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The Three Roles of Product
Titles are a mess. What one company calls a product manager, another calls a product owner. And another calls a product marketing...
3 min read
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Two key roles: Product Manager, Product Marketer
Where product management guides idea to product, product marketing guides product to market—that is, getting those products into the...
2 min read
644 views
Standardize your team with ProductOps
ProductOps is a specialized role that normalizes the product function across all products and services. When a company is small, the...
3 min read
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Your First Days as Head of Product Management
Do you lead a new product management team? Here's where you should begin. In The Earth is Flat, Thomas Friedman expressed his view of the...
2 min read
812 views
Metrics for Product Professionals
It’s difficult to determine relevant metrics for product managers because the product management role is so inconsistent.
3 min read
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Where Does Product Belong In Your Organization?
Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership. —...
3 min read
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What Isn’t Product Management
In a well-run organization, each role has a single orientation; they either support [individual] customers or they support the market. —...
3 min read
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Your First Days as Product Manager
You’re in your first days as a product manager. In no time, your calendar will be full and you’ll have a zillion emails. There’s so much...
4 min read
416 views
Do We Need Product Management?
Product managers are in charge of whipping up all the other departments and getting them to work together. This is to make sure that the...
3 min read
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