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Developing Product Management Confidence

bpma ProductHub

These words couldn’t be more relevant to product management. Such a trait is crucial to Product Management roles if you want sales, marketing and engineering to trust and follow your direction. She summarized her frameworks through her first book, “Software Product Management Essentials”, first out in 2003.

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Can Apple’s Product Managers Win Back The Movie Market?

The Accidental Product Manager

Apple’s share of the movie market has been falling lately Image Credit: So just in case you didn’t realize it, Apple makes a lot of money from both renting and selling movies. However, things are starting to change for the Apple product managers. What’s a product manager to do?

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Product Management Memory Lane with Alyssa Dver

bpma ProductHub

While talking to her we realized her deep roots in Product Management in the Greater Boston area all way into Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in the late 80s. Product Management was still figuring out if it’s a necessary discipline in software companies.

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3 Must-Have Product Leadership Skills to Survive an Economic Downturn

The Product Coalition

To survive and succeed, your product leadership must be sharper than ever. Beijing’s Forbidden City, July 2003 (photo taken by me) June 24th, 2003, was the first day of life after SARS in Beijing. A great product — unlike many promises you might have heard — wouldn’t sell itself. On that same day, I landed in the city.

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Reading list: Platforms, ecosystems, and partnerships

Intercom, Inc.

All of this thinking, planning and building culminated most recently in the launch last week of our App Partner and Service Partner programs , which unlocks new sales, marketing and technical opportunities for companies we collaborate with. Building a developer economy around Intercom. The pains of growing a platform. Jeetu Patel, Box.

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Why Product Strategy is More Often Reactive than Proactive

ProductPlan

In theory, your product strategy focuses on planning for the future and should anticipate threats, challenges, and opportunities in your market. Your product strategy should be a proactive one where you’re trying to get improved results and meet business objectives. Their product strategy is reactive.

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What Should Product Managers Do When Their Main Product Fails?

The Accidental Product Manager

To be a product manager at Theranos in the early days must have been a great job indeed. The whole idea behind the company was to try to find a way to create a product development definition that would standardize the wide range of blood tests that are commonly performed by creating a novel new hand-held device. government.