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Going from College to Product Manager

The Product Guy

I discovered that I must research and understand the entire system and process, problem solve with my team, and share lessons learned. This was due to incorrect contribution amounts, the system not finding an account, or invalid employer data. These system errors increased our backlog and costs, and delayed enrollments.

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520: The future of AI in product management – with Mike Todasco

Product Innovation Educators

He explains that their approach to innovation deliberately avoided the common pitfall of creating a two-tiered system where only designated “innovators” were responsible for new ideas. Creating an Inclusive Innovation Environment The foundation of PayPal’s innovation success rested on a culture of trust and autonomy.

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In Pursuit of the Checkered Flag: The Challenge of Developing a Driverless Race Car System

Product Management Unpacked

CMU Master of Science in Product Management program student Erick Valencia landed a PM experience of a lifetime as part of a student team developing a driverless race car system to race in the Indy Autonomous Challenge. As a business engineer, just like a Product Manager, you’re trained to perform different key roles in an organization.”.

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529: Is this the best AI-powered market research approach? – with Carmel Dibner

Product Innovation Educators

An AI system, properly implemented, doesn’t have these same motivationsit simply reports what it finds in the data. This discovery challenged a common assumption that machines would struggle with the emotional aspects of customer research due to their lack of human empathy.

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There is No Perfect Roadmap

The Product Guy

In reality, due to rapidly changing consumer preferences and shifting stakeholder priorities, roadmaps need to be one of the most fluid, unreliable, and ambiguous tools to clean up the stakeholder communication mess. The end goal here is to train stakeholders to go to the roadmap destination for information. It makes sense.

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Understanding Product Management

The Product Guy

Often, this is due to resource constraints rather than a lack of understanding of a PM role. Mushrooming of training sessions and certifications on PM reflects the situation quite well. . This could be due to lack of product, domain, system understanding and action should be taken to address such instances soon.

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Design System Governance Models

UX Planet

Image by Cody Cai Design system governance models help organizations manage and maintain design systems across teams and products. There are three popular models —  Solitary , Centralized , and Federated  — each offer different approaches to how design systems are governed within an organization. Image by Nathan Curtis.