The presentation focuses on the essential skills for a good product manager, particularly in Berlin. The presentation discusses the importance of both hard and soft skills for product managers and provides an analysis approach to identify the most sought-after/demanded skills. The top hard skills identified include years of experience, technical understanding, data analysis skills, project management skills, and more. On the other hand, the top soft skills include collaboration, communication, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and strategic thinking. The content is relevant for individuals seeking to understand and develop the skills required for a product manager role, especially in the Berlin job market.
How can companies - small and large - develop better products for their customers? Ones that their customers want and ones that will delight them? In a growlingly digital world that is changing every industry and company, and swallowing some whole, agility is a business value driver and not just good to do, but required.
Lean and agile methods and practices are the most common approach used by leading digital companies such as Expedia, Google, and Netflix and also large global enterprises who are transforming how they deliver business value faster - with higher quality - to the customer.
Agility is not just an "IT thing". It is a business imperative.
Leaner and Smarter: How Enterprises Can Develop Better Digital ProductsThoughtworks
What does "good" look like for product development? What does repeatable innovation look like scaled across an enterprise?
ThoughtWorks Lead Consultant Natalie Hollier shares real-world experiences in applying lean product practices as a continuous process across multiple products and agile development teams. She outlines practical approaches to help companies get started and techniques to support them through their lean transformation. With real examples and artifacts you will learn how to manage - and thrive - in uncertainty to create awesome products.
Check out more of Natalie's thought leadership here: https://www.thoughtworks.com/profiles/natalie-hollier
Breaking Into AI/ML Product Management by Facebook Product LeaderProduct School
Main takeaways:
- Finding available resources to begin building your AI/ML skillset
- Leveraging your current strengths as a Product Manager
- Embrace the challenges and don’t be afraid to try and fail
The Product Dev Conundrum: To Build or Buy in a Digital World?Aggregage
Any PM or technical leader who’s led the charge of building a digital product knows that product engineering is one of the most expensive elements of business. In most cases, actually building software should be the last avenue that companies explore to deliver great products, as software engineering, data science and product development are complex, uncertain and hard to manage.
How can companies - small and large - develop better products for their customers? Ones that their customers want and ones that will delight them? In a growlingly digital world that is changing every industry and company, and swallowing some whole, agility is a business value driver and not just good to do, but required.
Lean and agile methods and practices are the most common approach used by leading digital companies such as Expedia, Google, and Netflix and also large global enterprises who are transforming how they deliver business value faster - with higher quality - to the customer.
Agility is not just an "IT thing". It is a business imperative.
Leaner and Smarter: How Enterprises Can Develop Better Digital ProductsThoughtworks
What does "good" look like for product development? What does repeatable innovation look like scaled across an enterprise?
ThoughtWorks Lead Consultant Natalie Hollier shares real-world experiences in applying lean product practices as a continuous process across multiple products and agile development teams. She outlines practical approaches to help companies get started and techniques to support them through their lean transformation. With real examples and artifacts you will learn how to manage - and thrive - in uncertainty to create awesome products.
Check out more of Natalie's thought leadership here: https://www.thoughtworks.com/profiles/natalie-hollier
Breaking Into AI/ML Product Management by Facebook Product LeaderProduct School
Main takeaways:
- Finding available resources to begin building your AI/ML skillset
- Leveraging your current strengths as a Product Manager
- Embrace the challenges and don’t be afraid to try and fail
The Product Dev Conundrum: To Build or Buy in a Digital World?Aggregage
Any PM or technical leader who’s led the charge of building a digital product knows that product engineering is one of the most expensive elements of business. In most cases, actually building software should be the last avenue that companies explore to deliver great products, as software engineering, data science and product development are complex, uncertain and hard to manage.
What Product Management Frameworks Work by Google PM LeadProduct School
Main takeaways:
-There are many types of Product Management jobs - strategic frameworks can be used to better understand the role, customer, and how best to innovate
-Horizon planning is one popular framework that can help determine useful metrics and priorities
-The Technology Layers Framework helps identify feedback channels and your closest allies
Arvind Sharma
Global Head - Retail & CPG Vertical Ciklum AG
Arvind has over 20 years of industry experience in leading the delivery of business transformation programs in a digital ecosystem. With strong business engagement and consulting credentials, he creates a climate of collaboration and knowledge sharing, ensuring talent, irrespective of the location, is aligned with business goals and demonstrating exceptional user experience, from conception through to the delivery. He is versatile and proficient at building trust and developing relationships, from field personnel to the C-suite.
Hybrid IT: The Importance of Integration to Salesforce SuccessDarren Cunningham
Are you struggling to integrate Salesforce with other systems? Are you looking for ways to get more from both cloud and on-premise investments? According to IDC research, “IT organizations are looking for ways to improve cloud governance and control, while also ensuring business continuity and continued innovation.” This session will feature three case studies outlining best practices and examples of how the right approach to data integration can accelerate Salesforce adoption and ROI. This session is brought to you by Informatica, a proud sponsor of Dreamforce.
People who have a large life content can create an interactive cv in a PDF file which allows a self contained document with easily searchable information
How Business Acceleration Cloud is Revolutionizing Software SalesCloudShare
Watch here: https://youtu.be/YHhugkLpPo4
Digital Transformation is called the fourth industrial revolution for good reason. The re-invention of best practices and processes with digital technologies is having far-reaching impact on our business dealings and many aspects of our daily lives.
For enterprises, competition is hotter than ever and there’s a need to accomplish more with less resources, especially in sales. Companies must move faster, become more effective and efficient, and they need intelligent and agile methods to scale and maximize growth.
Software and the cloud is the key enabler of this acceleration - and its time has come.
Join industry experts for a free webinar on January 22 - 11:00 am PT/1:00 pm ET - to learn “How Business Acceleration Cloud is Revolutionizing Software Sales.” Speakers include:
Holger Mueller, VP & Principal Analyst at Constellation Research: Will cover how purpose-built hybrid software and cloud-based platforms are driving a new sales enablement tech category that will fast become an essential component for growth.
Avi Rembaum, VP Security Solutions, Check Point: To discuss how new tech has helped scale support for over 500 security and sales engineers and thousands of resellers in areas from management to tracking to better understanding the sales cycle.
Dr. Zvi Guterman, CEO and Co-Founder of CloudShare: Will detail how to accelerate business success with dedicated cloud-based solutions, based on real-world client and industry examples.
Key Skills & Value Preposition for SAP product company
SAP Global Business Development by building a qualified leads pipeline and growing sales with the following skills
1. SAP Online research, list building, competitor review.
2. SAP Lead Generation, email campaign, track & nurture.
3. SAP Social Media, Mobile, Visual, Content Marketing.
4. SAP Viral marketing.
5. SAP Paid Social Media Advertising.
6. SAP-UX Design & Video Production.
7. SAP Search engine optimization.
8. SAP Consumer Behavior & CRM Skills.
9. SAP-Data Visualization, Science & Analytics.
10. SAP-HTML, CMS, CSS & related Coding Languages.
11. SAP-Sales Engagement on WebEx, SkyPE, TeamViewer
What Product Management Frameworks Work by Google PM LeadProduct School
Main takeaways:
-There are many types of Product Management jobs - strategic frameworks can be used to better understand the role, customer, and how best to innovate
-Horizon planning is one popular framework that can help determine useful metrics and priorities
-The Technology Layers Framework helps identify feedback channels and your closest allies
Arvind Sharma
Global Head - Retail & CPG Vertical Ciklum AG
Arvind has over 20 years of industry experience in leading the delivery of business transformation programs in a digital ecosystem. With strong business engagement and consulting credentials, he creates a climate of collaboration and knowledge sharing, ensuring talent, irrespective of the location, is aligned with business goals and demonstrating exceptional user experience, from conception through to the delivery. He is versatile and proficient at building trust and developing relationships, from field personnel to the C-suite.
Hybrid IT: The Importance of Integration to Salesforce SuccessDarren Cunningham
Are you struggling to integrate Salesforce with other systems? Are you looking for ways to get more from both cloud and on-premise investments? According to IDC research, “IT organizations are looking for ways to improve cloud governance and control, while also ensuring business continuity and continued innovation.” This session will feature three case studies outlining best practices and examples of how the right approach to data integration can accelerate Salesforce adoption and ROI. This session is brought to you by Informatica, a proud sponsor of Dreamforce.
People who have a large life content can create an interactive cv in a PDF file which allows a self contained document with easily searchable information
How Business Acceleration Cloud is Revolutionizing Software SalesCloudShare
Watch here: https://youtu.be/YHhugkLpPo4
Digital Transformation is called the fourth industrial revolution for good reason. The re-invention of best practices and processes with digital technologies is having far-reaching impact on our business dealings and many aspects of our daily lives.
For enterprises, competition is hotter than ever and there’s a need to accomplish more with less resources, especially in sales. Companies must move faster, become more effective and efficient, and they need intelligent and agile methods to scale and maximize growth.
Software and the cloud is the key enabler of this acceleration - and its time has come.
Join industry experts for a free webinar on January 22 - 11:00 am PT/1:00 pm ET - to learn “How Business Acceleration Cloud is Revolutionizing Software Sales.” Speakers include:
Holger Mueller, VP & Principal Analyst at Constellation Research: Will cover how purpose-built hybrid software and cloud-based platforms are driving a new sales enablement tech category that will fast become an essential component for growth.
Avi Rembaum, VP Security Solutions, Check Point: To discuss how new tech has helped scale support for over 500 security and sales engineers and thousands of resellers in areas from management to tracking to better understanding the sales cycle.
Dr. Zvi Guterman, CEO and Co-Founder of CloudShare: Will detail how to accelerate business success with dedicated cloud-based solutions, based on real-world client and industry examples.
Key Skills & Value Preposition for SAP product company
SAP Global Business Development by building a qualified leads pipeline and growing sales with the following skills
1. SAP Online research, list building, competitor review.
2. SAP Lead Generation, email campaign, track & nurture.
3. SAP Social Media, Mobile, Visual, Content Marketing.
4. SAP Viral marketing.
5. SAP Paid Social Media Advertising.
6. SAP-UX Design & Video Production.
7. SAP Search engine optimization.
8. SAP Consumer Behavior & CRM Skills.
9. SAP-Data Visualization, Science & Analytics.
10. SAP-HTML, CMS, CSS & related Coding Languages.
11. SAP-Sales Engagement on WebEx, SkyPE, TeamViewer
Xain.io exhibiting at Berlin Tech Job Fair Spring 2020
Landing a Product Manager Job in Berlin - Top Hard Skills / Top Soft Skills Demanded By Companies
1. Which skills are essential for
a good product manager?
A quantitative approach to answer the question
2. This question is too broad and unspecificto be
answered - let’s break it down...
Which skills are essential for
a good product manager?
3. Roles that include
digital Product
Management discovery
& delivery tasks
Which skills are essential for
a good product manager?
Soft skills
Based on employer
requirements
Good enough to
land a job in Berlin
Hard skills
4. The new question could be answered with a
quantitative approach
What are the top hard & soft skills
employers seek in product managers in
Berlin?
5. Assess whether your existing skills align with the necessary soft and hard
skills required for a product manager position.
Am I equipped for a product manager role?
It's beneficial to identify the sought-after skills and incorporate them
into your training strategy if you're already in the role and want to
stay employable.
Which specific skills do I need to acquire?
Review your resume to emphasize the essential skills desired by
employers in product management. Doing so will increase your chances
of being noticed as a standout candidate.
Are my CV's product manager skills emphasized enough?
Why does finding an
answer to this question
matter?
6. Analysis
approach
Hard Skills Soft Skills
Locating 50 job listings across Berlin-based companies
specifically for product management roles involving either
discovery or delivery responsibilities.
Extract the essential job prerequisites typically emphasized as
Requirements Profile, Competencies, Qualifications, or Criteria
to Demonstrate Your Fit.
Categorize the job requirements into distinct sections: one for
hard skills and another for soft skills. Organize the data by
grouping similar traits under existing tags for each new skill
identified.
Determine the most sought-after hard and soft skills by
analyzing their occurrence frequency within the dataset.
7. 50 different
Companies
Adjust
Also Energy
Alteos GmbH
AUTODOC
Baobab Insurance GmbH
Bridgemaker GmbH
Bundesdruckerei GmbH
CEEZER Software GmbH
Contentful
Cosmo Beauty Brand House
GmbH
Delivery Hero
Deutsche Telekom IoT GmbH
Digital Charging Solutions GmbH
Enpal B.V.
Enter by baupal GmbH
FORMEL Skin
gematik GmbH
GK SOFTWARE SE
IBM iX
Kaia Health Software GmbH
Metacore
Mister Spex SE
MOIA
NeoTaste GmbH
neurocat GmbH
NeuroNation - Digitale
Gesundheitsanwendung
O'Donnell Moonshine GmbH
PAYBACK GmbH
Raisin
reisetopia GmbH
Restream
Riverty Group GmbH
Scalable GmbH
Semrush
sennder
sitzfeldt
Sony Music Entertainment Germany
Staffgroup
Talon.One
Tech Punk GmbH
Text Cortex AI UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Uhura Digital GmbH
Verlag Der Tagesspiegel GmbH
Vimcar
VR Smart Guide GmbH
wefox
Wooga
Workist GmbH
Y1 Digital AG
Yoummday GmbH
9. Which are the
top hard skills?
0 % 20 % 40 % 60 % 80 %
Years of experience
English
German
10. Which are the
top hard skills?
0 % 10 % 20 % 30 % 40 %
Technical understanding
Experience shipping digital products/features
Data Analysis skills
Customer Research (user centricity)
Project management skills
Experience in in agile methodologies
UX/UI Design understanding
Decision-making based on data
Business knoweldge
Market analysis skills
11. Which are the
top soft skills?
0 % 10 % 20 % 30 % 40 % 50 % 60 % 70 %
Collaboration skills, being a teamplayer
Communication skills
Analytical problem-solving skills
12. Which are the top
soft skills?
0 % 10 % 20 % 30 % 40 %
Structure, handling complexity
Stakeholder management skills
Innovative thinking, creativity
Effective working style
Independent working style
Solution/outcome-oriented
Strategic thinking and planning abilities
Responsible, reliable
Conceptual skills
Enthusiastic