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How and when to hire your first product manager

TechCrunch

Of these positions, product management might be one of the most elusive — and key — roles to fill. Product management might be one of the most elusive — and key — roles to fill. We spoke to startup founders and operators to get their thoughts about how and when they hired their first product manager.

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Product manager salary: Pay range factors, tips for making more

CIO

As project-based business practices give way to product-focused cross-functional teams, the product manager role is taking on prominence, increasingly attracting interest from job candidates who might otherwise go into IT. Do product managers make good money? As you grow in your career, so will your salary.

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How to hire the right product manager for your IT needs

CIO

IT organizations are increasingly shifting from project-based organizational structures to product-based methodologies , which involve cross-functional teams. Product managers aren’t a new job category by any means, but this shift means that they’re newly prominent and important to many companies’ strategies.

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Leland breaks into the coaching space with a focus on careers, not classes

TechCrunch

The coaching world is crowded. There’s BetterUp, a re-skilling platform that wants to bring executive coaching to employees , and Sounding Board, which mixes SaaS and coaching services. The company says that, in the last nine months, hundreds of customers have purchased more than 2,500 hours of coaching on Leland.

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The Science of High-Impact Experimentation

Speaker: Holly Hester-Reilly, Founder and Product Management Coach, H2R Product Science

Experimentation allows product managers to make decisions based on data rather than mere intuition. How can a product manager be certain they’re making effective decisions when it comes to experimentation? But too many teams don't know what to test, which leads to poorly designed experiments and unclear results.

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Involvement and impact of AI in Product management: interview with Rutger de Wijs

Xebia

Product Management Consultant Rutger de Wijs shares his view on why and how AI can be leveraged by Product Managers to increase the value of their products. At the beginning of my career (in the 2010s), I worked at an advertising tech startup as a BI Manager. Earlier I mentioned Spotify.

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Article: How to Deal With Complexity in Product Development by Using Solution-Focused Coaching

InfoQ Culture Methods

In this article, you will discover how and which parts of coaching and nuanced language can help you leverage your interactions to yield better results in product management.

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A PM’s Guide to Forging an Outcome-Driven Product Team

Speaker: Kim Antelo, Transformation Coach

The best product teams evaluate themselves not by the quantity or speed with which they release new features, but by how much those features add value. In this webinar, Transformational Coach Kim Antelo will walk through a case study of a healthcare company with lofty OKRs, but with little tie-back to the product performance.

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Get Better User Insights With Wasteless Validation

Speaker: Tim Herbig, Product Management Coach and Consultant

How can a product manager slow their team down and prevent them from wasting valuable resources? Join Tim Herbig, Product Management Coach and Consultant, as he introduces a new way of understanding what an MVP is about and explores how you can approach validation without wasting the resources of your development team.

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Potholes in your Roadmap and How to Fill Them

Speaker: Hope Gurion, Product Coach and Advisor

As a Product Manager, prioritizing work on your roadmap is an important part of your role. But products are built by people, and people are messy - unlike these frameworks. Hope Gurion, Product Coach and Advisor, has identified potholes in your roadmap that are preventing you from planning as best as you can.

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The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Strong and Effective Value Proposition

Speaker: Robin Zaragoza, Product Coach and CEO of The Product Refinery

Every product manager has heard, “Keep the customer at the heart of everything you do". But what strategy do managers use to keep the customer and their key problems at the center of the product development process? How do product managers instill this knowledge of the customer across the rest of the organization?