This is worth broadly sharing…

The results of the 12th Annual Pragmatic Marketing Product Management and Marketing Survey are in!

Authored by Paul Young

Every year, Pragmatic Marketing conducts a comprehensive survey of product management and marketing professionals.

Our objective is both to keep a finger on the pulse of this rapidly evolving area of technology companies and to provide a comprehensive look at the roles themselves, including compensation, reporting structures and responsibilities.

http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/publications/survey

This post if a bit of ruse, considering my foray into these top blog posts in the past (The Top Product Management Blogs 2010). However, I am going to keep it simple this year and repeat that the best list for the top product management blogs is Alltop – Top Product Management News.

Here is a list of the key blogs represented:

• Optimal product management and product marketing
• Rocket watcher
• Tyner blain
• Productmarketing.com
• Brainmates – product management people
• The accidental product manager
• Lead on purpose
• The experience is the product
• Web ink now
• Product management meets pop culture
• Spatially relevant
• Launch clinic
• Strategic Product Manager
• Outsidein view
• A random jog
• SVPG blog
• Mind the product

I am reminded today that one mistake can erase a thousand good deeds.

Customers respond the same way. They appreciate what you have done, but remember they owe you nothing. Wrong them or worse yet, forget them and they’ll find something better.

You’ll be left with a legacy of one mistake.

Introducing the beaten horse, but this is my current thinking on how to define product management.

Product management is…

one part listening, one part thinking and one part storytelling.

The only real change is the storytelling component. Comments?

Great, quick presentation on embracing complexity for understanding and being able to identify simplicity.

Check out Eric Berlow: How complexity leads to simplicity

My friends at Sage, Erik and Guillermo, are doing a webinar for VersionOne.

In this webinar you’ll hear about Sage’s customer-driven approach to product planning and development. Learn how the Product Management team uses VersionOne to engage directly with customers and manage agile projects from idea through to delivery.

The idea is to bring PM’s in as its a technology that would support to be more Market Driven. More information here: http://pm.versionone.com/HCUV1-Sage.html

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 12:00 PM until 1:00 PM EST.

Erik Kaas is VP of Product Management for Sage’s portfolio of ERP products. He manages a team of Product Managers responsible for specifying market requirements for current and future products. Erik has been with Sage for 4 years and has over 18 years product management experience.

Guillermo Tellez is a Senior Product Manager at Sage, and is responsible for the Business Intelligence suite within the ERP portfolio. His primary role is to conduct market research in collaboration with customers to ensure that engineering develops and releases products based on the needs of customers.

Bob Corrigan is the director of product management for the Encyclopedia of Life and has been a regular in the product management community for years. So today I offer you a Youtube-based TEDX link today… Bob’s presentation for TEDxMidAtlantic this past year (2011) Building the Encyclopedia of Life

I am so happy he did this and I highly recommend you watch it.

Any suggestions for the next one?

Second of the week and found an interesting one on leadership. Watch this one – Stanley McChrystal: Listen, learn … then lead http://www.ted.com/talks/stanley_mcchrystal.html.

Stick this one through for the moral of the story. Hint, it’s in the title.

Any suggestions for the next one?

Please pass this along and consider attending. I am registered and quite excited about my ninth ProductCamp.

http://www.productcampvancouver.org/register

Here is the video from ProductCamp Vancouver 2011:

“ProductCamp” is an unconference that relies on the spirited participation of all attendees and results in an invigorating day of dialogue and debate. You’ll share real world experiences of designing, marketing and launching products and learn from each other about the latest trends, tools, and techniques in bringing innovative products to market.

My first TED video of the year, David Logan on tribal leadership. Very interesting. Trying to apply it, and torn whether it was a lesson in studying customers, being a product management leader or product management in general. Maybe all three. Regardless, some interesting views and I especially like the networking twist of introducing two people versus extending your own network.

What should I watch next?

UPDATE: I meant to link to this… For a view into Jim’s head on the product management tribe visit Where The Product Management Tribe Gathers