http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/ India Product Management Forum Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:42:51 GMT brian_lawley_2000 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/259 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/259 We are excited to announce that the Certified Product Manager (CPM) Self-Study Course is now available! Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:42:36 GMT Pavan http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/258 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/258 Tyagarajan, You've sum-it up well. I would add one more item that IT/automation systems do play a large role in making a PM role easy, esp. when the products Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:09:06 GMT SaggiRex http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/257 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/257 Shame on Indian govt. and Media. Shame on u Politicians... I wishing this mail reaches right people, today itself. Please take this is high priority to frwd. Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:18:47 GMT Thyagarajan, Subramaniam http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/256 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/256 Friends Very good discussion....some more here.   Irrespective of the roles/jobs what we do across the world, typically the Product manager would be located Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:16:50 GMT Yogesh N. Rao http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/255 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/255 Hello Pavan, I am not sure I understand the point that you are trying to make. Where are the majority of your customers - APAC or elsewhere? How do you Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:59:50 GMT Pavan http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/254 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/254 Yogesh, From my experience, I see not much difference b/w a PM in California and a PM in Bangalore, in terms of understanding the mkt directions, customer Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:31:53 GMT Steven Haines http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/253 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/253 Ravi, I agree with you. It's up to the PM to ensure they "fit," and to 'do what it takes' to do what's right for the business. This means the PM needs to Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:18:14 GMT ravi kumar nadiga http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/252 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/252 I guess, the only way one can get more responsibilities is by proving one's worth by doing a commendable job. Exposure of one's work at the right level in HQ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:10:27 GMT Bikram http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/251 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/251 It is an interesting discussion. I am sure there are companies where PMs based out of India have a significant ownership. As you correctly described, APAC Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:16:26 GMT Vinay BV http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/250 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/250 Data for decisions has to be from sales/customers. Qualitative stuff is usually done over late night calls with sales/customers, twice an year travel to Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:06:21 GMT Yogesh N. Rao http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/249 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/249 Vinay, that's interesting. Where do you get the data for making your decisions? Especially the qualitative data like political power-centres at HQ. One can Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:56:15 GMT Vinay BV http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/248 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/248 The issue is also about the maturity of the local market. For most of my enterprise customers in India, they do not get to define their requirements, they just Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:23:58 GMT Steven Haines http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/247 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/247 Yogesh, Extremely important point. Local practitioners have an obligation to provide local market insight to the product teams in HQ, but sometimes they don't Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:15:28 GMT Yogesh N. Rao http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/246 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/246 Hello Steven, While there is merit to political argument i.e. HQ vs outpost, I think there is also the proximity factor involved. To be more precise, which Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:01:01 GMT Yogesh N. Rao http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/245 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/IPMF/message/245 Hello Samhitha, it looks like you are heavily on the pre-sales side and may have a different problem :) This is good though, it looks like you are out in front