Each year, Pragmatic Marketing conducts a survey of 1000s of product managers and product marketing managers to understand compensation and responsibilities. This presentation reveals the state of product management in 2010. Steve Johnson is a recognized thought-leader on the strategic role of product management and marketing. Broadly published and a frequent keynote speaker, Steve has been a Pragmatic Marketing instructor since 1996 and has personally trained thousands of product managers and hundreds of company senior executive teams on strategies for creating products that people want to buy.

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