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Offshore Development: Pluses and Minuses for Product Managers

Mind the Product

As a product manager who has managed offshore development teams, I’ve learned that it’s not easy, and that having engineering teams on the other side of the world is not always congruent with delivering great products. The biggest benefit arising from this time difference is that you can have around-the-clock development.

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How Home Depot Product Managers Are Fighting Back Against Amazon

The Accidental Product Manager

Home Depot product managers are not giving up in the fight against Amazon Image Credit: Mike Mozart. If you are a product manager working in the field of retail goods, there is one word that should strike fear in your heart: Amazon. The Home Depot product managers have discovered that in the U.S.,

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Learning Product Management Skills vs. Training: Big Difference!

Product Management University

There’s a significant difference between learning product management skills and going through a product management training course. That same philosophy applies when it comes to learning and developing skills for product management, marketing and sales. Learning is where things get far more interesting.

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Product Management 101 — Crash Course in Product Management (Introduction)

The Product Coalition

If you are visiting this page, there are chances you might be seeking an answer to one of the following questions – Having completed my formal education, how do I start my career in Product Management? Coming from a non-related industry, how do I break into Product Management? How do I learn the necessary traits of Product Management?

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

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

As a concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry. It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. In this talk, Anne Steiner and David Laribee will delve into the interconnectedness of Developer Experience and Product Manager Experience.

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Learning Product Management Skills vs. Training: The Big Difference!

Product Management University

There’s a significant difference between learning product management skills and going through a product management training course. That same philosophy applies when it comes to learning and developing skills for product management, marketing and sales. Learning is where things get far more interesting.

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10 Great Questions Product Managers Should ask Customers

Mind the Product

When you’re adding or developing new products and features, insight from your customers can help you target the things that matter most to them and what they value the most. The post 10 Great Questions Product Managers Should ask Customers appeared first on Mind the Product.

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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! Discover how the symbiotic relationship between product managers, UX/UI designers, and developers can transform pitfalls into opportunities, propelling your product outcomes to unprecedented heights.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance. Managing Delete Heavy Workloads. The topics covered include: Using Cassandra as if it were a Relational Database. Running Unoptimized Queries. Neglecting Anti-Entropy Repairs.

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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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The Data Metaverse: Unpacking the Roles, Use Cases, and Tech Trends in Data and AI

Speaker: Aindra Misra, Sr. Staff Product Manager of Data & AI at BILL (Previously PM Lead at Twitter/X)

Delve into the distinctive roles and responsibilities of a Platform PM compared to other Product Managers. 📅 March 21, 2024 at 11:00 am PT, 2:00 pm ET, 7:00 pm GMT Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours! Anticipated future use cases as we project into 2024 and beyond.

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The Key to Agile Team Motivation

Speaker: Robert Webber, Author and Innovation Leader

The Agile community was confident that management would recognize the benefits of Agile and adopt its servant-leadership style. Management was never taught how to establish the positive and supportive environment necessary to motivate self-directed teams, resulting in disappointing Agile transitions.

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How to Achieve Product-Market Fit

Speaker: Dan Olsen - Product Management Trainer and Consultant, Author, and Speaker

In this webinar, product management expert Dan Olsen will share his simple but effective framework for achieving product-market fit from his book The Lean Product Playbook. Come learn how to turn product management into more of a science than an art to improve your odds of success. But most products fail to do so.

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The Product Corner: Maximizing Impact, Reducing Hours, and Accelerating Roadmaps with Data

Speaker: Edie Kirkman - VP, Digital at Focus Brands

By tapping into the wealth of customer and application data, product professionals can identify underutilized features, prioritize improvements, and streamline development efforts in partnership with the development team.

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The Product Symphony: Orchestrating Success with Storymapping

Speaker: Jamie Bernard - Senior Product Director at Launch by NTT Data

In today’s dynamic business landscape, successful product management hinges on a keen understanding of customer needs and market dynamics. It serves as a catalyst to better align your entire organization, setting the stage for impactful, customer-centric product management.

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Navigating the Product Tightrope: Balancing Innovation and Current User Demands

Speaker: Jason Brett - Founder & Chief Product Officer, Product Coffee

In today's rapidly evolving market, product managers face the challenge of driving innovation while also meeting the needs and expectations of their existing user base. This webinar aims to equip you with strategies and insights to successfully navigate this delicate balancing act.

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Epic Alignment

How can you drive the thinking on what to develop, why and how to do it — leveraging the insights from both team and stakeholders — all the way from idea to deploy? Epic alignment" describes four broad approaches that help Product Managers excel.

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Cracking the Code to Product Team Success: Data, Empathy, and Extraordinary Communication

Speaker: Donna Shaw - Senior Product Manager & Eric Frierson - Director of Innovation for Public and School Libraries

Product management goes beyond product development; it involves nurturing a cohesive team. Nonetheless, by leveraging foresight and valuable insights, you can cultivate a thriving product management team that works together harmoniously to craft customer-centric products.

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The 3 Principles that Lead to Better Collaboration Between Design and Product Management Teams

Speaker: Felix Watson Jr., Product Manager at Google, and Terrell Cobb, Designer at Microsoft

As more product teams adopt agile working styles, poor collaboration between Design and Product Management can harm a team’s ability to create consumer and business value. In this webinar they will teach you: 3 principles that allow Design and Product Management to work together more effectively.

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PM Development: How Product People Continue to Learn

Speaker: Greg Coticchia - CEO, Sopheon

With all the technological improvements relevant to product management, there is an increasing need to educate new product managers as well as upgrade the abilities of experienced professionals. Unfortunately, little has changed in the world of product management education, training, or preparation to meet today’s high demand.

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It's Alive! Bringing Your Product Roadmap Back From the Dead

Speaker: Lisa Mo Wagner, Product Management Coach, Writer, Speaker and WomenTech Ambassador

This strategy is ineffective for developing a valuable product because it does not consider the volume of customer feedback. As a result, teams will fail to implement customer feedback in a timely manner, resulting in incorrect feature development. How to Manage your product roadmap. In this webinar, Lisa Wagner, will teach you.

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A PM's Guide to Building a Culture of Product Innovation

Speaker: Bob Webber, VP Product Flow Optimization, Construx

Despite the importance of new product development, more than half of all product launches and innovations fail. Bob Webber, a thought leader in innovation, has developed a new model that explains why some organizations become innovative while others never do. This is an exclusive session that you won't want to miss!

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The Future of Product Management

Speaker: Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, Founder and CEO of The Product School

While product teams are continuing to excel in these unprecedented times, many people are asking: Where is Product Management headed? From expectations to technology, tools, and leadership, the CEO of the Product School, Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, will detail the trends that are shaping the future of Product Management.

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Shaping the Future: Product Strategy in the Age of Uncertainty

Speaker: William Haas Evans - Principal Consultant, Product Strategy Practice Lead, Kuroshio Consulting

Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours! Attendance of this webinar will earn one PDH toward your NPDP certification for the Product Development and Management Association. A Cadence of Ceremonies. October 4th, 2022 at 12:30 pm PDT, 3:30 pm EDT, 8:30 pm BST.

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Fuel the Engine of Product Growth with an Impeccable Framing Model

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst - President, Tyner Blain

Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours! Attendance of this webinar will earn one PDH toward your NPDP certification for the Product Development and Management Association. The importance of retaining as well as acquiring customers to succeed in a product-led business.

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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? What level of skills should Product Managers have at each stage in their career?

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If You Build It, They Will Come: A Guide to Customer Onboarding

Speaker: Jamie Bernard, Sr. Product Director and Product Management Practice Lead at Nexient, an NTT Data Company

How "doing this, not that" can benefit product managers and help them avoid the negative response that a clunky onboarding experience provides. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours! How to pivot when you notice the friction of poor onboarding.

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How Product Managers Can Shape Inclusive Futures with UX

Speaker: Bronwen Rees, Author and Lead Product Designer at Xero

Many in the UX space reiterate that “knowing your audience” is paramount to developing great user experience, and that empathy is the cornerstone of UX. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours! UX has a critical role in making that future possible.

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From Whims to Wins: How a Customer-Centric Portfolio Transforms Product Strategy

Speaker: John Mansour - President, Product Management University

Attendance of this webinar will earn one PDH toward your NPDP certification for the Product Development and Management Association.

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The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Strong and Effective Value Proposition

Speaker: Robin Zaragoza, Product Coach and CEO of The Product Refinery

Every product manager has heard, “Keep the customer at the heart of everything you do". But what strategy do managers use to keep the customer and their key problems at the center of the product development process? How do product managers instill this knowledge of the customer across the rest of the organization?