The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 14, 2020

The Product Manager career path is different from the traditional paths in jobs like coding, sales, etc. 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).

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TechEmpower - Product Management

JULY 24, 2023

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Background Questions Let’s start with some background questions about the business and product. A Product Manager? Graphic design?

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. In product management, I often saw silos coming from top to bottom. It’s evolving so fast.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 18, 2022

Many tech professionals follow a product manager career path because it blends responsibilities and exciting job duties. Product managers are often called "mini-CEOs" because of the influence they have at a company. They manage complex products and work with team members in all departments.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

That is why we are so excited to announce we are doubling the size of the Product teams at Intercom over the next 18 months. Our teams across Intercom think and work holistically, so when we talk about Product, we mean engineering, design, product management, research and analytics.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Ladislav Bartos Product Manager, Gumtree.com.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sachin Rekhi is the founder and CEO of Notejoy , and a prolific blogger on product management. In this Path to PM post, Sachin and I discuss five practical paths to product management. How did you first break into product management? How do I take on that product work or ask for it in the first place?

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged. Chief Operating Officer: Responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations, providing strategic advice, and managing the company’s operations.

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Izenda

AUGUST 11, 2020

CTO (Chief Technology Officer). DBAs tasking with managing related databases. Go ahead and make an exhaustive list, then include everyone who is important for the project’s success. An appropriate stakeholder list for BI projects will likely include…. IT Administrators. Business Process Analysts.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 31, 2018

Join the most senior line-up of product, UX design and engagement executives and the movement to meet the needs of the connected consumer. The industry’s chosen themes for 2018: Open Product in the Age of the Connected Consumer. Integration of New Technology into Digital Strategy. Michael Gough, VP Product Design, Uber.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

I recall the startup founder who literally bounced with excitement when we discussed the product being built. There was the CTO who recommended I take his job to align product, design, and engineering more closely. At Pearson, I created a global community of Future Technologies Champions.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction My first product management job wasn’t exactly what you call a success story: I was part of a team that was called in to help with a new product development effort, and I ended up working with the lead product manager. But that’s still not enough.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 8, 2023

In a LinkedIn post, CTO of Basecamp David Heinemeier Hansson in the face of possible chagrin, challenges notions that offices represent outmoded ways of working, according to telecommuting advocates.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2023

How do product managers lead standups? The above mentioned sounds simple enough, yet, we still find many stories online and on social media about challenges product leaders face when it comes to leading daily standups successfully. With the platform we harness AI technology to discover meritorious cases.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

According to The Product Management Body of Knowledge, Product Management is: “A discipline that provides managerial focus to products that in turn will generate measurable business benefits.”. Product Managers are often described as “the CEO of the product”. Product Management is hard.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 8, 2018

Michael will be joining us and 500+ product management, UX design and engagement executives at this years Open Mobile Summit (November 27–28 SF) to discuss ways in which to interact with and engage the connected consumers across all devices. Could you tell us a bit about your role as Chief Product Officer at Weight Watchers?

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Many entrepreneurs and product managers write about the skills they brought to the table and those they learned along the way. And as a product manager finding out how others made a strategy work, whether it was implementing a road-map software or avoiding other’s pitfalls can make or break your product’s success.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 24, 2019

But MVP is a key concept in product management. Then we met a man who had developed the technology to personalise marshmallows. “ Internal opinions should be disregarded with a degree of ruthlessness, ” says Mo Khan, product manager at TransferWise. Completing a successful MVP is a wonderful feeling.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2023

In a LinkedIn post, CTO of Basecamp David Heinemeier Hansson in the face of possible chagrin, challenges notions that offices represent outmoded ways of working, according to telecommuting advocates.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 22, 2016

I’m a product manager for a content management system that runs some of the most-visited websites in the world. Our team reports to the CTO, and we sit within the engineering arm of the organization. At its heart a CMS is a platform, not a product. I quickly found that I needed to become a platform product manager.

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

A bright and brave cross functional team of panellists were on hand to tackle an imagined (but realistic) Product Management scenario. The panellists were: Mark Cohen, CTO at Domain. Clive Lam, Consultant Product Manager at Brainmates. Mark Cohen (CTO): I’m gonna start crossing over into product land.

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BrainMates

JULY 23, 2019

Arcadier , an e-commerce SaaS marketplace builder based in Singapore, originally came to a Brainmates Product Management course in Singapore, before engaging us for further specialised workplace training. We spoke with Chief Technology Officer, Paul Cascun to talk about how in-house Product Management training changed the game.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 13, 2018

Sailesh Panchal, CTO at digital payments firm Orwell Group, is an unusual soul. He’s earned the gravitas he emanates from decades in software architecture and technology leadership. There are seven key areas where I see that product managers can benefit from acting techniques. Business is as unpredictable as life itself.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product management requires so many diverse skills that most likely your people are more experienced than you at least in some of them. If the people reporting to you know better how to do their job, what is your role as a manager? It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology.

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

JULY 10, 2018

Two years ago this week, I started work as the first VP of Product Management at NTENT - a company with huge, rapidly growing market, world-famous CTO, seasoned executives and engineering team, and core technology that only a handful of companies in the world possess. We stopped using the system within a month.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 27, 2022

More, while women have been taking more and more jobs among top technology executives, at big U.S. firms, only 18% of chief information officers or chief technology officers are women. In this episode of Inside Intercom, you’ll hear from: Nidhi Kamat , Product Manager.

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Izenda

APRIL 29, 2019

In some organizations, the role of a product manager can be a murky one. Product managers don’t have full authority over all of the aspects that make products a success, such as user and data research, marketing, sales, or support. Here are the core traits of emotional intelligence: Relationship Management.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sachin Rekhi is the founder and CEO of Notejoy , and a prolific blogger on product management. In this Path to PM post, Sachin and I discuss five practical paths to product management. How did you first break into product management? How do I take on that product work or ask for it in the first place?

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Originally trained as a scientist, he’s had job titles ranging from scientist, to engineer, to product manager, to designer, and even professor. He has recently served as the Head of Product & Experience at Workbar, Chief Design Strategist at Fresh Tilled Soil, and Innovation Architect at Constant Contact.

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Modus Create

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Communicating the impact of technical debt in business terms makes it visible, which helps stakeholders prioritize issues on the product roadmap. . Align Technology & Product Roadmaps. provides an elegant way to look at both technology and product roadmaps — they are two sides of the same coin. Our partner Aha!

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