Mind the Product
JANUARY 25, 2020
In this MTP Engage Manchester talk, Mayukh Bhaowal, Director of Product Management at Salesforce Einstein , takes us through how product managers must adjust in the era of artificial intelligence and what they must do to build successful AI products. Mayukh outlines five new skillsets that product managers must acquire. Problem Mapping. Data is the New UI.
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JANUARY 25, 2020
When your product is your team. Your Team is Your Product One of the hardest things for a VP Product to do, as the team of product managers under his lead grows, is to release control. As a VP Product, you need to trust your product managers to make the right decisions. You need to empower them. One of the best ways to do it is to understand that your product is no longer “the product”.
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JANUARY 25, 2020
Make sure your tools are optimized. As product managers, we focus on many things including strategy, execution and mostly connecting strategy and execution. When it gets to development culture many product managers feel it is not their problem because it is the domain of the VP R&D. While this is true, I do not think that as product managers we can ignore the development culture.
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JANUARY 25, 2020
Why should product managers involve themselves with prioritizing technical debt? When it comes to technical debt many product managers do not like to get involved. They see it totally as the domain of the development. Most of the developers also do not want product managers involved in technical debt decisions because they feel that product managers care only about features.
Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science
Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.
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JANUARY 25, 2020
Free your time to be more strategic Requirements are overrated In Are Requirements Overrated and Your Role is not to Write Requirements I explained why writing requirements should be a minimal task. I talked about 3 major reasons why it is good for everyone: Your time is valuable. Every minute you spend in perfecting the details of a solution, for a problem you already know you need to solve, is a time you don’t spend trying to find the next one.
Product Management Today brings together the best content for product management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
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JANUARY 25, 2020
When people forget the goal and focus on the method. Too many times people confuse agile and scrum. Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is just one of the software development frameworks that implement agile and there are many others including Kanban, extreme programming, lean software development and more.
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JANUARY 25, 2020
How to effectively build and manage your roadmap and your stakeholders’ expectations. The Roadmap Challenge I recently participated in a meetup of very experienced product management leaders arranged by ProductX. We discussed roadmaps and the challenges surrounding them. Even though all of these product managers have years of experience it seemed like the challenge is still fresh as in their first days.
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JANUARY 25, 2020
What I Learned from a Year of Product Management Blogging. Write your Passion. There are many reasons why people start writing blogs. The most common is the need to promote a business. In my blog, this was not the case. I started writing a blog about a year ago in order to express my thoughts. I noticed that when I mentor or consult people, I often repeat the same concepts, so I thought it may be good to put that out to the world.
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JANUARY 25, 2020
Take control of your career by interviewing your employer. Many have written about what qualities they are looking for in a product manager and how they recruit them. I promise to write my own take on this at some point. This time I want to take another angle. When I mentor product managers or talk with my colleagues, many times their greatest challenge is that the culture of their company ties their hands.
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JANUARY 25, 2020
When people forget the goal and focus on the method. Too many times people confuse agile and scrum. Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is just one of the software development frameworks that implement agile and there are many others including Kanban, extreme programming, lean software development and more.
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JANUARY 25, 2020
Why product managers should be an all-in-one deal and should be involved in everything (sales, marketing, support, etc). Should you split between inbound and outbound product managers? Or should a product manager be “full spectrum”? Inbound vs Outbound (PM vs PO). Sometimes companies split product management between outbound product managers that understand the market and discuss needs with customers and inbound product managers that understand the product and discuss requirements with engineeri
Ask Benny
JANUARY 25, 2020
When your product is your team. Your Team is Your Product. One of the hardest things for a VP Product to do, as the team of product managers under his lead grows, is to release control. As a VP Product, you need to trust your product managers to make the right decisions. You need to empower them. One of the best ways to do it is to understand that your product is no longer “the product”.
Ask Benny
JANUARY 25, 2020
Make sure your tools are optimized. As product managers, we focus on many things including strategy, execution and mostly connecting strategy and execution. When it gets to development culture many product managers feel it is not their problem because it is the domain of the VP R&D. While this is true, I do not think that as product managers we can ignore the development culture.
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The product management job market in 2024 reflects the fast-growing and ever-evolving nature of the field. For product managers looking to future-proof their careers and take advantage of new opportunities, staying informed about the professional landscape is a smart move. In this comprehensive career guide from Regis College, you’ll learn about: The current job outlook for product managers in 2024 Six professional pathways and the average salaries for these roles in the U.S.
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JANUARY 25, 2020
Why should product managers involve themselves with prioritizing technical debt? When it comes to technical debt many product managers do not like to get involved. They see it totally as the domain of the development. Most of the developers also do not want product managers involved in technical debt decisions because they feel that product managers care only about features.
Ask Benny
JANUARY 25, 2020
Free your time to be more strategic Requirements are overrated. In Are Requirements Overrated and Your Role is not to Write Requirements I explained why writing requirements should be a minimal task. I talked about 3 major reasons why it is good for everyone: Your time is valuable. Every minute you spend in perfecting the details of a solution, for a problem you already know you need to solve, is a time you don’t spend trying to find the next one.
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JANUARY 25, 2020
, Step by step product management mentoring. In. Many of the below sections appeared first in. , What should you self-commit to, before mentoring? (and why!). , Appeared first in. Being a mentor is not just a nice enhancement to your skills and activities on your CV. It is a commitment. You practically promise someone else that you are going to help them in both their career and self-development process.
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JANUARY 25, 2020
, How to effectively build and manage your roadmap and your stakeholders’ expectations. ,, The Roadmap Challenge. I recently participated in a meetup of very experienced product management leaders arranged by. The major reason for this challenge is that the roadmap is not just a tool for a product manager to properly plan. The discussion around the roadmap is an opportunity for the whole organization to influence the product and what is going to be implemented.
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
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JANUARY 25, 2020
, What I Learned from a Year of Product Management Blogging. ,, Write your Passion. There are many reasons why people start writing blogs. The most common is the need to promote a business. In my blog, this was not the case. I started writing a blog about a year ago in order to express my thoughts. I noticed that when I mentor or consult people, I often repeat the same concepts, so I thought it may be good to put that out to the world.
Ask Benny
JANUARY 25, 2020
, Take control of your career by interviewing your employer. Many have written about what qualities they are looking for in a product manager and how they recruit them. I promise to write my own take on this at some point. This time I want to take another angle. When I mentor product managers or talk with my colleagues, many times their greatest challenge is that the culture of their company ties their hands.
Ask Benny
JANUARY 25, 2020
, When people forget the goal and focus on the method. Too many times people confuse agile and scrum. Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is just one of the software development frameworks that implement agile and there are many others including Kanban, extreme programming, lean software development and more.
Ask Benny
JANUARY 25, 2020
, Why product managers should be an all-in-one deal and should be involved in everything (sales, marketing, support, etc). Should you split between inbound and outbound product managers? Or should a product manager be “full spectrum”? , Inbound vs Outbound (PM vs PO). Sometimes companies split product management between outbound product managers that understand the market and discuss needs with customers and inbound product managers that understand the product and discuss requirements with engin
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JANUARY 25, 2020
, When your product is your team. , Your Team is Your Product. One of the hardest things for a VP Product to do, as the team of product managers under his lead grows, is to release control. As a VP Product, you need to trust your product managers to make the right decisions. You need to empower them. One of the best ways to do it is to understand that your product is no longer “the product”.
Ask Benny
JANUARY 25, 2020
, Make sure your tools are optimized. As product managers, we focus on many things including strategy, execution and mostly connecting strategy and execution. When it gets to development culture many product managers feel it is not their problem because it is the domain of the VP R&D. While this is true, I do not think that as product managers we can ignore the development culture.
Ask Benny
JANUARY 25, 2020
, Why should product managers involve themselves with prioritizing technical debt? When it comes to technical debt many product managers do not like to get involved. They see it totally as the domain of the development. Most of the developers also do not want product managers involved in technical debt decisions because they feel that product managers care only about features.
Ask Benny
JANUARY 25, 2020
, Free your time to be more strategic Requirements are overrated. In. Your time is valuable. Every minute you spend in perfecting the details of a solution, for a problem you already know you need to solve, is a time you don’t spend trying to find the next one. Smart creatives. In. Escalation of commitments. By writing too much, you may get too attached to the solution.
Traditional PM struggles with the complexities of platform ecosystems. B-MAP framework tackles this challenge. B-MAP goes beyond features, focusing on building, managing, adapting, and partnering to foster a thriving platform ecosystem.
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JANUARY 25, 2020
Consider your stakeholders as valuable resources rather than obstacles you need to overcome. Let's Start with a Story A colleague product manager told me a story. She was launching a big change to a product that she was working on for several months, and when she talked with the product marketing manager he had a lot of concerns and demanded that she delayed the launch.
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JANUARY 25, 2020
How to build a roadmap while staying agile and lean, and why so many product teams do agile wrong. Bottom to Top Agile In many companies that make a transition to agile, the move is initiated by engineering, which is focused on execution and efficiency. The rest of the company (product management, project management, sales, executive team, marketing) might be left behind or only be partly included.
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JANUARY 25, 2020
The importance of soft skills. The Technical Product Manager Junior product managers usually focus their learning on the technical aspects of the profession:· Are my requirements the best?· How should I conduct competitive analysis?· How should I price my product?· Is my writing good enough?· … Product management courses usually focus on the same things.
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