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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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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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The Strategic Value of Product Management

Mentormate

While it might seem like a complex process, the answer is pretty straightforward: it takes good product management. What is Product Management? Product management is a means to drive the development of products that meet the strategic needs of a company. The Roots of Modern Product Management.

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Top 5 industry trends in strategic portfolio planning for 2024

CIO

This experience has given me a unique vantage point, enabling me to see those specifics that are unique to each team and organization—as well as common themes that apply to broad swaths of the market. In the wake of this transition, the move from traditional project management to product management will be an imperative.

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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?

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Fusion for the Future: How Product Management and DevOps Are Redrawing the Digital Blueprint

Dzone - DevOps

Organizations must navigate this dynamic environment to meet changing customer expectations and business challenges. This requires a fundamental shift in how digital products are envisioned, built, and managed. In this light, the integration of product management and DevOps has emerged as a pivotal trend.

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Why your organization needs product principles

TechCrunch

There’s business value in improving an organization’s processes, and we’ve been able to provide better experiences for our customers by enacting ever-evolving product principles and using them to evaluate our products and features. First, what are product principles?

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From Feature Factory to an Outcome-Driven Product Team

Speaker: Matt LeMay - Product Coach and Consultant, Author of Product Management in Practice and Agile for Everybody

Just about every organization is trying to make the shift from "output-focused" product teams (often known as "feature factories") to "outcome-focused" product teams focused on the actual value they can deliver to the business and its customers. September 13, 2022 at 12:30 pm PT, 3:30 pm ET, 8:30 pm BST

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If You Build It, They Will Come: A Guide to Customer Onboarding

Speaker: Jamie Bernard, Sr. Product Director and Product Management Practice Lead at Nexient, an NTT Data Company

"If you build it, they will come” is an idea that runs rampant in organizations. Examples of successful product onboarding strategies. How "doing this, not that" can benefit product managers and help them avoid the negative response that a clunky onboarding experience provides.

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A PM's Guide to Building a Culture of Product Innovation

Speaker: Bob Webber, VP Product Flow Optimization, Construx

This webinar is for engineering and product leaders who are struggling to find an innovation strategy that works. Attend this webinar to benchmark your organization’s innovation potential and learn what it takes to create a culture of innovation. The model is based on principles of behavior observed in successful organizations.

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Shaping the Future: Product Strategy in the Age of Uncertainty

Speaker: William Haas Evans - Principal Consultant, Product Strategy Practice Lead, Kuroshio Consulting

A value-driven product organization optimizes team structures, funding cycles, processes, and metrics to drive traction and growth across the entire product adoption curve by identifying opportunities to solve valuable customer problems and closing those market gaps for either over-served or under-served markets.

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How King Crushes New Product Development using Data-Driven Insights

Speaker: Ian Thompson, Head of Business Intelligence at King, and Zara Wells, Strategic Customer Success Manager at Looker

Product Managers looking to leverage data to make informed product design decisions can learn a lot from renowned gaming company King, maker of Candy Crush and many other games - even if their product has seemingly no overlap with games. Taking a "human approach" to creating an organization wide data culture.

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Tough Bosses, Unrealistic Goals, and Other Corporate Challenges That a Customer-Centric Product Strategy Can Empower You to Solve

Speaker: Bob Caporale, Founder of Strategy Generation Company

As product managers, we’ve likely all faced this situation at some point in our careers. By driving your company’s “top-down” goals with a clear and well communicated “customer-up” product strategy! Execute your product strategy with a “customer-first” mindset. And that’s exactly what we’re.

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Put Your Data to Work: The Complete Playbook

They rely on data to power products, business insights, and marketing strategy. From search engines to navigation systems, data is used to fuel products, manage risk, inform business strategy, create competitive analysis reports, provide direct marketing services, and much more.

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Process, Product, and Profitability: Everything You Need to Know

Speaker: Michael Cardy - Red Hat Chief Strategist, Jason Tanner - CEO of Applied Frameworks, and Mike Mace - VP of Market Strategy at UserTesting

Organizations are undertaking digital transformations and empowering their teams to make decisions that boost profitability more than ever before. In this webinar, leaders in digital transformation and project management will explain their tactics for usage testing and turning customer feedback into actionable insights.