Today’s post comes from Jim Holland. Jim’s passion is guiding teams that deliver market-focused products. He elevates, develops, and enables talent using natural skills and experiences acquired from individual contribution and management roles. Enjoy the post don’t hesitate to tweet your comments to Jim directly.
How many times have you read a job posting or heard of an opportunity and said, “I can do that job or I have the some of the skills or qualifications to do that?”
In talking to a number of friends recently, it’s apparent that what many of us are doing is hunting snipe. Snipe hunting for those of you that didn’t grow up in the south or other areas where random pranks took place in deserted locations, is basically practical jokes where inexperienced people are told about a bird called the snipe and are challenged to catch it while running around in the woods carrying a bag and making strange noises.
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Today’s post comes from Jim Holland. Jim’s passion is guiding teams that deliver market-focused products. He elevates, develops, and enables talent using natural skills and experiences acquired from individual contribution and management roles. Enjoy the post, and please don’t hesitate to tweet your comments to Jim directly.
If you’re reading this post, you’ve recognized that searching for the next position isn’t what it was a few years ago. For those who’ve been displaced after holding a steady gig for three or more years, it may seem like you’ve stepped out of a time machine.
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This week on Twitter, under the #prodmgmt hashtag, members of the product management community engaged in a discussion about whether it was better to hire a domain (industry knowledge) expert and teach them product management or a good product manager and teach them the domain. The conversation morphed into one about whether the location of the hired product professional matters.
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If you follow me on Twitter (@jidoctor), you know I am passionate about three things: family, product management/product marketing and my baseball team.
Watching a baseball game is like understanding your buyers: what strategy they employ, how they signal each other, how they listen and interact with the coaching staff and especially – for us fans – why do we keep coming back even for more even though this particular team doesn’t solve any problems? In fact, in most years, they actually create more stress for me, one of their “buyers.”
All signs are pointing to some form of recovery in the US economy. Product managers need to be hard at work right now preparing for the upturn in sales and planning the product roadmap for future releases. It is a great time for investment in time and internal resources. It is absolutely critical to understand how the market has changed given our new economic realities and to understand the new market problems that your products can solve. These investments are magnified by competitors who are retrenching rather than investing.
Here you go…here are some of my favorite resources on Twitter that help me when I started, and remind me when I get lost/confused. I’ve limited it to only a few of the best, in my opinion, but they contain more links for you to follow:
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