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How to Evaluate and Create Great Product Management Teams

280 Group

When I think of product or market-oriented teams, I think about meetings. In fact, Product Managers are more likely to have meetings with folks outside of product management as inside it. As Product Managers, here are examples of meetings where we all wander in to address a topic. Think about it.

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How Would You Improve Instagram as a Product Manager?

The Product Coalition

Photo by Alexander Shatov on Unsplash One of the most common questions that Product Managers have to deal with is how they would improve the product they are managing. In this blog, I will talk about the steps that I, as a Product Manager at Instagram would take to improve it.

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429: Innovation practices of the best companies – with Sally Kay

Product Innovation Educators

Lessons for product managers from PDMA’s Outstanding Corporate Innovators Award Every year the Product Management and Development Association (PDMA) recognizes an organization with the Outstanding Corporate Innovators Award (OCI). We conducted two more retrospective analyses covering 2004-2013 and 2014-2021.

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6 Product Managers Who Became CEOs-and How!

The Product Coalition

While some may say that a Product Manager is ‘the CEO of the product’, that’s not entirely true. As a Product Manager, you have very little authority. While the buck stops with you when it comes to product decision making, the overall health of the company doesn’t rest on your shoulders.

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I Was a Product Manager Before It Was Cool

ProductCraft

2004 feels like a century ago. But 2004 was the year that a mentor took. The post I Was a Product Manager Before It Was Cool appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo. Think about it. We didn’t have Airbnb and Uber.

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Product Management is Culture Management

Mind the Product

Or “ How to Manage Software Development in Teams who Think Nothing Like you “ Product management has two diversity problems. Cultural homogeneity in product teams is dead, welcome cultural diversity. Product managers who work with cross-cultural teams are in the crossfire. Dealing With Culture.

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Saying Goodbye

The Product Bistro

Sales training in 2004 in Europe. Working for a time in a cross division product management group. NT9000 product releases. We finally worked out the legacy issues, and had a structured product platform. I should have known that would be a harbinger of the level of travel that I would need to do. (My Semicon Japan.