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

The Product Coalition

We’re well overdue a conversation about Product Managers and technical skills. And yet…we all seem to stay hung up on technical skills. Here we’re going into asking the age-old question: do Product Managers need technical skills? Why does learning new tech skills feel like such an insurmountable challenge?

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UX portfolio review #3: Self-taught designer

UX Planet

As a UX recruiter and team manager, I will reviewing a Google Course case study from Kevin, a self-taught UX designer based in Illinois. He studied Creative Technologies, which is an interdisciplinary major that covers several topics such as motion graphics, interactivity, and web design. Let’s get into it.

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New Course: Mastering Product Management

Sachin Rekhi

For years now loyal readers have been asking me to package up my learnings on product management into a cohesive course on the subject. So in 2020, I took a survey of all the available product management courses out there. There were plenty of courses introducing product management to those new to the role.

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What is the Technical Product Manager Career Path?

The Product HQ

Are you looking for a technical product manager career path? Technical product managers don’t stay in the same positions forever. As you embark on a professional journey in the field of product management, you must familiarize yourself with the technical product manager career path. Keep one reading then. Otherwise, skip ahead.

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15 Common Technical Product Manager Interview Questions

The Product HQ

A technical product manager is a critical piece of the product management puzzle. For that reason, knowing some common technical product manager interview questions can help – whether you’re a hiring manager or a TPM candidate. In this article, I’ll list the most common/anticipated technical product manager interview questions.

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Tech Spikes: Why, What, When and How

The Product Coalition

Tech Spikes are a useful activity for your product development team to perform when you need to explore how you are going to solve a challenging problem. This practical guide to Tech Spikes covers why you would do a tech spike, what they are, when to use them and how to run one. The engineering team can’t break a task down yet.

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The Ultimate Conversation Design Course Guide

UX Planet

The idea for a course catalog of conversation design courses has been parked in my drafts for the entire year. This was originally supposed to be titled, “The 2023 guide to conversation design courses,” but here we are, mid-December and I only now summoned up the courage to jot down my thoughts on this massively intimidating subject.