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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. 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. It’s impossible for one person to do.

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

Alchemer Mobile

How deep does your understanding of the technology go as a PM? And how much do you try to be, like, a subject matter expert from a technological standpoint compared to your engineering team? How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? So that’s me. Christy : Awesome.

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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). No formal stakeholder review as this is meant to be the first version that will undergo many iterations and refinements.

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Upsides to unshipping: The art of removing features and products

Mixpanel

He was the Growth Advisor in Residence at Greylock Partners, Growth Lead at Pinterest, and first marketer at Grubhub. He advised companies like Tinder, Hipcamp, Reddit, Canva, and Pocket. We’ll cover why in the next section, after reviewing examples. Tech costs. Incompatibility.

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How We Dealt With Project Challenges: An Agile Approach in a Deadline-driven Development

The Product Coalition

As a project manager at an IT company working with many non-technical startup founders, our clients, I often get to resolve a variety of interesting issues that relate to technology and communication. They had spent a lot of time choosing the technological stack and discussing technical solutions with outside consultants.

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Product Manager CV Template – How to Create The Perfect PM resume? [+ tips from experts]

Userpilot

Product managers with technical skills such as SQL or technical stack are in high demand, so highlight them in your resume. Show off your Product Manager (technical) skills. Here’s what Ritesh Thombre, Sr Product Manager(Data & Analytics) at ZS advises: Ritesh Thombre on presenting skillsets in your resume.

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71 Scrum Product Owner Interview Questions (2)

The Product Coalition

Sprint Reviews and user interviews are also well suited to improve collaboration and communication over time. Early in the transition process, it is advisable to educate them with product-related workshops on agile principles. A new feature is overdue and has been drastically underestimated due to unexpected technical debt.