Comments on: How to be a GREAT Product Manager (part 5)

By: Donna P Smalls

Donna P Smalls — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:09:30 +0000

RT @onpm: RT @productologist Great product managers communicate up, down and sideways – @brianlawley #prodmgmt – like this http://wp.me/pXBON-1Z

By: Alex Kehayias

Alex Kehayias — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:38:55 +0000

RT @onpm: RT @productologist Great product managers communicate up, down and sideways – @brianlawley #prodmgmt – like this http://wp.me/pXBON-1Z

By: OnProductManagement

OnProductManagement — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:17:45 +0000

RT @productologist Great product managers communicate up, down and sideways – @brianlawley #prodmgmt – like this http://wp.me/pXBON-1Z

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How to be a GREAT Product Manager (part 2) « On Product Management — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:22:19 +0000

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The Origins of Product Management (part 3) « On Product Management — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:39:30 +0000

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By: David Locke

David Locke — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:56:59 +0000

Who asks you questions? Who do you ask questions of?

Here I’m not asking who do you talk to, but who has to interrupt their work and ask. Do you push information out, or just respond to inquiries? How much does these interruptions cost? How much work gets delayed due to these interruptions or the lags where someone waits and waits? What questions should be asked, but never are? What bugs originate in communications failures?

Communications is a process, so it is amenable to six sigma. You can determine quantitatively how good your commuications with your team happens to be. You can be proactive about communications. And, I don’t mean hold a meeting. Leadership is personal.