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• new Seminars scheduled
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Friday fun: Google pricing

Notice anything about the "new cost" pricing for Google apps?

For more on pricing, read Don't just roll the dice - a usefully short guide to software pricing and Camels and Rubber Duckies.

Product Camp Minnesota

I've been asked to offer the keynote at Product Camp Minnesota. Will you be there?

Survey: has your job changed?

"Have you seen your job change in the last two years? If so, how"

Want to add your comments? Take Pragmatic Marketing's Product Management and Marketing Benchmark Survey for 2009-2010. (image courtesy of Wordle)

Let's play "Req or Spec": initiate diagnostic routines

There's often confusion about what is a requirement and what is a specification. Let's play "Req or Spec." Is this a requirements or a specification?

Which is this? How would you improve it? Add your comment below.

See On Reqs and Specs for more.

The Pragmatic Marketer Volume 7 Issue 5

Some notable articles are featured in the new issue of The Pragmatic Marketer including Updating the Pragmatic Marketing Framework™ written with Jim Foxworthy and an update on our popular article on The Product Management Triad. Also Top 10 Tools to Measure User Experience and The Strategic Product Manager and the CFO.

Read more in The Pragmatic Marketer Volume 7 Issue 5.

November monthly meeting of Cambridge Product Management Network

The Cambridge Product Management Network is a new product management group in the UK. Their next meeting is November monthly meeting. I can't be there because I have to suffer Thanksgiving with my family but if you're in the area, check it out.

Friday fun: Where's McDonald's?

Ever wonder if there's a McDonald's nearby?

Read more at Where The Buffalo Roamed.

Join me for today's webinar

Join me today for my webinar on Highlights from 2008-2009 Product Management Survey at 1pm ET/10am PT. I'll review last year's results and give some insights from this year's survey. Have you taken it yet?

on my reading list

Here are some of the great articles that I read this week:

• In a Downturn, Provoke Your Customers (Philip Lay, Todd Hewlin, and Geoffrey Moore)
• How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity (Ed Catmull)
• The Art of Liftoff (Kristin Zhivago)
• There Is No End State When Transitioning to Agile (Mike Cohn)
• Why I’d fail a Google interview and be glad I did (Jon Gatrell)

and of course, Wordle for making word maps.