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Product, management, and communication by Andreas Thorsheim

BY Lorian Leong on June 23, 2016

In an inspiring ProductTank talk, Andreas Thorsheim, Founder and CEO at Otovo talks about information gathering and synthesis in relation to the product manager role, middle management, and stakeholder communication management. Read more »

Video: Rochelle King on Managing Conflict

BY Martin Eriksson on August 7, 2015

We spend a lot of time and effort avoiding conflict but inevitably as product managers and designers we engage in conflict on a regular basis, whether it’s dealing with other teams, giving constructive criticism or simply while engaging divergent points of view. As the leader of user experience at Netflix and now Spotify, Rochelle King Read more »

Product Managers: 5 ways you can make an engineer's job easier

BY Kirsty Lee on March 31, 2014

As a Product Manager, demands are placed on you from many different areas – from engineering and design, to marketing and business development. However, software engineers tend to be the ones who work closest with Product Managers on a day-to-day basis – and they usually have a pretty clear idea of the things which make Read more »

Moving From Product Management Into Product Strategy

BY Becky Yelland on May 15, 2013

I’ve worked as a product manager since 2005. My first role was part of the core product team at BSkyB in strategic product development.  We were product owners of the concept through to delivery to market of all the new set-top boxes and in-home consumer devices such as routers and wireless bridges, as well as Read more »