Vote for PM Bloggers
My good friends Saeed, Alan, and Ethan over at On Product Management are up for a Best Professional / Career Blog award.
Make sure you swing by and vote for them - they run a great blog and always have outstanding posts!
PM Book Store
You may, or may not, have noticed that I have setup a book store on Amazon.com. This is intended for all product managers out there that are looking for some great things to read.
Most of these books I will have read - some I haven’t, but want to read. I will try and review all those that I have read so you get some idea (either on this site or on Amazon) - feel free to send in your own reviews to me if you want me to post them here so folks get a sense of what to read first / what can wait / etc…
And of course, if you have any suggestions for books I should add to the store, let me know!
TPMA SaaS Session
I’ll be headed to the TPMA session this evening, which is entitled: SaaS Dictates Different Product Management Priorities. Register now - if you can make it, make sure to hunt me down / Twitter me / call me / etc… if you are up for talking shop.
Reach Out
A comment a relatively new product manager named Jeff Wright just left on one of my previous posts just gave me an idea.
If you are out there, in the field - new to product management or not - and want to chat about questions or situations you have, I’m happy to offer help however I can.
Seriously, don’t be shy. Either e-mail me or call my cell - 416-725-9747. I’ll do my best to help out however I can and answer your questions.
I know especially for a lot of early PM’s out there, you might feel as though you don’t have anyone to really turn to in your organization for guidance or assistance. I’m no Steven Haines or Steve Johnson or any of those gurus, but like I said - I’m more than happy to have a chat and hopefully help you out.
Cross-Functional Teams Driving Your Business
I encourage everyone to check out a webinar being given by Steven Haines this Wednesday titled: How Best-in-Class Cross-Functional Product Teams Drive Your Business.
Steve has such broad experience in product management, I know he will give an outstanding and highly informative presentation.
Here’s what it’s all about:
Best-in-class product management relies on a cross-functional product team who take business responsibility for the profitability of a product. As teams become more diverse and global, this requires team membership from multiple disciplines to manage a product like a business, and executives and management who can commit needed organizational resources. This webcast addresses how cross-functional product teams meet the challenge posed by Jim Collins…combining discipline with entrepreneurship as the alchemy of good performance. Accountabilities, functional support plans and effective product team leadership will be discussed. If you want to develop talent and leadership potential in your product teams, this webcast is for you!
