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“Software eating the world” creates a growing need to educate product managers.

Product Management Unpacked

Digital transformation impacts almost everything, so the demand for product management continues to increase – every day. When I started in product management in the mid-1980s, most product managers were hired to work in traditional B2C businesses, which is where the idea of product management originated.

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2021 Engagement Benchmarks for Education Apps

Alchemer Mobile

Education was one of the hardest hit industries in 2020. Quick transitions to remote learning, usage and integration hurdles, lack of funding for new tech, and massive fluctuations in MAU all played a role in delivering a challenging year for educators and education technology across the country. Let’s start with the bad.

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Let’s Educate Our Readers: The Medium Boost Program

The Product Coalition

Do you write stories to educate others, or to promote yourself? Continue reading on Product Coalition »

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Why Market Leadership Starts With Product Management

Product Management University

But products are the nucleus, and that means market leadership starts with product management. There are the obvious things product management does. I want to focus on the responsibilities of B2B product management that don’t get much airtime. To some product managers, market is synonymous with users.

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Product Design & Customer Experience: An Innovative View on Inclusive Product Development

Speaker: Dan Jenkins - Human Factors & Research Lead – DCA Design International

It is a philosophy that encourages us to consider how size, shape, age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, education levels, income, spoken languages, culture and customs, and even diets shape the way we interact with the world. More importantly, it is about designing products and services in light of this understanding.

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Elevating Product Management: Insights from the Latest Global Benchmark

280 Group

In the ever-evolving world of product management, staying ahead means constantly honing your skills and understanding the landscape around you. Our Global Product Management Skills survey, now in its third edition, is a resource for product professionals seeking to gauge their expertise against global standards.

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3 Ways To Educate the Market That Actually Work

The Product Coalition

Everyone knows educating the market is hard to nearly impossible, but people always bring up examples like Facebook or the iPhone whenever I discuss it in my lectures. So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market? It’s all about what you want to educate them on. So who is right? Let’s start from the beginning.

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PM Development: How Product People Continue to Learn

Speaker: Greg Coticchia - CEO, Sopheon

With all the technological improvements relevant to product management, there is an increasing need to educate new product managers as well as upgrade the abilities of experienced professionals. Product managers are still predominantly trained on the job.

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How Can We Stop Under Utilizing a Key User Experience Champion?

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

Customer representation has always been a key reason for success in product development. It’s a truth universally acknowledged by the best product managers. Despite this, those building the product itself are often detached from their customers, leading to a gap between vision and execution on the most practical metrics.