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

Department of Product

It is extremely difficult (and probably not advisable) to attempt to stay on top of all trends. It’s impossible for one person to do. And not all trends matter. For product people, we’re mostly interested in trends which impact the 3 core skill areas of product management: Technology Business Design So let’s tackle each of these separately.

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

Alchemer Mobile

How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? I’ve been kind of actively running away from management roles, and mostly that’s just a factor of the things that I really wanna learn or I just really wanna learn how to be a really, like, kick-ass technical PM. So that’s me.

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71 Scrum Product Owner Interview Questions (2)

The Product Coalition

For example, institute regular meetings with each stakeholder or have stakeholders name product ambassadors, who then act as “liaison officers” and train them accordingly. Sprint Reviews and user interviews are also well suited to improve collaboration and communication over time. How do you communicate with uncooperative stakeholders?

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Proven Sales Playbooks are BS — Paul Kenny Explains

Business of Software Conference

Our CRM system can prompt the team to make the optimum number of calls, to follow up efficiently and to be better at predicting call or demo outcomes. The range of blueprints alone suggests that we should all be cautious about buying into one system or another. One proven sales playbook, system or process simply cannot fit all models.

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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. For example if a customer is refused insurance by an automated system they can call and ask for a manual review.

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13 Best Product Management Books to Read in 2021 – Product Manager Must-Reads

Userpilot

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Challenges of transitioning from a non-technical background. She’s the CEO of Produx Labs, a product management training organization. Recruiting users for discovery interviews.

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Lessons from GitLab: Implementing Customer Success Operations At Scale

Gainsight

GitLab is an open-source, code-collaboration platform for git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, wikis, and continuous deployment tools, enabling users to create, review, and deploy codes. Systems enablement. Today, we’re talking to Jeff Beaumont from GitLab. Operational reporting.