The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 14, 2020

Unsurprisingly, there is no standard definition across industries or companies for the career growth of Product Managers. Not every company has the position of a Chief Product Officer (CPO). In some companies, product management roles up to the CTO (Chief Technology Officer).

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

The explanation from software leadership is often unsatisfying or unclear. At TechEmpower, we’ve conducted more than 50 technical reviews for companies of all sizes, industries, and technical stacks. Do your own review first so you can be confident and better positioned. What does a business leader do in this situation?

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Create your vision and positioning 4. The disruptive growth approach focuses on gaining market leadership with a lower-cost product, which will help capture new customers. The main goal of a disruptive SaaS growth strategy is to give your company fast market leadership and the competitive edge. Make sense of your data 2.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Companies with top-quartile McKinsey Design Index scores outperformed industry-benchmark growth by as much as two to one. Under supportive leadership, designers can be enabled to ask the right questions, explore divergent paths, and validate assumptions through controlled experimentation. Get Involved with Research. Embrace Iteration.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2023

Do we need to escalate any critical issues to company leadership? I have an Engeenering degree and have been in the Israeli tech scene for the past fifteen years, from a research and development leader, to a co-founder and CTO, to product leader. Did you take note of user stories that may remain in the Sprint?

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

of leadership roles. Also – a study by Paychex from December 2018 found that 33% of women in technology have considered changing careers because of male colleagues. I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech. Again…Why? Frida : “I have 3 kids.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 27, 2022

For a movement that was created to address the lack of female representation in the industry, it can also play into many shallow debates, preconceived ideas, and harmful expectations. More, while women have been taking more and more jobs among top technology executives, at big U.S. Here’s the thing about Women in Tech.

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Modus Create

MAY 28, 2024

Larry Fitzpatrick, Executive Vice President and CTO of OneMain Financial, the leading nonprime lender in the United States, provides insight into how the world’s top executives plan to leverage AI technology. AI will impact nearly every industry. Just 22% of companies with 10,000+ employees cited AI/RPA as a core focus.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

An engineering management position is not on the typical path of an individual contributor (IC) software engineer. For instance, what objective metric is there to measure the weight of your leadership or communication skills? But these new opportunities come with significantly more work and responsibility than any IC position.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Many top employers are looking for computer science or engineering graduates to fill PM positions, and this is an excellent route into the role. First off, product management is very communication and leadership oriented. In terms of demonstrating leadership, look to your extracurricular activities.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Better Products.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Better Products.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Better Products.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

You could be a lone PM in a tiny startup with no Product Management team, meaning that you only report to the CEO, or maybe a CTO. As you start to build your reputation within your team, company, or even industry, people will be more open to hearing what you have to say. The best influence comes from a place of earned respect.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Though it may not grab as many headlines or turn us into “influencers” in our respective industries, it builds the proper habits and work ethic to succeed in our current roles… and our next ones. Some view Product as an equal peer to Marketing, Sales, and Engineering, while others tuck it away under a VP of Product Marketing or a CTO.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Better Products.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Better Products.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Better Products.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Many top employers are looking for computer science or engineering graduates to fill PM positions, and this is an excellent route into the role. First off, product management is very communication and leadership oriented. In terms of demonstrating leadership, look to your extracurricular activities.

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DISQO

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Bombacino spent 15+ years in various digital and direct marketing leadership roles at companies of all sizes including Andersen, United Airlines, Omnicom Media Group, and Restaurant.com. By experimenting with fresh produce and a homemade blender, they developed a nutritious solution for AJ and soon disrupted a multi-billion dollar industry.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Better Products.

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DISQO

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Bombacino spent 15+ years in various digital and direct marketing leadership roles at companies of all sizes including Andersen, United Airlines, Omnicom Media Group, and Restaurant.com. By experimenting with fresh produce and a homemade blender, they developed a nutritious solution for AJ and soon disrupted a multi-billion dollar industry.

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DISQO

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Bombacino spent 15+ years in various digital and direct marketing leadership roles at companies of all sizes including Andersen, United Airlines, Omnicom Media Group, and Restaurant.com. By experimenting with fresh produce and a homemade blender, they developed a nutritious solution for AJ and soon disrupted a multi-billion dollar industry.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Better Products.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Better Products.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Better Products.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. This is a talk about positioning, but a little bit more about how you communicate your positioning or share your positioning. So let’s start with the positioning, like what exactly is level jump?

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

As with many roles in the tech industry, there’s been a stubborn gap in female representation in product. According to TechTalent Charter , women make up only 19% of the tech industry and only 37% of UX and product roles. Describe the path to your current position and the role mentorship has had in your career growth.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Many CEOs tell me that they (personally) are the best-informed people within their companies about what customers need , and they (personally) are best positioned to drive decisions on product priorities. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

What I’m guessing most of you don’t know, however, is just how this industry-defining product actually came to be. The results of Alex’s experiments and early successes gave Alex the confidence to propose to the BBC leadership a new product vision and strategy which she called “BBC Out Of Home.”

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

While there’s no doubt a number of industry-specific conferences for product teams, we’ve focused primarily on industry-agnostic ones for this list. Speakers include Dave Coplin, Chief Envisioning Officer of Microsoft. Industry: The Product Conference. ideation, prototyping), Launch (e.g., Lean Startup Conference.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

While there’s no doubt a number of industry-specific conferences for product teams, we’ve focused primarily on industry-agnostic ones for this list. Speakers include Dave Coplin, Chief Envisioning Officer of Microsoft. Industry: The Product Conference. ideation, prototyping), Launch (e.g., Lean Startup Conference.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

While there’s no doubt a number of industry-specific conferences for product teams, we’ve focused primarily on industry-agnostic ones for this list. Speakers include Dave Coplin, Chief Envisioning Officer of Microsoft. Industry: The Product Conference. ideation, prototyping), Launch (e.g., Lean Startup Conference.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

Ellen: It was me as part of the executive team, so head of marketing and sales, and customer success, and whoever else was part of our executive team, so CTO, CEO, etc. Teresa: In the earlier days, your leadership team was saying, “This is the feature we need for this customer.” Who was deciding on that output?

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

So there was a company who make all of the music that happens in between basketball games, that Dum Dum Dum Dum diddle diddle… And they were still quite big in the music industry. In fact one of the guys that we used to create a remix for the bands he progressed by himself and he’s now in a position where. So more fail.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Dee: And you’ve worked in the industry for more than 22 years, so you have an incredible insight into the expansion of cloud networks, enterprise and data center technologies. At the enterprise level within companies, this is why you’re always going to need technology leadership.

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StubHub

MARCH 1, 2019

In my role as Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion at StubHub, creating a balanced climate means creating balanced teams, balanced leadership, balanced compensation, and balanced career growth. It means having strong and accomplished female professionals in important leadership roles. What does this balance look like to me?

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