Archive for the ‘Product Management’ Category

Capital and Expenses

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Some of you out there in the world are probably familiar with the terms Capitalizing and Expensing.  In the world of software development, this expresses itself in these general terms:  If you are building new software or new features that add value in existing software, you can capitalize the costs. ...

Projects versus Operations- who wins?

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

The best project management organizations and companies out there understand that projects compete for resources, and they plan accordingly.  They have governance bodies that weigh the importance of one project versus another, and they have an elaborate ranking system for establishing the priorities of projects so that everyone can see ...

Staying on the Right Road

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

I happened upon this post on 37 Signals arguing against product roadmaps: http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/694-you-dont-need-a-product-road-map While I don't agree with the notion that we don't need product roadmaps, it does point out some careful slippery slopes you must be careful of when approaching roadmaps: Selling things that aren't in the product yet.  It is tempting to ...

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