Product Management Unpacked

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Why Design Thinking Matters

Product Management Unpacked

How product managers can identify the right customer problems to solve. Perhaps Albert Einstein summed up successful product management best when he said, “If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions.”. Product management, at its heart, is about managing a process that develops solutions to problems.

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Why Product Managers Are So Important

Product Management Unpacked

“Crossing the Chasm” author on how user-experience design has driven product management from product-focused development to fostering customer engagement. There was a time not so long ago that Silicon Valley tech companies were developing systems management computer products – financial, transaction, and customer relationship management systems, for instance, and the products “would get adopted and bought,” says famed author and tech startup guru Geoffrey Moore, who wrote the best-selling book,

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In Pursuit of the Checkered Flag: The Challenge of Developing a Driverless Race Car System

Product Management Unpacked

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. But for Erick Valencia, a student in Carnegie Mellon University’s Master of Science in Product Management (MSPM) program, that race to the finish in the summer and fall of 2021 was all too real.

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Product Executive in Residence, Brian Nejmeh Discusses Product Management at CMU

Product Management Unpacked

I’m excited to be named Product Executive in Residence (PXIR) at Carnegie Mellon University. This new PXIR role enables CMU to bring the voice of industry into classrooms and product leadership curricula. It also allows me to connect CMU and its world-class graduate degree programs and students who are interested in and excited about product to industry through internships, capstone projects and employment opportunities.

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How a Software Engineering Career Started the Journey to Fintech Product Management

Product Management Unpacked

Here’s what strategic partner PayPal did to bring scaled product management to life for this startup-oriented software engineer. Computer software engineer Ashwin Rao was already well on his way to becoming a successful product development professional in India’s startup e-commerce community when he concluded that, to really succeed in the field, he needed to strengthen his business skills in product management as well.

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A Day in the Life of a Product Manager

Product Management Unpacked

Managing diverse teams, championing customer satisfaction, steering product development strategy, and patiently influencing the decisions of company leaders – it’s all in a typical day’s work for today’s product managers, along with customer problem resolution, communicating effectively with key stakeholders, cultivating new ideas, pitching their business cases, and other management challenges.

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How A Product Management Internship Built A Future Career with Home Depot.

Product Management Unpacked

“I’m actually a pretty avid DIY-er,” confides Pranita Ramakrishnan, MS of Product Management, Carnegie Mellon University, Class of 2019. “I grew up in a family where if you didn’t take a trip to Home Depot twice a month to get some type of materials for a project, something was wrong.”. When Home Depot came to the Carnegie Mellon campus to interview Product Management intern candidates, Pranita’s interest was piqued.