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Self-discovery and landing a product management internship

BY Phani Munipalli on June 8, 2023

Phani Sai Ram Munipalli left his job as an Software Engineer and is currently pursuing his Masters in Software Engineering in Silicon Valley. In this guest post, he shares his story on how to make better decisions on becoming a product manager. Read more »

7 things I’ve learned in my first 6 months as a product manager

BY Isaac Vargas on May 23, 2023

In this guest post, Issac Vargas, Product Manager at Microsoft Graph Developer Experience team, shares the key lessons he’s learned from his first few months in product.  Read more »

SUNDAY REWIND: The PMwheel – a compass for the product manager development journey

BY Eira Hayward on May 21, 2023

This week’s Sunday Rewind goes back to a 2020 post from product coach Petra Wille that explains her framework “The PMwheel”, and how to use it to understand a product manager’s responsibilities. Read more »

Climbing the career ladder in product

BY Louron Pratt on May 17, 2023

Starting out a career in product can be difficult if you don’t know where to start, especially when no two paths are the same. How does one forge their own path and climb the ladder? Read more »

Career clinic for product managers by John Cutler

BY Anna von Hagen on May 12, 2023

In this ProductTank Melbourne talk, John Cutler, Senior Director of Product Enablement at Toast, sits down to answer audience questions and give his advice on product career trajectories and some overall product career tips. Read more »

Hiring product managers by Kate Leto

BY Anna von Hagen on April 7, 2023

In this ProductTank Edinburgh talk, independent product consultant and organisation design consultant Kate Leto talks about how to approach hiring in a different way.

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Practical tips for building credibility as a product manager

BY Mark Bailes on March 23, 2023

Mark Bailes, Technical Product Manager shares practical tips on building credibility as a product manager based on his previous experience of working in product roles. Read more »

SUNDAY REWIND: Burnout in product teams

BY Rachel Hamlin on March 12, 2023

Tech layoffs and economic uncertainty have heavily impacted the livelihoods of product managers across the globe. We thought it would be timely to look back to when Rachel Hamlin explored how best practices in product often turn into pitfalls in our culture of burnout for this Sunday Rewind. Read more »

ProductTech: The industry, the discipline, have we gone too far?

BY Becky Yelland on March 10, 2023

Is it time to stop the product management obsession with frameworks and methodologies – are they over-complicating the work Read more »

Vidya Srinivasan: An original product manager

BY Eira Hayward on February 27, 2023

Vidya Srinivasan has many strings to her bow. She’s a senior product manager, public speaker, patent holder, a diversity and inclusion advocate and a classically trained Indian singer who has spent her career to date working for big tech companies. She went from a master’s in computer science to an internship at Microsoft where she Read more »