Blackblot^® Product Management Expertise™

Does it mean anything?

The online marketplace for homestays is restructuring its product management department.

Product coaching is steadily gaining traction and awareness with companies.

A product leadership primer, according to PMTK.

The inner workings of the modern strategic product management interview and how to master it.

Product management is a specialization.

A career dilemma between two career principles. → Read More: Opportunism vs. Professional Integrity

Question: "Can you provide some insight on how to get ahead career-wise in product management?"

An analysis of the Product Management job market.

Question: "What are the traits of a great product manager?"

Question: "Should a product manager also be an intellectual?"

Question: "This review describes the skills required of product managers in the four approaches to product management.

Question: "Why is English considered an essential capacity for a PMTK product manager?"

This review explains the underlying problem of an over-confident product manager.

This concise review addresses job security nowadays and career maintenance in light of the Better.com debacle.

This review explain that to be an effective product management professional, you must have BOTH domain expertise and functional expertise.

Question: "Do product managers need project management skills?"

This sober and concise review outlines some of the market dynamics in product management which will emerge in the very near future.

Question: "How would you describe a competent director of product management who oversees the product group?"

Question: "The market is being flooded by certification tests and classes. They are expensive but easy to pass. Are they worth it?"

Question: "What does it take to be a great product manager?"

Question: "I have several years of product management experience. I would like to improve my skills and gain new knowledge. Perhaps do some practice? Does Blackblot have anything?"

Question: "Can you provide some insight on how to get ahead career wise in product management?"

Question: "I had a question for you that I am really interested in hearing your thoughts on. I have been in the product management world for 15+ years now and one of the things that I have noticed is that it seems to be becoming a much more technical role requiring, in some cases, that people have programming backgrounds."

Question: "I read your Dichotomous Future of Product Management article where you have identified four types of product management. Can you say anything about their relative popularity? Even if you don’t have hard data to show around the percentage of companies using each approach, some thoughts on the popularity of each would be interesting."