• 4 min read P-Camp, the first Agile Unconference for Product Managers Led by Rich Mironov, Enthiosys was thrilled to sponsoring P-CAMP, the first Agile Unconference for Product Managers and other product…
Product Management • 5 min read The Accidental Agilist Over the last few months, we’ve repeatedly heard about product managers who come back from customer visits or vacations…
Organizations • 3 min read A Planetary View of Agile Product Management Product management is involved with most internal groups, but not equally and not all at the same time. PMs need…
Market Thinking • 5 min read Grocers and Chefs: Software Service Models This article captured an April 2007 talk I did at SVPMA [http://www.svpma.org]. The original slide deck is…
Market Thinking • 3 min read Service Revenue and Upsell Marketing Much of my consulting lately involves on-demand services (aka software-as-a-service, or “SaaS”). I’m seeing ever-growing interest from business customers…
Market Thinking • 3 min read Burning Your Boats I spent 2006 consulting to small tech companies, including seven months as an interim executive. I also nearly co-founded a…
Market Thinking • 5 min read Crowding Out Tech Support This week, there’s been a lot of discussion in the blogosphere and popular press about “crowdsourcing” — empowering crowds of…
Market Thinking • 3 min read Avoiding the Post-Course Correction As early as 1961, Soviet and American space scientists planned for mid-course corrections: those tiny bursts of rocket power designed…
Market Thinking • 4 min read Owning the Gap Product managers are usually the people who “own the gap” for their specific products: identifying all of the missing or…
Market Thinking • 4 min read Open Source: Tree Museums 2005 was a great year for open source developers and solutions, with a dramatic boost in credibility, tools and respect.…
Organizations • 5 min read Defensive Processes New ventures begin with an entirely empty slate: no products, no customers, no desks, no organization charts, no established procedures…
Market Thinking • 5 min read Sharks, Pilot Fish, and the Product Food Chain When you’re launching a new venture, one of your hungry competitor earliest considerations is how your innovation might fit…