OMG EOL – LOL
Product managers are full of contradictions: if we’re not busting a gut to launch something, we’re trying to kill our older products off.
Tag: end-of-life
Discussion of how to retire – or ‘antilaunch’ – legacy products
The problem with successful products
A product manager who thinks they’ve got an easy ride because their product is a cash cow is probably missing the point. While failing or unpopular products have a more obvious set of problems to tackle, successful ones have a different set of arguably trickier problems
Tagged with: blog, customer satisfaction, end-of-life, extension, operating costs, P&L, performance, Product Lifecycle, success
4 key ways to spot a successful product manager
As a product manager, how do you know you’re doing your job well? This article outlines the problem with traditional metrics for product managers and offers some better alternatives for measuring success: communication, ideas, roadmapping, launch and end-of-life.
Tagged with: anti-launch, Apple, behaviour, benefits, business case, checklist, communication, developers, Dragons' Den, end-of-life, idea, indicator, iPad, iPhone, KPI, launch, measure, metrics, objective, performance, prioritisation, problem, Product Lifecycle, product management, quality, reactive, research, roadmaps, value