Software Product Manager by Gopal Shenoy

Month: May 2009

  • Leverage the baby steps …..

    You bike the 180 mile PMC challenge from Sturbridge, MA to Provincetown, one pedal at a time … You walk the 20 mile Walk for hunger one step at a time … You run the Boston Marathon one mile at a time … You process the 100 emails in your…

  • Dogs, Cows and Kids …

    In every company, product managers have more things to do than you have time for. So how do you decide which products to fund? which projects to work on? and more importantly what NOT to work on? After all, if you have more things to do than you have time…

  • 4 tips for collaboration – What? When? How? Who? and in that order

    As  product managers, our work lives revolve around working with cross functional groups. Leading by influence and not much authority, our jobs are to motivate people to get things done for the benefit of the paying customer. Sounds easy right? But when different groups have their own goals and priorities,…

  • Always question data – at least twice

    Question all data you collect or are presented with. First of all, make sure you are collecting the right data. If you don’t measure what matters, the data is garbage.  I have written before on using the right metric. Once you are sure that you have collected the right data,…