Management Quote by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

“The best product managers, therefore, focus on defining and prioritizing problems, not solutions.”

— Richard Banfield

“Prioritization enables businesses to manage innovation with a focus, not for stifling innovation.”

— Pearl Zhu

“Prioritization is rightly the job of the business sector, not the technology organization, and so should not be within a technical manager’s remit. Unfortunately,…

— David J. Anderson

“In the model I'm describing, it is management's responsibility to provide each product team with the specific business objectives they need to tackle. The…

— Marty Cagan

When it comes to creating a product or running a company, you need to prioritize the goal of the company or the creation of…

— Max Joseph

Many companies routinely do things that are not important. They fail to prioritize. They get involved with details that don't matter.

— Michael J. Silverstein

“Continually adding features to software turns out to be equally unsustainable.”

— Giles Colborne

Adding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer's pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more bugs in…

— John Robbins

“Positioning your product against the slew of existing competitors is accomplished by adroitly picking the correct product features where you are better.”

— Steven Gary Blank

“the first product in a startup, your initial purpose in meeting customers is not to gather feature requests so you can change the product;…

— Steven Gary Blank

“Product development has become a faster, more flexible process, where radically better products don’t stand on the shoulders of giants, but on the shoulders…

— Eric Schmidt

“Most people assume that maintenance begins when an application is released, that maintenance means fixing bugs and enhancing features. We think these people are…

— Andrew Hunt