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Abhishek Chhibber Jan 3, 2012 11:49 PM GMT This is not the life of a Product Manager. This is the life of a Product Manager who is enjoying the life of being in a large corporation.
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prashant Aug 11, 2008 4:55 AM GMT i can identify with this brand of humor (having worked at M$) but I guess for most folks this article will serve just one purpose - either they will feel ashamed of having worked at M$ or would want mother earth to gulp down their body because they are product managers too.
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anoop Jul 29, 2008 8:34 PM GMT does the dude even know what product management is all about ."Success in my role isn't about understanding technology," ?????????? wondering why business week even published this one ?
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Don Jul 26, 2008 2:51 PM GMT There's a complete non-sequitur in the article: that you don't need to understand technology in order to help customers adopt it. Whether product management entails outbound marketing or inbound requirements definition, it's all about one's ability to sit between two worlds - users and products / those who develop products - and translate. This requires a broad set of skills for which MBA's *ought* to be a perfect fit. Scott has some work to do.
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Sam Jul 25, 2008 2:55 PM GMT I am embarrassed that I have the same job title as him.
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Matt Jul 24, 2008 10:26 PM GMT The Cranky Prouduct Manager has this bozo's number:http://www.crankypm.com/crankypm/2008/07/they-call-this-.htmlHe wouldn't last 10 minutes at any company that actually cared about competence in product management.
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rockannand Jul 24, 2008 6:45 PM GMT I am about to get in my car to go to the Apple Store to see how I can replace my Dell desktop and laptop loaded with the complete MS Office/XP Prof suite with something that works. I am post-50 and first started oin a MAC before my company forced us to Windows 3.1 in 1992. Its been downhill ever since. Articles by totally inexperienced SW tech marketing dweebs are insulting. He does nt know what he does not know. He should go sell something for a couple of years or go work for a start-up HT software company to see how tech SW really works. I hope he paid for that Kellog MBA himself because if he were my son and went to MS out of school, I'd shoot him.
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Marc May 13, 2008 8:21 PM GMT This guy paid for an MBA so he could live this meaningless and vapid existence. Not only that... he wakes up early for it.So this is the life MBAs strive for. I think I'll pass.
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Arun Oct 19, 2007 5:42 AM GMT Product Manager is a bridge between customer (who understands their business problems) and technical people (who tell them in a way a problem can be technically understood). One of the important tasks of a product manager is convincing the customer on the benefits of a product and make them use it, get feedback and improve it. Normally this is what PM in ERP companies do using structured roll out process. What Scot describes is a kind of rapid implementation, roll-out, which is part of regular PM.
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