On Product Management

How to Hire a Product Manager

0savesSave NOTE: The following is a guest post by Andy Jagoe. If you want to submit your own guest post, click here for more information Ever come across a really bad product manager? Jim Collins said, “The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake. The best people don’t [...]Related posts:

Agile Marketing and the Product Owner

0savesSave The following is a guest post by Jim Ewel. He blogs about Agile Marketing over at www.agilemarketing.net. Much has been written about the role of the Product Owner and their role in working with Agile Development teams. But what about the role of the Product Owner in working with Agile Marketing teams? Does he [...]Related posts:

T-shaped skills and more

0savesSave Last week I was at a strange meeting: Three guys in a room asking me a number of questions about how I hired talent into my team. I told them I typically look for T-shaped people. The audience composed of hyphenated types (will explain in a bit what that means) didn’t get it. So [...]Related posts:

What Happened to All Those Strategic Product Managers We Hired?

0savesSave NOTE: The following is a guest post by John Mansour. If you want to submit your own guest post, click here for more information The words “strategy” and “strategic” are draped all over most B2B product management job descriptions like a cheap suit. But many organizations don’t realize the consequences of hiring product managers [...]Related posts:

Truth over Harmony

0savesSave Tweet this: New @onpm post by @PGopalan: Truth over harmony http://wp.me/pXBON-3fM #culture #truth #trust A few days back I hired someone for a short term project. Before the start of the project we met a couple of times where we discussed the requirements, what assistance I was needing and how the expert I was [...]Related posts:

Truth over harmony

0savesSave Tweet this: New @onpm post by @PGopalan: Truth over harmony http://wp.me/pXBON-3ff #culture #truth #trust A few days back I hired someone for a short term project. Before the start of the project we met a couple of times where we discussed the requirements, what assistance I was needing and how the expert I was hiring [...]Related posts:

4 Ways to Improve Customer Service in Critical Times

0savesSave I had a couple of telling customer service experiences recently that I wanted to share. There are some lessons that all companies can learn from this experience. I’ve listed them out at the bottom of this post. Incident 1 – You can backup, you just can’t restore I use an online service to maintain [...]Related posts:

4 Product Management Success Stories

0savesSave A few weeks ago, I posted 4 Mistakes to Avoid in your Product Management Career. In that post, Shardul Mehta, Veronica Figarella, Ninon LaForce and I shared some hard lessons learned; hopefully to help you avoid them yourself. In this post, we each share a success story, but this time in hopes that the [...]Related posts:

Answering your calling

0savesSave Tweet this: New @ONPM post: Answering your calling by @PGopalan http://wp.me/pXBON-3eI It has been an interesting, or should I say serendipitous week, that I came across a couple of very good articles about career choices even as I have been working for a while (years!) on my own calling. First was this really good post [...]No related posts.

Tips for Improving Impact and Presence as a Leader

0savesSave NOTE: The following is a guest post by Blathnaid McGill. If you want to submit your own guest post, click here for more information. You don’t need to be an academic scholar to know that much has already been said and written about leadership. You could fill a small library with books on leadership [...]Related posts: