Two interesting thoughts from this article
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/business/15ping.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
* “Perfection closes off the process,” Mr. Jarvis said. “It makes you deaf. Google purposefully puts out imperfect and unfinished products and says: ‘Help us finish them. What do you think of them?’ ”
* “If you’re a product manager, you have to recruit people and their ‘20 percent time,’ ” Mr. Crowley said.
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It is rare for a product manager in established software companies to think othemselves as recruiting engineers in their free time to work for their business. Dev teams are either too far (outsourced) removed from them or they tend to treat them as another resource in their budget.
It is easy to say that Product Managers should treat themselves as startup entrepreneurs and still maximize the benefits of large corporate infrastructure.
There are some interesting directions for product managers here. Work on the angle, depending on the company structure, to justify releasing your product/vision out to the public without worry about 'commercial launch'.
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