The Accidental Product Manager Archive

Category: Customer

As a testament to just how ubiquitous they are, if I was to say “7-11” to you, what would be the first thing that flashed

How does a customer get their hands on your product? If it is like most products, your product development definition called for a middleman to

How important is honesty to a product manager? You would think that this would be a big deal to most of us, right? The thinking

Does anyone remember the shoe company Adidas? Back in the day, they were hot stuff. However, in the world of highly competitive sports shoes, their

If you are anything like I am, when you get a package sent to you in the mail you are excited to receive it. When

Congratulations, you are managing a good product. It might even be a great product. However, when it comes time for one of your potential customers

Just imagine if you were a product manager who worked in the world of creating a product development definition for mobile phone video games. You

As product managers the one thing that we’d all like is to manage a product that everyone already knows. In fact, if the product was

When you go to the movies, how do you buy your tickets? I’m willing to bet that your answer was not “online”. Yeah, sure, sometimes

So here’s a product manager challenge for you. Let’s say that you are responsible for managing a line of high end fashion products. Part of