Out on Twitter, I said that product managers need to manage with some level of economic indifference. Economic indifference has to do with the sensitivity to utils, a unitless measure of utility, in decision making...

I've been out of commission lately with the failure of my transformer connection to my laptop. The laptop could not receive any power...

The Productologist offers his lessons learned from #PCamp09, in his blog post What I Learned @ #PCAMP09. Various participants tweeted from the sessions they attended, so last Saturday was a busy day...

Last week as I read AgileProductDesign.com post "The new user story backlog is a map" at http://tinyurl.com/c3gk3c, the sketch and then fill in the details of this approach reminded me of Go. I know I’ve mentioned Go from time to time here...

In this article, I'll comment on Tim Roche's post "The other death spiral" on his "Musings on Software Product Mangement and Marketing" blog at http://tinyurl.com/ajlj3k. Under Moore's technology adoption lifecycle (TALC) approach, assumptions made in any one of the serial markets would have to be reworked when you transitioned to the next market...

In the days before you went SaaS, a bug showed up on your bug list. It would hang around one release cycle or more...

Today, I'm building on yesterday's post on Freemium and Multisided Markets at http://tinyurl.com/bhpy66. I used my triangle model notation yesterday...

Early in the week, I read the Tyner Blain post "Freemium Business Model" http://tinyurl.com/cm7vkw. As I read it, I jumped to multisided markets...

A few days ago, I read a post "The product owner and the product-shaped hole" on AgileProductDesign.com, see http://www.agileproductdesign.com/blog/2009/product_owner_and_problem_shaped_hole.html. So I've wanted to post on this topic...

In this post, I'll move from concept maturity that is signaled by bibliographic maturity, see http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee84ea0, to commercialization. A concept will be either convergent or divergent...

Many advances in computing and communications technology originated in DARPA and DoD funded research programs. Some of these programs reveal themselves in SBIR RFPs...

As software vendors, we build products and we ship them. We don't have the same view of software development as the programmers in an IT shop...

Yesterday, I came across a comment to the On Product Management blog post "Should Product Management and Product Marketing be parts of the same department?" at http://tinyurl.com/db5xad. The commentor claimed that marcom is tacticle...

In Product Strategy: Conversions for Features, I wrote about how the use of a control is equivalent to a conversion on a website. SaaS converts functionality into a collection of conversions...

On twitter today, alsargent tweeted, "Short, insightful presentation on the stock market from @behaviorgap "Average is not Normal" http://tr.im/fsl6 [.]" Take a look. While the behaviorgap organization is talking about the stock market, there is some relevance to product strategy, product marketing, and development...

The idea of obtaining conversions for features came up over the past two days over in the product manger community out on Twitter. The tweet was a mention, like a keyword...

Out on twitter, productmanagers shared a reference to this article, "Study Explores Motivation behind Decision Making in New Product Development Teams" in the Carolina Newswire. The article can be found at http://tinyurl.com/c5hzbl...

In this article, we will visualize a few more issues software vendors face in terms of the technology adoption lifecycle. Christensen wrote about how incumbents would move upmarket when attacked by an attacker selling a radical or discontinuous innovation...

Out on twitter, there is a lot of discussion about where product management belongs. I've replied in comments to a few of these discussions...

In this post, I am again expanding on the Tyner Blain post, "User Stores and Use Cases, see http://tynerblain.com/blog/2009/02/02/user-stories-and-use-cases/ that I first wrote about in http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee84c57. The triangle model is something I came up with after a hypertext conference back in the late 80's after hearing a presentation by researchers at the MMC...