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What Skills Does a Product Manager Need?

BrainStation Product Management

BrainStation offers Online Live Certificate Courses in data, design, development, marketing, and product management. Speak to a Learning Advisor. Personal Skills Are Essential for Product Managers. Technical Skills for Product Management. I have never successfully trained empathy, so you have to hire for it.”.

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What Skills Does a Product Manager Need?

BrainStation Product Management

“What I wish somebody had told me when I started working as a Product Manager is: ‘Don’t be a hero,’” wrote Matt LeMay, Partner at Sudden Compass. Self-styled ‘visionary’ Product Managers are dangerous – which is why I advise against hiring PM candidates who fire off (Steve Jobs) quotes during job interviews.

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Product Discovery at Scale

The Product Coalition

The main phases of product discovery are: 1. Challenge definition A challenge could be responding to customer feedback, introducing a proposition, or overcoming a technical problem. This is likely to involve both design and technical details. How does product discovery work?

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Product Managing the Cloud with Hemanth Kempanna

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

While there are lots of content out there advising on this subject, I would just like to call out one thing which I believe has helped me time and again: having empathy towards my interviewer. While some encourage you to fake it till you make it, I would advise against it during the interview process. During the interview.