)  recently blogged about hiring at a startup. It&#8217;s an excellent post and got me thinking about hiring product managers at a startup.
From my experience of having built Product Management teams at two different successful startups, and having been an early member of the PM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Source of Innovation?</title>
		<link>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2011/03/07/the-best-source-of-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 23:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Shrivathsan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Product Management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Product Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The best companies (B2B) I&#8217;ve worked for during my career were highly innovative, and they continuously innovated. But the source of their innovation was not:

Whiz-bang Technology
Genius Personnel, or
Competitive Research

What was the source, you ask? Well, the type of innovation those companies practiced was&#8230;Similar Posts:

How Product Managers can gather cutomer feedback &#038; define requirements (4 comments)
A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips for Interviewing Product Managers</title>
		<link>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2011/02/10/tips-for-interviewing-product-managers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2011/02/10/tips-for-interviewing-product-managers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Shrivathsan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Product Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of my friends is a newly minted Director of Product Management at a mid-stage startup in silicon valley. I met him for coffee yesterday and we were chatting about how his new job was going.
He has managed Engineering as well as Professional Services teams in the past, but this is his first time managing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strawberries and Worms: A Parable for Product Managers</title>
		<link>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2010/12/21/strawberries-and-worms-a-parable-for-product-managers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2010/12/21/strawberries-and-worms-a-parable-for-product-managers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Shrivathsan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Product Management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Product Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid, I used to love Aesop&#8217;s fables - short stories with a moral. I even learned some valuable lessons from them, lessons that have helped me as I&#8217;ve grown older.
For this holiday season, here&#8217;s my little parable for those of us in product management and product marketing (it&#8217;s not a fable, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Product Management Should Champion Customers, Not Company</title>
		<link>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2010/12/15/why-product-management-should-champion-customers-not-company/</link>
		<comments>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2010/12/15/why-product-management-should-champion-customers-not-company/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Shrivathsan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Product Management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Product Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At most companies - old or new, Fortune-500 or startup - most of the departments are looking out for the company. They&#8217;re doing things in the best interests of the company. Even optimizing everything to maximize the self-interests of their company.
Often, even the CEO and executive staff may constantly seek to maximize self-interests of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good vs. Bad Product Managers (per Ben Horowitz)</title>
		<link>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2010/10/12/good-vs-bad-product-managers-per-ben-horowitz/</link>
		<comments>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2010/10/12/good-vs-bad-product-managers-per-ben-horowitz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 01:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Shrivathsan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Product Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Horowitz is a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. He was the CEO of Opsware before he became a VC - so he has real-world operating experience as well, and I follow his blog regularly.
I was reading one of his recent posts, which linked to a document titled &#8220;Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager&#8221;. Ben [...]]]></description>
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