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Page A House With No Front Door In my effort to build products with limited resources, I often spend time justifying the need for features. By Saeed Khan
Page Add “Quick Hits” and (Finally) Address Those Priority 3 Enhancements Woe to the minor enhancement request that gets tagged as a dreaded Priority 3 or nice-to-have feature during the prioritization phase of a project. All too ofte...
Page Ask the Expert: Does a Formal Requirements Process Stifle Creativity and Innovation? “Our company seems to spend more time writing requirements and specifications than we do actually writing code and developing products. Shouldn’t we value t...
Page Before the MRD The market requirements document (MRD) is one of the key product management artifacts. But did you know there is a document that product managers should have in...
Page Building a Better Beta Delivering a successful beta program can be one of the hardest things to do as a product manager. By Saeed Khan.
Page Building a Listening Post Online For Customers Now, more than ever, companies are feeling the need to stay aligned with their customer’s evolving needs. By Sherri Dorfman
Page Clean, Cutting-Edge UI Design Cuts McAfee's Support Calls by 90% With 20,000 downloads of ProtectionPilot over a 10-week time span, McAfee received only 170 calls to support lines. Here are 23 detailed tips gleaned from McAfe...
Page Creating the Right Product Roadmap In most companies, Product Management is responsible for building, maintaining, and presenting the product roadmap inside and outside of the company. However, o...
Page Data driven design “My mom should be able to use it” translates into making an easy interface while “I want absolute control over the placement of items in my document” re...
Page Defects or Features Next Should we fix defects or add new features? Should we deliver on the promises we've already made to our customers, or should we make new promises to get new cust...
Page Easy to Use for Whom: Defining the Customer and User Experience for Enterprise Software Enterprise software is only easy to use if the customer and user think it is easy to use. By Sean Van Tyne.
Page Feature Police: Following Through On Requirements how Product Managers can play a vital role as the Requirements Police, making sure that important requirements are not forgotten. By Jacques Murphy
Page Getting Your Priorities Straight: A Twisted Path A major challenge that faces every software product is determining the priority of the oh- so-many suggestions that come to Product Management as requirements f...
Page He Who Owns The Compiler Wins In my seminars I often quote my rule that "he who owns the compiler wins." It's a reminder that product managers lack the political power to make developers do ...
Page How Product Managers Help Development? Product Managers are in the unique position of having dual citizenship, with passports for both Marketing land and Development land. By Jacques Murphy
Page Managing Product Requirements: Where Did All My Customer Insights Go? How does Requirements Management not only help your company deliver more customer-driven products but how does it help you personally work more efficiently. By ...
Page Meeting Promised Development Dates How to commit to specific product release dates and meet them. By Jacques Murphy
Page More Performance Anxiety: More About Performance Improving product performance so that your software remains competitive. By Jacques Murphy
Page New Features: Moving Ahead On All Fronts Tips on how to keep making progress on several new features with each software release. By Jacques Murphy
Page Non-Recurring Engineering Non-Recurring Engineering (NRE) is a one time engineering effort by a vendor that is paid for by a customer. What it is, and what it isn't. By Daniel Shefer
Page OEM'ing Software for Product Managers The "ins and outs" of identifying OEM'ing opportunities, successfully negotiating OEM agreements and bringing the deals to fruition. By Daniel Shefer
Page On Reqs and Specs: The Roles and Behaviors for Effective Product Definition Do you write Requirements or Specifications? Or do you combine them into ReqSpecs? Each has a place but combining them just causes confusion. By Steve Johnson a...
Page Performance Anxiety: Improving Product Performance A user's impression of how fast your product moves from screen to screen, how quickly it calls up lists of records, how seamlessly it performs tasks when you cl...
Page Prioritizing Software Requirements with Kano Analysis The Kano analysis model was developed to identify and contrast essential customer requirements from incremental requirements, and initiate critical thinking. By...
Page Product Design: Bridging the Gap Between Product Management & Development Product Design is the bridge between Product Management and Product Development. By Sean Van Tyne and Jessyca Wallace Frederick.
Page Product Management and Agile Building a product is like driving a train: it takes a long time to start and a longer time to stop. And once the train leaves the station, it's very hard to ch...
Page Product Road Map: The Real and The Ideal The Product Road Map deals with information at different levels of detail. And what looks realistic from 30,000 feet may seem a little idealistic once you get d...
Page Product Roadmap to the Promised Land Do you have a Product Roadmap? One can be critical to supplying the inspiring vision that everyone uses to march in the same direction. And this is all the more...
Page Product Roadmaps Just like planning a trip, a roadmap communicates in broad strokes what you plan to do. Explore ways to the most direct route. By Steve Johnson.
Page Pushed And Pulled: Development Vs. Production a discussion of how these two priorities, development and production, push and pull you in two different directions and how to handle them. By Jacques Murphy
Page Reconciling Maintenance And New Releases What you need to consider as you continually strike a balance between development on maintenance releases and on new feature releases. By Jacques Murphy
Page Requirements: Like Lambs to the Slaughter As your company gears up to start the next software release, a Product Manager reaches the point where carefully crafted requirements are ready to submit to the...
Page Running Customer Advisory Boards A Customer Advisory Board (CAB) is a representative group of customers that meets periodically to offer advice on the product and company direction. This articl...
Page Sample Software Product Architect Job Description As Product Architect, you will lead the design effort on a variety of projects in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment. Your role is to design innovat...
Page Setting the Product Direction In a world where there is never enough time to implement all the ideas that come along for great new features, you need to choose the right ones to put your dev...
Page Software Design: Seeing vs. Thinking Good product design can mean the difference between success and failure. By Jacques Murphy
Page Software Development Pitfalls: Requirements How to better understand software requirements - and how to misunderstand them a little less. By Jacques Murphy
Page Software Development Pitfalls: Planning how to better understand the planning of software development -- and how to overcome some common hurdles. By Jacques Murphy
Page Software Development’s Evolution Toward Product Design Occasionally, some poor fellow at a dinner party makes the mistake of asking what I do for a living. My initial response is that I help design software for arti...
Page Stalled: Getting Development into Gear useful ideas that you can use with the team--from entry level programmers to VPs--to make your product develop and improve faster, and therefore gain ground on ...
Page Technology Assessment for a Better Strategy “Strategy” is such an overused term in our industry. “Where’s your STRATEGY?” or “It’s our STRATEGIC direction!” or “How do these tactics fit ...
Page The Four Phases of Implementation The Four Phases of Implementation is a helpful concept that you can take with you from customer to customer, project to project, and job to job to help you rema...
Page The Freemium Business Model and Viral Product Management Ever scratch your head and wonder why you can use your favorite application for free? How can a business actually make money (and stay in business) when they...
Page Top 10 Tools to Measure User Experience The one fundamental truth vital to web product development success is to know the mind of the user. By Giovanni Calabro
Page Usability: The Key to Product Success The launch of a product that has not considered the "usability factor" poses a significant risk to your business and provides an opportunity for competitors to ...
Page Use Timeboxes for Scheduling Software Delivery Timeboxing is a technique for organizing software delivery, planning or scheduling. In this article, we talk about applying timeboxing as a planning tool, but t...
Page Utilizing Co-Design to Create Market-Driven Products Designers are not typically users of a product, yet they often engineer a product with little or no end user involvement—and without understanding in advance ...
Page Version numbers and project names Many product managers are familiar with rules and strategies for product naming, but what about version numbers and project code names? Do we need them? Who own...
Page Working The Plan Using A Plan That Works How you as the Product Manager can help get your Development organization to the point where it has clear, useful, and reliable plans. By Jacques Murphy
Page Writing the Market Requirements Document This document is written for product managers in technology companies who are chartered with writing product requirements and the Market Requirements Document (...
Page You Can't Innovate Like Apple When what you teach and develop every day has the title “Innovation” attached to it, you reach a point where you tire of hearing about Apple. Without questi...