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The Hidden Value a Product Manager Brings to the Product Team

The Product Coalition

Even as product managers (PMs) have grown in popularity over the past decade, the same issue looms across the industry: it’s hard to define the aforementioned value up-front when asked for. Product managers are important and their growth only rises According to Zippia, there are over 41k PMs, just in the US alone. Fu (pen name).

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Product Manager vs. Product Owner

Melissa Perri

“What is the difference between a Product Owner and a Product Manager?”. Honestly, I did very little of what I teach as Product Management now either. I wasn’t called a Product Manager until I bailed out of that and landed in a startup. I wasn’t called a Product Manager until I bailed out of that and landed in a startup.

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391: Product VP of Wyze uses community for product innovation and you can too – with Steve McIrvin

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can get customer insights from a community to create a competitive advantage. His name is Steve McIrvin and we met a few years as we both had kids competing in Science Olympiad. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [3:15] The leading brand cost about $150. 3:15] How does Wyze compete?

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How JustGiving Crowdfunding Went From an Idea to £100m in Five Years

Mind the Product

Initially JustGiving supported only registered charities on its website, but the founders’ vision was to support all good causes. The initial vision was to. This vision gave us something to aim for. And for that, we needed a new name… Output of one naming brainstorm. Build a community.

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The Collision of Product Management and Product Ownership

The Product Coalition

One signal I’ve been giving much thought too of late is the collision of two roles, Product Management and Product Ownership. As time progressed many Product Managers wondered if they should be a Product Owner and similarly many Product Owners started to wonder where they fit in relation to their Product Manager counterparts.

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How to Survive the Hardest Part of Product Management by Janna Bastow

Mind the Product

There is probably one part of the product management job we can all agree is the hardest – people. We all come to product management from different backgrounds, but one thing that has long been true and is only just starting to change, is that when we start this job our training generally consists of Googling. Janna Bastow.

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What Makes Amazon’s Product Strategy So Sticky?

ProductPlan

By unpacking Amazon’s product strategy, we endeavored to see whether or not the company stayed true to its core vision and mission when put to the ultimate test. How did this upstart go from a novel e-commerce bookseller to a household name and abroad? The Two-Pizza Rule: Team Structure and Product Management at Amazon.