© Allan Kelly 2019
A. KellyThe Art of Agile Product Ownershiphttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5168-3_15

15. What Do Product Managers Do?

Allan Kelly1 
(1)
London, UK
 

Over the past several years, I’ve noticed a change in our industry, … The change is that the vast majority of Product Managers that I meet have had almost no real training at all, and the training they have had is usually a CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner) course which doesn’t even scratch the surface of what a Product Manager needs to know.

—Marty Cagan1

Product Managers work with the development team, with customers, senior managers, and sales and keep watch on technology advances and the wider market, including competitors. They are at the center of many conversations. They ...

Get The Art of Agile Product Ownership: A Guide for Product Managers, Business Analysts, and Entrepreneurs now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.