by ezs | Jan 7, 2007 | Evangelism, Technology, Uncategorized
An interesting post by Charles Zedlewski of SAP on Product Management. He also references Storm Grillin – another blog on ‘agile Product Management’.
Especially interesting; we had training from Pragmatic Marketing a few weeks ago – which was a good refresher.
Here are the interesting comments; readers at Novell – I’m pointing fingers at you.
a product manager needs to be:
A salesperson. Selling the vision of the product to the development team is essential. How else can they come up with lots of good feature ideas or believe in the priorities? More energy is spent explaining the “why” of the product versus the “what.”
This also means a product manager should not be:
A document generator. Why bother to generate that 100 page PRD? It’s going to change a month into the project anyhow.
These shifts in focus also change the psychic rewards for the product manager. Most product managers I’ve known love being the satisfaction of being resident expert.
and from Storm Grillin’
Agile product development is all about focusing on real value and delivering it as quickly and measurably as possible. Many times this means we focus on story cards and use cases and velocity. But on Monday, the dev, qa, and support folks took things to a completely new level. They wanted to talk about the business. They wanted to understand the key metrics that determine financial success, and they wanted to measure their progress against those metrics!
Interesting thoughts.
by ezs | Jan 4, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
I wrote over 18 months ago about LinkedIn; and some trends I saw of people just linking with unknown contacts.
That’s still rife; I see colleagues who are linked to people and I know they have no idea who they are.
Guy Kawasaki wrote an interesting article about using LinkedIn – certainly good basic information; especially for those looking to hire or be hired. I especially like the comment about tracking down your potential manager.
by ezs | Jan 3, 2007 | blogging, patching, Uncategorized, wordpress
Hot on the heels of WordPress 2.0.6 release candidate – is WordPress 2.1 beta 1.
I tried the alpha from subversion on this blog a while ago; it looked promising. Now we are at beta 1.
You can get the beta from here; knowing the test and release team – it will be live in weeks.
by ezs | Dec 31, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Technology, Uncategorized
It was the Christmas of 1981 that I received my first computer; a Sinclair ZX81.
It’s been over 25 years since I started using Wordstar and dBase on CP/M running on TeleVideo TS802 and later TS803 machines.
Since then it’s been a downward spiral; through multiple BBC/Acorn machines; then 8086, 80286, 80386sx, 486, Pentium and beyond PCs.
by ezs | Dec 30, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
I’ve been working with the next version of ZENworks all week; and for several reasons I needed to clear up my MSI database on several Windows machines.
Here’s a cool tool from Microsoft that makes it easy. The Windows Installer CleanUp Utility.
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