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54: Can A Product Manager Thrive in a Different Industry and Become a Good PM in Tech
FromHow To Succeed In Product Management | Jeffrey Shulman, Red Russak & Soumeya Benghanem
54: Can A Product Manager Thrive in a Different Industry and Become a Good PM in Tech
FromHow To Succeed In Product Management | Jeffrey Shulman, Red Russak & Soumeya Benghanem
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Length:
49 minutes
Released:
Jul 20, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In this episode of the How to Succeed in Product Management Podcast, marketing professor Jeff Shulman and The Product Management Center advisory board member Soumeya Benghanem welcome Matthew Landry (Cisco Meraki) to talk about what makes a good PM in the networks and security field. A good PM is someone who is intellectually curious and one who has an element of unhappiness with the status quo because in this field you will have to formulate strategies as you collect information while satisfying the end users or customers.
Support for How to Succeed in Product Management is brought to you by Apptentive, which enables product managers to measure shifts in customer emotion and gather actionable feedback across the mobile customer journey. To learn more, go to Apptentive.com/UW.
What to Listen For:
00:00 Intro
04:21 How metrics change in different technology industries
06:12 Metrics in networks and security
11:10 The need to deliver value and build instrumentation
15:02 Trade off between collecting information vs. satisfying the customers
24:24 What makes a growth PM
27:59 Defining the product management roles
31:47 Switching across different subdisciplines of product management
34:24 What kind of person fits the product management role?
39:25 When to know if this is not right for you
41:33 Collaboration between multiple departments
Support for How to Succeed in Product Management is brought to you by Apptentive, which enables product managers to measure shifts in customer emotion and gather actionable feedback across the mobile customer journey. To learn more, go to Apptentive.com/UW.
What to Listen For:
00:00 Intro
04:21 How metrics change in different technology industries
06:12 Metrics in networks and security
11:10 The need to deliver value and build instrumentation
15:02 Trade off between collecting information vs. satisfying the customers
24:24 What makes a growth PM
27:59 Defining the product management roles
31:47 Switching across different subdisciplines of product management
34:24 What kind of person fits the product management role?
39:25 When to know if this is not right for you
41:33 Collaboration between multiple departments
Released:
Jul 20, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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