A practical way to engage customers in your product development process is to form a Customer Advisory Council. This Council gives you a structured way to gain client input. It …
Preserving Flexibility as a Product Manager
As a product manager, you put your heart, soul, and abilities into crafting your priorities, roadmaps, and requirements. There have been a considerable number of other people involved all along …
Requirements in a Non-Agile Organization
Today it is easy to assume that all organizations have adopted an Agile approach to product development. While Agile methods are very popular Waterfall and the combination of Waterfall with …
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM): Establish a Framework
When you are ready to move from strategizing to executing a plan, the first step is to understand expectations. If your organization has recently moved from a start-up to a …
Setting Product Development Team Goals
In my last post I wrote about how vital it is for the development team to be in sync with one another. We identified four key product development team goals: …
Product Development Team Incentives
For any product development to succeed, there needs to be a strong alignment of product management, user experience, and engineering. Without having these elements on the same page and working …