What Makes a Product Manager

In my consulting engagements over the past few years I have seen quite a few business cards with “Product Manager” printed on them, that in the context of the actual roles the respective holders were filling, kind of puzzled me. While the term Product Management is...

Design by Committee

“Product should be a dictatorship, not consensus-driven. There are casualties, hurt feelings, angry users. But all of those things are necessary if you’re going to create something unique. …” Michael Arrington Faced with a situation at one of my clients where this...

Simplicity

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Leonardo da Vinci I think many of us doing products have encountered what we used to call “feature creep”. Products that started out as simple and beautiful concepts getting added more and more “must have” features ahead of...