Why is Everyone Mad at Me?(a product manager good stuff to know discussion)

Joshua Duncanhttp://twitter.com/joshua_d

Customers

Development

Product Management

Competitors

Market

Sales

Finance

Product Manager

DO AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE

CUSTOMER RESEARCH

Most people don't know what they want until they see it in context*

*Predictably Irrational

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known*

* Carl Sagan

50% of a company's innovation should come from consumer input and designers*

*Patricia Seybold (CEO for Seybold Group)

Time To Innovate?

P&G’s New Product Success Rate Is Between 50-60%*

*The Game Changer, Lafley

Venture investments into IT down 14.5% in 2008

$3.7 billion worth of digital music sold in 2008

2008 US video game sales reached $21.33 blnGlobal PC sales down 0.4% in Q4 2008

298 mln Internet users

in China in 2008

2009 IT spending to fall 3%US consumer electronics

shipments to generate $171 billionin 2009

13 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, while 1

billion videos are watched. A day

http://www.itfacts.biz/, http://trendwatching.com

43% of Americans, 39% of British, 60% of Dutch and 47% of Australians rate themselves as ‘time poor’

The greatest problem in communication is the illusion that it has been

accomplished*

- George Bernard Shaw

Pick Any Two - Good, Fast, Cheap

WHY?“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't

being said.” – Peter F. Drucker

Product Management is Inherently Political*

*Art of Product Management, Mironov

Managing Internal Conflict

I WILL FIND A WAY

ZEN

http://www.flickr.com/photos/filicudi/272591878/

Passionately Detached

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