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The one thing every product manager should do is…

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: Eric Kiang (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Paul Hurwitz]. A product manager has a tough role, there are many responsibilities and arguably all of them are important. However there is one thing every product manager must do, but often times it gets overlooked or forgotten. A product manager needs to talk to their customers, period.

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Five Differences Between a Junior PM and a Senior PM

Clever PM

Even though it’s been around as a formal role in software organizations for nearly 20 years (or more, depending on who you talk to), Product Management still struggles with a lot of definition problems — what is the role, how do we grow, when do we get promoted and to where, etc. One of the […].

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Building products in distributed teams: 12 learnings from our first meetup in SF

Miro

Building products in distributed teams: 12 learnings from our first meetup in SF Reshaping Teamwork: Building & Scaling Products with Distributed Teams San FranciscoJune 20 On June 21, we hosted the first-ever “Reshaping teamwork” meetup in San Francisco. Together with our guests Eventbrite’s Pete Lim, Upwork’s Jessica Tiwari and Pivotal’s Aloka Penmetcha, we talked about building products in […].

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Product Warrior Podcast: Tristan Kromer on how to Help the Team Embrace Lean

Mind the Product

This week’s Product Warrior podcast, supported by Mind The Product, discusses the concept of the Lean methodology and helping teams adopt an experimental approach. Silicon Valley Lean startup coach Tristan Kromer helps product teams to move fast through experimentation. He writes articles and e-books at [link]. In this episode I chat with Tristan about: What is Lean?

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Product Management Careers: Job Prospects, Pathways, and Must-Have Skills (2024)

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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A Horrible Pricing Story

Pragmatic Marketing

Here is a reader story about horrible pricing. Unfortunately this is far too common. I thought you might appreciate my recent foray into a pricing battle with my horse boarding facility. A lady lives on and owns a gorgeous horse farm. She agreed to let me board my horses for $250 month per horse. The barn is basic, not fancy and with no other amenities other than a sand arena, so that was a fair price.

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A Horrible Pricing Story

Pragmatic Marketing

Here is a reader story about horrible pricing. Unfortunately this is far too common. I thought you might appreciate my recent foray into a pricing battle with my horse boarding facility. A lady lives on and owns a gorgeous horse farm. She agreed to let me board my horses for $250 month per horse. The barn is basic, not fancy and with no other amenities other than a sand arena, so that was a fair price.

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Who Should Be Responsible for Customer Research?

ProductCraft Debates

One of the great insights of psychology research is that the way we ask a question has significant bearing on the way people will respond, and therefore on the kind of data we’re likely to collect. Seeing the response to our poll question this week has revealed to us how true that is, and also. The post Who Should Be Responsible for Customer Research?

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Why It’s Important to Provide Social Media Support to Customers

TSIA

Several times in my career I have had the pleasure of working with people who I already knew and respected in the industry. Today I’m bringing you a blog interview with TSIA’s newest research director, Tim Lopez, whom many of you may already know from his work at Symantec, as well as his many presentations at Technology & Services World.

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productboard Raises $8 Million Series A Led by Kleiner Perkins to Help Product Managers Get The Right Products to Market Faster

ProductBoard

San Francisco — July 12, 2018 — productboard, the leading product excellence system today announced it has raised $8 million in Series A financing led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from previous Seed investors – Index Ventures, Credo Ventures, Reflex Capital, and Rockaway Capital. Also joining the round as strategic angels are respected SaaS industry leaders Eoghan McCabe & Des.

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From Developer Experience to Product Experience: How a Shared Focus Fuels Product Success

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

As a concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry. It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. As product managers, we need to understand how a good DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction.

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Humanity in the Machine Age

dscout People Nerds

Amnesty International’s Sherif Elsayed-Ali on the future of being human and human rights. .

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Elad Gil on catapulting into hyper growth

Intercom, Inc.

As VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter, Elad Gil was a key player as company headcount skyrocketed from 90 to 1,500 employees. This wasn’t Elad’s first experience with hyper growth – Google grew headcount 10x during his time as a product manager there – nor the last. He’s also co-founded Color Genomics and invested in and been an adviser to companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Instacart, Square, Stripe and more.