Category Product Management

Winding Road 3.0 Site Launch

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.

Technical Debt

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 [...]

Colin Powell’s Leadership Presentation

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 [...]

Quote From Getting to Plan B

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 [...]

SEO Product Management

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.

Collection of Coming Soon Pages

Here is a great collection of Coming Soon Pages from Smashing Magazine

Randolph AFB Air Show 2009

I had the opportunity to attend the Randolph AFB Air Show this past weekend and enjoyed all the aircraft. Here are some more of the pics.

‘Wings Over Houston’ Air Show

Had a great time at the Wings Over Houston airshow this past weekend. The weather was perfect and the company was the best. Check out more of the pictures HERE

72 Registration Pages

As part of a current project I’m studying a variety of registration best practices. I’ve collected 72 screen shots here.

Inc Magazine article on ‘Lean Product Development’

Inc Magazine has an article on ‘Lean Product Development’, an emerging business philosophy that has recently gained a lot of momentum. Applying lean concepts to product management is the latest in the application of lean manufacturing to software development over the last few years.
While a Lean Product Development, evangelized by Eric Ries and Steve Blank, [...]