Recommending a good book for you to follow up on (I know, I know, a little old fashioned in this day and age of iPhones and Kindles) -- the Product Manager's Field Guide by Linda Gorchels, a bestseller of course. Each and everyone who has responde...
Recently one of my colleagues attended a presentation at Stanford on "Product Discovery" by Marty Cagan, the author of the book "Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love" and former product executive for some of the biggest technology names...
Depending on what aspect of products you are thinking of managing (IE the development or production) you can delegate certain duties to outside companies if you see fit. I would say this lies more on the production side than the development side.
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I often say that one of the reasons UK software companies are not as successful as their American rivals is because, on the whole, they don't understand Product Management. The role doesn't exist, or its confused with Project Management, or it is ...
Wow, there were a lot of questions in there :-)
This isn't about me changing careers. It's about me being able to start building some of those tasks into my area of responsibility. No one else is doing it and I'd like to have those job functions ...
Thanks for those links. I had forgot about the Gap analysis framework. I'll read through that more carefully.
John Davey said:I second the vote for Pragmatic Marketing. Start with their well-trusted framework and do a gap analysis. There's probab...
One of my responsibilities is to manage the dev roadmap. One of the things I think a product manager should do it figure out what needs to be on the roadmap.
I'm familiar with the Pragmatic Marketing site. Right now, I feel like the list of thing...