As product managers, we often obsess on the potential business outcomes our development investments will generate. A recent development at career.pm reminded me of the importance of also doing what is …
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The Hiring Mindset: An Interview with a Product Leader
Philip Hubertus, a senior manager at Here Technologies, has built high performance product management teams and shares some insight from "the other side of the desk". In the market for a product …
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Breaking In (Leadership Series) with Timo Wagenblatt
In this episode of career.pm's Breaking In Leadership Series, I talk to Timo Wagenblatt, a respected product leader at SAP and member of the Product Management Festival board, about how he …
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The Messy Truth About Product Management
If you take a look at the most popular product management content on the interwebs, you might come away with the impression that the job mainly involves spending investors' money on pricey lattes, …
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Structuring Product Management Interviews
At career.pm, we have developed a model of product management professional development based on 4 "building blocks". We use this model to help assess our members' level of proficiency among the …
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Executive Series: The Portfolio Process
In our "Executive" Series of blog posts, we'll address some topic from a perspective more relavent to product leaders. If I were to ask most product execs why it's important to make product …
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Are you a product manager or just a PMINO?
My career has taught me that in the context of different continents, countries, industries, companies and organizations, titles mean precious little. I've worked for companies that were lousy …
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Making Your PM Resume Shine
We've helped a lot of product managers prepare for job interviews. Our key takeaway? Most product managers aren't bringing their "A Game" in almost any aspect of their job search. We have seen waaaay …
The Discipline of Tiny Steps
In mid-2018, I had an idea. Wouldn't it be cool, I thought, to make it easy for people to learn about wines with their friends in the comfort of their own homes? I have some friends who are wine …
Next-level Product Management
Helping PMs make the most of their careers is our raison d'être at career.pm (please excuse the French -- just trying to class this post up a bit). However, to be as effective as possible, you need to …