by Art Petty | Mar 27, 2008 | Leadership, Product Management
Seriously. If you are at or near the top of the food chain in your organization, this is one of those perplexing questions that can have you staring at the ceiling at two in the morning, asking yourself, "Yeah, how do insights and ideas turn into actions in...
by Art Petty | Mar 18, 2008 | Product Management, Project Management
I will be posting from airport lounges this week, but before I head out, I wanted to relate a lesson about decision-making that I learned (the hard way) a number of years ago. This was prompted by a discussion with a promising early career product management...
by Art Petty | Feb 28, 2008 | Product Management
A post by Steve Johnson at Pragmatic Marketing raises the issue of Product Managers/Marketers spending quality time in front of customers rather than hiding behind other less personal forms of information gathering. Surveys and phone interviews can be helpful,...
by Art Petty | Feb 16, 2008 | Product Management
Thanks to a good friend and the person I credit with the creation of the "Why is a Product Manager Like the Office Photocopier?" joke, I recently unearthed a listing of questions that we had established with the PM team to help teach and remind everyone of...
by Art Petty | Feb 4, 2008 | Product Management
Q: Why is a Product Manager like the Office Photocopy Machine? A: Because when it works no one notices and when something goes wrong, everyone wants to kick it. My sincere thanks to Mike for that PM joke told to me during a particularly challenging day in the world of...
