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Product Manager vs. Product Owner

Melissa Perri

“What is the difference between a Product Owner and a Product Manager?”. Honestly, I did very little of what I teach as Product Management now either. I wasn’t called a Product Manager until I bailed out of that and landed in a startup. You are teaching us to talk to users, but I am a Product Owner.

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Layoffs: Has the Product Management Industry Failed Us?

The Product Coalition

Between marketplace, cloud, hardware, streaming and much else, they had to narrow down their vision of value delivery and specialize. link] Amazon laid-off 15% of its workforce in 2001. Even if someone was to say that Amazon failed Product, we need to recognize that they’ve learned their lesson at least in part.

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Product Management for Financial Services

ProductPlan

The product management function in any given industry has both similarities and differences. In all cases, product managers drive the development of products and are ultimately responsible for the success of those products. Moreover, they communicate the product vision to the organization.

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The Collision of Product Management and Product Ownership

The Product Coalition

One signal I’ve been giving much thought too of late is the collision of two roles, Product Management and Product Ownership. A topic of hot debate in the agile and product circles but with very few answers. Credit: DataKitchen Since its inception, Scrum and the Product Owner role has become widely adopted.

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Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy

Intercom, Inc.

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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What is Agile UX? Methods & Process

UX Planet

They consist of members from all avenues of the product design process, including product managers, UX designers, front-end developers, back-end developers, Quality Assurance (QA) engineers, etc. That is why it is essential for them (product managers, designers, etc.)

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Why Drawing Maps Sharpens Your Thinking

Product Talk

Maps are also used to communicate a vision or a plan. In The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, the map is described: “It [the Manhattan grid] was that truly rare thing: an enduring vision conceived sold and executed as a map.” Maps aren’t a new concept in the world of product management. Tversky, B.,