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    What Product Managers Need to Know About World-Class Product Development: How Product Managers Can Create Successful Products
    What Product Managers Need to Know About World-Class Product Development: How Product Managers Can Create Successful Products
    What Product Managers Need to Know About World-Class Product Development: How Product Managers Can Create Successful Products
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    What Product Managers Need to Know About World-Class Product Development: How Product Managers Can Create Successful Products

    Written by Dr. Jim Anderson

    Narrated by Dr. Jim Anderson

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    As product managers it is our responsibility to create products that our customers will want and that will end up being profitable for our companies. It turns out that this is no easy task. Identifying what a customer really wants and then turning that into a feature that can be delivered to a customer is hard work. The key to being successful is to understand exactly what goes into world-class product development.

    What You'll Find Inside:

    • HOW CAN PRODUCT MANAGERS PICK THE RIGHT TECHNOLOGY FOR OUR PRODUCTS?
    • HOW YAHOO PRODUCT MANAGERS ARE KICKING GOOGLE’S BUTT
    • FAST PRODUCT MANAGEMENT LESSONS FROM A PORSCHE 911
      • WHAT EVERY PRODUCT MANAGER NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THE HADOOP DATABASE SOLUTION

    Every product uses some form of technology no matter if the technology is embedded in the product or if it is used to create the product. Product managers play a key role in selecting the correct technologies to use. Any product requires the company to make an investment in it. One aspect of this investment that is important to a product manager is the cost of capital. That money will be spent creating a product team. As product managers we need to realize that we'll have team members of different ages and we need to know how best to manage them all.

    As we look around different industries, we look for examples that we can follow when developing products. The competition between Yahoo and Google in the area of financial reporting provides us with some good examples of what to do and what not to do. Because creating a new product is such a risky undertaking, we need to look for ways to hedge our bets. One thing that can reduce our risk is to copy something that someone else has already done. We need to keep in mind the amount of risk that will be involved.

    Innovation is the key to creating new products that your customers will want. Examples from companies like Porsche can provide us with suggestions on how to go about doing this. The plan that we create to deliver a new product is just that – a plan. We need to make sure that we take action despite what the plan says in order to make sure that our product is delivered on time. New technologies, such as the Hadoop database, may play a key role in our ability to accomplish this.

    For more information on what it takes to be a great product manager, check out my blog, The Accidental Product Manager, at: www.TheAccidentalPM.com

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlue Elephant
    Release dateJan 1, 2014
    ISBN9781509439546
    What Product Managers Need to Know About World-Class Product Development: How Product Managers Can Create Successful Products

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