How to communicate effectively as a Product Manager
One of your major activities as a Product Manager will be managing communications across various stakeholders. You will be interacting with external and internal stakeholders, management, the engineering/design team, etc. More often than not, your calendar as a PM will be full. If you don’t know how to effectively guide and lead communications, your job might become
Lessons On The Road To A Full Time PM Job
By Chijioke Egbulefu Trying to get a PM job has been a daunting challenge for me, especially this year. To get to where we want, we sometimes go through a long and tortuous road that is characterised by rejections and setbacks that feel like failures. The major challenges have been: 1. Employers almost always want someone who already has hands-on
Understanding Product Vision
Attention: Product Management Newbies!!! For the sake and intent of this (and future) posts, I’ll assume you already know what Product management is about and the reason you’re reading this now is because you’re trying to figure out how to navigate the role. If my assumption is wrong, this is a good place to find those answers.
My Product Manager Journey – Lessons learned so far.
Whew! Where do I begin? Honestly, it has been a fantastic three months since the first day my life as a product manager began in SeamlessHR. So far I can say I have learnt a lot, crossed a lot of hurdles, dived into deep waters and found my way back to the top. It has been quite
AMA WITH LINDA
On 7th October, 2020 we had Linda Amadi as our PM guest on our bi-weekly #ProductDiveAMA. Linda is Senior Product Manager, Media and Marketing Platforms at Terragon Group. She is a highly motivated professional focused on helping businesses solve their problems, leveraging technology. An Ad-tech marketing expert with a passion for digital growth, she has a Bachelor’s
Solving Problems the Agile Way
by Chijioke Egbulefu Problems are wrinkles that we want straightened out as soon as we possibly could and they come in many shapes, sizes and forms. Solving them require a combination of critical and creative thinking skills and this is something we should all be familiar with no matter what job we do. Critical thinking is defined by
Webinar with Yewande Oyebo and Ayodeji Fasore: Managing Mature Products
As a product manager, you are responsible for every stage in the product life cycle, from conception to decline. As a product manager who just joined a new team and has to manage a product that has gone through iterations and has customers actively using it, how do you manage and keep such products performing well
AMA with KELECHI UZOMA
According to the Cloud Computing market research report, the value of the market stood at $199.01 billion in 2019. The corona-virus pandemic saw a whole lot more organizations move their businesses to the cloud in 2020. So, we can be sure that the value above would have gotten a whole lot more by now. Cloud solutions have
AMA with Emmanuel Bediako Addo-Yirenkyi
Emmanuel is passionate about financial inclusion, healthcare, technology and its associated social impacts. He has 7 years of experience in developing software using agile in startups at different stages in fintech, healthcare and social protection. He currently works at Transferwise as Product Manager, Global Expansion - MEA. Highly experienced, he brings his depth and versatile expertise
The Product Management Certification
by Chijioke for ProductDive Product Managers come from various backgrounds and experiences. While these experiences are valuable in forming the skills of the Product Manager, their variability could mean that no two Product Managers have exactly the same knowledge when they step into the role. A professional certification authenticates the people who have successfully taken the exam