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The Editor’s Notebook: Privacy and Data Security, Retraining Sales Teams

Pragmatic Marketing

What’s odd, though, is that only 23% of companies consider their current sales training programs to be effective. Bob Kelly, chairman of the SMA, said the association’s research identified five specific areas of focus correlated with high levels of improved training effectiveness and higher sales performance.

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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.

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When Writing Has Two Focuses: Invite Ideal Readers to Change and Assure Secondary Readers

Johanna Rothman

Since I also write for project, program, and portfolio managers, you might not choose to read this post. Writers often need a different approach to manage everyone's expectations. How to Write for Secondary Readers Polly, a program manager, works with her program team to solve a cross-program problem: status reporting.

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What is the Product Operations Career Path?

ProductPlan

This supporting function enables the success of the product management team. Generally, organizations develop product operations roles as needed to offload non-core tasks from product managers. The goals are to increase the efficiency, effectiveness, and value-add of product management.

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Sustainable Product Strategy: How to Move from Outputs to Outcomes

Amplitude

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. I want to make the case, informed by the writing of Marty Cagan , particularly his book Inspired and by learning from Teresa Torres , through her workshops and team coaching , that output or feature-based roadmapping is a thing of the past in product management.

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 Marrying Up: Partnering With Big Companies

Pragmatic Marketing

And a product manager can play a pivotal role in making such a partnership a success. Add to that all the advantages and disruptions that arise from the SaaS model, agile development, freemium and ad-funded apps, mobile and tablet apps, open source, and blockchain and you have quite a competitive situation. Moving the Monolith.

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 Marrying Up: Partnering With Big Companies

Pragmatic Marketing

And a product manager can play a pivotal role in making such a partnership a success. Add to that all the advantages and disruptions that arise from the SaaS model, agile development, freemium and ad-funded apps, mobile and tablet apps, open source, and blockchain and you have quite a competitive situation. Moving the Monolith.