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When 2 Become 1: The Roles of Product Manager and Product Owner

bpma ProductHub

During their presentation, Pragmatic Instructor and Product Coach Kirsten Butzow along with Pendo Chief Evangelist Eric Boduch emphasized the need to distinguish the PM role from the PO role. Since the Agile Manifesto first distinguished the roles in 2001, the same person has often been expected to serve as both PM and PO.

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The Collision of Product Management and Product Ownership

The Product Coalition

I specifically pulled the best Product Manager Easel Corporation had out of Product Marketing and retrained him. It also has more responsibility for directly working with engineering 50% of the time to assure that the product fits customer needs. What’s the difference between Product Management and Product Ownership?

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Online Product Management Courses & Certification Now Available From Proficientz

Product Management University

Greenville, SC – November 7, 2018– Proficientz announced today the availability of Product Management University On-Demand, an online training and certification program that offers the convenience of learning B2B product management, product marketing and sales enablement skills anywhere, anytime. About Proficientz.

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Creating a “Customer Value” Culture, Powered by Product Management & Product Marketing

Product Management University

The answers to this question are the priorities for your portfolio strategy and product plans. I’ve worked with a lot of highly successful organizations since 2001. They’re more knowledgeable about your target markets and customers than every other discipline. The common denominator in the best of the best is their focus.

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Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy

Intercom, Inc.

It’s not that old, the Agile Manifesto was written in 2001, but now everybody gets it, or hopefully, most people in the digital world get it. But that framework and that rigorous process are really about the delivery part of product management. How do you get to know the customers better? Go and speak to them directly.

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Dear Strategy: 066 Understanding Customer Needs and Going to Market Faster

Dear Strategy

Although agile development is now the subject of many books and the foundation of many consulting practices, it was actually the result of a “manifesto” that was created by 17 software development professionals who gathered in a ski resort in Utah back in February of 2001. Listen to the podcast episode. Dear Strategy: Episode 066. ###.

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Leading A High-Growth Company | David Cancel, Drift | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

No one really cared about the Internet right from a commercial standpoint, and so I have a lot of good stories now that are funny but they weren’t funny at the time; including you know getting kicked out of many company when we were trying to sell can compete services into its software into it. But at least you can see something.