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	<title>Product Management Insights</title>
	<link>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog</link>
	<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>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Product Managers: How to Make Products &#038; Features Happen</title>
		<link>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2010/07/09/product-managers-how-to-make-products-happen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:58:53 +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[I recently read an excellent book - &#8220;Making Ideas Happen&#8221; by Scott Belsky.
The book has a lot of great ideas that are very beneficial to those of us in product management - whether you&#8217;re a VP/Director of product management, or a product manager.
The book covers the general topic of &#8220;How to make ideas happen&#8221; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Product Management in &#8220;Agile&#8221; Projects: How Product Managers Can Succeed</title>
		<link>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2010/05/10/product-management-in-agile-projects-how-product-managers-can-succeed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2010/05/10/product-management-in-agile-projects-how-product-managers-can-succeed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 18:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>accompa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Product Management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Requirements Management Basics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Greg Cohen is the author of the new book &#8220;Agile Excellence for Product Managers&#8220;. We did a quick interview with Greg to get answers to some important questions we had about product management within Agile teams.
If you&#8217;re responsible for product management in an Agile team - check out this interview, then go get Greg&#8217;s book. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Look for This When Hiring a Product Manager (Bonus Video!)</title>
		<link>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2010/04/22/look-for-this-when-hiring-a-product-manager-bonus-video/</link>
		<comments>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2010/04/22/look-for-this-when-hiring-a-product-manager-bonus-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Shrivathsan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Product Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a Director/VP of a Product Management team or otherwise responsible for hiring PMs, there are many qualities to look for in candidates.
Analytical ability, communication skills, technical competency, ability to lead without authority, and organization skills are - and should be - at the top of the list.
But the one skill I look for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Reason Why&#8221; Approach to Managing Requirements</title>
		<link>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2010/04/07/reason-why-approach-to-managing-requirements/</link>
		<comments>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2010/04/07/reason-why-approach-to-managing-requirements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Shrivathsan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Product Management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Requirements Management Basics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading a recent, excellent post by Tom Grant over at Forrester.
One sentence in particular caught my eye:
&#8220;Managing the enhancement list is not the same as understanding the reasons behind those requests.&#8221;
I feel this is such a critical (yet routinely overlooked) point, I&#8217;m writing this short post to share my thoughts on it.
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Sales reps do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Product Managers: 7 Tips for Working Effectively with Offshore Development Teams</title>
		<link>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2010/02/12/product-managers-7-tips-for-working-effectively-with-offshore-development-teams/</link>
		<comments>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2010/02/12/product-managers-7-tips-for-working-effectively-with-offshore-development-teams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Shrivathsan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Product Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At companies of all sizes, product managers are increasingly working with development teams that are either partly or mostly located offshore. Usually at countries like India, China or countries in Eastern Europe.
Our own development team is distributed between the US and India. In this post, I&#8217;d like to share some tips our product management team [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Better Decade for Product Management?</title>
		<link>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2010/01/01/a-better-decade-for-product-management/</link>
		<comments>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2010/01/01/a-better-decade-for-product-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Shrivathsan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[As we usher in the new decade, I can&#8217;t help thinking that this decade is going to be the best one yet for the discipline of high-tech product management.
Why am I so optimistic, you ask? Here are my primary reasons:
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&#8220;Reason Why&#8221; Approach to Managing Requirements (0 comments)
Product Management vs. Product Marketing - 2 Departments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Inside Peek at Doing Product Management for a Product Management Tool</title>
		<link>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2009/12/04/an-inside-peek-at-doing-product-management-for-a-product-management-tool/</link>
		<comments>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2009/12/04/an-inside-peek-at-doing-product-management-for-a-product-management-tool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Shrivathsan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Product Management]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[I received a fun email recently from one of our customers.
As many of you know, at Accompa we make a popular SaaS tool used as product management tool (by PM teams) and requirements management tool (by Engineering teams). Some of you may also know that I manage the Product Management &#38; Marketing teams at Accompa.
Our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should User Interface (UI) Be a Part of &#8220;Requirements&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2009/11/20/should-user-interface-ui-be-a-part-of-requirements/</link>
		<comments>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2009/11/20/should-user-interface-ui-be-a-part-of-requirements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Shrivathsan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Product Management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Requirements Management Basics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[User Experience]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick post to address a question that seems to come up quite frequently.
Should &#8220;User Interface&#8221; (UI)  be a part of requirements? Do UI specs constitute requirements?
Here is my quick answer to this question&#8230;
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Product Management - SaaS vs Traditional Software (9 comments)
Why I Switched From [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personas are Great - For Wasting Time!</title>
		<link>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2009/10/15/personas-are-great-for-wasting-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2009/10/15/personas-are-great-for-wasting-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Shrivathsan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Product Management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Requirements Management Basics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[User Experience]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while. Recently, I saw a couple of blog posts on this topic (here and here) from bloggers I respect a lot. This spurred me to finally get around to writing this post.
This post is about using “personas” as a part of software requirements process. It’s not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use Case Template - Example (Requirements Management Basics)</title>
		<link>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2009/10/08/use-case-template-example-requirements-management-basics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.accompa.com/product-management-blog/2009/10/08/use-case-template-example-requirements-management-basics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Shrivathsan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Requirements Management Basics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Use Cases]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent post, I provided a definition of use case as well as an example.
The example I provided uses a very simple format. In most real-world projects, teams find it helpful to use a more fully-dressed format.
  
In this post, I share a template of a fully-dressed format, as well as an example [...]]]></description>
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