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Special: The most influential product association you’ve never heard of – with Susan Penta

Product Innovation Educators

It’s worth noting that PDMA is a volunteer-led organization and, like Susan, most of the people involved in its leadership have fulltime jobs in product roles yet make time to contribute to the professional association. We don’t have a big marketing engine. 12:47] What value have you found by being a PDMA member?

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505: What you don’t know about product innovation limits your influence – with Chad McAllister, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

Innovation is the economic engine for organizations and a key source of new value. The Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) offers valuable resources and certification programs for product managers. Innovation is the economic engine for organizations and a key source of new value.

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507: Navigating the second product problem – with Greg Coticchia

Product Innovation Educators

This move demonstrates the importance of innovation and risk-taking in maintaining market leadership. Greg holds a degree in Industrial Engineering and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, where he also teaches courses in B2B marketing at the Katz School of Business. He has served on numerous boards, both profit and nonprofit.

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Product Management – Three Tactics for Exerting Stronger Influence & Leadership

Product Management University

What are some things product management can do to exert more influence and demonstrate stronger leadership? So are the engineers who built it – making your value marginal. Get Out Of The Building. So you’re an expert on your product. This iframe contains the logic required to handle Ajax powered Gravity Forms.

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The Key to Agile Team Motivation

Speaker: Robert Webber, Author and Innovation Leader

Agile was a grassroots engineering movement that caught most software leaders unprepared. The Agile community was confident that management would recognize the benefits of Agile and adopt its servant-leadership style. It’s presented by an experienced engineering leader for product development leaders.

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Leading Product with Empathy

Product Management Unpacked

You’re not an engineer. For example, to support leadership, he might say “let me tell you about this new self-service feature that we’re introducing to the product so that you guys are going to get fewer tickets, and then you can help educate customers on how they can do it themselves the next time.”

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Product Managers and Technical Skills: What’s the Deal?

The Product Coalition

It doesn’t seem to matter how many times the industry tries to reassure newcomers that you don’t need to be a full stack software engineer to be a good Product Manager. A: A Product Manager who specifically focuses on the technical side of a product, and will work more closely with an engineering team. Looking for a good read?