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Essential Finance Product Manager Skills

The Product HQ

Are you curious to learn the top finance product manager skills recruiters are looking for? Finance PMs occupy a unique position within the world of product management. This article discusses eleven skills that employers look for when hiring finance product managers.

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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.  Why is this so critical to Product Management and the larger maker organization? 

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The Essential Questions That Lead to a Great Product Strategy

The Product Coalition

The CFO of our division just asked me, a new management trainee, why I thought the company was pursuing the strategy he laid out. Asking questions rather than waiting to be asked a question would have been a better strategy. This is especially true for product strategy. I honestly had no idea.

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10 Tips for Effective Product Management Meetings

Roman Pichler

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

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How to Be a Truly Great Head of Product: Strategy

The Product Coalition

There’s no separate ‘product strategy’ from company strategy?—?strategy strategy needs to be cross-departmental. Using the ‘Kernel’ from Richard Rumelt’s ‘Good Strategy/Bad Strategy’, specifically insights and developing a guiding policy allows you to enable your team and avoid micro-managing.

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“My CEO is a Finance Guy Stuck on ROI…”

Mironov Consulting

Head of Product: My CEO is a finance guy*, and is pushing the product team hard to prioritize all engineering work solely on ROI. Most first-time CEOs come from some functional role: sales, finance, marketing, engineering, occasionally product management. (Or (combining a series of similar conversations).

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Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

What’s more, it makes it unlikely that the stakeholders will fully support the product decisions and that they will follow them through. But do not accept inappropriate behaviour and do not allow people to treat you like a project manager, team lead, or personal assistant. Increase your product management expertise.