It’s ProductCamp Season!
As summer draws to a close, ProductCamp season is upon us again. There are a dozen ProductCamps scheduled between August 1st and the end of the year, starting with ProductCamp Austin this weekend on...
View ArticlePragmatic Marketing’s 2012 Annual Product Management and Marketing Survey is...
Every year for the past decade, we at Pragmatic Marketing run a State-of-the-Union survey for product management and marketing. The survey goes out to the 75,000 alumni who have been to one of our...
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The 2011 Annual Product Management and Marketing Survey Results are in!
Every year for the last decade, Pragmatic Marketing has run a survey of the product management and marketing community in order to assemble a profile of common industry practices, team sizes,...
View ArticleHow Should You Measure a Product Manager?
Rich Mironov at Product Bytes weighs in with a thoughtful post about measuring product managers. He had a recent experience in Sweden where the product executives he worked with shared the same...
View ArticleThe Gift of Mentorship
A great mentor can be a huge help at any stage of your career, especially the early and mid stages. I’ve been fortunate to have some excellent mentors throughout my career, who have helped me drive my...
View ArticleWhat Product Managers can Learn from Project Managers
Product managers and project managers: how do they compare? Though the titles of these careers may look and sound similar, the job descriptions are really quite different. However, both product and...
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Becoming a Product Leader with Win/Loss Analysis
Nearly every product manager I speak to desires to be a leader in his or her organization. Everyone knows that as a member of the Product Team, you must exercise soft skills like influence to nudge...
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Who Owns Design?
One of the most frequent questions I receive is “Who owns Design?” Should the designers report to the Development or Engineering team, should they report to Product Management, or perhaps Marketing?...
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The Problem with Building Products in an Agile World
Over the past decade, there has been a ton of ink spilled over Agile development. Much of the Agile narrative has focused on the pros of implementing Agile methodologies, such as better planning,...
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It’s time to get your Ph.D. in Sales Comp
A few years ago, I was working for a large company here in Austin. This company had recently acquired a series of software startups and was attempting to integrate them into their larger hardware...
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