Question: "What does it take to be a great product manager?"
→ Read More: Competent Product ManagerQuestion: "Should product managers be members of the engineering team?"
→ Read More: Product Manager with Engineering TeamQuestion: "Why are some companies merging the product manager and product owner into one role?"
→ Read More: Merging the PM with the POQuestion: "What is a market-driven company?"
→ Read More: What is a Market-driven Company?Question: "What is the guideline to support adding a sales-driven feature?"
→ Read More: Adding a Sales-Driven FeatureQuestion: "How does DevOps relate to product management?"
→ Read More: DevOps and Product ManagementQuestion: "What's the difference between product management and design thinking? Do you have a course on design thinking?"
→ Read More: Product Management and Design ThinkingQuestion: "Just completed the PMTK course. We didn't cover lean startup, business model canvas, and metrics. Why is that?"
→ Read More: Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas, and MetricsQuestion: "Where can I find more information about PMTK's problem space vs. solution space concept in product management?"
→ Read More: Problem Space Vs. Solution Space Concept in PMTKQuestion: "What criteria can companies use to determine if they should use discovery-driven approaches versus traditional?"
→ Read More: Discovery-driven Approaches Versus TraditionalQuestion: "The Blackblot organizational chart shows UX under Engineering. Isn't UX, at least partially, owned by product management?"
→ Read More: UX under EngineeringQuestion: "Is there any proof that the correct product strategy will yield marketplace success?"
→ Read More: Product Strategy and Marketplace SuccessQuestion: "Is product management a leadership position?"
→ Read More: Product Management Leadership PositionQuestion: "What is the best product strategy for enterprise software?"
→ Read More: Best Product StrategyQuestion: "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?"
→ Read More: Planning an Integral Part of PMTKAlong 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™.
→ Read More: Russell's Teapot in PMTKQuestion: "You wrote about over-engineering at technology driven-companies. What is an over-engineered product?"
→ Read More: Over-engineered ProductOccam'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.
→ Read More: Occam's Razor in PMTKQuestion: "What is digital product management?"
→ Read More: Digital Product ManagementQuestion: "There seems to be several Venn diagrams floating around the internet trying to explain product management. Does Blackblot also have a Venn diagram?"
→ Read More: Product Management Venn DiagramsQuestion: "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?"
→ Read More: Framework, Model, Method, Methodology - What are they?Question: "Does product management tend to the product throughout its entire lifecycle?"
→ Read More: Product Management and LifecycleQuestion: "Am I doing the right thing by studying design, UX, UI, management styles, etc. to improve my skills in product management?"
→ Read More: Product Management ImportanceQuestion: "Should product managers be responsible financial returns and operational issues?"
→ Read More: Product Management and Financial ReturnsQuestion: "You wrote that product managers are not responsible for P&L. Then why is it common that they are?"
→ Read More: Business Approach to Product Management