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 | Aug 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
Recently, there was a popular thread on Twitter talking about “10x Engineers”. It started like this: And here are a couple of the tweets describing what a 10x Engineer looks like: The full thread is here for your reading pleasure. And just to be clear,...
by Saeed Khan | Jun 28, 2019 | Discovery, Process, Release Planning, roadmap
When I work with companies, one of the questions I often ask the Product teams is: Of all the product-related processes you participate in, which one works the best? The two most common answers are: Process? We don’t have process. We just get sh*t done.The Agile...
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,...
by Saeed Khan | Apr 12, 2019 | Product Management
Saeed Khan I originally wrote the following back in the summer of 2007 (Yes 2007. That’s not a typo). I had just started blogging a few months earlier. It was one of the first blog posts I wrote that got a lot visibility. This post was originally written in...
