March, 2017

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Product Manager vs. Product Owner

Roman Pichler

As you may know, the product owner originated from Scrum, where the role is responsible for maximising the value the product creates. This sounds like a text-book product management responsibility to me. Additionally, some approaches like SAFe employ a separate product manager and product owner role.

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Product Management is Culture Management

Mind the Product

Or “ How to Manage Software Development in Teams who Think Nothing Like you “ Product management has two diversity problems. Cultural homogeneity in product teams is dead, welcome cultural diversity. Product managers who work with cross-cultural teams are in the crossfire. It simply doesn’t work.

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Product Managers – You Are Not the CEO of Anything

Mind the Product

When Ben Horowitz wrote his groundbreaking memo good product manager, bad product manager nearly 20 years ago he described a product manager as the CEO of the product. A product manager ultimately has a CEO behind them somewhere, and can always pass the buck. Not just Semantics.

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Hiring the Right Product Manager

Product Management University

When it comes to hiring the right product manager, there’s no foolproof technique. Treat it like you’re shopping for a product. Product management positions are among the toughest to fill due to the broad range of skills and experience that make for success in any given environment. You have a set of needs.

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From Developer Experience to Product Experience: How a Shared Focus Fuels Product Success

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. As product managers, we need to understand how a good DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction.

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Strategic and Tactical Product Management – A Bad Idea

Product Management University

There are two issues with the labels of strategic and tactical product management: The tactical label lacks the glamour of a strategist, not to mention all the hard work that goes with it. Conversely, tactical product management implies that the people best suited for the job are doers rather than thinkers.

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5 Essential Steps for Getting into IoT Product Management

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

You want to get into IoT Product Management. Start here, with these five essential steps for getting into IoT Product Management. These days, more and more companies are kickstarting IoT (Internet of Things) product initiatives, and these companies have a […]. But where do you start? What skills do you need?

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Takeaways: Uncover and navigate through common pitfalls that are plaguing product teams today. Explore proven solutions, laying the groundwork for triumphant product launches.

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. Attendance of this webinar will earn one PDH toward your NPDP certification for the Product Development and Management Association.

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Driving Business Impact for PMs

Speaker: Jon Harmer, Product Manager for Google Cloud

This session will provide you with a comprehensive set of tools to help you develop impactful products by shifting from output-based thinking to outcome-based thinking. Grow your user empathy skills: Better understand users and the problem space they are working in through Journey Maps that are customized for Product Managers.

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LLMs in Production: Tooling, Process, and Team Structure

Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk

Technology professionals developing generative AI applications are finding that there are big leaps from POCs and MVPs to production-ready applications. However, during development – and even more so once deployed to production – best practices for operating and improving generative AI applications are less understood.

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CHALLENGES OF A PRODUCT MANAGER IN CYBERSECURITY IDENTITY AND ACCESS MANAGEMENT PROJECTS

Product managers involved in Identity and Access Management (IAM) projects within the cybersecurity domain encounter unique challenges. This paper describes each of this challenge.

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Why the Product Message Should Come From Product Management

Speaker: Jordan Bergtraum, Head of Product at Equip ID & Consultant

Compelling product messages have a profound impact on attracting new customers and commanding value-based pricing. Perceived “value” of your offering(s) is directly related to how you talk about your product and company. Product Managers may feel the “message” should be developed by the Product Marketing function, but I disagree.

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Product Management Skills Benchmark Report 2021: How Do Your PM Skills Compare?

There are more than 41,000 Product Managers currently employed in the U.S. And while no one would disagree that skills development can help Product teams build better products faster, what skills are essential for Product Management success? How can Product Management leaders up-level their team’s skill set?

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Five Ways to Use Product Management Best Practices

As you move into the new year you can help your product team prepare for success by exercising those product leadership muscles and implementing product management best practices. Here are our top tips for how you can lay the right foundations and get your product strategy off to a flying start.