May 01 2018
Building the Right Product vs. Building the Product Right
Product Management Venn Diagram The Product Manager is an essential player in the software development process. Yet, we often find ourselves answering a troubling question when sitting down with eager prospective clients. > "Why do I need a PM? I already know
Paul Lanyon
Product ManagementDesignEngineeringProductTeam ManagementSep 26 2017
How to Successfully Kick Off Your Product Discovery Process
At MojoTech, we’ve had many internal discussions about the line between project and product management in a client-services product management model. But there is a product practice area that we use for almost all of our clients: Discovery facilitation —
Shaughnessy Conley Speirs
Product ManagementProject ManagementCommunicationProductAug 29 2017
Product Management Biases (And How to Avoid Them)
As a product manager, our job is to shepherd the client’s vision to help make it a reality, and along the way make suggestions and improvements based on our research and our own experiences. It is the latter part that
Lauren Mullaney-Reid
Product ManagementProject ManagementProductFeb 13 2017
Being Agile — and Gray
For all of us “mature” folk working hard to create value with technology, it is important to remember that the “A” word (agile) is nothing to be afraid of. You don’t have to unlearn everything you know, find brain space
Duncan Shaw
Product ManagementBusinessAgileProductFeb 09 2017
Why Products Built by Large Teams Fail So Often
There’s an old anecdote about a chicken and a pig. It goes like this: A pig and a chicken are walking down the road. The chicken says: "Hey Pig, I was thinking we should open a restaurant!" Pig replies: "Hmmm, maybe. What would we
Nick Kishfy
Product ManagementProject ManagementBusinessProductMar 01 2016
When do you put working software into the hands of customers?
You have an idea. You’ve thought it through, and you’ve decided that software is the best way to bring this idea to life. At this point, you have a some guesses about how to improve the lives of your potential
Drew Jankowski
Product ManagementProductSep 30 2015
Part 3: A review of “Agile! The Good, the Hype and the Ugly.”
Welcome back to my 3-part review of Bertrand Meyer's, Agile! The Good, the Hype and the Ugly. As a quick refresher, last time, in part 2, I took a look at what Meyer considers “hyped” about agile methods. In part
Drew Jankowski
AgileProduct ManagementProduct