Managing Product Management: Empowering Your Organization to Produce Competitive Products and Brands

THE KNOWLEDGE-BASED PRODUCT MANAGEMENT COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

The community of practice I suggest for Product Management would utilize some of the tools and techniques described in previous chapters. This Product Management community of practice should serve to ensure that product managers, and others with whom they work, have a way to share knowledge, understanding, experience, and insights.

The value of this community cannot be overestimated because product managers handle all sorts of situations all the time—just as surgeons encounter unexpected situations in the conduct of similar procedures from appendectomies to complex heart surgery. When product managers get together or are brought together, either informally or formally, they take advantage ...