The Accidental Product Manager
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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 would always be looking for that next big hit: the next Candy Crush Soda Saga or Clash Of Clans. However, here’s an interesting question for you: who is your real … Read more
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 a part of the popular culture that would be even better. However, if you were selected to be a product manager for the soft drink maker Coke, you might want … Read more
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 if the movie is going to be really popular or if it is critically important that you get your hands on a ticket, then you might go online and buy … Read more
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 what makes your product line so desirable is that not everyone can get their hands on your product – this is almost a part of your product development definition. However, … Read more
Ok, so this article is fairly personal. I’ve been trying to get the attention of a very large customer for the better part of a year now and I’ve been met with failure at just about every turn. I’ve tried very, very hard and at times it has seemed like success was just within my … Read more
In the world of social media, few firms have become quite as large as quickly as Pinterest has – clearly they have a very good product development definition. This social networking site allows visitors to “pin” images that they find on the Internet on their page and then share these pins with others. As a … Read more
Every product manager wants to be able to stay in touch with the people who have already purchased their product. There are a lot of ways to do this including having a good working relationship with your sales team. However, since we now live in the 21st Century we have an even better way to … Read more
Just about everyone out there has heard about Twitter. It’s the company that invented the 140 character “tweet” micro-blogging platform. TV shows, journalists, and celebrities all seem to be using this service all the time. The problem is that regular people don’t seem to be using it. Basically, Twitter has a product development definition problem … Read more
As product managers, our job is to do everything in our power to make sure that our product is a success. It would be a wonderful world if only our potential customers would come to us and ask us to please sell them our product. However, it rarely happens that way. Instead, more often than … Read more
Welcome to the 21st Century. There are a lot of products that, despite having had a good product development definition at one time, have gone away in this modern age: the horse whip, typewriters, and, in some cases, paper. The arrival of computers and smart phones would seem to have made a lot of the … Read more