Mock-up Tools for Product Managers

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I have been using Balsamiq Mock-ups (www.balsamiq.com – will make a separate post about balsamiq) for quite some time and found it be very useful for conveying my ideas to the Dev Team. The biggest advantage of using a mock-up tools is that it allows me to quickly crystalize my thoughts and come [...]

Stay Focused – It is all about Focus, Honey – Part 1

Having touched upon how one can remain focused in my earlier post, let us look at how you product managers can enable organizations to stay focused.
Few days back i happen to visit my son’s (who is in his 3rd grade) school to get feedback about him and to collect his report card. When i saw [...]

Tips for Product Managers – Focus, Focus, Focus

The most certain thing about being a product manager is that, there is a good chance that one is bombarded with multiple things and is expected to respond back to all the things thrown at the product manager. And the result of this is that we invariably multi-task or rather jump from one task to [...]

Good Slides on Usability Testing – How to make it quick and cheap

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Many times we want to do a quick check on the usability aspects of product features. But the moment we approach the UED team, they talk about elaborate testing and probably estimate few weeks of effort.
The above slides provide a good overview of how we can go about doing Usability Tests quickly [...]

Do You Really Need a Deadline? | Edge of Chaos | Agile Development Blog

via targetprocess.com
Nice post from the targetprocess guys.
Many times i used to wonder what are we up against in most of the products that i had handled, especially if there are no external commitments (such as marketing events, conferences etc.,)
What if i do not make a release today and instead [...]

Product management on a shoestring budget

via entrepreneur.venturebeat.com
Nice collection of tools that can be used by product managers working for start-ups.
I really liked the ‘UserVoice’ product that allows one to crowd source ideas / issues as well as to prioritize requirements.
But when i searched around i could also see ‘GetSatisfaction’ which is sort of clean and when the getsatisfaction [...]

60+ Useful Adobe AIR Applications You Should Know | Tools

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/60-useful-adobe-air-applications-you-should-know/
Very good collection of products developed using Adobe AIR framework. It looks like the trend is to create smaller products that addresses a small problem, instead of trying to develop bigger products that tries (yes, bigger product can only try to address)

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Good Slides on ‘Lean Startup Lessons

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Start-ups are all about making things happen as quickly as possible. These slides re-emphasis those points.

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Nice Informal Presentation Style

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Many time i used to wonder if i can ‘truely’ get rid of powerpoint slides for presentations. But was never sure of how my idea / thought process would get accepted. This gives presentation by Jeff Bezos re-assure that the old way of doing thing is still powerful and makes the point.

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It has been a long time…

It has been a long time since i had spent some quality time to post some thing that is useful to the Product Management community. Been in a product manger role for close to 6 years, means definitely there is something to share with the ever-willing-to-learn PM community. Will start with something like 'Product Roadmap [...]