{"id":3141,"date":"2023-02-14T11:03:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T16:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/?p=3141"},"modified":"2023-02-14T11:03:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T16:03:15","slug":"why-should-we-care-about-product-managers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/2023\/02\/14\/why-should-we-care-about-product-managers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Should We Care About Product Managers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/multi-tasking_project-management_designer-100747096-orig.jpg?quality=50&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"multi tasking project management designer\" width=\"177\" height=\"118\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Product managers are essential to businesses, as they link all of the functions that revolve around a product together. They are influential in the process of building and launching products. What\u2019s even more interesting is that product managers have evolved from their past roles. They used to center their focus on the execution of a product but now are considered \u201cmini-CEOs\u201d. In order to be a product manager, you must be a knowledgeable person that wears many hats. This person must know the ins and outs of the product that is being created. Product managers must have an advanced technological background, along with the ability to do some interacting with customers. As the role continues to develop, product managers are also working with APIs. Product managers are the people that are road mapping the goals of the business in terms of product and ensuring that they can lead the team to success. They come up with game plans on how to achieve business goals. Overall, having a product manager is key to having a successful business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Image link: https:\/\/www.cio.com\/article\/221885\/what-is-a-product-manager-a-complex-cross-functional-role-in-it.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Product managers are essential to businesses, as they link all of the functions that revolve around a product together. They are influential in the process of building and launching products. What\u2019s even more interesting is that product managers have evolved from their past roles. They used to center their focus on the execution of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10531],"tags":[845065,83759,952,178,845079],"class_list":{"0":"post-3141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-student-post","7":"tag-benefit","8":"tag-customer","9":"tag-data","10":"tag-mis","11":"tag-product-manager","12":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3142,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions\/3142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}