On flexibility in achieving your vision…

I’ve been using a quote in roadmap presentations as a nod to the inevitability of change: “No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.” – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder Reading the Wikipedia page for Helmuth, I now learn he was the creator of a new …

On researching the competition…

A research minded Product Manager, if a competitor just launched a new product, they go out and talk to users right away: “what does this mean for you?”, “how does this fit into your life?” They’re looking for those opportunities to discover new things rather than sitting and saying “we need to get to feature parity with …

Economies of abundance

This really struck a chord with me: “Making money from open source is a hack though, as our currencies are based in scarcity and our peer economies are based in abundance. In the latter, the more people participating means the more everyone benefits.” Daniel Bachhuber – an economy of abundance