What Is Product Management?
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As products and technologies continue to evolve, so too does the role of Product Management. We take a look at what Product Management is in 2016 and also ask some product experts and influencers what it will look like in the future.
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- 1. Whatisproductmanagement? and what will it look like in the future?
- 8. TheProductNetworkintechTODAY: Courtesy: Daniel Schmidt, productlogic.org
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- 15. “I think Product Management is the art of helping your team and company ship the right product to your users.” Josh Elman Partner at Greylock
- 16. Hunter Walk Partner at Homebrew VC “Product Management is: Building. Communicating. Helping. Simplifying. Collaborating. (Sometimes) Crying. Leading.”
- 17. “Product Management fills the white space and manages the tensions that exist between business, technology, and design.” Daniel SchmidtVP Product, MDSave
- 18. “Product Management is investigating what users really need and then working within a team to figure out how to best meet that need within cost and time constraints.” Tristan Kromer Lean Startup Coach and Adviser, TriKro
- 19. "A good Product Manager is a scientist, armchair psychologist, and janitor in cross functional teams. Ever curious, open to new ideas, perceptive, listens, and evolves through time. Someone who helps their team understands what it is they should build and how to build it as efficiently as possible while keeping everyone as happy as possible." Bo Ren Product Manager, Facebook
- 20. "Product management drives the vision, strategy, design, and execution of the product. While one can often quickly comprehend the basic responsibilities of the role, mastering each of these dimensions is truly an art form that one is constantly honing.” Sachin Rekhi Former Director of Product, LinkedIn
- 21. “In my experience, what defines successful product management is not how much understanding of UX or business or tech exists, but how much care about the customer exists. If the work delivers real value to the customer then elements like aesthetics and performance will be have been addressed.” Richard Banfield CEO, Fresh Tilled Soil
- 26. Productmanagementis: Not “Product Marketing” or “Program Management” Not a “new thing” in Tech Not “kinda like UX Design”
- 31. “Product is about figuring out what to build, and in the indefinite future I don’t see that role going away, however, the techniques will continue to evolve and improve.” Marty Cagan Partner, Silicon Valley Product Group
- 32. “There will be more discussion of how to structure & align Product Management teams effectively, particularly around tech, UX, business "flavors" of PM. There will also be more discussion on the differences between software, hardware, IoT, medical etc Product Managers.” Ellen Chisa VP Product, Lola
- 33. “In the future, product management will look just like it did in the past. People will be excited about new technologies, and we'll just keep asking 'why should we build this?' and 'how will this benefit our users?'" Nick Fassler Product Management, Asana
- 34. “Eventually, PM and UX will merge. PMs will define the user journey and goals of a product, while algorithms sorting through A/B testing results, eye tracking, and sentiment analysis will determine how to best produce that user journey.” Tristan Kromer Lean Startup Coach and Adviser, TriKro
- 35. “Great product managers in the future will have to spend more time understanding the human problems they are solving than the technology they are solving those problems with” Josh Elman Partner at Greylock
- 36. “In the future, product managers will (a) embrace bots as team members and (b) let go of the delusion that the future of their product can be predicted or mapped.” Daniel SchmidtVP Product, MDSave
- 37. "Product management will go beyond just engineering solutions and launching products. Product management will be about creating a human layer on top of technology. PMs need to understand user psychology, walk a 1000 miles in their user’s shoes, and build deep emotional connections to their products.”Bo Ren Product Manager, Facebook
- 38. "Product management is still in it's infancy, still grappling with what the basic responsibilities of the role in technology companies are. Over time though we'll stop looking inward for understanding and spend more of our time looking outward (of the industry) for inspiration in building truly great products by synthesizing ideas from art, humanities, hard science, psychology, and more.” Sachin Rekhi Former Director of Product, LinkedIn
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