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Why do we Forget That Product Management is a Tough Career?

Mind the Product

It was only after director and screenwriter James Gunn sent out this tweet that I realised the same can be said of product management: It’s worth reading his whole thread but essentially his point is that, while people don’t die if you act badly, to act well you need years of training, practice, experience, and honing your skill set.

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Product to Product: Venmo’s Ben Mills on the messiness of leading a product team

Roadmunk

It’s the second last episode of Product to Product’ s second season! Listen to the episode below: As we reach our final stretch of exploring the human side of product , we’re joined by Ben Mills , Head of Product at Venmo, this episode. And how does a product team lead handle hard decisions?

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Why product managers need to know UX

The Product Coalition

UX and product management have broadly the same goals?—?to to understand users’ needs, to create excellent experiences that solve those needs and to keep innovating products, with these aims in mind. Product managers make up a sizeable proportion of the graduates of our courses. What does a product manager do?

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Four Steps to Product Feature ROI

Product Management University

Senior executives often request a product feature ROI prior to approving plans for product development. It’s a mind numbing exercise for product managers and developers and in most cases a fool’s errand. The post Four Steps to Product Feature ROI appeared first on Proficientz.

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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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Product Owner vs Product Manager: Worry About Outcomes not Titles

Mind the Product

Over the past year I’ve worked with hundreds of product managers in dozens of companies, and there’s been one question that has sounded like a persistent drum beat: “ What is the difference between the role of a product owner and a product manager? ”. In Scrum that person is called the product owner.

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Design Handoff Guide: Design To Development Without Headaches

UX Studio

By definition, design handoff takes place when the finished design has reached the stage for the developers to implement it. Let’s look at the basics and some suggestions to get the best out of the designer-developer collaboration. First of all, I must state that a “finished design” of a digital product does not exist.

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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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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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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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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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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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How to Achieve Product-Market Fit

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

Everyone working on a product is trying to achieve the same goal: product-market fit. But most products fail to do so. 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.

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

Speaker: Edie Kirkman - VP, Digital at Focus Brands

In today's hyper-digital landscape, organizations face the challenge of launching successful products while making the most of limited resources. To overcome this challenge, it is crucial to build core product and technology competencies that provide actionable insights through qualitative and quantitative data analysis.

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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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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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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. Product managers are still predominantly trained on the job.

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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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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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The Future of Product Management

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

Over the past couple of years, organizations have seen exponential growth in products as a direct result of their product teams. According to The Product School, This is the best time in history to build digital products. In this webinar you will learn: The Top 5 Product Management Trends.

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

Speaker: John Mansour - President, Product Management University

You’ve come up with a winning product strategy, everyone’s on board and energized, and you’re halfway down the path to execution only to have it submarined by something someone convinced your leadership was more strategic!

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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?

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

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

Often, product teams fall into the trap of creating a roadmap that doesn’t support timely customer feedback. Companies frequently make this mistake by creating a product roadmap 1-3 years in advance. This strategy is ineffective for developing a valuable product because it does not consider the volume of customer feedback.

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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

A value-driven product organization optimizes team structures, funding cycles, processes, and metrics to drive traction and growth across the entire product adoption curve by identifying opportunities to solve valuable customer problems and closing those market gaps for either over-served or under-served markets. A System of Metrics.

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Fuel the Engine of Product Growth with an Impeccable Framing Model

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst - President, Tyner Blain

A product-led company is one that grows through user adoption and word-of-mouth recommendation. For this model to work, your product has to be genuinely desirable to the users you want to engage as the company's engine of growth. The importance of retaining as well as acquiring customers to succeed in a product-led business.

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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

If you can simplify your onboarding process and show your product's value from the beginning, you can lower customer churn and increase the usability of your product. Examples of successful product onboarding strategies. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours!

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How Product Managers Can Define a Product Vision to Guide Their Team

Speaker: Christian Bonilla, VP of Product Management at UserTesting

Every product team wants to build things users love. It’s why breakthrough products rarely happen by accident. Rather, they start with a strong product vision. Getting that vision right is one of the most important responsibilities of the product team. How to position your vision as an umbrella for the product strategy.

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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. This webinar is for engineering and product leaders who are struggling to find an innovation strategy that works. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours!

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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?