I've been a fan of Dan Roam and his visual problem solving methodology for a few years now. I was lucky to hear him speak at SXSW 2010 this year and he presented an abbreviated version of  his Back of the Napkin Health Care presentation. It really does a great job of simplifying a very complicated topic. Healthcare Napkins All

It's time for Product Camp Austin, Spring 2010. If you're a local product professional and haven't been, you need to go. A great community resource, it is a great opportunity to get involved as well as network. Find out more Here

Congrats to the NextScreen Labs team on the launch of the Pixels from Print, a new community website dedicated to helping print publishers go digital. Consuming content online is a significantly different experience than a print magazine and a number of publishers are looking for help and a discussion.

Congratulations to the entire team on the launch of www.WindingRoad.com 3.0. I'll be commenting over the next few weeks on some of the lessons learned from the previous site and the 'reset' that 3.0 represents.

Here are excerpts from this article that discusses two types of technical debt "The first kind of technical debt is the kind that is incurred unintentionally. For example, a design approach just turns out to be error-prone or a junior programmer just writes bad code. This technical debt is the non-strategic result of doing a poor job. In some cases, this kind of debt can be incurred unknowingly, for example, your company might acquire a company that has accumulated significant technical debt that you don't identify until after the acquisition.

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Here is a presentation of Colin Powell's leadership principles that I've always found these leadership principles to be insightful. Lesson 1 Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off. Lesson 2 The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. Lesson 3 Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world

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Here is a quote from Getting to Plan B, "The research on new product success and failure indicates that it takes fifty-eight new product ideas to deliver a single successful new product." I'm reading this book from by John Mullins and Randy Komisar and find it interesting so far. The fundamental premise of the book is that businesses do not succeed with their original business model but rather an iteration of the original. This parallels the recent trends/fads in lean business/product/software.

Another great post from Tyner Blain, this time on SEO Product Management. While many consider SEO to be some variant of Voodoo, Scott provides a good foundation on SEO with a Product Management perspective.