Product Management Unpacked

AUGUST 15, 2019

Product managers work at the intersection of three key professional groups: Those who build the product – engineers or computer scientists. The event attracts product managers, product marketing professionals, designers, founders, engineers and researchers looking to make connections with top minds in the local product community.

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Product Management Unpacked

MAY 27, 2021

After nine years working as a systems engineer, applications engineer, software engineer and finally, a lead data engineer, Debashish Sasmal was ready for his next strategic move. I’d worked for a startup in Hyderabad, India where everyone had to wear different hats,“ recalls Debashish. “I

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Product Management Unpacked

JUNE 23, 2020

You’re not an engineer. Grone has a Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering and an MBA with a concentration in Management in Information Systems from the University of Pittsburgh, and a history of working in a variety of IT roles. These products make it easier for companies to bounce back after encountering big problems.

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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 9, 2020

You’re trying to show them how to think critically, and how to make trade-offs, and how to challenge engineers or challenge design in the right way.”. They could do the work that I was doing, but then they had a team of engineers build a solution, where my deliverable or my product was a PowerPoint and it felt pretty shallow.”

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Product Management Unpacked

DECEMBER 21, 2021

They were action-oriented, not theoreticians,” he says of those effective product managers, in contrast to “desk engineers,” a derogatory term for those trying to solve problems without going to the source. All you have to do is ask the person what is causing their frustration,” he adds.

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Product Management Unpacked

MARCH 26, 2020

According to a ZDNET article, “as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities are designed into new products and services, product managers need to enhance their skills in order to develop and provide functional requirements and AI-powered specifications to data engineering and data science teams.”.

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Product Management Unpacked

MARCH 5, 2019

Feature selection in this area would be focused on prospects (those who have yet to purchase) and engineering/development areas. Engineering and developmental changes can occur in different stages of a product’s lifecycle, but those changes need to be made with keen awareness to either situation.

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Product Management Unpacked

APRIL 3, 2020

The job of a product manager has many elements, but at its core is a responsibility to build relationships, especially with development, engineering, sales and sales leadership, as well as executive management. In this post, I focus on the first one: trust.

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Product Management Unpacked

AUGUST 8, 2018

Product management under engineering is also a disaster. I believe that an effective product management organization defines ‘WHAT’ the product is or will do and engineering /development defines ‘HOW’ it will do it. Together they decide when, based on resources, strategy, etc.

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Product Management Unpacked

AUGUST 17, 2018

No, you don’t have to be a software engineer. But when a software engineer tells you something, it helps if you can do more than nod your head and pretend to understand. The skill sets you need: Have you got what it takes? You must have technical know-how. You must have a keen business sense.

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Product Management Unpacked

APRIL 25, 2019

In my experience, start with core constituents – your immediate team, leaders of development/engineering, sales, followed by top customers. Through this process, the new senior executive built trust. Who should you start with? Add visiting prospects by going out on sales calls.

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Product Management Unpacked

JUNE 21, 2021

Today, as a Product Manager on the Platform Team, Pranita works with engineering, UX, data science and other teams who want to leverage the platform to improve customer vision and provide a seamless experience. “I She’s taken something that’s very technically complex and demystified it for the organization with flying colors.

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Product Management Unpacked

JANUARY 28, 2019

For Marie-Pierre Belanger, VP Digital Solutions Product Management at Pitney Bowes, this meant pursuing a Master’s degree in UI/X to complement her electrical engineering background. Marissa Mayer found this through an interdisciplinary undergraduate degree – she has a B.S. Product management is a cross-functional discipline.

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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 19, 2018

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best product managers create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry.”. I couldn’t agree more.

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