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Give Time for Opportunities To Present Themselves: Georgie Smallwood’s Lessons Learned

The Product Coalition

Georgie Smallwood According to her LinkedIn post, product is one of her favorite topics to discuss, and in light of the past few pandemic years, she admits that it has been quite the product leadership learning experience. I came in as a campaign manager, media coordinator, and I just grew in that leadership role because we were scaling.

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Five Under-Appreciated Aspects of Product Leadership

The Product Coalition

Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership.

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Product Analyst: Responsibilities, Skills, and Requirements

Userpilot

A product analyst needs to have the following skillsets: Technical skills: data analysis , data visualization, statistical analysis, and technical tools. But aspiring students are advised to study the following under a bachelor’s degree – business management, statistics, economics, or computer science.

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. I hosted Nick on the podcast, where we discussed the differences between management and leadership, fostering diversity in tech, and more.

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I’ve abandoned “MVP”

Mironov Consulting

After years of struggle, I’m advising all of my clients and product leader coachees to stop using the term “MVP”. Not to stop doing validation, discovery, prototyping or experiments they may associate that that acronym, but to remove the label from all of their docs and presentations and talks. Technical beta test” ( NON-REVENUE ).

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The Making of Product Managers: Negar’s Story

The Product Coalition

Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. She had many ideas about how to improve marketing tactics but did not have the technical skills to either make the necessary changes on the web or create better solutions using technology. Unfortunately, there were none.

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How To Break Into Product Management—Sachin Rekhi

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

First off, product management is very communication and leadership oriented. In terms of demonstrating leadership, look to your extracurricular activities. It ended up being a great way to practice debate and leadership in many ways. There’s also your previous work experience, and how you present it. What’s your take?