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From tax consultant to product manager: My journey and tips for aspiring professionals entering the IT field

Mind the Product

Embark on a transformative journey from tax consultant to successful product manager with invaluable insights and tips. Read more » The post From tax consultant to product manager: My journey and tips for aspiring professionals entering the IT field appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Solution Consultants, Be The Person You’d Love To Buy From

Product Management University

For all of you pre-sales solution consultants and sales engineers looking for new ways to differentiate your demos, step away from your products for a quick minute. How Solution Consultants Become the Key to Differentiation If you’re a pre-sales solution consultant, there are two parts to the differentiation equation.

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Hiring product managers by Kate Leto

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank Edinburgh talk, independent product consultant and organisation design consultant Kate Leto talks about how to approach hiring in a different way. 3 Read more » The post Hiring product managers by Kate Leto appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Thankful for Product Management

The Product Bistro

My original entrance into Product Management I was an early 30’s applications engineer who jumped into the that role from life as an analytical chemist and process engineer at a wafer fab. Then the original recruiter that got me into product management reached out to me again. But she pointed them at me.

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Get Better User Insights With Wasteless Validation

Speaker: Tim Herbig, Product Management Coach and Consultant

How can a product manager slow their team down and prevent them from wasting valuable resources? Join Tim Herbig, Product Management Coach and Consultant, as he introduces a new way of understanding what an MVP is about and explores how you can approach validation without wasting the resources of your development team.

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Finding Great Product Managers

The Product Coalition

Here are some classics on product manager hiring along with value-added commentary. Slightly less useless are the case interview formats used by many top-tier consulting firms. He also highlights the significance of product Spidey sense (#3). Beyond everything above, find someone who’s actually shipped product.

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Product Managers Discover Older Customers

The Accidental Product Manager

If this is the case, what you have done to make it easy for them to use your product? If the answer is “nothing”, then you are like many other product managers who have not taken the time to study their customers and customize their products for their unique needs.

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Use Discovery and Delivery to Experiment Our Way to a New Normal

Speaker: Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

Join Johanna Rothman, author and consultant, to consider these options for your products and organizations: How to use the idea of working to create change rather than manage change in planning. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours!

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How Can We Stop Under Utilizing a Key User Experience Champion?

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

Customer representation has always been a key reason for success in product development. It’s a truth universally acknowledged by the best product managers. Despite this, those building the product itself are often detached from their customers, leading to a gap between vision and execution on the most practical metrics.

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Product Transformation: Adapting Your Solutions for Cloud Models

Speaker: Ahmad Jubran, Cloud Product Innovation Consultant

In order to maintain a competitive advantage, CTOs and product managers are shifting their products to the cloud. Whether you're a seasoned CTO or an industry trailblazer, this webinar will help make your product ready to meet the competition by adopting an architecture that is optimized for innovation.

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Hooked - How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Speaker: Nir Eyal, Author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Through consecutive “hook cycles,” these products reach their ultimate goal of bringing users back again and again without depending on costly advertising or aggressive messaging. Hooked, the book, is based on Eyal’s years of research, consulting, and practical experience.

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Your 2-Part Metrics Audit for High-Value Products

Speaker: Sam McAfee, Product Development Consultant, Startup Patterns

As product managers we're in a golden age of being able to get all sorts of metrics and run all sorts of experiments. Do they contribute to the ultimate vision of your product? Join Sam McAfee, Product Development Consultant, as he takes you through a two-part measurement audit. Are they really truly objective?

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Building Products Your Customers Love with Empathy and Human Insights

Speaker: Lija Hogan, Customer Experience Consultant at UserTesting & Daniele Hohol, Senior Product Manager at UserTesting

Join Daniele Hohol, Senior Product Manager at UserTesting, and Lija Hogan, UserTesting’s Customer Experience Consultant, as they share practical tips for utilizing customer feedback without delaying the product development process.