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Don't ignore the User's environment
Behavior is a function of the environment. It is also a function of participants in the environment and a complex psychographic intertwining of the participants. Social networking is a great example. … more →
Confessions of a Digital Immigrant
Don't ignore the User's environment
wrote 7 months ago: Behavior is a function of the environment. It is also a function of participants in the environment … more →
The broken world of end-user training
wrote 7 months ago: It has been a while that I promised to write about Product Training. I was interacting with the Clie … more →
Dislodging home-grown systems with Products
wrote 10 months ago: It is not unusual for a Product Manager to find that his product is often not up against a competito … more →
Recourse of the Unimaginative: Project to Product
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wrote 10 months ago: Let us now convert this project into a product. One reason why Product Management resources are so d … more →
The Deadly Thr3e
wrote 1 year ago: Yes, we’d love to be able to provide that kind of flexibility but our technology platform does … more →
Social networks or online communities - what is the difference?
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wrote 1 year ago: Proof that people involved in global online communities are much happier. Online communities are not … more →
Community Engagement and Gathering Requirements
wrote 1 year ago: The progress of using Web 2.0 as a mechanism of gathering and prioritizing requirements has gathered … more →
Content and Delivery in Software Product Demos
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wrote 1 year ago: Part of a Product Manager’s trade is to perfrom demos. Quite often requestors of the demo and … more →
Metaphor, The Power of
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wrote 1 year ago: Why is software distributed on CDs and not on thumb drives? The question popped up in the recently i … more →
Empty Business Class Seats, Why?
wrote 1 year ago: Empty seats in the economy class is not the airlines’ problem. Actually airlines suffer becaus … more →
Customer Centric v Operationally Efficient
wrote 1 year ago: Two months back I had written about automated e-mail responses for service tickets versus custom mes … more →
Let them Drive. Not Dictate.
wrote 1 year ago: Let customers drive your product road-map – let them not dictate it. I have witnessed both sid … more →
Workflow. Optimization v Cannibalization
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wrote 1 year ago: Workflow based products strive their best to help users complete the workflow. Embedded in this rath … more →
Back or Front?
wrote 1 year ago: Be nimble, start small, get traction, generate revenues, (then profits), IPO, face analyst stares, g … more →
Product Usage and End User Licensing
wrote 1 year ago: This is how Wikipedia describes an End-User Agreement, typically for a software product “Some … more →
Work+Social Media+Networking = A False Promise
wrote 1 year ago: Workstreamr held the equating promise of Work + Social Media + Networking = Workstreamr. A fairly en … more →
Bringing down a wall
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wrote 1 year ago: I had lunch with a colleague today and the discussion veered towards relative merits of having … more →
More on Crowdsourcing
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wrote 1 year ago: In an article written for sourcingmag.com, Ismael Ghalimi writes about “Outsourcing Product Ma … more →
Crowdsourcing (a/k/a Web 2.0 way of gathering requirements)
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wrote 1 year ago: Microsoft Excel was intended to be a number-crunching application. However, thousands of us use that … more →
