In Part 1 of this post, I shared some of the practices that I use to define my personal development needs and focus. In Part 2, I am sharing some of the ways to address these needs. Step 3. Building my development plan Coming to this step, I know what I am aiming at in 1-3 years from now, and…
3 Steps to Build Your Personal Development Roadmap as a Product Manager (part 1)
It’s the start of the year. For me, this is a time when I look back at what I have achieved over the past year and set my goals looking forward. And just like we would build strategy and roadmaps for our products, I believe it is important to build a strategy and roadmap for ourselves, as a product vision…
How has the GDPR fuss been helpful to product managers?
Happy GDPR Day! Today is May 25, and as we all know already, it is the day when the now famous GDPR regulation of the European Union comes into force. Your mailbox has gone crazy with all the e-mails to confirm your mailing preferences, hasn’t it? Quite a few people I’ve spoken to recently honestly admitted they take it as…
The Difference between Product and Service Organizations
In the past few years, I have been engaging with more and more technology organizations that started as pure service providers and are now evolving to offer their own products on the marketplace. Typically, these products have been started based on needs these organizations have identified through their experience in service-based projects with different customers. While this is a good…
Free Webinar: Why Product Management Skills Are Key to Organization Success? (in Bulgarian)
In this webinar we talk about the role of a Product Manager and why PM skills are key to the organization success. We also discuss our motivation to create the Product Academy and what participants will experience during the sessions.