The Accidental Product Manager Archive

Tag: new products

It’s hard enough to be a product manager for a “real” product, just imagine how hard this job gets when your company decides to switch

Pick up just about any Product Management book, thumb through it, and you’ll quickly come to realize that most thinking about how to be a

So much has been written about how important it is to get in front of your (potential) customer that I am almost hesitant to add

One of the unique things about being a product manager is that we wear many hats during a given day. The sales hat is one

The Wall Street Journal ran a story today about the U.S. Customs and Border Protection department deciding to put off their grand plans for building

Once upon a time, going to a Blockbuster Video store was a regular part of my weekend. Since I am such and engineer, running back

Did you ever have a lemonade stand as a kid? If not that, then you probably sold something else at some point in time. When

A good product manager needs to be able to wear many different hats and one of them is that of a Business Analyst. (Oh great

Requirements – don’t we all have a love ’em / hate ’em relationship with them? You can have the best product team in the world,

Nobody ever said that being a product manager was going to be easy, and I think that we can all agree that it’s a tough