From Product Camp Austin Winter 2009 - a product management lessons learned discussion covering research, innovation, communications, positioning, politics, delivering results, and other good stuff to know

1. Why is Everyone Mad at Me?
(a product manager good stuff to know discussion)
Joshua Duncan
http://twitter.com/joshua_d

2. Finance
Customers Competitors
Product
Management
Development Sales
Market

3. Product Manager

4. CUSTOMER RESEARCH
DO AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE

5. Most people don't know what they want
until they see it in context*
*Predictably Irrational

6. Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to
be known*
* Carl Sagan

7. 50% of a company's innovation should come
from consumer input and designers*
*Patricia Seybold (CEO for Seybold Group)

8. Time To Innovate?

9. P&G’s New Product Success Rate Is Between
50-60%*
*The Game Changer, Lafley

10. 43% of Americans, 39% of British, 60% of Dutch and
47% of Australians rate themselves as ‘time poor’
Venture investments into IT down 14.5% in 2008
$3.7 billion worth of digital music sold in 2008
298 mln
2008 US 13 hours of video are
video game uploaded to YouTube Internet users
every minute, while 1
in China in
sales billion videos are
reached 2008
watched. A day
$21.33 blnPC sales down 0.4%
Global
in Q4 2008 2009 IT spending to fall 3%
US consumer electronics
shipments to generate $171 billion
http://www.itfacts.biz/, http://trendwatching.com in 2009

11. The greatest problem in communication
is the illusion that it has been
accomplished*
- George Bernard Shaw

12. Pick Any Two - Good, Fast, Cheap

13. WHY?
“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't
being said.” – Peter F. Drucker

14. Product Management is Inherently Political*
*Art of Product Management, Mironov

15. Managing Internal Conflict

16. I WILL FIND A WAY

17. ZEN
Passionately Detached
http://www.flickr.com/photos/filicudi/272591878/

18. THE END