You are sitting in you cube, listening to some kick ass tunes in your headphones, and an engineer drops in. "I need you to change spec X". My response is to ask why, like all good product managers do. Invariably there are three answers It is impos...
Sometimes you stumble across someone who has accomplished so much in life that it makes you ponder your own life path. This happens frequently with me, but a few days ago, I bought the latest Paul Gilbert album, Vibrato (kick ass guitar work), and...
Ah, I am procrastinating in the preparation of my decks for the sales meeting and/or training next week, I have come to reflect on the whole concept. I have written in the past on "Sales Meeting Musings", as have others, including a snark filled c...
At the referral of a friend several years ago, I joined the GLG group to offer myself as an expert. I have a lot of knowledge of a lot of technologies, and companies. I got my invitation, filled it out, took their ethics training (every year), set...
About 6 months ago, I started a new job. The former product manager had left about 18 months prior to my arrival, and they "limped" along. Now, I am going through sales presentations, sales training decks and curriculae and I am aghast at what I h...
Two days ago, we pulled the plug on the hapless guy who was on our project. Not that he is a bad resource, but the project we handed him was beyod his scope, and it was flailing. We consulted another group in my company as to who they would recomm...
Those following the thread have seen my comments about a web project going poorly. End root cause is that we went with a vendor which we were "comfortable" with, and didn't figure out up front if he had the chops to deliver. I want to pull back, c...
and on budget. Sigh. There are always some extenuating circumstances: A key component was more difficult to work through. Some circuit design was wrong the first time around (and the second, and the third). Regardless of how many times the design ...
I am working with my Marketing team to get a user community site built. It is a pretty straightforward project that will allow our worldwide user base to connect, share tips, scripts and other related items in the use of our product. To spec this ...
If you have been following the saga, I have been working on a new, groovy and cool web community for my products. Something pretty simple to start to build a community of practice. I have complained in the past about the contractor we are using, w...