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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. Personal Skills Are Essential for Product Managers. Technical Skills for Product Management. It’s a supportive role, not a visionary role.”.

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What Skills Does a Product Manager Need?

BrainStation Product Management

“What I wish somebody had told me when I started working as a Product Manager is: ‘Don’t be a hero,’” wrote Matt LeMay, Partner at Sudden Compass. 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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Product Managing the Cloud with Hemanth Kempanna

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

This can be in terms of the companies you want to target, the roles you want to get into or the kind of industry, products, or technologies you want to work on. While some encourage you to fake it till you make it, I would advise against it during the interview process. Will Cloud technologies still be relevant after 5-10 years?

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Crowdtesting – all you need to know

Usersnap

Industries are being disrupted by digital technologies today. Mobile apps, gaming software and new software product launches are front runners in crowdtesting. You may be planning a product launch before Christmas shopping. Technical configurations on application and test environment must be done.

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How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers

Department of Product

It is extremely difficult (and probably not advisable) to attempt to stay on top of all trends. For product people, we’re mostly interested in trends which impact the 3 core skill areas of product management: Technology Business Design So let’s tackle each of these separately. It’s impossible for one person to do.

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From Product Manager to Partner: An Interview with Ashley Carroll

Amplitude

Hailing from a tenured career in product management, she was just super passionate about working with startups. “I I had become pretty active as a mentor and advisor to various startups and really enjoyed it! Why the move from product to the venture capital world? You’re managing many products at the same time.

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How to Structure your Product Org to Optimise for Growth

Department of Product

Who does technical leadership? You should have a product org wide view of how teams are defined, how Product is aligned with those teams, and how Design works with those teams. Jade Rubick is a former VP of Engineering at New Relic , and VP of Product and Engineering at Gremlin. Sign up for the weekly Product Briefing.