The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

DECEMBER 11, 2023

million software developers worldwide. Given this diversity, it's important to be selective in the development services company with whom you choose to partner. In 2023, there were approximately 26.3 This vast pool of talent showcases a wide range of experience and portfolios, quality of work, and inquisitiveness.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Guest Post by: Chris Martens (Mentee, Session 7, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Vikas Batra]. As product managers, we have chosen a career path in which there are ever-changing demands on our attention. A product manager spends much of their time planning for the future. More About The Product Mentor.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2023

What does it have to do with product management or product design? TL;DR Product dogfooding is a testing practice. It involves teams using their own product internally to identify issues and opportunities for improvement. This will allow you to gain different perspectives on the product. Let’s dive in!

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Meet the mentors….

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 22, 2022

Insights on product strategy and customer research for product managers. Today we are looking at product management work through the eyes of a CEO, exploring several topics together. The CEO joining us is Matt Young, CEO of UserVoice, the first product feedback and research tool for software companies.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Ladislav Bartos Product Manager, Gumtree.com.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Product Manager @ Postlight (New York, NY). Keywords: Client Services, Product Management, Software Development. Product Manager @ Piktochart Sdn Bhd (Penang, Malaysia). Keywords: Agile, Product Development, Product Management, Scrum.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

What one product manager learned about understanding customers. Today we are talking about the journey from software developer to product manager and some key challenges encountered as a product manager. She is the VP of Product at Tel Aviv-based Lightrun. Customer interviews.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Prior to joining GitHub, she led engineering and product teams at Amazon and Microsoft.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 13, 2018

Bottom line is that you cannot push people to be agile but certainly can force them to follow waterfall software development method. This can lead to a hybrid model well known as Wagile software development. Wagile software development becomes vital when you are dealing with different stakeholders.

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Product Management University

JULY 23, 2020

Agile is a software development methodology. It’s not a way to do product management. It’s not how you do product marketing or sales. Agile development is a methodology for building software, and it’s a good one! More emphasis on deliverables, greater accountability and better product usability.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 3, 2022

How product managers can use the Modified Agile for Hardware Development Framework. Many teams have tried adopting Scrum for developing hardware products, not always successfully. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:56] Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers.

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Productside

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Agile, born in 2001 when 17 software developers created the Agile Manifesto at a Utah ski lodge, has revolutionized how we develop software. The post Why You Must Earn the Agile Product Manager and Product Owner Certification appeared first on Product Management Courses | Productside.

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Product Management Unpacked

MAY 13, 2020

It was on this day in 1931 that the field of product management was born – its birth marked by an internal memorandum written by Neil H. McElroy, manager of Proctor and Gamble’s Promotion department. In many ways, the role of a brand manager has informed the modern-day product manager role. It’s May 13th.

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

Guest Post by: Inis Hormann (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Paul Hurwitz]. Product Managers (PM) need to effectively communicate product vision, strategic roadmaps and concepts to a variety of different stakeholders through the different stages of the product life cycle.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Guest Post by: Julian Dunn (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Vikas Batra]. I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. Thus, I arrived at the Product Mentor program with ambitions to learn strategy development from a seasoned product mentor.

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Productside

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Introduction Over the past few decades, the adoption of Agile development methodologies by product teams has skyrocketed. Agile, born in 2001 when 17 software developers created the Agile Manifesto at a Utah ski lodge, has revolutionized how we develop software.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 8, 2019

This is what our guest, Mike Cohn has been doing for more than 20 years — building high-performing software development teams and organizations through the use of agile and Scrum. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [3:20] 19:30] What makes a good product owner vs. a product manager?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In our conversation, Amjad shares: A live demo of Replit in action How Replit’s AI agent can build full-stack web applications from a simple text prompt The implications of AI-powered development for product managers, designers, and engineers How this might reshape companies and careers Why being “generative” will become an increasingly (..)

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2019

As product managers our job description is pretty simple: to make all of our software development projects succeed. In fact, I would go so far as to say any failures or successes of the team are failures or successes of product management. Define Success. What makes a story “ready”? Make no Concessions.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2020

With more people entering the Product landscape than ever, now is a good time to help the newbies understand where Product Management came from, and how far the industry has come. When Hewlett-Packard ran with his ideas, it introduced an organizational structure where each product group functioned as a separate organization.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 16, 2021

I explained to him what Product Managers do. I told him that Product managers are responsible for guiding the success of a product and that they lead the cross-functional team that is responsible for building, scaling, and supporting it. In many ways, product managers are like movie directors. ????

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

This is a free sample story from my book The Making of Product Managers. It is unusual that Michael’s first brush with product management was during his master’s degree in systems design engineering. He didn’t realize this at the time, but he was actually exercising a product manager mindset for the first time.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

We’re well overdue a conversation about Product Managers and technical skills. It doesn’t seem to matter how many times the industry tries to reassure newcomers that you don’t need to be a full stack software engineer to be a good Product Manager. Product development is the process of building tech.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Most of our readers would have heard of Agile product management. It is a methodology that is followed by a majority of software development companies today. In fact, the biggest advantage that you can leverage from a startup perspective is Lean product management (‘Lean’ or ‘LPM’).

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 5, 2020

How product managers can increase team performance by understanding Team Dimensions. The only thing better than hearing about how an organization improved their product management and innovation capability is sharing it with The Everyday Innovators! The company is a B2B software developer.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

I’ve been building digital products for nearly a decade now. A few weeks ago, a friend messaged me for advice on becoming a product manager. Truth be told, I’ve never done a product-specific one. Product Management HQ also has a well-established Slack community, though I’ve not tried it.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

The SAFe product owner is tactical in nature and focuses on working on the product backlog and guiding the development teams. The strategic work is taken on by another role, the SAFe product manager. Unlike traditional approaches to software development, Scrum does not offer the role of a project manager.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

A startup development team consisting of a product manager and two offshore engineers was facing major challenges in meeting client deliverable deadlines – repeatedly. Now that the team has a metric to turn to the team can engage in further experiments to refine and tweak the software development process.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Software development is an exciting but demanding profession. Unforeseen things can happen in software development including people falling ill and a server going down. If you are not present, then you won’t be able to influence and contribute to reshaping the goal. But don’t mistake a commitment for a guarantee.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

He works as a coach, consultant, and keynote speaker helping companies bridge the gaps between business agility, digital transformation, product management, and human-centred design. Sherif Mansour, Distinguished Product Manager at Atlassian. Sherif has been in software development for over 15 years.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 7, 2020

Is the product manager actually the intelligence officer of the company? Little did I know then, about software development nor about product management. Why this long intro, you might ask, and what the hell it has to do with product management? Well, when I think about the Product Manager?—?I

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality. Differences between waterfall and agile 1.

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