I am deeply passionate about the role of product management and the intrinsic value good product management teams can provide to a company. However, I also have to accept the truth that product mangers as a group are not the game changers, nor the market makers, they...
System of Record for Go-to-Market My previous posts on the “product management system of record” have focused on the “Finding a Market Problem” and “Creating a Solution” parts of the product management process. In this post, I’m going to complete the story, and talk...
User Cloud Access Maybe you have read my post from a few weeks ago on a system of record for product management, and agree that not only does product management need one but there are no tools that provide one. What should you do? Can you “cobble together” an interim...
A few years ago I wrote in an essay that business processes arrive in the modern age only when they have a system of record. This first started with accounting (centuries ago), which led (much more) recently to the back office and manufacturing with MRP, and...
Product managers often place the cart before the horse. We love to think about the product, the features, how “cool” the UI is, and how we can make the product better. Steve Ballmer was once quoted saying, “The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend....
