So, you want to learn to be a good product manager? It is about incorporating some of the tips below and then committing to teaching, understanding, listening and working to become the best product manager you can. If you are going to be the one training others or conducting meetings relating to product management, you must have a general working knowledge of your company and the business as a whole and how your product impacts each role. To be an effective product manager, you also have to understand your customer base. 1: No Job is Beneath You. MORE >>

Significant increases in productivity with a wiki. The productivity increases are really what interests me in this webinar. Productivity. It has already paid for itself in increased productivity in less than a year. Technorati Tags: PBwiki , productivity , changemanagement I’m liveblogging the webinar Growing in a Down Market with PBwiki. My comments are in italics. Presenter: Teo Mayes, CTO RMC Vanguard. They used UStream for the audio, in addition to the typical phone line. So far, so good! Templates. Getting People to Use the Wiki. A: Yes, there was. MORE >>

When you create tutorials  for a software product, it is very natural to capture the following: Description about the product features. All tasks that one can do with each of the product features. Most software product tutorials are product feature centric. Here is an example  of a product feature centric tutorial for Camtasia. Product feature centric documentation and tutorials are good to have because they give a nice overview of the product features. This is where user centric tutorials for software products work wonders. MORE >>

One of the favorite quotes I used to use during presentations was Drucker - The most important contribution of management in the 21st century will be to increase knowledge-worker productivity. Complexity of Productivity for Knowledge Work Productivity is defined as: the ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time For some knowledge workers, we can reasonably define things this way. However, when we look at concept workers, workplace productivity seems to be a fairly limiting phrase. It seems to be equated with activity. MORE >>

Here are 4 software products that allow you to add an avatar to your elearning courses. The company can create the instruction for you or you can build NOAH products yourself. The company provides consumers with easy-to-use avatar animation, facial morphing and voice lip-sync solutions for real-time 3D filmmaking and previsualization for professional post-production. One of their products is Crazy Talk which is used for creating sophisticated, zany or dramatic talking characters for unique digital content. Check out some examples of NOAH in action. MORE >>