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In Scope for My Role?

Mironov Consulting

  Out of scope means they can advise, counsel, suggest, offer to help… but don’t own the decision/action.  Let’s imagine a Director of Product responsible for a portfolio, with 5 product manager direct reports matched to 5 stable maker teams.    With lots of gray space between the two.

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How to be a Great Product Manager According to Experts at Dropbox, Stripe, and Concur

Alchemer Mobile

How deep does your understanding of the technology go as a PM? And how much do you try to be, like, a subject matter expert from a technological standpoint compared to your engineering team? How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? I’m a product manager at Stripe.

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How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers

Department of Product

How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers Decide when to care about trends and when to sit back and watch what happens next Trends and the product lifecycle Imagine your product strategy stayed exactly the same for the next 10 years. What would happen? It’s impossible for one person to do. And not all trends matter.

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The Making of Product Managers: Negar’s Story

The Product Coalition

This is a free sample story from my book The Making of Product Managers. Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. After attending a web development boot camp and working as a web developer at a small startup, she got the opportunity to become a product manager.

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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. Workplace skills: Critical thinking, project management, and communication skills. Sometimes, you may also need to report to senior management to justify your recommendations.

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“Build What Matters” Framework for Startups

The Product Coalition

In due course, the startups need to invest a good amount of time in organizing the strategy and roadmap to track the product performance to get an early product-market fit and scalability. Defining strategy takes time and should be reviewed multiple times. Pro Tips: Invest a good time in brainstorming to get the vision done.

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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. After all, many product managers tend to treat a strategy as something that’s scared and driven top-down from the executive management level. Journey Into the World of Strategy.