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Cross-Functional Collaboration: The Product Leader’s Hidden Superpower

BrainMates

To execute this initiative, multiple teams must collaborate from concept to launch: Product Management The product manager aligns the team on goals, scope, and success metrics for the freemium launch. Marketing Team Marketing develops positioning and messaging for the new freemium experience.

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What Pixar Knows about Motivating Stakeholders (and What it Means for Your Product Roadmap)

Revulytics

A few members of our Marketing team recently attended HubSpot’s Inbound 2017 conference in Boston, one of the year’s largest events for marketing professionals. As product managers, much of our role involves evangelizing our product roadmaps to people outside of our immediate team.

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Product Manager: Seeking Help

The Product Guy

This article highlights a few ways to increase clarity and provide better role definition between a manager and a direct report as it pertains to daily situations involving escalations, blockers, and air cover. Given the split responsibility between manager and direct report, alignment and effective communication in these situations is key.

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How to Give Your Product Managers Negative Feedback (Part 1)

The Product Coalition

Product management requires you to master so many different skills, that there always seems to be a gap between what you do well and what you need to do well to succeed. As a manager of product people, it is your job to help them with this continuous growth, but it’s not always easy. The answer is, of course, yes?—?most

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Is There an OVer-Qualified Product Manager?

Ask Benny

A product manager's primary responsibility is to ensure the value and viability of the product Recently, I came across an insightful episode on Lenny’s Podcast featuring an interview with Marty Cagan from SVPG , titled " Product Management Theater."

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430: How changes in marketing are influencing products – with Ali Plonchak 

Product Innovation Educators

Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [5:53] What is the definition or purpose of marketing? Consumers are starting to recognize the societal impact media can have on consumers—positive or negative. How can we use media to deliver positive actions? How can we think about using media for good?

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The Activities of a Strategic Product Manager

ProductPlan

A strategic product manager (PM) is responsible for shaping and sharing a strategic vision for a product, and yet—oddly enough—finding time for strategic activities can be a very real challenge. So, how does a product manager take ownership of more than just backlog management? Product Vision.