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Trailblazing Women in Product Management: Michelle Lance, Head of Product Management, Western Alliance Bank.

280 Group

For our next installment of the Women in Product Management Series I interviewed Michelle Lance: Head of Product Management, Western Alliance Bank. I’ve been in commercial banking for 30 years and , specifically , in treasury management for over 25 years. How did you get into product management? Any lessons learned along the way?

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The Most Basic Rule of Product Positioning – It’s Easy

Product Management University

I learned a lot about product positioning long before I ever stepped into a product marketing role. For the first four years of my software career, I was a pre-sales solution consultant, a.k.a. I think of demos as verbal product positioning. That’s when the number one rule of product positioning hit me right between the eyes.

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Using ChatGPT to Perform Competitive Analysis

280 Group

The 5 forces are: competition in the industry potential of new entrants into the industry power of suppliers power of customers the threat of substitute products For the remainder of this article, let’s imagine we’re a new PM in a challenger bank. Immediately, we see the top 3 challenger banks are European.

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The positive effects of the pandemic on UXR

UX Studio: Product Management

A UX researcher at the largest Hungarian bank. Founder of a London and Budapest-based behavioural consulting startup. Such a positive outlook didn’t happen overnight. To end on a positive note, the world of research has expanded incrementally. She is part of a 7-member team, and they follow the in-house agency model.

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Unemployed Agilists: How to Move from a Staff Role to a Line Job, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

That’s because potential employers think these jobs are staff positions. Your previous managers and potential managers don’t see the value of someone in your position. Worse, many staff jobs are commodity positions. But I’ve consulted for a long time. Or, one Scrum Master from another.

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Cultivating a Product Mindset: How “No” became “YES, if…” became “Yes, IF…”

The Product Coalition

For me, this great entrepreneurial adventure was an exposure to ‘yes if’ consulting as a more useful format than ‘no because’ … ‘Yes if’ was the language of an enabler, pointing to what needed to be done to make the possible plausible. If” is positive, but realistic. Walt liked this language. ‘No, Creative people thrive on ‘yes if.’”

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Product Managers Get Interested In Drive-Throughs

The Accidental Product Manager

Interest in drive-through real estate had been growing even before the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic, but it exploded when the pandemic arrived and total sales volume for restaurants, pharmacy and bank properties hit a record US$12 billion. Former bank branches often provide what is needed to create a new drive-through restaurant.