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“Software eating the world” creates a growing need to educate product managers.

Product Management Unpacked

Digital transformation impacts almost everything, so the demand for product management continues to increase – every day. When I started in product management in the mid-1980s, most product managers were hired to work in traditional B2C businesses, which is where the idea of product management originated.

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4 Product Management Certifications that are Worth Your Time

ProductPlan

Continuing education plays a crucial role in long-term career success in just about any profession. Product management is certainly no exception. Product managers and leaders need to find ways to keep learning and growing in an ever-evolving product environment. We’ve scoured the certification landscape.

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Customer Education Examples to Ensure User Growth in SaaS

Userpilot

Examining the right customer education examples can help you improve your customer education program and the overall customer experience. As customer expectations continue to soar, a solid customer education program helps you stand out from the competition. What is a customer education program?

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Is Product Management Certification Right For You?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Product Managers are often called “Product CEOs” or “Mini GMs”, but they rarely have direct control over the inputs that lead to successful products. Also unsurprisingly, education hasn’t kept up with growth. There’s no set skillset or formal certification for PMs like there is for Project Management (PMP).

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PM Development: How Product People Continue to Learn

Speaker: Greg Coticchia - CEO, Sopheon

With all the technological improvements relevant to product management, there is an increasing need to educate new product managers as well as upgrade the abilities of experienced professionals. Product managers are still predominantly trained on the job.

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Are Product Management Certifications Worth It?

ProductCraft Debates

As the product manager role grows in ubiquity and importance, we’re seeing a lot of educational opportunities for formalized product management education. Whether these are offered by major universities or scrappy startups, certification opportunities abound, and there are seemingly new ones every day.

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How To Become A Product Manager

Bryce York

To become a product manager, you’ll need to build a skillset that spans business, technology, and user experience. Many product managers don’t have a master’s degree (myself included!). Before committing to getting into product management, be sure to research the realities of the job.

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Product Design & Customer Experience: An Innovative View on Inclusive Product Development

Speaker: Dan Jenkins - Human Factors & Research Lead – DCA Design International

It is a philosophy that encourages us to consider how size, shape, age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, education levels, income, spoken languages, culture and customs, and even diets shape the way we interact with the world. More importantly, it is about designing products and services in light of this understanding.