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A foundational business education. Speaking of business, a business education can help shape those goals. The Path to Product Management. By John Zilch – I recently stumbled across a thought-provoking question posted on the Boston Product Management Association group page. MORE
Ellen Chisa has an educational background in engineering and is currently working on her MBA at Harvard Business School. Where a product manager’s skill set lies depends largely on their educational and/or professional background. MORE
Their mission is to help every student realize their full potential through the best fit education their money can buy. Josh McWilliam is a co-founder and Vice President of Product at College Factual. MORE
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4. Communicate & Educate. Now that we have the specifics — the top 3, 5 or 10 things that make healthcare so expensive and why they exist — it’s time to educate and communicate in a language all Americans understand. Put all your political leanings aside. This is about pure, practical, common-sense, good old-fashioned problem solving skills and how they lead to great solutions! MORE
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You had your education, that lasted until you were ready for your career, then you got a job, and you worked, and then you retired. It was very serial in its nature, with distinct phases, and it was assumed that if your time in your career required education, it was provided, and you were encouraged to take it. The convergence of technology to make it all work, to help educate the workforce, giving them options that just a few years ago seemed fantastic. Datestamp: 11/8/2016. MORE
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That’s OK – you can attend many of the educational and networking programs that these organizations run each year. Contributed by Steve Robins. The Boston area may just be the best place to be a product manager today. Here’s why. Reason #1: Boston is an Innovation Hub. MORE
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It begins with those same three areas: First, we need to educate the leadership team. One of my all-time favorite quotes in our industry comes by way of the legendary VC, John Doerr , where he argues that "we need teams of missionaries, not teams of mercenaries.” ” This point captures so much, and gets right to the heart of the most important trait of strong leaders, strong organizations, and strong product teams. This is not hard to spot, either way. MORE
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Through talks and discussions with expo exhibitors, I noticed four key challenges the industry faces today: focusing on technology over value, analysis-paralysis in both platforms and security vendors, and the challenge of educating the IoT […].
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Even if your readers are highly educated, they prefer easier-to-read writing. In my Writing Tips for Product Managers post I suggested making your writing more readable. I mentioned a tool I use called Hemingway. It has both a Mac app and an online version.
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Is it the false sense of security that you’re setting yourself up to deliver a list of features based on untested assumptions and educated guesses? Can’t get your boss to part ways with a time-based feature roadmap? Then sell them on the risk.
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Because I did not have the typical background or education, I wasn’t afraid to ask many questions, or find ways to further my understanding of the industry and role.
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Your job is simply to figure out how the car rental companies plan to solve it and why, and educate the surrogate users (and all other disciplines) to ensure the relevant products in your portfolio are properly aimed. Contributed by John Mansour.
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Their mission is to help every student realize their full potential through the best fit education their money can buy. Josh McWilliam is a co-founder and Vice President of Product at College Factual.
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Rosemary King educates us on the importance of involving stakeholders (especially those in senior positions) in the research phases of your products.
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He launched the first Scrum team in 1993 and has shephereded its growth into almost every industry: finance, healthcare, higher education and telecom. Contributed by Ellen Gottesdiener and Jeff Sutherland. Deliver Value Sooner. Backlog refinement prepares your backlog for development.
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Our aim is to make higher education more accessible, flexible and enjoyable than it has ever been and we do this by working with leading universities and educational institutions from all over the world.
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To break out of stagnant processes, and truly motivate a more “bottom up” flow of ideas, I believe corporates need to change their internal structure, and put in place a system where employees are educated, enabled and empowered to think and work in new ways.
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MARCH 9, 2017
Ellen Chisa has an educational background in engineering and is currently working on her MBA at Harvard Business School. Where a product manager’s skill set lies depends largely on their educational and/or professional background.
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I ended up gleaning my self-education from books like Inspired by Marty Cagan, attending developer and design meet-ups, and shadowing other product managers. 7 years ago, I started working at my first tech startup.
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This ‘fail fast’ process is also educational, as you learn how to build better products. What is Dual-Track Agile? Dual-Track Agile is an IT development methodology where figuring out what to build is as important as the building process.
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At this point, we needed to get educated (quickly) on how Sales at this company was motivated. A few years ago, I was working for a large company here in Austin.
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—Peter Drucker, American management consultant, educator, and author. In a well-run organization, each role has a single orientation; they either support [individual] customers or they support the market. It seems most organizations are unclear on roles and responsibilities.
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To illustrate this problem, I want to talk about the work of a landmark educational philosopher, John Dewey. I love that A/B testing has become so popular. It’s an important tool in our toolbox. But it frustrates me that we use it so poorly.
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In some cases, they’re looking for “purple squirrels”—candidates with the perfect combination of skills, education and experience, who will work for peanuts. Adapt this to yourself: For [software vendors in Virginia focused on education].
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JANUARY 21, 2016
When working in these environments we should embrace another responsibility as part of our role: educating and getting people around us to be on board with “the right way” of building products 3.
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For example a “how do I” question means that the customer already knows that something is possible with your product, so it’s not a product marketing or education issue, it’s a user experience issue.
The Product Bistro
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You had your education, that lasted until you were ready for your career, then you got a job, and you worked, and then you retired. It was very serial in its nature, with distinct phases, and it was assumed that if your time in your career required education, it was provided, and you were encouraged to take it. The convergence of technology to make it all work, to help educate the workforce, giving them options that just a few years ago seemed fantastic. Datestamp: 11/8/2016.
Mind the Product
JANUARY 17, 2017
In the spirit of continuing to educate myself as to why consulting works so well for me – and why it may work for you – I’ve done some research into what can bring us fulfilment and happiness at work.
Mind the Product
APRIL 7, 2017
Education with character.
Mind the Product
DECEMBER 28, 2016
Suzie’s post both educates and entertains and is full of practical advice and, as Suzie says, its point is “to empower you and inform you about technical practices that are meant to be business-relevant”.
Mind the Product
MARCH 7, 2017
Belonging, identity and Third Culture Kids: Life histories of former international school students ; Helen Fail, Jeff Thompson and George Walker / Journal of Research in International Education, 2004 3: 319.
Mind the Product
DECEMBER 16, 2016
In this thought-provoking closing keynote from #mtpcon Jeff Veen , design partner at True Ventures and former VP of Design at Adobe, shared how important a creative culture is, how it allows you to build better products, and what organizations need to do to craft that creative culture.
Mind the Product
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Only a low number of respondents work in the health and education sectors, and in not-for-profit companies; most respondents work for a private company or public company. Since 2012, our friends at Mind The Product have done multiple surveys on the facts and figures of the product community.
Product Bookshelf
MARCH 2, 2017
Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) took a close look at who was hiring them do what and discovered that they assumed they were in the business of providing coming-of-age experiences to high school graduates looking for a standard college education.
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These business applications include everything from education, e-commerce, travel, communications, healthcare, job training, and data visualization, to almost anything else you can imagine.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 21, 2017
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DECEMBER 12, 2016
That’s OK – you can attend many of the educational and networking programs that these organizations run each year. Contributed by Steve Robins. The Boston area may just be the best place to be a product manager today. Here’s why. Reason #1: Boston is an Innovation Hub.
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Suzie’s post both educates and entertains and is full of practical advice and, as Suzie says, its point is “to empower you and inform you about technical practices that are meant to be business-relevant”.
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2) Education. (3) Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. . Which of the 3 types of product mangers are you? (1) 1) Builders – the classic product manager. (2)
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4. Communicate & Educate. Now that we have the specifics — the top 3, 5 or 10 things that make healthcare so expensive and why they exist — it’s time to educate and communicate in a language all Americans understand. Put all your political leanings aside. This is about pure, practical, common-sense, good old-fashioned problem solving skills and how they lead to great solutions!
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Educate educate each other. a reciprocal fashion, Engineering should educate Product Management on topics such as new and emerging technologies, making better use of existing technologies, the trials and tribulations of a typical development project and pitfalls to avoid.Bottom line: the better you understand each other, the better you can work together. What are some things we can do to build stronger product management and engineering relationships?
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