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How to Become a Director of Product
Interested in finding out how to become a director of product? Then you’ve come to the right place. Becoming a director of product requires years of experience managing products and working with other product managers. That gives you the experience and expertise to get to the next level, where you start managing other product managers. Over time, potential product directors need to show an ability to lead the entire product...
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How to Become an eCommerce Product Manager Without Experience
Becoming an eCommerce product manager requires a specific set of skills and experiences. However, the most important aspect is a good understanding of product management, regardless of your background. Common skills among eCommerce product managers include being able to do market research, run an online store, craft a product strategy, and develop customer journey roadmaps for websites. Running an eCommerce company also requires a working knowledge of how websites work,...
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How to Become a SaaS Product Manager Without Experience
Looking to become a SaaS product manager? Then you’ve made the right choice. The need for SaaS product managers is skyrocketing with each passing year. More and more businesses develop Software as a Service (SaaS) products to remain relevant in their respective markets and grow their income streams. Businesses need SaaS product managers to oversee their product development efforts and ensure that they are a success. Now, prospective product managers...
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What Is The Average Senior Technical Product Manager Salary?
Curious to find out the average salary of a senior technical product manager? Then look no further. In today’s market, the necessity for senior technical product managers is high. This is due to the increase in collaborative efforts between other product managers, at all levels within the organization, to drive the company’s manufacturing, product, and design goals. The role of senior technical product manager requires extensive knowledge and understanding of...
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Senior Product Manager Interview Questions
Need help preparing for your next senior product manager interview? Then you’ve come to the right place. Senior product managers are executive-level professionals who fulfill an important role in large companies developing products and bringing them to market. As product leaders, a senior product manager’s main responsibilities center around defining, communicating, refining product strategy, and overseeing product planning and execution. Senior product managers occupy a multifunctional role, liaising across multiple...
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Best Technical Writing Courses 2024 | Reviews and Pricing
Many writers and copywriters know what technical writing is, in practice, but not many have a grasp of the specifics. This can make technical writing an intimidating road to take in your career since you have no idea where to start. But it can also be an extremely rewarding road to take exactly because not many writers dare to specialize in technical writing. Whatever your goal, there is a technical...
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Best Technical Writing Certifications in 2024
If you’re not consistently honing your abilities as a technical writer, sooner or later the competition will catch up to you. To stay on top of your game, completing a well-recognized technical writing certification course can go a long way. There are a lot of continuing education/training opportunities for technical communicators out there. Whether you’re a beginner or a current writer who wants to take the next step in your...
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General Assembly Product Management Review: Is it worth it?
Product management is increasingly becoming an in-demand skill. Various institutes and product schools, such as the General Assembly product management courses, offer a great way to specialize in this area and become a product manager. That being said, General Assembly’s product management courses aren’t the only options you can pick. This raises a question – are the product management courses offered by General Assembly even worth it? To that end,...
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Best 10 Product Management Software 2024: Reviews and Pricing
Modern product management is all about cutting out redundancies, making processes smarter, and more efficient. With automation and machine learning taking over legacy systems, more and more product teams are having to adapt to new operational methods. This is where product management software comes in. From tracking tasks to keeping time, and even identifying redundant processes, product management software has revolutionized how teams approach building and launching. In this article, we’ll go over the 10 best product management software and their pricing, as well...
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11 Best Product Roadmap Software 2024: Reviews and Pricing
Having a comprehensive and effective product roadmap can mean the difference between the best products and a complete market failure. That’s where modern product roadmap software comes in. Almost every product roadmap software out there can contribute towards the greater product plan and its success. However, the question arises as to which product roadmap software will be the best for your product goals. In this article, we’ll take a look...
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Best Product Management Tools in 2024[Review]
We compiled this official guide based on conversations with hundreds of product managers in our PMHQ community who revealed the most popular product management tools and product management tools that they currently use on the job. 64 Best Product Management Tools 2024 The following are the best tools for product management according to their main functions. They are divided into different categories such as collaboration, product roadmap, product management, etc. Product Management...
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What is Agile?
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How to Become an Amazing Agile Developer
Wondering what it takes to become an amazing agile developer? Then look no further. This post outlines all the traits, essential skills, and soft skills that characterize what it means to be an amazing agile developer. Let’s explore them below. 8 Steps to Become a Rockstar Agile Developer Here is a step-by-step process on how to become an agile developer: 1. Assume Responsibility for the Quality of Deliverables An agile...
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Maintaining Feature Parity Across Platforms
In the PMHQ Slack community, we regularly get thought-provoking questions that we feel should be explored in-depth and documented for future reference. We’re starting a new set of Q&A posts to dive into these kinds of questions, and enable everyone in the community to revisit the answers and contribute further! “For the first time, I’m working on a product that spans multiple platforms (iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Chrome). What are...
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What is the Waterfall Model?
Interested in learning about the most traditional and foundational software development processes? The waterfall methodology is a linear project management approach that has been used for about 50 years now. In the waterfall model, stakeholder and customer product requirements are collected at the beginning of the project, and then sequential phases are created to accommodate those requirements. Let’s take a better look at what the waterfall method is: What is...
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What is DevOps?
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Continuous Integration vs Continuous Delivery: What’s the Difference?
Would you like to know the difference between continuous integration and continuous development? Well, you’re in the right place. The software development industry is facing an ever-growing demand for delivering high-quality and high-performing software fast and efficiently. To respond to these challenges, software developers are implementing a variety of practices and approaches, such as agile methodologies, code reviews, refactoring, and to name a few. Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery...
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What is Continuous Integration?
Are you curious about how to incorporate continuous integration into your product workflow? Then you’ve come to the right place. As more companies continue to explore different frameworks and approaches for product management, product teams feel obliged to learn the fundamentals of continuous integration and its application within product development. In this article, we go through the fundamentals of continuous integration as well as key insight and strategies for its...
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What is Product Analytics?
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Data-Driven vs. Data-Informed
Many product organizations have stopped focusing on being data-driven, and are pivoting towards being data-informed instead. What’s the difference between the two? Let me illustrate with a real scenario. Product Study: Data-Driven Demand Assessment One of my past initiatives was to find a product-market fit for a particular product idea that we had. The goal was to use landing pages, SEO (search engine optimization), and SEM (search engine marketing) to determine...
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PMs & Metrics: Bounce Rate
Product managers care deeply about the engagement of their users. After all, engagement is an indicator that their product is providing value to users. Of course, engagement can be measured in many different ways. One of the most important qualities of a successful product is that users find what they’re looking for. To measure this quality, let’s introduce a new metric to our toolkit: the bounce rate. Definition of Bounce...
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Introduction to Cohort Analysis
As product managers, it’s critical for us to understand the lasting impact that we have on our users – and one of the easiest ways to do so is through cohort analysis. What’s a cohort analysis? Let’s break down each term. A cohort simply means a group of people. As an example, let’s look at graduation year. For your school, the class of 2010 is one cohort, and the class...
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What is Product Design?
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What is Product Development?
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Product Development vs. Product Management: What’s the Difference?
(Needs Images) Interested in learning the difference between product development and product management? Well, you’re in the right place! Product development and product management may seem to be similar concepts, but in reality, they’re quite different. It won’t be wrong to say that they are like a cup and teapot, as both have their own distinct functions. However, despite the differences, they are incomplete without each other. In this article, we...
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What is a Great Product Development Strategy?
With new products entering the market every day, there’s an ever-growing need for better product development. Things like the industry, type of product, features, and other factors come into play. That’s why you need an excellent product development strategy. A lot of companies tend to focus on a product based on their customers. Some decide to offer a solution to an existing problem through their product. But, in all cases,...
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What is a Great Product Strategy?
The success of any product depends on a number of factors, including the company, features, usability, and more. However, none of those factors amount to much if you don’t have a robust product strategy to back your product. Many companies figure out the ideal solution to a problem and then make up the perfect product or service. However, what a lot of companies do wrong is that they don’t work...
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What is Product Led Growth?
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What is Growth Product Management?
I’ve noticed that more and more people have been asking, “what is growth product management?” and “is growth product management right for me?” These are fantastic questions! Growth product management is one of many variants of the product management discipline, and its focus is on increasing critical metrics by reducing barriers to value. Over the years, startups and tech companies have demonstrated a growing interest in hiring growth product managers. First,...
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What is Product-Led Growth?
With all the resources and technology at our disposal, creating a new product has never been easier. However, successfully launching that product, acquiring new users, and keeping them around is a whole different story. To speed things up and keep the acquisition costs low, more and more software companies are opting for product-led growth – a relatively new GTM strategy. If you’re a marketer, product manager, or any other key...
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What is Product Marketing?
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