When Product Managers push to accomplish their goals for a product--more sales, more customers, more profit--they must struggle to identify and overcome the obstacles and limitations of their individual product, team, and company. Each company's weaknesses are unique, and require careful focus and willpower to overcome them with a solution whose uniqueness matches the problem.
As a Product Manager, chances are you find yourself working with a software development function that is challenged when it comes to planning. And so much of the success of reliable development of competitive capabilities depends upon good planning. Read Software Development Pitfalls: Planning for a discussion of how to better understand the planning of software development -- and how to overcome some common hurdles.