By Eric Krock on June 29, 2011
If your product requires customers to create and maintain data in a proprietary file format, your business depends on customer trust. Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Compatibility, Integrity, Organizational Behavior, Product Management, Psychology, Road Map, Trust |
By Eric Krock on June 28, 2011
Apple’s mistakes in managing the launch of Final Cut Pro X and the transition from Final Cut Studio 7 illustrate how NOT to manage a product transition! Learn from Apple’s mistakes. Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management, Marketing | Tagged Compatibility, Product Management, Road Map |
By Eric Krock on March 29, 2011
Your mind is only as free as you make it. Beware unchallenged assumptions. They are a prison for your mind that you build yourself! Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Case Studies, Organizational Behavior, Planning, Product Management, Risk, Road Map, Security |
By Eric Krock on February 10, 2011
Beware product designs in which a user can select many objects and do destructive data operations. Want to have a really bad day at the office? Apply an operation to the currently-selected list of objects … whatever that list might be! Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Best Practices, Design, Product Management, Risk, Road Map, Training, Workflow |
By Eric Krock on January 20, 2011
Calculating return on investment for a single feature may make perfect sense. Asking that a product manager calculate return on investment for every feature almost never makes sense and is likely to become an exercise in “garbage in, garbage out.” Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Best Practices, Planning, Product Management, Road Map |
By Eric Krock on December 2, 2010
Engineers are often willing to make extra effort when you work with them respectfully, explain the business need, jointly search for alternatives, and find no other way. Work WITH them to bring in the release date, not against them! Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Best Practices, Planning, Product Management, Project Management, Risk, Road Map |
By Eric Krock on November 30, 2010
Sales can drive product management crazy by ignoring collateral, assuming, forgetting about constraints, selling to the wrong customers, exaggerating the product’s capabilities, blurring distinctions, wrongly positioning the product, misrepresenting the road map, denying access to the customer, and more! Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Best Practices, Collaboration, Communication, Product Management, Road Map, Sales |
By Eric Krock on November 25, 2010
Products can be turkeys because they were bad ideas, the implementation was poor, they were late to market, or they were obsoleted by market developments. Learn to recognize and kill turkeys before they run out the door and embarrass you! Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Best Practices, Leadership, Planning, Product Management, Project Management, Risk, Road Map |
By Eric Krock on November 11, 2010
When planning a release, define clear, measurable customer-specific success criteria in advance for testing whether the release succeeded. This gives the whole team a clear target to shoot for and the company an honest yardstick for measuring whether it succeeded. Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Agile, Best Practices, Planning, Product Management, Project Management, Road Map, Scrum |
By Eric Krock on November 10, 2010
Illustrate the size of the current backlog of committed user stories, features, and bug fixes so others understand the limits on the company’s capacity to commit new work. Use understandable metrics like number of open tickets and months to complete the current backlog if that’s all the company does. Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Agile, Communication, Leadership, Product Management, Project Management, Road Map, Scrum, Ticket Tracking |
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