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Product Management

Published on 2012-02-20 09:00:00

Product Management is something that should be easy to understand. The highest level goals of product management should be easy to articulate. 1) build a valuable product 2) maintain the value of a product relative to its customer community 3) manage the investment in the product, to ensure the best possible return I believe that these goals are universal to product management across all domains, and all situations. I don't know that I can add anything that is not a derivative of one of these

When Firing Is Better

Published on 2012-02-13 09:00:00

Sometimes it would just be easier, and better for all parties if we were honest and just "Fired their sorry asses!" It would be easier for management, because there is less corporate drama around firing and hiring than around a reorg, or implementing alternative staffing models, and RIF's are either good (when the economy is going down) or bad (when it is going up), from a market analysts perspective - but firing ineffective employees and hiring new talent is always good. Being fired car

Product Centric

Published on 2012-02-06 09:00:00

I work in an environment that is somewhat dominated by a project governance mentality. What does this mean? What it means to me is this - that our diligence is focused on spending rather than on asset creation. Why is this significant? Because it changes how we focus the decisions in the process of software development. I work in a software development function, within a large financial enterprise. We create software assets with a life between 5 and 20 years. The capital investment in that