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Been busy

Hard to believe it has been three months since I last posted. Ouch! I must admit, balancing work and life has left little time for blogging. I think about it, if not daily then every other day. I am trying to carve out time, but I am slammed from the moment I wake until I get home. The evenings are a write off, once we get everything sorted I am exhausted. Even today I am posting with my iPhone through the WordPress app while at the airport.

Topics continue to pile up though, everything from ProductCamp Vancouver, to basic product management challenges and my transition to a product management leadership role.

Please stay tuned through the next few months. I’ll be back soon.

Stewart

Mention: The Best Product Person of 2010 is….

Jeremy, The Product Guy, is running a contest here: http://tpgblog.com/2010/07/19/tbpp-2010/

I thought it would be fun to hold a contest for The Best Product Person of the Year. I have no idea how it will turn out or what to expect, but here goes…

To nominate someone you think should be recognized as The Best Product Person of 2010:

Submit your nomination’s…

  1. name,
  2. a paragraph as to why you think they are The Best Product Person of 2010,
  3. and how they can be contacted.

You must know the Product Person, as they can expect to be contacted by me to speak with them further for consideration as The Best Product Person.

I know exactly who I am voting for and you can find their blog in my blogroll.



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Wordle Fun

Wordle: Strategic Product Manager

Either I spend a lot of time writing about “thinking”, “post”, and “chicago” or there is a heavy emphasis on recent posts. I think the latter.


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Blogroll Update » Strategic Product Manager

The blogroll is typically one of my most viewed pages, after events and the homepage. In light of that, I thought it was ready for a refresh and have updated it. See the link above or here. Am I missing any?



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For the Record

ACLIn case you’re just tuning in, I’ve recently changed jobs – “Starting a New Era“. I am now on the product management team at ACL Services Ltd. as a Senior Product Manager for their business assurance platform.

I’m making this post to let you know that the views expressed on this blog are my own, and do not necessarily reflect those of ACL Services Ltd.

Now that we’re clear on who is speaking for whom, back to the product management strategy discussions!



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Starting a New Era

After almost four and half years, my time at Ryma has come to an end. On Monday March 1st I am starting my new role as a Senior Product Manager with ACL Services Ltd. Some of you may know, I moved to Vancouver and this is an extension of that change.

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ACL provides audit analytics and monitoring software to the audit and controls professions and the financial management community.

Doing professional services for Ryma has offered me the opportunity grow professionally, but most importantly meet, both in-person and online, a bunch of really great people across the world. I have seen how you work and plan to apply as many of those best practices that you have shared.

I am looking forward to the challenges that face me in taking on a new-to-me product in a new-to-me market.

I guess it is time to practice what I have been preaching!

New Logo!

I was able to find a rock star graphic designer who made me a professional looking logo for my blog. Yeah! For those of you reading through RSS, click the link to check it out – www.strategicproductmanager.com.

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Sharing the Positives with the Community

Writing for this blog has been a wonderful experience and being a product management type I am fascinated by the statistics I can pull from the system (measure everything!). Still not completely sure what to do with them, but I am cognizant of of them.

The good news is that the events page and the blogroll are starting to get some traffic and I think this is important. For the product management community (and by reading this you are a part of the community) to survive it needs participation (even the lurking kind). The more readers (to all the blogs) will lead to more contributors and develop more thought leaders. So a big thank you to my readers. Drop me a line (details here) and let’s see how we can connect and expand our network.

One last update… Congratulations!! to On Product Management for their 2-year anniversary and The Cranky Product Manager for her 3-year anniversary. In true product management fashion, they championed their accomplishments here and here. This is a good, simple lesson for all of product management. Share the positives!


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