The Accidental Product Manager
Home Of The Billion Dollar Product Manager Where You Too Can Learn To Be A Wildly Successful Product Manger
drjim [poll id=”5″] The question this past week was “Have your customers started buying again?“ Ouch! Clearly nobody really cared about this question because only three of you took the time to answer. Hmm, looks like I got it wrong this week. I don’t have enough data to draw any conclusions from this sample, but I’m … Read more
You’ve heard me talk about the free Product Management training that’s been offered at ProductCamp meetings before, but have you gone? If not (or even if you have), then I’ve got some good news for you: there’s more! John Peltier reached out to me the other day to let me know about a series of … Read more
The part of being a Product Manger that I hate the most is pricing. How am I expected to come up with just the right price for my product? Who am I – Goldilocks: my product’s price is supposed to be not too high, not too low, just right? That’s a tall order. Now I’ve … Read more
Just how many ads for products do you get hit with each day? 10? 100? 500? No matter what the number is, the end result is the same – you shut down. Something in your brain switches off and you stop “seeing” ads because you are in overload. This is bad news for a product … Read more
[poll id=”4″] The question this past week was “What industry is your product designed for?“ Although we had a low take rate this time out, it’s not so much surprising what industries won (healthcare and “other”), but perhaps more interesting that some industries that I though would do well didn’t. The one that really caught … Read more
How are you at walking and chewing gum at the same time? It’s sorta a classic challenge – do two different things simultaneously and do them well. Product managers are facing the challenge today – cut the cost of their product and simultaneously use innovation in order to make their product more competitive. How hard … Read more
If you had the choice of being a product manager at either Yahoo or Google, which company would you choose? I’m going to go out on a limb and say that most of us would choose to work at Google. The press is filled with glowing stories about how great everything that Google touches is. … Read more
[poll id=”3″] The question this past week was “How Did You Learn To Be A Product Manager?” and the winner of this poll was no surprise (to me). It turns out that most of us have really had no formal training to be product managers — we seem to accidentally “fall” into the position. What … Read more
What if there was a way for you to get all of the information that you needed to become a better product manager for free? I’m talking about the stuff that you can’t find anywhere online because all of the blogs are too busy trying to cover a little bit of everything and can’t take … Read more
Too little time, too much to do. Does that adequately describe your product manger job? I don’t know about you, but often is the time that I’ve looked with envy at my peers who are great multitaskers and wished that I could be more like them. It turns out that I was wishing for the … Read more