Blackblot^® Product Management Expertise™

Question: "What does it take to be a great product manager?"

Question: "Should product managers be members of the engineering team?"

Question: "Why are some companies merging the product manager and product owner into one role?"

Question: "What is a market-driven company?"

Question: "What is the guideline to support adding a sales-driven feature?"

Question: "How does DevOps relate to product management?"

Question: "What's the difference between product management and design thinking? Do you have a course on design thinking?"

Question: "Just completed the PMTK course. We didn't cover lean startup, business model canvas, and metrics. Why is that?"

Question: "Where can I find more information about PMTK's problem space vs. solution space concept in product management?"

Question: "What criteria can companies use to determine if they should use discovery-driven approaches versus traditional?"

Question: "The Blackblot organizational chart shows UX under Engineering. Isn't UX, at least partially, owned by product management?"

Question: "Is there any proof that the correct product strategy will yield marketplace success?"

Question: "Is product management a leadership position?"

Question: "What is the best product strategy for enterprise software?"

Question: "You often speak about the concept of planning as an imperative and integral part of PMTK and of a product manager's job. Why is it so important?"

Along with Occam's Razor principle for problem-solving, Russell's Teapot is one of two guiding principles that were instrumental in formulating the Blackblot PMTK Methodology™.

Question: "You wrote about over-engineering at technology driven-companies. What is an over-engineered product?"

Occam's Razor argues that the simplest explanation is often the most correct, and that the more conditions you need to provide to support you explanation reduce the credibility of that explanation.

Question: "What is digital product management?"

Question: "There seems to be several Venn diagrams floating around the internet trying to explain product management. Does Blackblot also have a Venn diagram?"

Question: "During the training the instructor explained that PMTK is a methodology, not a framework. But a google search shows the terms framework and methodology being used interchangeably for many things. Can you please clarify?"

Question: "Does product management tend to the product throughout its entire lifecycle?"

Question: "Am I doing the right thing by studying design, UX, UI, management styles, etc. to improve my skills in product management?"

Question: "Should product managers be responsible financial returns and operational issues?"

Question: "You wrote that product managers are not responsible for P&L. Then why is it common that they are?"