product management

How management consultancy skills can help create great PMs

Analyse, over-communicate, strategize and collaborate. When you get right down to it, these are the four core skills that management consultants and product managers have in common.

I’d like to share a few things I learned along my journey from management consultant to product manager. Perhaps my insights might help you better navigate your own career path. 

Jiri Necas

Eva Novotná

The Internship That Confirmed My Career Path: A Product Design Intern’s Story

I celebrate and reflect on my 11-month internship at Productboard. In those 11 months, I achieved two things: I entered the job market and validated that I can and want to work as a product designer. I went from being a complete novice to owning my own domain and shipping a feature. I’d like to share how I did it.

Jiri Necas

Filip Zajíc

7 ways our Design team uses Productboard at Productboard

Our designers are avid users of Productboard and benefit greatly from gaining a deep understanding of customer needs and feedback trends, staying organized within our product teams, as well as understanding how our work fits into the all-company roadmap.

In this article, we’ll run through some tips on how to integrate Productboard into your day-to-day workflow. We’ll look at how we leverage Productboard for seven key activities, although it’s worth noting that each activity is important regardless of the tool(s) you end up using.

Jiri Necas

Zdenek Kuncar

Behind the Roadmap with a Productboard Group Product Manager

Take an inside look at the life of product managers in our new Behind the Roadmap video series.

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Productboard Editorial

Joining Productboard as an associate product manager

I joined Productboard a few months ago as an associate product manager. It’s been an extraordinary experience, and I’d like to share with you seven highlights of my journey — so far.

Jiri Necas

Dominik Ilichman

Why your product management process isn’t scaling (and how to fix it)

At any given time, product managers (PMs) are responsible for the business, design, and engineering aspects of product development. And when the company hits hypergrowth, PMs have to rapidly scale up each of these departments to meet new demand — no easy task. Scaling product management processes is often slow

Dottie Schrock

Dottie Schrock

Why we are now in the “Golden Age of Product Management”

Just a few years ago, product management was a function that did not have a clear definition.  For many companies, product managers were confused for user experience designers, senior technology leads, or, more controversially, project managers. At best, teams acknowledged that PMs were product owners in the Agile sense, and

Dottie Schrock

Dottie Schrock

Becoming a product shokunin

“Taste is tough to explain, isn’t it?” My first thought upon hearing the opening words of the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi was: this is the culinary version of Steve Jobs’ single-minded fixation on good taste. The mental jump from sushi to iPhone wasn’t such a stretch. After all, my

Winston Blick

Winston Blick

Tap into a goldmine of customer insights with the Productboard integration for Intercom

How did we get by in the era before Intercom? With Productboard’s Intercom integration, you can funnel those insights back to the product team so they can be put to use in prioritizing what to build, and ensure it gets built in the right way.

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David Patterson

What does a product manager do?

Product Managers listen, prioritize, and build. To do all of these things, they must wear multiple hats to build the best products for their customers.

Dottie Schrock

Dottie Schrock