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The Leadership Side of Product Management – What Does It Really Mean?

Product Management University

The leadership side of product management reaches its pinnacle when you have the complete trust of executives, marketing, sales, engineering, finance, customer success, and customers. You might even be in a position to influence and shape “the finance department of the future.”. The real question is, how do you get there?

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Why product managers absolutely need to socialize product vision

Innovatemap

Whether you’ve been handed a new product vision to execute or you have an idea of your own, it’s also your job to socialize your product vision and gain buy-in from internal stakeholders. Let’s take a look at the process of socializing your product vision internally and why its imperative to your product’s success.

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Why I Became a Software Engineer at Modus Create

Modus Create

Little would my professor know that three years later I’d build and publish an iOS application on the App Store and would be interning as a Front End Engineer at Modus Create. I’m currently a senior double majoring in Finance and Operations and Information Management (OPIM) in the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.

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Product Strategy Depends on Company Strategy

Mironov Consulting

Expanding on a recent post ( Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies ), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product, engineering, design) struggling to form product strategies without a company strategy to hang them on.    Did they have sufficient input? Short-enough time frame (e.g.   Tous pour un, un pour tous.

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Spendesk’s Nicolas Marchais on evolving with your market

Intercom, Inc.

As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams. Nico: Exactly.

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When your product is your product team

Product Management Unpacked

The success of a product is reliant on strong, integrated teams that work together to bring the product’s vision to life. You’re trying to show them how to think critically, and how to make trade-offs, and how to challenge engineers or challenge design in the right way.”. At first, he had little passion for software.

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Overengineering 101: What Is It and How Can Product Managers Avoid It?

Userpilot

TL;DR An over-engineered product is more complex than it should be and it solves problems that don’t exist. Low feature adoption is one of the symptoms of over-engineering. To avoid falling into the trap, set clear and realistic objectives that are aligned with the product vision. How to identify an overengineered solution?