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What Skills Does a Product Manager Need?

BrainStation Product Management

Speak to a Learning Advisor. 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. Technical Skills for Product Management. Attend live classes and interact with Instructors and peers from anywhere in the world.

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What Skills Does a Product Manager Need?

BrainStation Product Management

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. 71 percent of Product Managers reported participating in workshops, roughly 65 percent in both online and in-person courses, and 55 percent in webinars.

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Interactive Walkthroughs in 2021: The Ultimate Guide for SaaS

Userpilot

An interactive walkthrough is a step-by-step, interactive guide to your product that will ultimately lead your users to activation. That’s why we often advise SaaS companies to segment users prior to their walkthrough, to make sure that customers only see features during their walkthrough that make sense for their individual use case.

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How to Hire a Great Product Manager

BrainStation Product Management

Speak to a Learning Advisor. Product Management is fundamentally a white space role, so the skills you need will depend on what skills you already have and what your company does,” advised Jackie Bavaro, Head of Product Management at Asana. Do Some Soul-Searching. PMs do best when the team they’re joining really wants them there.”.

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Take a Peloton Ride with Amy Bunszel, SVP of Design and Creation Products at Autodesk

Gainsight

We will share the lessons here but also encourage you to sign up for the live webinar series here. . It is a stationary bike system built with a large screen at the front, enabling users to live stream or follow on-demand workouts at home. What kind of experience we should deliver.” The Peloton Experience.

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How to Hire a Great Product Manager

BrainStation Product Management

“Product Management is fundamentally a white space role, so the skills you need will depend on what skills you already have and what your company does,” advised Jackie Bavaro, Head of Product Management at Asana. Perhaps you need someone with an uncanny design eye, or razor-sharp technical skills, or deep experience in analytics?

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7 Tips for Liberating Actionable Insights

Userzoom

I know, I know – it’s not the technical definition, but this has served me well for 2 decades. Pick what and how you measure User Experience as part of your research efforts and try hard to connect it to a key measurable indicator that the larger org is focused on. Insights : “Tell me something I don’t know.”