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The Biggest Difference Between Product Management and Portfolio Management

Product Management University

The biggest difference between product management and portfolio management is product management focuses specifically on the success of each product whereas portfolio management focuses on the success of the company (the portfolio) in chosen market segments. Here’s a bonus.

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Product Manager Career Path: Positions, Responsibilities, and How to Advance

Product Management University

Product management is one of the hottest careers in high-tech right now with tremendous career growth. If you’re considering a career in this industry, you’ll need to know exactly what will be expected of you as a product manager. What Does a Product Management Career Path Look Like?

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Oversharing Information With Developers: Product Management Lessons Learned

The Product Coalition

Image by master1305 on Freepik Writing product requirements is the bread and butter of thousands of product managers or product owners worldwide. It’s how to communicate to developers what to build. The actual development required was miniscule. We set the task as ‘ready to develop’. Everything.

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Why Product Managers Are So Important

Product Management Unpacked

“Crossing the Chasm” author on how user-experience design has driven product management from product-focused development to fostering customer engagement. The post Why Product Managers Are So Important first appeared on Product Management Unpacked.

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Products for Product People: Best Practices in Analytics

Speaker: Andrew Wynn, Senior Product Manager, Looker

Who builds products for the product people? As a product manager, you know how helpful custom tailored data solutions can be to doing your job well. Learn product analytics best practices from Andrew Wynn, Product Manager at Looker. How to adapt solutions for different company sizes.

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Four Key Product Management Lessons from a Product Manager at Mailchimp

Alchemer Mobile

Whether you’re new to the product management field or a seasoned professional, it’s always valuable to learn from your peers’ lived experiences. While you can watch the full hour-long interview here , this post breaks down four of the key lessons we learned from Kendrick Wang, product manager at Mailchimp.

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Can a Technical Support Agent Become a Product Manager?

The Product Coalition

Product management is an attractive career path, and getting into the field is harder than ever. Why is product management an attractive career? For starters, product Managers generally have attractive salaries. Built In lists the average Product Manager salary at $128,820.

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Driving Business Impact for PMs

Speaker: Jon Harmer, Product Manager for Google Cloud

This session will provide you with a comprehensive set of tools to help you develop impactful products by shifting from output-based thinking to outcome-based thinking. Understand how your work contributes to your company's strategy and learn to apply frameworks to ensure your features solve user problems that drive business impact.

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Fuel the Engine of Product Growth with an Impeccable Framing Model

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst - President, Tyner Blain

A product-led company is one that grows through user adoption and word-of-mouth recommendation. Usage by individuals then drives companies to purchase subscriptions or licenses. For this model to work, your product has to be genuinely desirable to the users you want to engage as the company's engine of growth.

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A PM's Guide to Building a Culture of Product Innovation

Speaker: Bob Webber, VP Product Flow Optimization, Construx

There's a lot of innovation advice out there, but very few companies are recognized for their innovation. Despite the importance of new product development, more than half of all product launches and innovations fail. Innovation advice will not work if your company's culture does not encourage it.

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The Problem with Product Market Fit (and What to Use Instead)

Speaker: Daniel Elizalde - Product Executive and Advisor

Launching successful products requires a rare combination of market understanding, iterative development, and a lot of luck. Unfortunately, most B2B companies go through the innovation journey using abstract terms and intangible metrics, such as “trying to reach product market fit.”

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Product Market Fit: A Lesson from Sephora’s Head of Product

Speaker: Sneha Narahalli - VP, Head of Product at Sephora

Only 20% of these companies attain product market fit, despite years of excruciating effort by founders, early employees, and investors. The first and most important step in product development is finding PMF. Scaling a successful product after PMF has been established.

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It's Alive! Bringing Your Product Roadmap Back From the Dead

Speaker: Lisa Mo Wagner, Product Management Coach, Writer, Speaker and WomenTech Ambassador

Often, product teams fall into the trap of creating a roadmap that doesn’t support timely customer feedback. Companies frequently make this mistake by creating a product roadmap 1-3 years in advance. This strategy is ineffective for developing a valuable product because it does not consider the volume of customer feedback.

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A PM’s Guide to Forging an Outcome-Driven Product Team

Speaker: Kim Antelo, Transformation Coach

The best product teams evaluate themselves not by the quantity or speed with which they release new features, but by how much those features add value. In this webinar, Transformational Coach Kim Antelo will walk through a case study of a healthcare company with lofty OKRs, but with little tie-back to the product performance.

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Tough Bosses, Unrealistic Goals, and Other Corporate Challenges That a Customer-Centric Product Strategy Can Empower You to Solve

Speaker: Bob Caporale, Founder of Strategy Generation Company

As product managers, we’ve likely all faced this situation at some point in our careers. But, in most cases, the core challenge isn’t your bosses or even your specific goals; it’s the fact that your company’s targets are disconnected from your customers’ needs. Execute your product strategy with a “customer-first” mindset.