A blog: Practical insights into technology & software Product Management, with special focus on building more successful products by managing requirements in a better way.
By accompa on Apr 20, 2008 | In Product Management, User Experience | 2 Comments
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:
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By accompa on Apr 7, 2008 | In Product Management | 4 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 this.
We agree with Adam’s points in his post about the importance of getting customer feedback. We are very strong believers in getting direct customer feedback, and using it to drive product requirements & feature enhancements. As a matter of fact, our own product roadmap for Accompa is >80% driven by direct feature requests from our customers.
By accompa on Mar 16, 2008 | In Product Management, Sales | 3 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:
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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 to discover market needs and fulfill those needs with products. But people don’t buy on need alone; they also buy on emotion and other soft factors.”
This is a very thought-provoking topic, and had several insightful comments - make sure to check out Paul’s post. Here are our thoughts on it.
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By accompa on Mar 13, 2008 | In General | No Comments »
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 the party started - woohoo!!!!!
Do you and your team gather and manage requirements and feature requests? These 7 practical tips will help you create more successful products.
