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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.

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The Path Beyond CSM

Gainsight

While it requires more of a technical background, as a CSM, you come with the perspective of knowing the customer’s needs and goals. With this role, you need deep knowledge of the product , service, or technology that your company offers. You can better advise on valid customer pain points.

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GDPR: Who Should be Your Data Protection Officer?

Mind the Product

TalkTalk was fined £400,000 in 2016 for failing to have appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to secure its customers’ personal data, and for keeping their personal data for longer than necessary. Likewise your privacy policies and data protection policies may need to be reviewed.

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Product Love Podcast: Steve Johnson, author of Under10 Playbook

ProductCraft

When his boss noticed his performance, he was asked to train everyone on the team, which ultimately landed him a product manager position. Years later, he created another playbook, this time for creating products, with the mantra that if you can’t do it in under ten steps, you’re making it too hard. . Privacy Policy.

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5 Ways the Product Community Can Inspire the World

Modus Create

One technique we use here at Modus and we advise for is the featureless roadmap – it helps teams to concentrate on objectives and outcomes rather than create granular pieces of deliverables that don’t fit together. In the last few years we saw many companies operating under the mentality that “working from home is not our policy”.

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TEI 085: Managing product teams – with Todd Dewett, PhD - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Product managers often work in diverse teams and need good team management skills to be successful. To explore managing teams, I invited a frequent keynote speaker and coach who companies invite to teach them about improving teams and their work. Practices and Ideas for Product Managers and Innovators.

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Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy

Intercom, Inc.

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.