It started with an interview on Red Canary, talking to Product Management leaders in Toronto, including Alan Armstrong, Stephen Pollack, Lee Garrison and Roy Pereira.
Tom Grant has a great article today on Google Buzz: “You Do Not Understand Collaboration“.
PM guru Steve Johnson just posted his responses to the Red Canary Shop Talk Q&A. Great answers Steve! I love Steve’s interview question: “What’s your favorite MS Office app?” … the answer will tell you a lot about where your applicant is focused, in marketing, sales, or development! Check out Steve’s views on other topics, [.
[NOTE: Click for Part 1 and Part 2]
The Jan/Feb 1991 issue of the Harvard Business Review included an article by technology marketing guru Regis McKenna entitled “Marketing is Everything”.
P-Camp Silicin Valley is live and in progress. There’s an awesome turnout. Ask yourself: why am I not there?
Filed under: Product Management
How much does your success rely on good relationships? And how good
are your relationships? In my experience,relationships can make or break a person, and I think that the quality of our relationships is overlooked when we consider the success of our product lines.
What do the following all have in common?
Silicon Valley California
Sydney Australia
Austin Texas
Boston Massachusetts
Research Triangle Park North Carolina
Chicago Illinois
Berlin Germany
and possibly Toronto Canada
All of these locations are planning ProductCamps over the next few months.
NOTE: Part 1 can be found here.
The high technology industry, and in particular, the software industry is much younger than the Consumer Packaged Goods industry.
If you haven’t yet checked out Red Canary, I encourage you to take a look. The site is produced by the executive search team at the Laudi Group, and features a regular hum of interesting news and opinions that have garnered significant readership since the site’s launch about 3ish years ago.
One of the common problems when discussing the subject of technology Product Management is that there is no common definition of Product Management that all people agree on.
Hi everyone – Alan here. I’ve been fairly silent for quite a while, so I thank Saeed for his continued writing.
Filed under: Apple, Humour, Product Management, Saeed Tagged: Presentations, Steve Jobs
NOTE: The following is a guest post from Thomas Fuchs-Martin. If you feel inspired to write a guest post of your own, click here to find out how to submit it to us.
Hi,
Here’s a short survey to help understand what is good, bad and ugly about Product Management and Product Marketing.
Back in December, I wrote about a terrible experience trying to buy a washer and dryer on sale on the FutureShop website.
The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is dealing with a real PR problem right now. There have been a number of photos and videos taken by transit riders and posted on the Internet showing TTC workers sleeping on the job (such as in the photo below) or otherwise doing things that did not provide a positive [.
Filed under: Humour, Product Management, Saeed
Is it just me or have you also been experiencing this problem lately?
I’ve recently had a number of really unbelievably bad customer service incidents.
Posted in Humour, Product Management, Requirements, Saeed, Sales
When you least expect it, you get some recognition for your work.
We lobbied hard for your votes for the Canadian Blog Awards.