Cambridge consulting company Magic Monkey is offering free downloads from its website on topics that are designed to help first time CEOs and Product Managers. Topics include "Minimal Viable Product, 10 Steps to a Really Useful Competitive Analysis and 60 Skills of a Great Product Manager".
Magic Monkey principal Annie Brooking said "Bringing products to market is a huge task, especially for the first time product manager as there are few templates and books to follow. Many years ago at Sun Microsystems in Silicon Valley, I found myself in exactly this situation and after my first product launch, a large software development environment decided to write my own template and guide for future reference. Over 25 years and 19 product launches it has been expanded and refined.
"There are 10 free downloads available now and I plan to continue to add to the list of titles."
Aspiring CEOs could not ask for better on-the-job-training than being a product manager as the process of turning an idea into a product and getting it to market means product managers need to get support and collaborate with almost every part of the business from R&D, engineering, manufacturing, design, customer support, marketing and of course sales and distribution whilst also understanding the implications of intellectual property, product life cycle and much more.
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