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Is Product Management Certification Worth It?

Productside

For current and aspiring product managers, the question comes up time and again: Is product management certification worth the investment? At Productside, we care deeply about helping product professionals grow in their careers. The post Is Product Management Certification Worth It?

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525: Use Jobs-To-Be-Done to sell more product or to make a better product? – with Chad McAllister, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers use Jobs-To-Be-Done to create products customers love Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I explain the Jobs-To-Be-Done (JTBD) framework, a powerful approach to understanding customer needs and developing successful products. The Classic Milkshake Story McDonald’s wanted to sell more milkshakes.

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Is Product Management Certification Worth It?

Productside

For current and aspiring product managers, the question comes up time and again: Is product management certification worth the investment? At Productside, we care deeply about helping product professionals grow in their careers. The results were clear: certification can accelerate career growth in tangible ways.

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Adopting a Continuous Discovery Mindset Across the Organization

Product Talk

I want to share a little bit more about the work that I am doing there as I think it’s relevant for people working at companies who are starting to adopt continuous discovery practices (in other words, many of you). Students learn the same design process I teach to the product teams that I coach. It will look very familiar to you.

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Building a Research Flywheel: A Helpful Guide for Product Managers & Their Teams

Speaker: Jessica Hall, Product Strategy & Design Leader and Co-Author of The Product Mindset

Every step of the product journey is informed by research: what works, what doesn’t, what customers want, what they need. But no one tool or method can create a thriving research practice for product managers. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours!

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Customer Research 101: The Complete Guide for SaaS

Userpilot

What happens when you build a product or service around what you think potential customers want, only for them to buy something else? But worse than that, it leads to lower revenue, failed products, and plummeting customer loyalty. The solution seems obvious: improve your customer research process. The short answer: yes.

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505: What you don’t know about product innovation limits your influence – with Chad McAllister, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

Questions product managers ask me about how to improve innovation Watch on YouTube TLDR Product managers are pivotal in driving innovation within organizations. By mastering these areas, product managers can improve their skills, boost their influence, and contribute more effectively to their organization’s success.

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How to Increase Your Research Efficiency and Move You From Insights to Action, Faster

Speaker: Michele Ronsen, UX Expert and Founder of Curiosity Tank

Conducting UX Research can often be a daunting task. Often, the most useful tool product managers and researchers can employ is a carefully thought-out approach. Join Michele Ronsen, UX Expert and Founder of Curiosity Tank, for an illuminating conversation on the ins and outs of efficient and effective UX research.

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When Life Gives You Lemons Make PM Lemonade: Surviving Product Management During Crisis

Speaker: Vivek Bedi, Keynote Speaker, Author & Entrepreneur

In fact, the entire way product managers work has completely changed. The work/life balance of PMs is being tested; managing a product team and various roadmaps virtually adds to the list of current challenges. Meanwhile many professionals are exploring if pivoting into product management is a career path for them.

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How Product Managers Can Define a Product Vision to Guide Their Team

Speaker: Christian Bonilla, VP of Product Management at UserTesting

Every product team wants to build things users love. It’s why breakthrough products rarely happen by accident. Rather, they start with a strong product vision. Getting that vision right is one of the most important responsibilities of the product team. How to position your vision as an umbrella for the product strategy.

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Collaborate Better with Your Customer-Facing Teams

Speaker: Hope Gurion, Product Leader Coach, Fearless Product LLC

Customer discovery is the lifeblood of product teams to identify the most important customer needs to solve next. Often it's the Product and UX members of the trio who take lead on facilitating this discovery. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours!

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How Product Managers Can Shape Inclusive Futures with UX

Speaker: Bronwen Rees, Author and Lead Product Designer at Xero

Join Bronwen Rees, Author and Lead Product Designer at Xero, for a conversation that digs deeper than the recycled buzzwords. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours! This session will cover: What inclusive design is, and why it's important. What biases are and how to avoid them.

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Use Discovery and Delivery to Experiment Our Way to a New Normal

Speaker: Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

Many of us are accustomed to planning for either discovery or delivery. We know how to plan for where we want to be for a product (delivery). And, we know how to plan to discover a market (discovery). Instead of planning for either discovery or delivery, we can use experiments—for all our work.

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The 5 Product Discovery Secrets Every PM Should Know

Speaker: Jim Morris, Founder, Product Discovery Group

How can a Product team find that next big idea? It turns out that even ordinary product teams can discover extraordinary ideas. By using the Product Discovery Cycle, teams can find new ideas, understand customer pain points, and test solutions quickly and cheaply.

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Fail Well, Pivot Fast: Product Experimentation for Continuous Discovery

Speaker: William Haas Evans - Principal Consultant, Head of Product Strategy & Design Practice, Kuroshio Consulting

The purpose and value of experimentation (from a scientific and product perspective) is to produce new information. From a product discovery/product management perspective, the purpose of experimentation is to focus our efforts on invalidating our assumptions to reduce the risk of developing and going-to-market with the wrong product.