For PM Executives

Lies, Damn Lies and Roadmaps

July 20th, 2010 by lindamerrick
You know the drill… a key customer wants you and their Account Manager to show up and present your latest roadmap, so they can see when they’ll be receiving their long-awaited products or enhancement requests.  Of course, you did that nine months ago, promising said enhancement requests would be delivered… um… last month.  Ahem.  “Yes, well, ...

Hiring Product Managers: PM experience or SMEs?

March 31st, 2010 by lindamerrick
If you’re in charge of hiring Product Managers in your organization, here’s a problem that you’ve puzzled over before or you’ll have again soon:  do you hire experienced product managers and teach them your business, or do you hire subject matter experts (SMEs) and teach them product management?  Here are the two key factors to ...