Category Archives: Product management

Product management for the web: the book

Posted on May 4, 2013 by

It’s official: I’m writing another book! And, happily, I submitted the introduction and chapter one to my editor today. Here’s an excerpt to let you know what it’s all about: Whether you are new to web or app design and … Continue reading →

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The Minimum Viable Mobile User Experience

Posted on January 25, 2013 by

Slides and notes from my University of Minnesota Web Standards presentation about how product management methodology can increase design and development success. The presentation highlights what what “minimum viable” means (it’s not just the least amount of work possible!), ways to … Continue reading →

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Designing ebooks with web standards

Posted on December 5, 2012 by

Slides and notes from my CSS Dev 2012 presentation about how standards-based web designers can leverage their HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills to deliver content via channels in addition to web browsers. The presentation highlights what makes books unique, how … Continue reading →

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The Management Problem

Posted on August 29, 2012 by

Today, Whitney Hess wrote a great blog post entitled The Management Problem. In it, she argues: The problem with managers is that they’re totally disconnected from the everyday doing [that is] getting done. She goes on to suggest a solution, … Continue reading →

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Google puts their money where their customers’ needs are

Posted on August 20, 2012 by

A large part of my job as our company’s mobile product manager is acquiring and evaluating new devices as they hit the market. It’s critical for me to constantly evaluate how our mobile solutions perform on the hardware that our … Continue reading →

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Products and projects

Posted on August 10, 2012 by

Sometimes there can be some confusion around products versus projects and, especially, product management versus project management. They sound so similar, they must be the same, right? No. An entire book could be written about the differences (and I might … Continue reading →

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Dedication

Posted on July 31, 2012 by

The quality of being dedicated or committed to a task or purpose. The words with which a book or other creative work is dedicated. Today was an exciting day: my article Product Management for the Web was published in A … Continue reading →

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Marissa Mayer and product management for the web

Posted on July 17, 2012 by

There’s a reason that Yahoo! has hired Marissa Mayer away from Google to be their new CEO: she has a keen understanding of product management for the web. Watch this interview for some great insights about human-centered design and development, learned from … Continue reading →

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Product management: a cold shower for too much design dreaming

Posted on July 9, 2012 by

I’m both a designer and a dreamer, so I feel that I’m entitled to say this: designing is dreaming. Or, perhaps more accurately, it’s also guessing. And both dreaming and guessing are really great and very important. But in the … Continue reading →

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Content, value, and Nepal: web standards aren’t just for web sites

Posted on June 21, 2012 by

I am Dr _____ from Nepal, and this app is really very up to date for OB-GYN physician. Looking forward to future updates. Thank you! I don’t know how many personal emails you get from happy customers in Nepal — … Continue reading →

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