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All I know is coding. Can I become a Product Manager?

B2B Product Management

Finance), you can also contribute to high-tech Product Management, although the focus will be much different. The Outbound PM role : As an outbound PM, you do the market research. You identify the target market, the market size, you build out the initial vision of the product. You lead the overall Go-to-market effort.

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Managing Manufactured Products: Growth and Decline

Mind the Product

In this final post in my series on managing manufactured products I examine the specific touch points that exist between the operations, engineering, and finance functions when managing the lifecycle of manufactured products. Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP). You can read the earlier posts in this series here , here and here.

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The Seven-Part Guide to Portfolio Product Management & Marketing

Product Management University

This guide to portfolio product management and marketing answers the following seven questions. How Does Portfolio Product Management Impact Product Marketing? Structure product management/marketing so that their market knowledge is stronger than all other disciplines combined. Vertical Market Segmentation.

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Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams

Mironov Consulting

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and the go-to-market side (sales, marketing, customer success) of tech firms, especially at B2B/enterprise software companies.  That  (See the chocolate cake problem.)

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The Great Silence

The Product Coalition

They rarely focus on testing ideas through experimentation, finding market opportunities or learning what customers want, but instead, drown in bureaucratic meetings, arguing with stakeholders (instead of actually engaging in meaningful dialogue with them) and justifying backlog decisions (instead of reporting on outcomes from those choices).

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It’s time to get your Ph.D. in Sales Comp

Product Beautiful

At this point, we needed to get educated (quickly) on how Sales at this company was motivated. Our next stop was Finance. We scheduled a meeting with someone that Finance identified as the “Genie of Sales Compensation.”

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Rules & Tools For Scaling Software Sales | Stephen Allott, Seedcamp| BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

Secondly you’ve got to pick the markets to target. Third you’ve got to design sales territories. or you’re going to go into English speaking markets around the world like the US and other Commonwealth countries or you’re going to go to Europe or South America. So how do you pick your markets to focus on?