Product Management Skills
Martin Eriksson defines product management as the intersection between business, technology, and user experience. He believes that a good product manager must be experienced in at least one of these areas and passionate about all of them. But what exact skills does a product manager need? From communication and strategic thinking to prioritisation and analytical skills, the list is long. This content looks at product management skills in different ways.
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Top product management reads in November
From questions about how technical a product manager should be, or how to manage your career or how to master cross-disciplinary collaboration, here’s a look through our most-read posts in November. Read more »
How to keep your head about generative AI (when everyone is losing theirs) by Claire Woodcock
In her keynote at #mtpcon London 2023, Claire Woodcock, Director of Product, ML, at Mozilla explains how to keep your head about generative AI, when everyone else loses theirs. Read more »
Interviewing customers has never been more important - here's how you do it
A how-to guide for product managers on structuring customer interviews Read more »
Steps to develop your product team: Insights from #mtpcon London
Product leader, author, and consultant Matt LeMay gave an enlightening presentation on developing your product team at the #mtpcon London 2023 Leadership Forum, which precedes the main London conference. Read more »
SUNDAY REWIND: The new cybernetics: systems thinking for the 21st century by Genevieve Bell
This week’s Sunday Rewind is a #mtpcon Digital APAC keynote from 2021 in which Genevieve Bell, Director of the 3A Institute (3Ai), gives us a whirlwind tour of cybernetics, demonstrating how its transdisciplinary approach can be used to inform our product processes and systems. Read more »
Navigating the era of personalization
A look at how technology is shaping our life experiences and how to mitigate its risks Read more »
How to harness AI to stand out as a product manager
Steve Lourdessamy, Co-founder of Spheria.ai explores how to use AI to improve and grow as a product manager. Read more »
Lessons learned when a product launch fails
As a product manager how do you respond when your product fails? We find out what some senior product people have learned from their experiences of failure. Read more »
How to F.A.I.L. better in product by Marc Abraham
Marc Abraham, Product Director at financial services business Backbase, shows us how to learn from our product mistakes and offers a framework for failing better Read more »
SUNDAY REWIND: Decision supervision – Structured thinking for product people by Lucy Spence
This week’s Sunday Rewind is an MTP Engage Manchester talk from Lucy Spence, then an Associate Director at comparethemarket.com, on the techniques she’s found to help her make structured decisions. Read more »