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Climbing the Product Management Career Ladder

bpma ProductHub

Product strategy managers, market segment managers, solution marketing managers, and portfolio managers, to name a few. Before you answer the question, consider the following: If you’re targeting investor-owned utilities, the name of the game is ultimately financial return to shareholders. What utility wouldn’t love that?

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Where Does Product Management Fit?

Product Management Unpacked

When I joined a company in 2006 to run product management (as a CMO), the VP of sales would meet with the product managers every Monday morning to make new feature requests per what sales had sold the week before. I see product management reduced to a gopher for development and a clean-up function. It’s basically powerless.

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2019 Goals Gone off the Rails? 3 Ways to get Back on Track

Mind the Product

getting a certification (be it scrum, agile, product, coaching … you name it). Are you moving towards a positive outcome, or away from a negative one? Research into Approach goals and Avoidance goals shows that if we frame our goals as a positive (Approach), we have a better chance of success and feeling positive about the experience.

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Product Management is on the up-and-up – why now?

BrainMates

Product Managers are in short supply – named as one of just five key roles in the Startup Talent Gap report released in July 2018 by start-up peak body StartupAUS in collaboration with Microsoft, the University of Technology Sydney and Google – alongside coders, startup-focused sales roles, user experience designers, and data scientists.

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From PM to CEO: How Sundar Pichai’s Background in Product Paved the Way for Becoming CEO at Google

ProductPlan

But before we dissect this pivotal moment in Google’s history and how Pichai used it to propel Google into completely new markets—and himself up the corporate ladder—let’s step back and review how he even got to that position. Life before Google. Next up was a management consulting role with McKinsey & Company.

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Telerik Retiring: Alternatives and Next Steps for Software Usage Analytics Customers

Revulytics

We have been in business since 2006 and our sole focus is software usage analytics. Gartner named Revulytics a 2017 Cool Vendor in Tech Go-to-Market. And when you need to perform advanced mining, you can download full data exports for CSV or JSON. Revulytics: the Partner You Can Depend On.

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5 Machine Learning Lessons for Product Managers

Mind the Product

Which would you prefer: one where a barista knows your name and your favourite drink and your favourite music is playing, or one where everything is made for an average customer? For example, SEO is a way to “game” search algorithms and create content that would be shown on the first position in SERP. What can we do about that?