Gotta whine. About once a month, I get an error in Outlook. Something to the point of "OUt of resources" yada yada. And it advises to "close some programs to free up memory..." Has that EVER worked? Sigh. I have 16 gigs, and am running 64-bit Wind...
I recently joined this company, and inherited a product that is world class. But it is missing a pretty important capability (to be fair, when the product was originally developed, this was a feature that wasn't even a twinkling in the eye of the ...
The joy of working in a large enterprise. We have been working with a web development partner for some new sites and moving some older sites to their hosting. Part of this means that we have been exchanging details on the web sites we are migratin...
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...