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What is Product Management, exactly?

BrainMates

According to The Product Management Body of Knowledge, Product Management is: “A discipline that provides managerial focus to products that in turn will generate measurable business benefits.”. Product Managers are often described as “the CEO of the product”. Product Management is hard.

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Weight Watchers Chief Product Officer exclusive interview discussing product management…

The Product Coalition

Michael will be joining us and 500+ product management, UX design and engagement executives at this years Open Mobile Summit (November 27–28 SF) to discuss ways in which to interact with and engage the connected consumers across all devices. Could you tell us a bit about your role as Chief Product Officer at Weight Watchers?

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Hypotheticals in Product Management Meetup: Abridged Transcript

BrainMates

In April 2018, Brainmates hosted a Product Talks Sydney Meetup based on the “hypotheticals” format popularised by Geoffrey Robertson. A bright and brave cross functional team of panellists were on hand to tackle an imagined (but realistic) Product Management scenario. Marie Kellett, former CPO eftpos.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. Take product managers. Solving the puzzle. But you know, it’s not just them.

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

Building trust can be tough when you’re a new hire in a leadership position. A couple of years later, I got into a real leadership position. Managers and leaders are different. I got my first real leadership opportunity about five years into my career when one of the teams I was on was struggling with the product roadmap.

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5 Product Management Conferences Not to Miss in 2020

Revulytics

2019 was a great year to be in product management. LinkedIn listed Product Designer and Product Owner in the 10 most promising careers of 2019 , with 80 percent more job openings year-over-year and a career advancement score of 9 out of 10. Industry, The Product Conference, Cleveland, OH. Mind the Product.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

Userpilot

Also – a study by Paychex from December 2018 found that 33% of women in technology have considered changing careers because of male colleagues. There are very few women in leadership positions and there is a reason for that – it’s not random. It was my first role as a Head of Product so I was *young*.