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How To Be A Good Product Manager

Tips on product management and product marketing for product managers. By Jeff Lash

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Month: January 2007

Make your benefits have focus

January 17, 2007January 17, 2007 Jeff Lash2 Comments

If you want to be a bad product manager, make sure to describe all of the benefits of your product. If you want to be a good product manager, focus on the benefits of your product that provide the most value to your customer.

Should you compare yourself to Google?

January 16, 2007May 7, 2010 Jeff Lash2 Comments

If you want to be a bad product manager, keep comparing your product and company to Google. If you want to be a good product manager, learn from Google and others but make appropriate comparisons.

Look beyond focus groups

January 15, 2007 Jeff Lash4 Comments

If you want to be a bad product manager, use focus groups for all of your market research. If you want to be a good product manager, investigate methods other than focus groups to meet your research needs.

Choose the right name for brand extensions

January 12, 2007 Jeff Lash2 Comments

If you want to be a bad product manager, put your well-known brand name on any new related product. If you want to be a good product manager, be smart about how you use your brand name for product line extensions.

Focus on the right features

January 11, 2007 Jeff Lash1 Comment

If you want to be a bad product manager, compete on the same dimensions that have always been used in your industry. If you want to be a good product manager, question your assumptions about what matters to customers.

Understanding leadership and authority

January 10, 2007October 1, 2007 Jeff Lash

If you want to be a bad product manager, complain about your lack of authority and attempt to gain authority over necessary resources. If you want to be a good product manager, learn to lead without authority.

Use the right language

January 9, 2007 Jeff Lash

If you want to be a bad product manager, make customers and users learn your lingo. If you want to be a good product manager, talk in the language of your users and customers.

Knowing when to say no

January 8, 2007 Jeff Lash2 Comments

If you want to be a bad product manager, say yes to everything. If you want to be a good product manager, learn how to say no.

Don’t provide answers, ask questions

January 5, 2007 Jeff Lash

If you want to be a bad product manager, provide lots of answers. If you want to be a good product manager, ask lots of questions.

Requirements, stakeholders, and product management — oh my!

January 4, 2007 Jeff Lash1 Comment

If you want to be a bad product manager, collect requirements from stakeholders without questioning their necessity or intent. If you want to be a good product manager, ensure that stakeholder needs are represented in the product requirements.

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