Product Manager Responsibilities According To 5 PMs
Does your organization have a product manager? Do you know what they do? Don’t feel too embarrassed if you don’t know the answer to that question; you’re not alone. Because product managers handle strategy and need to maintain close relationships with many teams, it’s not always clear what a product manager’s responsibilities really are. But getting a product from idea to market is a long, difficult journey, for which product managers are crucial. Find out how they do just that.
Rebel’s Guide to PM Creator Elizabeth Harrin on Remote Project Management
Elizabeth Harrin is the blogger behind the award-winning project management blog, RebelsGuideToPM.com. We wanted to know more about Elizabeth’s day-to-day, whether she thinks COVID-19 has changed project management, and what she believes the future holds for project managers.
What Is a Project Reporting Workflow?
With numerous communication channels and work management tools at our fingertips, getting updates on a project should be super simple right? Well, that’s not always the case.
Building on the monday.com API: What We Learned During a Pandemic Hackathon
Our team set out to build a brand new integration on the monday.com API in the midst of a pandemic. Here’s what we learned.
What Is a Product Backlog?
Feature requests, bugs, and infrastructure changes are just a few of the things that developers have to deal with. Wondering how product teams stay on top of everything they need to take care of? Two words. Product backlog.
How Reports Can Get Feedback From Managers and Stakeholders
You may have heard that millenials need more feedback than other generations. That may be true, but what is definitely true is that everyone can benefit from more feedback. Here’s your guide to getting the best feedback you can from managers and stakeholders alike.
What Is a Project Coordinator?
When it comes to getting projects across the finish line, people usually look to the project managers. They’re the people with the plan and the training, and they’re the last line of defense when something goes wrong. But project managers don’t work alone, and there’s usually a network of people that serve as an in-between for project managers and their teams. That’s where project coordinators come in.
Want to Make Your Org Chart Useful? Try Areas of Responsibility (AoRs)
How often have you reached out to the head of a team with a question, only to have them redirect you to someone else? This kind of thing is extremely common, and over the course of weeks and months adds up to a lot of wasted time. Thankfully, there’s a simple solution: Areas of Responsibility (AoRs).
What Is a Cross-Company Project Workflow?
Working across teams is hard. You have to manage different expectations, different ways of doing things, and sometimes completely different tools.. But what if, instead of teams, you’re dealing with completely different companies? The same challenges are often made worse by the fact that you’re not dealing with colleagues — unless you have a really strong cross-company project workflow.
We Read 100 Articles on Leadership So You Don’t Have To
When it comes to leadership, there’s no single path from “good” to “great.” That said, you can use conventional wisdom to guide you. Here are some of the most common must-have leadership traits — and some less common ones.
Is Your Team Only Partially Remote? Here’s How to Run Effective Hybrid Meetings
If you can accept that the future of work will be partially remote, then you can prepare your business for the new challenges it will face. Among those challenges is the frustration caused by hybrid meetings.