Moving Your Product Strategy Forward When you begin developing your product roadmap, you start to envision how your product strategy will actually be accomplished. You tangibly define the phases or …
Pursuing the Right Product Ideas or Features
Whether your product team is large or small, you have a limited amount of resources. You must be thoughtful and careful in choose what product ideas and features to pursue …
Engaging Your Customers In the Development Process
Direct customer involvement in the development process is becoming increasingly important. The more customer involvement the greater your chance of developing a product that meets customer needs. The goal is to …
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 …
Steps Executives Can Take to Improve Performance
In a recent post for the Boston Product Management Association I outlined several steps that members of product development teams can take to improve the performance of their teams. These …
Six Challenges Product Managers Face
After spending years studying product management from every angle, we at Actuation Consulting have identified six areas where it is common for product managers to face speed bumps. These six …