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479: Beyond the pint glass–Learnings from creating the new Molson Coors Non-Alcohol portfolio – with Marlon Hernandez

Product Innovation Educators

Product management insights from Molson Coors’s non-alcohol portfolio transformation I am interviewing speakers at my favorite annual conference for product managers, the PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference. In 2008, the Boomer generation reached an age where there was some decline in preference for beer.

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Paying It Forward

Mironov Consulting

Feels like 2008 to me. I remember major tech downturns in 1985, 1992, 2001 and 2008.  Especially  They offered encouragement, contacts, and bits of contract product work that tided me over.  (Even  (Even though most didn’t really know what product management was.  Especially 2001.  I

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Can Starbuck’s Product Managers Take It Upscale?

The Accidental Product Manager

The market for coffee has become so large and so well served that the Starbucks product managers have a real problem on their hands. How are they going to change their product development definition to keep growing the business if they are already everywhere and serving everyone? What Is Starbucks Planning On Doing?

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The Six Essential Books that Every Product Manager Should Read

Mind the Product

I always tell the participants of my workshops that as a Product Manager you should be voraciously curious about what’s happening in the field. Here are some of the first books I read after getting into product management. I spent a few years working as a consulting Product Manager at Pivotal Labs.

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Secrets of successful product management?—?Q&A with Marty Cagan

The Product Coalition

Secrets to successful product management?—?Q&A Q&A with Marty Cagan Ever wanted to know the secrets to successful product management? Especially why technology products like Netflix, Amazon and Google do so well and have so much love from customers? business results.”

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Frankfurt, 16 April: Product Leaders Workshop

Mironov Consulting

Scheduled one day ahead of ISPMA’s Software Product Summit in Frankfurt, this is a one-day session specifically for those leading product management teams[/tweetherder]: Product VPs, Directors of Product Management, Chief Product Officers and other product-focused execs.

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Customer Development Guide For Product Managers

The Product Coalition

After that, the startup is pushed to get outside the building and understand the necessity of real customer feedback management for product managers who try to improve the product. It is tightly connected with the Lean Startup concept created by Eric Reis in 2008. That’s when the trough of sorrow begins.