Blackblot^® Product Management Expertise™

Question: "The title of the PMTK book refers to technology product management at technology companies. What is meant by Technology Company?"

Question: "Would it be fair to say that there are different types or variations of product management?"

An account of the 1993 Fairford incident and a classic example of enduring product management.

This forward-looking analysis outlines the dichotomous future of product management.

This proclamation document strives to explain the relationship between market-driven product management and a product's chances of marketplace success.

Question: "What is an invention and what is innovation? Are they actually the same?"

Question: "Can you apply product management to a service?"

Question: "How can we map the PMTK Action-Model of Blackblot's product management methodology to the Stage-Gate^® Model for product innovation?"

Question: "I define Product Portfolio Management as: 'Prioritizing creation, enhancement or termination of an offering, process or product feature.' What principles of product portfolio management have been developed, and preferably used successfully?"

Question: "In the training we had learnt the second PMTK foundation rule of ‘Product management resides solely in the problem space’. However, I find that this statement is simply impractical when matched with reality. Please comment."

Question: "Most of the product managers that I have been in contact with have to coexist in both the problem and solution spaces at different times. How can this be reconciled?"

Question: "We are trying to tailor the PMTK templates for our own internal needs, but some of that content can be arguably placed in different documents. Can you please clarify this discrepancy?"

Question: "I work as a software product manager for a sales-driven company and business is good for us. Why should we consider becoming a market-driven company?"

Question: "Why is it critical to introduce market-driven product management practices into technology companies?"

Question: "Although my question might sound very basic I am still going to ask it – what is a product?"

Question: "I am a software engineer with six years of solid work experience. I have very strong technical skills. I also have an MBA degree from a good university. I am now interested in a product management position as part of growing my career and working more with customers. What other skills would I most require to be successful as a product manager?"

Question: "As a profession and discipline, does product management have a motto? Is there something that product managers should always keep in mind?"

Question: "What is the recommended process of implementing the PMTK product management methodology? How would you overcome in-house resistance and political interference?"

Question: "From a product management point of view, should free services be planned and marketed differently than paid ones?"

Question: "How many products can a product manager work on effectively at one time? In my experience I've met several product managers and all of them were working at several (from 2 to 5) products at the same time. But all the products were not huge. What is the optimal number of products to work on at one time?"

Question: "How can we measure the success or failure of a product?"

Question: "What are the key differences between B2B and B2C product management?"

Question: "Please define Product Management."

Question: "Is there a comprehensive definition, offered by Blackblot, of problem space and solution space and a rationale for making the separation a foundational rule of the framework?"

Question: "In Blackblot PMTK there are two MRD templates; the PRM MRD and the PMTK MRD. Are these documents interchangeable and what exactly is the difference between these two?"