Product Management in the Social Web

Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang on Twitter) released his latest report on The Five Eras of the Social Web.

Industry Experience vs. Product Management Expertise

We’ve talked about this before, but it seems to keep coming back around. Most hiring managers realize that it is extremely difficult to fill their open product management slot with their “ideal” candidiate. You know, the one that walks on water, worked in the same industry for others, can hit the ground running, has a [...]

Lessons Learned from a MBA Class

I spent the past week in a class, the mini-MBA program at the University of St. Thomas. I’m not going to blog about all I learned, which I did, or the incredible people in the class, which there were 24 other amazing and talented individuals; but, I wanted to share one important lesson… In times [...]

Make a Commitment…Keep TO the Commitment

So, the conversation went like this: — Exec:  I need to know when feature abc will be in the product. Product Manager: Sure. (And, a few clicks on the keyboard later, the prioritization matrix comes up which links to the release schedule and shows data. Computer plugged into projector? Check. Hit another key, and voila!) [...]

Is it better than sliced bread?

Whatever you call it, Social Media, Social networking, Web 2.0, gizmo, hip, etc, the advent of new technology leads to change. Yep, got it. Change means we are forced to do something that we got used to doing in a different way. Yep, got it. But, change it doesn’t mean the world has been thrown [...]