Real-World Tips and Advice for Software Product Managers
Nothing can be better for your software than to have a new release go through a beta program where customers (even prospects) put the software through its paces in a real-world environment. When the release is announced, not only are you confident that most major problems have been identified and rectified, but you have case ...
When it comes time to create the plan for the software development phase of the next cycle, Product Managers often find themselves faced with the same hurdles again and again. This is partly due to the typical personalities found among programmers and software engineers, who demand precision, details, and a clear answer for everything. As planning ...
Requirements are the challenge every Product Manager faces. Each software company manages to deal with the requirements headache more or less successfully, and headache - or heartache - is exactly how many people look upon the whole process. Yet viewing requirements as a necessary evil can get you into trouble. After all, requirements are how your ...
When you're a software Product Manager, using soft skills is critical to success as you work to make things happen between groups and individuals with agendas, perspectives and personality types that are at odds with one another. CEOs and executives find themselves faced with the same challenge. It's a case of same planet, different worlds, ...
I don't think there is even one Product Manager out there who doesn't know deep down that the very first step to creating successful software is research. Those Product Managers who concentrate on the marketing side have even less of an excuse to ignore the axiom that before you write a single line of code, ...
Although most of us in the software industry use the term Product Manager like any other job title, positions that go by this name actually involve two separate flavors, or types, different enough that in any other area you would find two distinct job titles. Both flavors of Product Manager involve a considerable amount of ...
This area will list the two most recent reviews of books analyzed from the perspective of what value they can bring to product management.
Book reviews at Product Management Challenges will emphasize their applicability to software product management.