Product Management in Emerging Tech
While the idea of businesses and transactions has been around for centuries, Product Management is a much more recent development. As I mentioned in a previous blog post on the history of Product Management, PMs weren’t officially PMs until the 1930s, when Proctor...
Finding Success as an Off-Shore PM
As technology continues to impact how we do business, it also impacts where we do it. The tech boom that propelled us into the 21st century has completely changed the face—and location—of countless careers, including the role of the Product Manager. Traditionally, PMs...
Who Uses Product Roadmaps and How Are They Made?
One of my previous blog posts defined product roadmapping and explained its importance for Product Managers. However, there is more to the product roadmap that must be considered. For instance, who all benefits from product roadmaps besides PMs? And how are product...
How Successful Product Management Benefits Consumers
This blog has primarily focused on the “what” and “why” of product management from an internal perspective. Today, I’d like to briefly deviate to explore the effects of product management on individuals outside of the business—consumers. As a brief refresher, product...
What Is Product Roadmapping and Why Is It Important?
Our topics thus far have mainly focused on what it means to be a successful Product Manager and the tasks that come along with the title. One of the major PM tasks that we’ve discussed is product roadmapping. For this article, we’re going to take a deeper dive into...
Essential Skills of a Successful Product Manager
As we move forward in our discussions surrounding Product Management, we’ll be covering various topics that will shed light on the importance of the role, and the best ways to focus on your success as a PM. A PM, as we’ve previously mentioned, needs to have a...
Product Management in Startups: Why It’s Important
Today, startup companies make up a large portion of the workforce; however, the success rate isn’t always as high. With that, many entrepreneurs are focusing on building the right internal structure to help their startup take off successfully. Entrepreneurs that are...
The History of Product Management
Throughout this blog, we’ve covered an in-depth outline of what Product Management is, and the career path you can embark on once you’ve gotten into a PM role. The PM field can be extremely lucrative, and provide you with a variety of different skills and experiences...
The Product Management Career Path
Product managers come from a variety of backgrounds. Some of the more popular backgrounds for an entry into product management are Marketing, Sales Support, Engineering, Quality Assurance, Customer Support, and Tech Support. This isn’t an exhaustive list by any means....
What is Product Management?
As a Product Manager, the question of “what do you do?” is something I’m all too familiar with. I would like to use this blog, and future ones, to take a deep dive into the world of Product Managers(PM), and what it means to hold that title. Often confused with the...