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Why Product Management Is Not The Same As Oprah’s Favorite Things

The Product Guy

Because I’m not Oprah and Product Management is a dialogue, not a show. These are the three mistakes I learned when trying to run my product like an episode of Oprah’s Favorite Things: 1. They saw the title would be design review or feature review, but what did that really mean? Conclusion.

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Product Failure is An Opportunity

The Product Coalition

The same principle accelerates growth for products, when resources that are thinly spread across multiple initiatives are all focused on the most successful value drivers. As a product manager I hosted a regular workshop called “Cutting Club”. The questions are about the product’s value, its benefit and its purpose.

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Product Talk Is Growing: Meet New Instructor Ellen Juhlin

Product Talk

Today, we’re excited to announce another new development for Product Talk and yet another way we’re scaling our impact: We’ve expanded our pool of instructors. Meet Ellen Juhlin , a product coach and consultant and Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs. This was around 2005.

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Business Development vs. Product Management

The Product Guy

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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How to Promote Team Diversity in Your Organization and Beyond

ProductPlan

The problem plagues nearly every aspect of the corporate world—technology companies included. One particularly problematic area is product management. The product team must represent the voice of the customer and communicate information quickly across teams. Our world contains multitudes. How big is this problem?

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How High Performance Organisations Innovate at Scale by Barry O’Reilly

Mind the Product

Currently, the management processes and systems we employ don’t match the speed and complexity of the market we operate within. Methods such as annual performance reviews, quarterly planning and budgeting just do not allow us to react with the speed that’s required to operate a business in an efficient way.

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The PM’s Guide To Getting Stuff Done: Tackle Your To-Do List in 3 Easy Steps

UserVoice

Task Management Tools for Product Managers. What it is: Trello is a project management tool that’s intended to keep groups organized, but it also works well for personal to-do list tasks. Trying to do everything is a great way to burn out, and as a Product Manager you must learn to prioritize “ruthlessly”…or else.