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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. As a marketer, she was used to being brought in after a product was already built to market its benefits.

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Reconciling Product Management and Product Leadership

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: Lamia Benhaddou (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Amanda Ralph]. Amanda had 18 years of product management experience and was able to clearly foresee the obstacles I might encounter in my new role. Indeed the role of a product leader is different to that of a product manager.

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Driving Product Priorities with a Stakeholder Roadmap

The Product Guy

They care about your product but they are not going to be the one burning the midnight oil to get the product to launch next week. Internal stakeholders then are the people more directly involved in executing or creating the product. Better Products. Better Product People. About Marc San Luis. Better Decisions.

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How to Become a Product Manager? 3 Tips From PMs + John Fontenot’s Path to Product

Userpilot

The internet is rife with advice on how to become a Product Manager – often written by people who have never worked as a Product Manager themselves. Contents: Why is breaking into the Product Management career path difficult? Tips for becoming a Project Manager John Fontenot’s Path to Product.

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The Product Interview?—?A Technical Exercise

The Product Coalition

A Technical Exercise In this post, I’ll offer my idea of the sort of technical abilities expected from a product manager. This can be highly useful for hiring managers, as well as for PMs planning their roadmap. There’s been so much written, including by myself, about product management interviews.

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9 Common Mistakes to Avoid In Web Design

The Product Coalition

Product Management | Websites Best practices checklist from a Fortune 10 product manager Remember this version of yahoo? Remember how funny the early web was? Are there other common web design mistakes that I missed? But bless them UX designers, we have come a long way.

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Product Accessibility Shouldn’t Be an Afterthought

ProductPlan

I recently attended a presentation by Benjamin Evans, Inclusive Design Lead at Airbnb, on product accessibility and his experience with designing for inclusion. It really got me thinking about how we build products in tech and the inherent biases in product management. The Opposite of Inclusion is Exclusion.