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What, exactly, is a Product Manager?
© 2011 Martin Eriksson. Re-use with appropriate attribution. I often get asked what a product manager is. What do they do? Where do they come from? Why do they like sharpies so much? In his book...
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I am a Product Manager
This is a guest post by Paul Pechey, Product Manager at Just-Eat, in response to our recent article “What, exactly, is a Product Manager?”. Reading Martin’s excellent “What, exactly, is a Product...
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What is a Technical Product Manager, Anyway?
What does it really mean to be a “Technical” Product Manager? And how is it different from just a Product Manager? In this post, I share the difference between these titles plus key Do’s and Don’t’s...
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Experiments in roadmapping at GOV.UK
Roadmaps can be a powerful tool to communicate the vision for a product’s development, unite teams of makers around common goals and let stakeholders know (roughly) when they can expect the...
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Design Thinking and Product Management
Product Management has been traditionally seen as an analytical role where product managers spend the bulk of their time crunching numbers and analytical data to drive new products forward. But with...
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2 Questions to Nail Your Product’s Initial Price
A common mistake made by entrepreneurs when figuring out where to price their product, is thinking that this is just a question of price alone. YCombinator’s cofounder, Paul Graham, sees a lot of...
View ArticleDave Wascha – Inside the mind of the product manager
Dave Wascha, Chief Product Officer at Moo.com, gets inside the mind of the product manager and uncovers how profoundly the structure of the brain dictates how we see and approach the world – most...
View ArticleDes Traynor – Product strategy in a growing company
“If software is eating the world, then product managers are setting the menu”. Des Traynor, co-founder of customer communication platform Intercom, talks about how to create simple, yet brilliant...
View ArticleAlex Osterwalder – Designing your Value Proposition
In this video, Alex Osterwalder- the author and inventor of the Business Model Canvas, a tool to visualise, challenge and reinvent business models – talks about his next book: Value Proposition Design....
View ArticleProduct Management in Agencies and Startups : What’s the Difference?
The principles of product management are generally the same across the board: product managers are responsible for the successful delivery of product releases. But in every company the role of product...
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Avoiding product management whiplash
I recently spent time with some new product managers and nearly all of them commented on how they found it difficult juggling the different disciplines involved. They’re right, there is a lot to...
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What, exactly, is a Product Manager?
© 2011 Martin Eriksson. Re-use with appropriate attribution. I often get asked what a product manager is. What do they do? Where do they come from? Why do they like sharpies so much? In his book...
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8 Insightful Podcasts for Product Managers
It’s no secret, especially for commuters, that – 10 years into their existence – podcasts have become an incredibly valuable and popular source of stories and information. This is especially true for...
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Product Management is a Team Sport
In my post what is a product manager, I define that person as the intersection of UX, business and technology. Many have misunderstood that to mean product managers are superior to those teams. Other...
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Video: Tom Chi on Rapid Prototyping & Product Management
Tom Chi has practiced rapid prototyping for over 15 years, on everything from software to hardware, organisational design to entrepreneurship. And a lot of the lessons he has learned in rapid...
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Nilan Peiris, Dana Chisnell and Martina King Complete the Mind the Product...
As if product leaders from Spotify, Google Ventures, Microsoft and HotelTonight as well as the founder of User Interface Engineering and the Web Psychologist weren’t enough awesomeness on one stage,...
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The Tyranny of ‘Good Enough’
One of the most frustrating experiences in my career was caused by Microsoft Excel. Unlike the thousands of other people who can say that, I wasn’t even using Excel at the time. I was testing a...
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Traditional vs Lean Management: Why You Should Be Using Kanban
Let me get this out of the way: I love Kanban. And this isn’t for any of the usual reasons, such as because it’s a visual management tool, or because it enhances work in progress control, or even...
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How to Avoid a Product Manager’s Worst Nightmare – Part 1
Imagine that the product you’ve been working on for months or years implodes on its first day of life – a product manager’s worst nightmare. Unfortunately, this story happens too often in the software...
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Video: We shape our products and our products shape us by Josh Brewer
In this thoughful and gripping talk from Mind the Product San Francisco, Josh Brewer talks about what most of us instinctively feel – that as early adopters we’re not only the most passionate about...
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