Product Management (Tracy Mahnken)

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Product Management (Tracy Mahnken)

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Mar 9, 2021

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Product management is a core area that helps us build software products. Tracy Mahnken, Vice President of Product at NerdWallet, explained the different areas of product management. We talked about product experimentation, cross-discipline collaboration and market research. Tracy also talked about important skills to have in product management and leadership positions.

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Mar 9, 2021

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397: From product manager to CEO – with Matt Young: Insights on product strategy and customer research for product managers Today we are looking at product management work through the eyes of a CEO, exploring several topics together. The CEO joining us is Matt Young, CEO of UserVoice, by Product Mastery Now for Product Managers, Leaders, and Innovators
34 min listen
484: Making customer research easier – with Prashant Mahajan: Tools for making voice-of-the-customer insights more accessible to product managers by Global Product Management Talk
31 min listen
Product Design from a Marketing Viewpoint, with Laura Krick (A Chat with Cross Functional Experts) by Quality during Design
30 min listen
EP57- Product Lifecycle #3: Google Product Lead on Building With Big Data: In product management, we hear about the importance of data all the time. That said, not every product manager understands what to make of every data set they review. What does it take to make informed product decisions using data? As part of our... by Product Talk
32 min listen
Nodes of Design#37: Design to Drive Outcome by Parag Trivedi by Nodes of Design
28 min listen
TEI 302: From product manager to founder: What product managers need to know to build a product into a successful company by Global Product Management Talk
44 min listen
TEI 304: How to become an influential product manager: How product managers can discover customer needs and build the right product by Global Product Management Talk
41 min listen
Ep. 16 - Experimentation-As-A-Service for Innovation Teams With Narjeet Soni by Bonanza: Product Growth
66 min listen
Guide to Building Cross-Functional Collaboration In Software Engineering by Level-up Engineering
55 min listen
TEI 302: From product manager to founder – with Ryan Frederick: What product managers need to know to build a product into a successful company When I’m working with a group of product managers to help them move towards product mastery, I always ask them to introduce themselves by sharing what they love about produ... by Product Mastery Now for Product Managers, Leaders, and Innovators
44 min listen
Reduce friction & create better alignment between product & engineering w/ Hubert Palan #149: Hubert Palan, Founder & CEO @ Product Board, discusses how to achieve successful collaboration between product and eng teams! He addresses the elements that make up healthy collaboration, common areas of tension between product & eng, and steps for aligning the teams on product vision, tooling, and processes. We also cover strategies for engineering leaders who want to contribute more to their business’s product vision, facilitation frameworks to improve communication between product management & eng teams, and how to best advocate for engineering’s most important considerations. by The Engineering Leadership Podcast
45 min listen
Best of 2021: Thinking Through Assumptions and Managing the Risks: In this episode of the How to Succeed in Product Management Podcast, marketing professor Jeff Shulman and The Product Management Center advisory board members Red Russak and Soumeya Benghanem welcome Dontae Delgado (Compass) and Siddhartha Rabindran (Mic... by How To Succeed In Product Management | Jeffrey Shulman, Red Russak & Soumeya Benghanem
58 min listen
9: Thinking Through Assumptions and Managing the Risks: In this episode of the How to Succeed in Product Management Podcast, marketing professor Jeff Shulman and The Product Management Center advisory board members Red Russak and Soumeya Benghanem welcome Dontae Delgado (Compass) and Siddhartha Rabindran (Mic... by How To Succeed In Product Management | Jeffrey Shulman, Red Russak & Soumeya Benghanem
58 min listen
487: Product Innovation Management: First of Seven Knowledge Areas of Product Mastery – with Chad McAllister, PhD: How product managers can master product innovation management Today we’re talking about product innovation management, one of the seven knowledge areas for product mastery. These are the knowledge areas that make us successful as product masters who kn... by Product Mastery Now for Product Managers, Leaders, and Innovators
33 min listen
EP 366 - The Trade Desk Product SVP on the Evolution of Product Management: How has product management evolved? In this episode of Product Talk with Kaboo Founder Neha Shah, The Trade Desk Product SVP Gruia Pitigoi-Aron speaks on how product management has evolved throughout his career. He shares his career journey from... by Product Talk
37 min listen
Building Inclusive Products with Jeremy King #67: Jeremy King (SVP of Engineering @ Pinterest) discusses some of the challenges, principles & frameworks behind building inclusive products. We also cover filtering decisions through your company mission, investing in rest and emerging challenges around creating serendipity with ideas, onboarding, retaining talent and the hard logistics of workplace flexibility. by The Engineering Leadership Podcast
45 min listen
EP124 - Prezi Product Director on the Superpowers of Design: The path to great design can be a fragmented maze of interface, research, and user experiences. But good design means good business. With an expanding inventory of design tools available to product leaders, which ones light the way best? Continuing... by Product Talk
22 min listen
#10: An Introduction to Careers in Product Marketing: Product Marketing is becoming a popular career choice for many professionals including aspiring and current MBA students. In this episode, I'm joined by Shyna Zhang, a former Product Marketer at Microsoft and Marketo, and current Product Marketing... by MBA Insider
41 min listen
Nodes of Design#93: Designing at Scale by Matthew Holloway by Nodes of Design
42 min listen
TEI 217: 50% of what makes product managers successful that most are missing – with Paresh Shah: Learn how to go from “gear head” to “group head.” Two spheres of capabilities are needed for product managers to be successful. One is competency in the processes, practices, and tools of product management. by Product Mastery Now for Product Managers, Leaders, and Innovators
57 min listen
What is Data-Driven Product Management with Manav Chugh: Building products that people want to use and activating users to try out new capabilities has to be the ultimate goal of every product manager. User and usage data is the enabler to make the right decisions. But data doesn’t come for free – and... by PurePerformance
53 min listen
#139 - A Developer's Guide to Effective Software Testing - Mauricio Aniche by Tech Lead Journal
55 min listen
TEI 220: What makes a good product manager & who shouldn’t be one: It’s all about creativity, curiosity, and customer focus for product managers. by Global Product Management Talk
34 min listen

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