Product Management Skills
Martin Eriksson defines product management as the intersection between business, technology, and user experience. He believes that a good product manager must be experienced in at least one of these areas and passionate about all of them. But what exact skills does a product manager need? From communication and strategic thinking to prioritisation and analytical skills, the list is long. This content looks at product management skills in different ways.
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How to thrive as a product manager in a product-led growth organization
In this post, Yann Sarfati, Co-founder and CEO at startup Userled, offers some advice on succeeding as a product manager in a product-led growth business What’s in a name? When it comes to product managers, quite a lot is up for debate. Product management job descriptions have been a moving target for some years, but Read more »
Product development: or how to turn factories into gardens
In this article, product leader Assaph Mehr puts forward an alternative mental model for product development – think about building a garden not a factory So much has been written about feature factories, I won’t add to it. Instead, I’d like to offer you three ideas to help you deal with such situations. First, I’ll Read more »
Domain expert or practice expert: Your product management career
What sort of product expert do you want to be? In the first of a regular series, Mind the Product’s own Emily Tate offers some insights for product people pondering their career choices One of the most common questions I get when talking to product managers about their career path is, should I become an Read more »
The dangers of corporate buzzword bingo and ways around it
Product leader Marta Rolak looks at the danger to clear communication of corporate buzzwords and suggests some ways to neutralise their threat You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. William Goldman, The Princess Bride Imagine this situation: You are in an important meeting with the “best Read more »
Being agile does not mean you can defocus
Product leader Sharon Feldstein looks at what it really means to be an agile product team today and how to balance this with product strategy and long-term goals. When I started my first job in tech, “agile” was THE thing everybody talked about. It was perceived as our savior from writing and executing long PRDs Read more »
January's top product management content
With the first month of the year done and dusted already, here’s a look at our most-read posts for January 2023. How will ChatGPT change product management? Our top read this month takes a look at the likely impact of the latest AI bot ChatGPT on product work. We look at its strengths and limitations, Read more »
The most important soft skills for product managers
This guest post written by Assaph Mehr, Head of Product at RecordPoint, delves into the most important soft skills for product managers. Read more »
How will ChatGPT change product management?
This article is part of our AI Knowledge Hub, created with Pendo. For similar articles and even more free AI resources, visit the AI Knowledge Hub now. So… chatbot software ChatGPT. Have you played with it? Looked at how you might use it in your product? Do you welcome it or worry about its impact on Read more »
SUNDAY REWIND: A product manager’s guide to saying no
This Sunday Rewind we look back to when Holly Donohue, Chief Product Officer at Purple provided a guide on the art of saying no more often in product. Read more »
Product management books to read in 2023
What’s on your bookshelf? Reading is an essential occupation for any product manager who wants to keep learning and developing their skills and stay current. As Fran Lebowitz famously said, “think before you speak, read before you think”. Although it’s a relatively young profession, product management has already spawned some pretty classic reference works. So Read more »