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What Skills Does a Product Manager Need?

BrainStation Product Management

Self-styled ‘visionary’ Product Managers are dangerous – which is why I advise against hiring PM candidates who fire off (Steve Jobs) quotes during job interviews. Given the emphasis on “soft” skills, it’s possible Product Managers are looking to professional development to fill in the gaps in their skill sets.

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What Skills Does a Product Manager Need?

BrainStation Product Management

BrainStation offers Online Live Certificate Courses in data, design, development, marketing, and product management. Speak to a Learning Advisor. Self-styled ‘visionary’ Product Managers are dangerous – which is why I advise against hiring PM candidates who fire off (Steve Jobs) quotes during job interviews.

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13 Best Product Management Books to Read in 2021 – Product Manager Must-Reads

Userpilot

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Challenges of transitioning from software engineer to product manager. Challenges of transitioning from a non-technical background. 5 out of 5. 4 global ratings.

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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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What’s Product Management is like a Year after Implementing Agile

All About Product Management

It’s been over a year since the product management team went on a series of agile/scrum training courses. Product Management Prior to Scrum Before agile working practices where adopted the Product Managers role consisted of a lot of short term tactical wins coupled with continual fire fighting.

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Voice of the Customer (VoC): Beginners Guide on How to Collect Data Plus Best Practices

Userpilot

Think of how Scrum and Kanban are two of the most widely used methodologies when it comes to Agile software development. They are the most time-consuming VoC data collection technic so before you begin, define which customers you should be interviewing and why. If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.

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Scrum Development Team Anti-Patterns

The Product Coalition

Even more confusing might be the situation, when both Scrum Master and Product Owner are also actively creating the Product Increment, resulting in the Development Team being identical with the Scrum Team. Finally, the term Development Team seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers.