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Amazon’s Product Managers Take On Health Data With Alexa

The Accidental Product Manager

The product managers at Amazon have a bit of a problem on their hands right now. Google and Apple both have competing products. This means that the Amazon product managers have to do something to make their product unique. That’s not going to look good on anyone’s product manager resume.

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Scrum: A Simple Guide to Agile Product Development

The Product Coalition

Product Management Technology If you’re unfamiliar with software development, you may not have heard of Scrum. Scrum is an Agile methodology that can help teams work together more efficiently to develop products. The product manager can take on the role of the product owner in the Scrum framework.

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Women in Product: From Product Owner to Product Business CEO – How Margaret Zablocka Pulled Onoco off the Ground Against The Odds

Userpilot

Margaret Zablocka is a founder and CEO of Onoco – a parenting app with 20,000 users – and the former Lead Product Manager at Betfair. Born in Poland, she moved to London in 2014 to embark on her career in Product Management. Different companies call “product manager” different things.

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489: Product Portfolio Management: Third of Seven Knowledge Areas of Product Mastery – with Chad McAllister, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can master product portfolio management Watch on YouTube TLDR Portfolio management is a crucial aspect of product development that helps organizations strategically allocate resources, balance projects, and align their product innovation efforts with overall business goals.

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Transitioning from Managed Service Ad Tech to a Subscription Model

The Product Coalition

year Journey Building Spongecell’s Self-Service Dynamic Creative Optimization Product Why Transition to a Subscription Model? One of the larger themes that you’ll hear in ad tech circles today focuses around transparency. Managed service is a business model where a company uses internal resources (e.g.

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Product Manager: Seeking Help

The Product Guy

This article highlights a few ways to increase clarity and provide better role definition between a manager and a direct report as it pertains to daily situations involving escalations, blockers, and air cover. Given the split responsibility between manager and direct report, alignment and effective communication in these situations is key.

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Driven by Purpose: The Secret Behind Successful Products

The Product Coalition

By the look on the face of the product manager asking me, she didn’t want a canned answer; she was looking for a reason to believe, to rekindle her energy. I knew why the company existed, but I never thought about the purpose behind the product other than the problem it solved for the customer and the value it delivered.