Archive for September, 2009

Welcome!

September 21st, 2009 by lindamerrick
Welcome to Pivotal Product Management’s blog, the Pivot Post.  We’re Linda & Mara, and we’ll take turns posting here (and we might not always agree!). There are so many great PM blogs out there, providing excellent advice for product managers.  We hope to contribute to the pool.  What you’ll find here are tips and rants reflecting our current product management projects and ...

Five Steps to Better Decisions

September 21st, 2009 by lindamerrick
How long has it been since you shook your head in dismay at an executive decision that seemed to ignore the facts? Research shows there are two key ways that the brain interferes with good decision-making. Find out what they are, and how product managers can combat their effects.

Self-Improvement Survey Results (August 09)

September 21st, 2009 by lindamerrick
August's survey asked what source of career-related self improvement information you use most frequently.

Are We Losing the Turf War?

September 8th, 2009 by lindamerrick
This post was inspired by the recent broughaha in Rick Chapman’s blog (Google it, I don’t want to give him yet another link to his blog). In it, he questioned the need for product managers in an SaaS organization. Here’s the question that I think needs to be examined: What if he’s right?