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What Skills Does a Product Manager Need?

BrainStation Product Management

It’s no wonder Product Managers are so well-compensated; Hired’s 2017 Global State of Tech Salaries survey found that Product Managers’ average salary of $138,000 was the very highest of any tech role. Speak to a Learning Advisor. Technical Skills for Product Management. Personal Skills Are Essential for Product Managers.

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What Skills Does a Product Manager Need?

BrainStation Product Management

It’s no wonder Product Managers are so well-compensated; Hired’s 2017 Global State of Tech Salaries survey found that Product Managers’ average salary of $138,000 was the very highest of any tech role. Technical Skills for Product Management. Other technical skills or competencies are similarly viewed as required at most companies.

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The Collision of Product Management and Product Ownership

The Product Coalition

A story of love, hate, oppression and triumph I’ll admit, I’ve started to fall out of love with agile over the past year or so?—?don’t I wholeheartedly believe that you need to be adaptable to survive today but the further I travel on my own journey the more I wonder if we as an industry are moving past agile. Enter agile.

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How to Hire a Great Product Manager

BrainStation Product Management

Speak to a Learning Advisor. Product Management is fundamentally a white space role, so the skills you need will depend on what skills you already have and what your company does,” advised Jackie Bavaro, Head of Product Management at Asana. Do Some Soul-Searching. PMs do best when the team they’re joining really wants them there.”.

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How to Hire a Great Product Manager

BrainStation Product Management

“Product Management is fundamentally a white space role, so the skills you need will depend on what skills you already have and what your company does,” advised Jackie Bavaro, Head of Product Management at Asana. Perhaps you need someone with an uncanny design eye, or razor-sharp technical skills, or deep experience in analytics?

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Scrum Development Team Anti-Patterns

The Product Coalition

Source : Scrum Guide 2017. Check out the complete Scrum Guide 2017 list on the Development Team by downloading the Scrum Guide Reordered.) Finally, the term Development Team seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers. Read more on technical debt and Scrum.) Team leads?