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Consultants and Candidates: No Free Work. Ask for Reasonable Compensation

Johanna Rothman

Are you looking for work, either as a consultant or a candidate? As part of their filtering process, potential clients/hiring managers want to see how you work. While managers think they will get useful results, too often, they don't. And candidates and consultants invest time that has no perceived payoff for them.

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Solution Consultants, Be The Person You’d Love To Buy From

Product Management University

For all of you pre-sales solution consultants and sales engineers looking for new ways to differentiate your demos, step away from your products for a quick minute. How Solution Consultants Become the Key to Differentiation If you’re a pre-sales solution consultant, there are two parts to the differentiation equation.

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From tax consultant to product manager: My journey and tips for aspiring professionals entering the IT field

Mind the Product

Embark on a transformative journey from tax consultant to successful product manager with invaluable insights and tips. Read more » The post From tax consultant to product manager: My journey and tips for aspiring professionals entering the IT field appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Transformation Anti-Patterns: Management Consultancies

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But one of the most well-known, most common, and most frustrating has to do with the big management consultancies. Especially since most people that have worked with these consultancies know that it’s not because their people are clueless.

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Apache Cassandra® NoSQL for the Relational DBA

Learn from Lewis DiFelice, an experienced Professional Services Consultant at Instaclustr, as he shares his journey transitioning from SQL to managing a 40-node Cassandra cluster. Unleash the power of NoSQL with "Apache Cassandra® NoSQL for the Relational DBA." Download now and revolutionize your database operations!

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How to Hire an Engineering Consultant

The Product Coalition

However, both the need and the sheer number of developers and technology consultants have made the challenge of sourcing reputable, professional, and capable software engineers even more difficult. That said, the task becomes easier once you know where and how you ought to hire an engineering consultant. Let’s dive right in.

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Successful Independent Consulting Conversation with Tom Cagley

Johanna Rothman

I had the pleasure of recording a podcast with Tom Cagley: SPaMCAST 764 – Successful Independent Consulting, A Conversation with Johanna Rothman. The post Successful Independent Consulting Conversation with Tom Cagley appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. Do consider adding it to your podcast feed.

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Feedback Management: A PM's Key for Continuous and Impactful Product Growth

Speaker: Hannah Chaplin - Product Marketing Principal at Pendo & Steve Cheshire - Product Manager at Pendo

Working with customers to improve product feedback management is a major driver of product-led growth. Consulting customers throughout the product development process enables businesses to focus on the features that matter.

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Get Better User Insights With Wasteless Validation

Speaker: Tim Herbig, Product Management Coach and Consultant

How can a product manager slow their team down and prevent them from wasting valuable resources? Join Tim Herbig, Product Management Coach and Consultant, as he introduces a new way of understanding what an MVP is about and explores how you can approach validation without wasting the resources of your development team.

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Forrester Research Report: How Sales and Marketing Intelligence Drive Improved Business Outcomes

In 2019, DiscoverOrg commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate sales and marketing intelligence practices in the B2B space. of companies achieved a score indicating maturity in data management practices in the space.". Fact: Only 8% of sales and marketing professionals say their data is between 91% - 100% accurate.

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Use Discovery and Delivery to Experiment Our Way to a New Normal

Speaker: Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

Join Johanna Rothman, author and consultant, to consider these options for your products and organizations: How to use the idea of working to create change rather than manage change in planning. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours! How delivery differs from discovery in practice.

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How Can We Stop Under Utilizing a Key User Experience Champion?

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

It’s a truth universally acknowledged by the best product managers. Join Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant as he discusses how we can educate and equip our QA/QC process to forge champions of customer experience. Customer representation has always been a key reason for success in product development.

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Product Transformation: Adapting Your Solutions for Cloud Models

Speaker: Ahmad Jubran, Cloud Product Innovation Consultant

In order to maintain a competitive advantage, CTOs and product managers are shifting their products to the cloud. Join Ahmad Jubran, Cloud Product Innovation Consultant, and learn how to adapt your solutions for cloud models the right way. Optimize serverless and managed data processing pipelines.

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Hooked - How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Speaker: Nir Eyal, Author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Hooked, the book, is based on Eyal’s years of research, consulting, and practical experience. Hooked is written for product managers, designers, marketers, start-up founders, and anyone who seeks to understand how products influence our behavior.

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Your 2-Part Metrics Audit for High-Value Products

Speaker: Sam McAfee, Product Development Consultant, Startup Patterns

As product managers we're in a golden age of being able to get all sorts of metrics and run all sorts of experiments. Join Sam McAfee, Product Development Consultant, as he takes you through a two-part measurement audit. But what are your measurements and analytics focused on? Are they really truly objective?