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Ben Johnson replied to Greg Akins's discussion 'Becoming a Product Manager'

Recommending a good book for you to follow up on (I know, I know, a little old fashioned in this day and age of iPhones and Kindles) -- the Product Manager's Field Guide by Linda Gorchels, a bestseller of course. Each and everyone who has responde...

September 3

Adriana Iordan replied to Greg Akins's discussion 'Becoming a Product Manager'

Recently one of my colleagues attended a presentation at Stanford on "Product Discovery" by Marty Cagan, the author of the book "Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love" and former product executive for some of the biggest technology names...

March 4

Greg Akins replied to Ken Hughes's discussion 'Use Twitter ??'

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February 17

Michael House replied to Greg Akins's discussion 'Becoming a Product Manager'

Depending on what aspect of products you are thinking of managing (IE the development or production) you can delegate certain duties to outside companies if you see fit. I would say this lies more on the production side than the development side. ...

February 11

allan kelly replied to Greg Akins's discussion 'Becoming a Product Manager'

I often say that one of the reasons UK software companies are not as successful as their American rivals is because, on the whole, they don't understand Product Management. The role doesn't exist, or its confused with Project Management, or it is ...

February 11

Greg Akins replied to Greg Akins's discussion 'Becoming a Product Manager'

Wow, there were a lot of questions in there :-) This isn't about me changing careers. It's about me being able to start building some of those tasks into my area of responsibility. No one else is doing it and I'd like to have those job functions ...

February 11

Greg Akins replied to Greg Akins's discussion 'Becoming a Product Manager'

Thanks for those links. I had forgot about the Gap analysis framework. I'll read through that more carefully. John Davey said:I second the vote for Pragmatic Marketing. Start with their well-trusted framework and do a gap analysis. There's probab...

February 11

Greg Akins replied to Greg Akins's discussion 'Becoming a Product Manager'

One of my responsibilities is to manage the dev roadmap. One of the things I think a product manager should do it figure out what needs to be on the roadmap. I'm familiar with the Pragmatic Marketing site. Right now, I feel like the list of thing...

February 11