Companies often spend millions of dollars on product development efforts and carefully monitor and control the entire process only to treat the product launch process as an afterthought. It is …
The Importance of Aligning Product Strategy with Corporate Strategy
Aligned Strategies? Consistent with last year’s findings in the 2012 Study of Product Team Performance, the importance of having a corporate strategy that the product team can link to and …
What Product Team Role has the Most Influence with the Executive Team?
In this year’s Study of Product Team Performance we asked “what product team member had the most influence with the executive team?” The responses were overwhelming tilted in the direction …
What Percentage of Product Managers Rely Upon Influence Versus Direct Control?
In this year’s Study of Product Team Performance we asked product team members to indicate how well defined the role of the product manager was in their organization. Respondents told …
Silicon Valley Code Camp, SVPMA, and ProductCamp San Francisco All in Two Weeks!
Product Management is alive and well in San Francisco and Silicon Valley! Over the next two weeks Ron Lichty and I will be canvasing three different venues where product managers …
The ProdBOK Guide is Now Available on Kindle at Amazon.com
Since the launch of The Guide to the Product Management and Marketing Body of Knowledge (ProdBOK Guide) several weeks ago I have been asked by a large number of people …