Rob Grady

In his blog post “When minimal viable product doesn’t work”  Seth Godin emphasizes the importance of product marketing but is confusing Minimal Viable Product (MVP) as a ‘programming’ concept rather than a business methodology. MVP as well as other lean start-up methodologies fundamentally assumes that certain elements of a new product or business will be wrong [...]

Newbie Product Managers should definitely check out Jeff Lash’s goodproductmanager.com website.

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

If you haven’t been reading Steve Blank’s Blog you are missing out on some of the best entrepreneurial gold around and his recent series of posts on the Customer Development Manifesto are a great place to start

In product development you can generally find a number of ways to solve a problem but the right solution depends on successfully defining the problem and hopefully not deriving it from a solution. In web systems development its especially easy to have our armchair ‘experts’ help define solutions before trying to define the problem. We [...]

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