Roadmaps are great tools for communicating the vision, aligning people internally, raising money for investment, and engaging with sales and customers. But there are good ways of doing it, and bad ways of doing it. In today's webinar, Brian Lawley from the 280 Group did a great job explaining some strategies on creating your roadmap. In case you missed the webinar, both the slides and recorded webinar are available to you. How to build a compelling and effective product roadmap Recorded web...

It is difficult enough being a product manager, it’s equally hard to build and lead a product management team as well. There was some great insight from Brian Lawley today on how to grow and build an amazing product management team. The slides from his presentation can be found here. If you want to watch the recorded webinar, including slides and audio, please check it out here. Brian also had some documents that he thought you might find useful: Product Marketing vs. Product Management Pro...

On March 28, Brian Lawley from 280 Group presented a great webinar on how to optimize product management at your company. The recorded webinar (along with audio and slides) can be found here. Below are some of the questions and comments that came out of the webinar: · Why are product managers put into product janitor roles? @PmDude replies that it may have to do with the lack of clarity on the roles of Product Management. I agree, and the fact that Product Management comes from development,...

  Keith Goffin’s webinar, Identifying Customers’ Hidden Needs, was presented March 14, 2012. Many senior managers want their organizations to develop breakthrough products and ask their R&D departments to come up with the equivalent of the iPod or iPhone. Unfortunately, most organizations struggle to come up with novel product concepts, and of the thousands of new products developed worldwide each year, product failure is more common than success. A key cause of failure is that new pr...

This webinar ran as part of Grandview’s Product Management View (PMV) webinar series. It is available on-demand here. Lynne VanArsdale was a good friend of my wife and mine back when we worked together on the Denver chapter of Product Development and Management Association (PDMA). She drove up from Colorado Springs just to support the chapter. She is a great product person; extremely busy. She's an example of that old adage about "If you want something done ask a busy person." In this webinar,...

  If you’re interested in viewing this webinar, please click on the following link (allow a few seconds to download): 7 Key Tips to Commercialize Product Innovation Some interesting data was collected that I wanted to share with everyone, and a few questions that we weren’t able to get to during the call. Attendees were asked the following questions: So it seems many of you are managing 1-3 year old products, with a mix of between 3-5 products, and wish you could do more cus...