by Saeed Khan | Jan 23, 2020 | Product Management
By Saeed Khan As we start 2020, I’d like to suggest the following to people working in Product organizations and who also want to accelerate product success. Focus less on Product and more on Management Or said a little more explicitly: Focus more on managing...
by Saeed Khan | Jan 4, 2020 | Product Management
Originally published April 11, 2011 on OnProductManagement blog. Saeed Khan When you think about your job and the work that you do, how do you see yourself in the role that you fill? Are you primarily product focused (i.e. a PRODUCT manager) or primarily business...
by Saeed Khan | Jul 23, 2019 | Product Management
[Note: This is a follow-up to an earlier article that proposed the Venn diagram described in this article] I’ve been in software product management for over 20 years. When I started, I had to explain what I did to my family and friends. They were curious as they’d...
by Saeed Khan | Jul 22, 2019 | Product Management
Full disclosure: I was inspired to write this post by this article. The author even listed one of my own Venn diagrams in his list!! 🙂 Now on with the show. As a Product Manager, they tell you that: What, exactly, is a Product Manager? You may WANT to be...
by Saeed Khan | May 27, 2019 | Process, Product Management
A lot of what Product Managers do is make decisions or help others make decisions that positively impact the business or product. One of the problems we face in meetings or discussions is that we’ve never been taught any formal ways of having productive...
by Saeed Khan | May 25, 2019 | Discovery, Product Management
NOTE: This article entitled – Why did Shoes of Prey fail? Because it listened to its customers – along with @MattAnderson’s talk at ProductCamp Silicon Valley (also happening today) entitled How To Not Make Your Product The Homer Simpson Car reminded...
by Saeed Khan | May 12, 2019 | Process, Product Management
By Saeed Khan I sometimes get asked by clients to recommend “best practices” for Product Management teams, or by companies that are embarking on implementing formal Product Management programs. Sometimes, they have a group called Product Management, but those people...
by Saeed Khan | Apr 28, 2019 | Product Management
I recently engaged in a short Twitter thread on the “CEO of the Product” topic. The whole "CEO of the product" metaphor is a time waster. CEOs have budgetary hiring/firing responsibility (amongst other things). Do individual PMs have that?...
by Saeed Khan | Apr 16, 2019 | Process, Product Management
Saeed Khan Beta programs are a somewhat maligned and misunderstood concept these days. Companies don’t really talk publicly about beta programs, and when they do, they are definitely NOT representative of what most people do. For example, Gmail launched in 2004,...
