Tag: prodmktg

  • Product Marketing/Management Partition

    I have started this blog posting several times, and have been diverted each time. It is a complex topic, and it almost seems like heresy, but I believe it needs to be said. There has been much said on the roles of Product Management, and Product Marketing. There are firms who have well developed frameworks,…

  • Presentations that are SO bad.

    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…

  • Just once in my career, I would like a project to be finished on time

    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 …

  • Market Analysis Oddities – Pulling my hair out

    I am doing a market analysis to help us decide where we want to spend our next development dollars on. To accomplish this, I really need to get a good idea of their revenue. Top down, I took the bible, the accepted research. I also took the number…