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Auto Product Managers Believe Software Holds The Key To Future Success

The Accidental Product Manager

Auto product managers believe that software will control the future Image Credit: JC As product managers, we are generally fairly focused on what we need to do to make our product become a success. However, some auto product managers are starting to realize this.

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Product Managers Get Interested In Drive-Throughs

The Accidental Product Manager

Delivering products to customers in cars is becoming more popular Image Credit: Michael Steeber As product managers our job is to create products that our potential customers will want. We don’t often spend a lot of time thinking about how we are going to deliver our products to our customers.

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How Subway’s Product Managers Are Going To Come Back

The Accidental Product Manager

Subway product managers have to come up with a comeback plan Image Credit: Mike Mozart I’m pretty sure that even if you didn’t know it, there are more Subway sandwich restaurants out there than there are McDonald’s restaurants. The Subway product mangers now have a new challenge on their hands.

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The Making of Product Managers: Michael’s Story

The Product Coalition

This is a free sample story from my book The Making of Product Managers. It is unusual that Michael’s first brush with product management was during his master’s degree in systems design engineering. In the academia of applied science in 2012 it was not common practice to think about design and user experience.

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Product Managers Discover That The Circular Is Not Going Away

The Accidental Product Manager

So if you are running a business and you’d like to keep your customers aware and informed about what products you are offering, what’s the best way to go about doing this? In our modern age, a lot of product managers would look at their product development definition and say that you need to update your web site and they’d be correct.

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Women Succeeding in the World of Product Management

Product Management Unpacked

They became my female role models and heroines – strong, intelligent problem-solvers who used their feminine skills to their advantage,” says Kate Hare, Chief Product Officer at Photobucket, to Women 2.0 , a media and tech industry leader in gender equality. Product management is a cross-functional discipline.

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Can Amazon’s Product Managers Make Videogames Successful?

The Accidental Product Manager

However, so far things have not gone the way that the Amazon product managers had wanted it to go. What are they going to have to do to turn their product development definition around? Every product manager would want getting a piece of that to be on their product manager resume.