Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Mastering the craft of product management is no easy task. I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables. Vision: Vision Narrative.

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Good Product Manager

MARCH 29, 2016

How Product Teams Understand Customer Needs for Innovation. My colleague Rachel Young and I have been conducting research for the past year on how b-to-b organizations understand customer needs and apply them to product innovation. Upcoming Product Management and Product Marketing Events.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This will change the way that a lot of people think about product market fit, BS metrics, understanding the needs of the people that really matter. Jared Spool’s excoriation of the use of NPS by marketing departments had struck a chord earlier in the week. “How would you feel if you could no longer use this product?”

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 11, 2016

Improving Product Management in 2016: Strategy vs. Technique. Certainly improving technique will have an impact on product management performance, but often product management leaders focus on upskilling on technique and neglect the strategic elements. and the SiriusDecisions Product Ownership Decision Framework.

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Mind the Product

JULY 14, 2020

Nandini Jammi started out in product marketing and growth, but after the US elections in 2016, her career took an unexpected turn when she joined Sleeping Giants, an organisation that aims to make bigotry and sexism less profitable. Chat to us on Twitter or in our dedicated Mind the Product #podcast Slack channel.

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Good Product Manager

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Three Tips for Aligning Product Management and Product Marketing. In this post on the SiriusDecisions blog — Three Tips for Aligning Product Management and Product Marketing — I share three practical tips for aligning product management and product marketing that came up in these sessions.

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Good Product Manager

JUNE 9, 2016

SiriusDecisions 2016 Summit Recap. We had 2500+ sales, marketing and product leaders together for 4 days of sharing of new research, practitioner case studies, lots of networking and some fantastic evening events. 10 Serious Decisions We Made After #SDSummit 2016. Five Key Learnings From My First #SDSummit.

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Good Product Manager

JUNE 9, 2016

SiriusDecisions 2016 Summit Recap. We had 2500+ sales, marketing and product leaders together for 4 days of sharing of new research, practitioner case studies, lots of networking and some fantastic evening events. 10 Serious Decisions We Made After #SDSummit 2016. Five Key Learnings From My First #SDSummit.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

In 2016 I gave a talk on lean market validation at the opening night of Startup Weekend at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I believe that the tactics can help both entrepreneurs and product managers launch better products with a higher chance of succeeding in the market. So, What is Market Validation?

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Nandini Jammi started out in product marketing and growth, but after the US elections in 2016 her career took an unexpected turn when she joined Sleeping Giants, an organisation that aims to make bigotry and sexism less profitable. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Quote of the Episode.

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Good Product Manager

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Three Tips for Aligning Product Management and Product Marketing. In this post on the SiriusDecisions blog — Three Tips for Aligning Product Management and Product Marketing — I share three practical tips for aligning product management and product marketing that came up in these sessions.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2021

We’ve expanded our principles to reflect Brian Balfour’s better-defined “New Age Growth”, and adopted Product Thinking to unlock huge A/B tested conversion, retention and AOV uplifts. We had to stop all our tests indefinitely until we could release more capacity in our factory.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. Adam: Rachel, you’re leading growth marketing at one of the fastest growing software companies of this generation.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Nandini Jammi started out in product marketing and growth, but after the US elections in 2016 her career took an unexpected turn when she joined Sleeping Giants, an organisation that aims to make bigotry and sexism less profitable. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Quote of the Episode.

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 11, 2016

Improving Product Management in 2016: Strategy vs. Technique. Certainly improving technique will have an impact on product management performance, but often product management leaders focus on upskilling on technique and neglect the strategic elements. and the SiriusDecisions Product Ownership Decision Framework.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Which product trends emerged in 2020 and are here to stay? What are the biggest trends in Product for 2021 you must implement into your Product Growth strategy? Who’s who in Product these days? And what new product growth terms made it to our dictionary? Trends to Watch In Product – Table of Contents.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2020

Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash Enterprise Product Managers are a bit different compared to the others. One particular issue that I often see is, whether to scale up a product quickly or not. Product Manager usually have pretty limited knowledge about engineering stuffs.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 3, 2022

Solid messaging strategies are the key to grabbing your audience’s attention and nurturing their interest in your product. But how you can create a really good messaging strategy that will support your product marketing goals? This could be anything from product superiority to better civic value propositions.

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Good Product Manager

MARCH 6, 2016

Survey: Understanding and Prioritizing Customer Needs for Innovation. One of the most important things that product managers need to do is understand customer needs in order to drive new products and enhance existing offerings. However, we know that that’s often a major area where companies and product teams struggle.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2021

If you’re looking to scale up your SaaS business , you may have considered hiring a marketing agency. Rather than hiring a bunch of marketing people in-house and figuring out a process from scratch, it can sometimes be more cost-efficient to hire an agency, plug your business model into their existing systems, and press play.

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Sachin Rekhi

APRIL 12, 2020

In Silicon Valley, we've become well-versed in the importance of finding product/market fit as the most important early pursuit for any new product or startup. Beyond product/market fit, it turns out business strategy really does matter. Switching costs.

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 29, 2017

I’ve got a few exciting things going on right now so here’s a quick update… Establishing a Product Management Function. Through my work at SiriusDecisions, I’ve been helping several organizations that are setting up product management for the first time. Survey: Product Management Tools.

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 29, 2017

I’ve got a few exciting things going on right now so here’s a quick update… Establishing a Product Management Function. Through my work at SiriusDecisions, I’ve been helping several organizations that are setting up product management for the first time. Survey: Product Management Tools.

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Good Product Manager

MARCH 6, 2016

Survey: Understanding and Prioritizing Customer Needs for Innovation. One of the most important things that product managers need to do is understand customer needs in order to drive new products and enhance existing offerings. However, we know that that’s often a major area where companies and product teams struggle.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. The output from a product in a box game, where we imagined how we would position the product if it was on sale in a supermarket.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. How product managers creatively say NO without being confrontational. Hear the interview at h ttp://www.thisisproductmanagement.com/episodes/creatively-saying-no-is-product-management.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 30, 2018

For the past 7 years Mind the Product has run #mtpcon in London and San Francisco and #mtpengage in Hamburg – the biggest and best product management conferences in the world. Mastering the Problem Space for Product/Market Fit by Dan Olsen. Quantifying Qualitative Research by Leisa Reichelt. Marty Cagan.

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Userpilot

JUNE 25, 2021

And that’s because of the Product Adoption Curve. The Product Adoption Curve shows how a product is adopted through multiple segments of the market. Understanding this lets you craft a product marketing strategy for every stage of product adoption. What is the Product Adoption Curve?

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 24, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. . Which of the 3 types of product mangers are you? (1) 1) Builders – the classic product manager. (2) 3) Innovators – product/market fit creators.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 23, 2017

Mind the Product London 2017 on September 8 will be better than ever, with more workshops, more networking, and more fun than ever. But most importantly #mtpcon will, as usual, bring you the best minds in product from around the world for a day full of thought-provoking insight, inspiration, and learning. Scott Berkun, Author.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 26, 2021

As we’ve grown from a tiny team when I joined in 2016 to the 160 or so folks we have today, there’s still this incredible empathy, kindness, and desire to lift each other up and see each other succeed.”. Jordan Neill, Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom, points out how this value is foundational to how we build product.

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bpma ProductHub

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The Boston area may just be the best place to be a product manager today. Bloomberg compared states based on R&D, productivity, high-tech density, concentration of STEM* employment, science/engineering degree holders, and patents with other areas. Reason #2: One of the highest concentrations of product managers anywhere.

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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 4, 2016

On December 4, 2006, I published my first post on this blog , where I wrote, “If you want to be a good product manager, share your knowledge. I’ve heard from people who’ve realized they wanted to go into product management in part by reading this blog. Without you, I never would have made it to 2016.

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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 4, 2016

On December 4, 2006, I published my first post on this blog , where I wrote, “If you want to be a good product manager, share your knowledge. I’ve heard from people who’ve realized they wanted to go into product management in part by reading this blog. Without you, I never would have made it to 2016.

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Melissa Perri

MAY 5, 2016

A Successful Start I learned about Minimum Viable Products like 99% of other Product Managers - through The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. Testing products before you build them? I was tired of building products that no one used. When I had the chance to try the MVP approach on a new product, I jumped on it.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 12, 2024

It helps product managers motivate teams to action, impress stakeholders, and quickly derive actionable insights. Measuring progression through sales and marketing funnels. Its use cases include: Comparing products or categories. Visualizing web traffic or product usage by month or year. Comparing survey results.

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Andrew Chen

JULY 20, 2020

To learn more from Bangaly, Elena, and Fareed check out the upcoming Career Accelerator Programs like Product Strategy , Marketing Strategy , and Retention + Engagement Deep Dive. When I joined Instagram in 2016, the product had over 400 million users, but the growth rate had slowed. The Importance Of The Adjacent User.

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