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5 Minutes With Cristine Prufer (Foxtel)

This is a new series of posts which follows on from the "Product Managers are not Project Managers" post. Since the role of a Product Manager tends to differ across companies and across...

Flavours of Requirements Documents

Most companies have their own flavour of a product requirements document. The name of the document and the templates tend to vary from company to company. Even though each format captures business...

Product Managers are not Project Managers

Product Managers have an identity crisis. We're often mistaken as Project Managers. Whilst Project Management is sometimes a function of the role, our scope is wider than managing tasks and people...

Networking Events for Product Managers

It is important for Product Managers to network with other Product Managers! We've found it difficult to find appropriate networking events to attend, especially events which do not charge a...

A Passionate Product Manager

I was at a beer tasting event last week and it was great to see the beer maker, David Hollyoak of Redoak passionately talking about his product. Whilst he was explaining the finer details of beer...