Software Tools for Product Managers (2010)
Carrie Lowther from Hitwise and Jen Leibhart ran a great session at ProductCamp Melbourne on Saturday the 3rd of July 2010. They discussed good software tools that can help Product Managers do their job more effectively and efficiently.
For those that didn’t attend ProductCamp Melbourne and for those that didn’t get a chance to take notes during the session here’s a list of tools the group came up with.
Wireframes
Process Flows
Web Analysis
Collaboration
- SmartSheet
- Adobe Connect
- GoToMeeting
- Skype
- Yammer
- Janrain (Now Akamai Identity Cloud)
- Backpack (Retired)
Website Feedback / Testing
Surveys
- WuFoo
- SurveyMonkey
- Questionpro
- Formstack
- SurveyGizmo (Now Alchemer)
- Formbinder (Retired)
Project Management
- Pivotal Tracker
- Basecamp
- Jira
- My Intervals
- Redmine
- Copper Project
- AgileBench (Retired)
- Mingle (retired)
Product Management Blogs
- Silicon Valley Product Group
- Tyner Blain
- Software Product Manager by Gopal Shenoy (Out of date)
- PM Tribe (Out of Date)
- The Cranky PM (Retired)
- Good Product Manager (retired)
- On Product Management Retired)
- Steve Johnson on Product Management (retired)
- Forrester PM Blog (retired)
- Good list on Alltop (retired)
Competitor Information
Requirements & Abstract Ideas Management
- SharePoint
- FreeMind
- XMind
- MindJet (Now MindManager)
- PersonalBrain
- Feature Plan
- OneDesk
- Wikispaces Retired)
- ChangePoint (retired)
- SocialText (Retired)
- AgileBench (Retired)
- Accept360 (Retired)
- iMindMap (Retired)
- MYmap (Retired)
Product Backlog
- Greenhopper (retired)
- VersionOne
Product Mapping & Note Taking
Video Recording (For product demonstrations – software/websites)
Calendar and Scheduling
- Google Calendar
- Tungle (Retired)
Newsletters
Event Management
- Eventbrite
- Sticky Tickets
- IVvy
- Amiando (retired)
Crowdsourcing
Gamification
Screen Capture
- Snagit
- Hypershack (Retired)
