Product Management Unpacked

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

CMU Master of Science in Product Management program student Erick Valencia landed a PM experience of a lifetime as part of a student team developing a driverless race car system to race in the Indy Autonomous Challenge. Product Managers often face a race to the finish, so to speak.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

I would like to thank Tremis Skeete, Executive Editor of Product Coalition, for his valuable contributions to this article's research, development, and writing. I also thank Product Coalition founder Jay Stansell, who has provided a collaborative product management education environment.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

And if you’re really excited about an idea, you might look for opportunities to share it outside your company with the broader product community. Today’s Product in Practice features a continuous discovery champion who did all three. Do you have your own Product in Practice you’d like to share?

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

. “You must be intentional about your personal and career development” Oluwatobi Otokiti, a Product Manager at Andela in Nigeria, has been working in product management for five years. However, just seven years ago, she had no idea what product management was. Oluwatobi Otokiti.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 9, 2018

In my case, at Zalando , these are systems for fashion buying, supply chain management, inventory management and procure-to-pay processes (e.g. But building good enterprise systems is prone to failure, as author and product consultant Sam McAfee has recently pointed out. Recruit and Train the Right Product Managers.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. out of 5 stars. 54 global ratings. Where to buy?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 24, 2018

This post was originally published on Product Management Festival ’s website. We have compiled a list of experienced product management professionals with a track record for success?—?and With backgrounds in engineering, marketing and business, some of them are also founders of their own companies.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 21, 2019

I know there are already thousands of articles about how to break into Product Management. I am not going to describe what a product manager is or what he/she is expected to do here. Compare this with a PM skills list, and highlight the gaps in the core competencies needed to become a Product Manager.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2019

Joff’s team at Atlassian creates the products that many of us use to manage our own product and development processes; he’s got a unique viewpoint on the state of product management. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering , by Frederick P Brooks, Jr. Quotes of the Episode.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 7, 2020

Mobile marketers and product managers can immediately take action on events in Apptentive by simply flipping a switch. Apptentive also offers “codeless integration” through mParticle, without requiring customers to create a new series of events within their apps. This saves companies valuable time and resources.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 18, 2022

AI Dev World is the world’s largest artificial intelligence event that targets AI developer professionals seeking to learn about the newest AI technologies, as well as software engineers and data scientists who are looking for an introduction into AI. Purchase your ticket to the event here ! About AI DevWorld.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2019

Why are Product Management Books important ? Equally, there is more competition than ever to land those practical experiences in Product Management. If you’re looking for a voice of authority on Product Management, this is a pretty great one! The next best thing is to pick up a book.

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Mixpanel

OCTOBER 5, 2021

You can spend all the time in the world devising a thoughtful, nuanced analytics strategy for your product analytics, but if your event tracking isn’t set up behind the scenes just how you need it, some (or all) of your data might be rendered far less helpful than you’d like. Event stuttering.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In this post, we interview Stephen on how to ace your product management behavioral interview questions. Previously, he was a product manager at Google. One particular aspect of product management that I like is a "therapist-like" role a PM plays sometimes. Plan an event. Get experience.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Mind the Product returns to San Francisco and the famous Davies Symphony Hall on July 15-16. 2019 promises to continue our run of amazing conferences, with a pre-conference Leadership Forum, even more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Kathy Pham, Fellow at Mozilla, Harvard, and MIT.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

When Petra Wille was in her first job, working as a software engineer for Burda Media , she visited Hamburg for a work project and promised herself she would live in the city one day. “I Now an established product coach and the co-organiser of MTP Engage Hamburg , Petra has been calling the city home for the last 12 years.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 3, 2022

Even if you haven’t yet found the time to refactor the analytics implementation overall, you’re still in a position to make an impact by spotting and fixing implementation bugs that can distort analytics data—and which only an engineer is in a position to see. Deeply understand the product perspective on analytics.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 8, 2020

Teaching and curriculum design are both fun design problems that keep me engaged with the practice of product management. And writing, teaching, and designing for and with the product community help me to stay sharp and feed my soul. I run a 12-week coaching program for product trios (i.e. Grab yours here. Tweet This.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

PDMA is also the longest-running professional association for product managers, leaders, and innovators, having started in 1976. These projects are most often about creating world-class experiences in corporate visitor centers, museums, theme parks, and live events. Learn more about them at PDMA.org. Next is action.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

I attended the conference to represent product.careers , a project I launched last year to raise awareness of Product Management as a career path, with a particular focus on undergraduates and graduates. I started the project in response to challenges I had recruiting entry-level product managers for Crowdcube.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In this post, we interview Stephen on how to ace your product management behavioral interview questions. Previously, he was a product manager at Google. One particular aspect of product management that I like is a "therapist-like" role a PM plays sometimes. Plan an event. Get experience.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

So it’s tempting to think the additional add-on of measuring user events in your code (i.e., implementing product analytics) is something that can wait until your team is bigger, until you have more users, or until you have more money. Remember, product analytics involves tracking events in your app.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Get ready to dive into insightful discussions, practical strategies, and real-world examples that will empower you to create and manage products that meet user needs and leave them truly satisfied. Product Drive is Userpilot’s FREE online event where experts from top companies come to share growth and marketing insights.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 18, 2020

Squad product managers and designers reported to department heads. Software engineers were managed outside of the team structure. Jeremiah’s conclusion… “The Spotify model is revealed as a collection of cross-functional teams with too much autonomy and a poor management structure.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 27, 2022

In this episode of Inside Intercom, you’ll hear from: Nidhi Kamat , Product Manager. Lily Beauvilliers , Product Engineer. Nadine Mansour , Product Manager. Lu Borko , R&D Operations Manager. I’m a product manager on the pricing and packaging team.

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Bain Public

AUGUST 22, 2022

Bain Public is looking for a talented candidate to join our Product team with a focus on Business and Engineering. Second, to assist and work in collaboration with the rest of the Product Management team and third, to work in collaboration with our broader team – which includes UX/UI, Engineering and a team of Data Scientists.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 22, 2020

Image credits: Timo Elliott I was recently reading a book I’d recommend for any product person titled INSPIRED by Martin Cagan. He stated that in his early years as a software engineer at HP, they spent over a year building an AI-powered technology. You can read more about timeboxing here 4.

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Iteratively Blog

JANUARY 10, 2021

The product team has defined the goals and metrics for this new feature and will have a view of what event tracking is needed to measure those metrics. The iOS, Android and web development teams are responsible for instrumenting (and ideally testing) those events in the code and will have an opinion on what’s feasible.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Bain Public is looking for a talented candidate to join our Product team with a focus on Business and Engineering. Second, to assist and work in collaboration with the rest of the Product Management team and third, to work in collaboration with our broader team – which includes UX/UI, Engineering and a team of Data Scientists.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Bain Public is looking for a talented intern to join our Product team with a focus on Business and Engineering. Second, to assist and work in collaboration with the rest of the Product Management team and third, to work in collaboration with our broader team – which includes UX/UI, Engineering and a team of Data Scientists.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Bain Public is looking for a talented intern to join our Product team with a focus on Business and Engineering. Second, to assist and work in collaboration with the rest of the Product Management team and third, to work in collaboration with our broader team – which includes UX/UI, Engineering and a team of Data Scientists.

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Amplitude

MAY 8, 2018

If you’re a product person, chances are high you’ve logged on to something Brent Tworetzky has helped build or even attended an event that he’s hosted. He’s an all-in product leader with a passion for education and coaching. We talked to him about the role of data in building product and his path into product management.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 18, 2020

Marcus is a long-time coach and champion of software engineering managers with an emphasis on processes / culture / leadership. We talked at length about the adjacencies and differences between developers and product managers… Topics: Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35).

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 10, 2021

Eventually, there came technologies to collect things like software user events automatically, which made data far more plentiful and turned the process of rendering sense of what you’ve gathered into the obstacle. “Maybe you want to look at the retention rate a little bit differently based on a different event.

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Department of Product

JANUARY 17, 2023

In our previous discussion on the topic of trends, we broadly categorised important trend shifts into 3 different groups: Technical trends Business trends Design trends Business skills are essential for people who build products. And whilst some roles in product require a background in software engineering, these are usually optional.

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