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Blog Articles
Product Management vs. Product Marketing
Industry pundits claim that 9 out of 10 product releases are failures in that they don’t meet their goals. I don’t know if that’s the exact stat or not, but I bet it’s not far off. I do believe strongly that most releases are ill-conceived. Countless release cycles are wasted on products that are either not useful or not usable. There are many reasons for these bad products, and each article I write is intended to address some aspect, but I have long argued that the root cause of these wasted releases can most often be traced to how the role of product manager is defined at your company, and the capabilities of the people you choose for this role.
Charter Customer Programs
Recently Microsoft launched what may prove to be a very significant technology for those of us that build rich Internet applications. You can learn about this at www.microsoft.com/silverlight <http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight> . But this note isn’t really about Silverlight; it’s about some lessons from their launch. Silverlight is a platform technology, and normally Microsoft is quite good at launching this type of product, and I do think there is true promise for this technology, however, I am very unimpressed with this launch.