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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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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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Why we never hired a designer

UX Planet

At this point, the designer’s job starts to feel more like either engineering — where we assist developers in mapping user interfaces — or product management, where we contribute to shaping the roadmap through user research. To mitigate these side effects, a product design process should be established.

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Taking Product Management Around the World

The Product Guy

Product Owner @ Happy Money (Costa Mesa, CA or New York, NY). Keywords: consumer, fintech, product owner, startup. Product Manager @ Hostmaker (London, UK, EU, Remote, Requires right to work in the EU). Paktor – Web Developer (Open to Remote) @ Paktor Pte Ltd (Open to Remote).

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How to get into product management with ‘the wrong’ background.

The Product Coalition

Strategies for switching into a product management role when you don’t fit the cookie cutter qualifications. Getting into product when you’ve already started your career Product management requires, above anything else, good judgment. It shouldn’t be a prerequisite for product management jobs either.

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A New Approach for Defining the Product Manager Role

BrainMates

A New Approach for Defining the Product Manager Role By JANA PAULECH The problem of product manager role clarity is (almost) as old as the title of product manager. Yet, it still remains the most common complaint amongst the product teams that we speak to daily. No wonder our teams are confused!

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Transition from Web Developer to Product Manager

All About Product Management

People often ask the question – How do I to get into Product Management [from being a software engineer, project manager, business analyst etc…]. Patrick Jolley is a case in point of a web developer who recognised an opportunity to move into Product Management and took it.