Good Product Manager

JANUARY 28, 2018

In the meantime, I’ve been busy blogging… Helping Product Managers Triumph in an Agile World: The SiriusDecisions Agile Engine for Product Management. Upcoming Events. Spring is always a big season for events, and this is shaping up to be another busy one.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

As the product owner, then you should own the product on behalf of the company and be empowered to have the final say, particularly if no agreement can be reached. Myth #2: The product owner is a tactical role focused on managing the product backlog. But this would be a mistake.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 25, 2022

So what exactly is product strategy? Why is it important if I have a solid product management team?” If you look at most traditional product lifecycles, they start with market development and end with decline/end of life. The agile product life cycle started with ideation/discovery. your launch event.

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BrainMates

MAY 28, 2019

After hearing Rich Mironov talk about the slippery slope of sales-led companies , they decided to learn about Product Management. Immediately after the course, the company invested in six months of organisational product coaching with myself, Brainmates’ New Zealand Product Coach , to help embed the new product mindset.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

A story of love, hate, oppression and triumph I’ll admit, I’ve started to fall out of love with agile over the past year or so?—?don’t I wholeheartedly believe that you need to be adaptable to survive today but the further I travel on my own journey the more I wonder if we as an industry are moving past agile. including myself?—?went

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. out of 5 stars. 54 global ratings. Where to buy?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 10, 2019

No product management method is universally going to get you out of trouble. The most popular frameworks, like agile, are more about the general approach your office takes. The Jobs To Be Done Framework (JTBD, for short) is different. The Jobs To Be Done Framework (JTBD, for short) is different.

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The Basics of Product Management

APRIL 27, 2020

Given the current uncertainties with COVID-19 or Coronavirus, product management becomes difficult. How do you continue to be an effective Product Manager? As with any situation, it is a Product Manager’s job to take control of the situation and bring clarity. Coronavirus Product Management.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 31, 2023

Any vision one might have for the product will never lift off the ground unless the entire team buys in and signs off on it. Stakeholder management is the most important but often underrated skill. Without it, a product manager can not successfully do their job. Use a whiteboard to get stakeholders aligned on priorities.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

As the product owner, then you should own the product on behalf of the company and be empowered to have the final say, particularly if no agreement can be reached. Myth #2: The product owner is a tactical role focused on managing the product backlog. But this would be a mistake.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 6, 2019

Links mentioned in this episode: The Agile Peer Canvas. The Auftragsklärung framework. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Building trust.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 3, 2017

By John Zilch – Upon embarking on my first stint as a product manager, I happened to run into an experienced product executive one day in passing. I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Ellen Gottesdiener who specializes in the discipline of discovering product value through collaboration (among many other topics).

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 29, 2019

Agile is dead: SCRUM implementation survival guide | BraveGeeks by Yuri Mediakov, PM at BraveGeeks Team Photo by Frode Myklebust on Unsplash Dave Thomas, one of the creators of the Agile Manifesto, has declared Agile as dead, stating that the values of being agile have been totally lost behind the implementation.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 22, 2021

so if that's the case, the information you’re hearing is likely fiction, or at best, inspired by real-world events. Instead, we audition product managers (and Designers too for that matter) in the same way actors are auditioned for a movie. So, without further ado, this is how we are hiring the world's best product team.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

As part of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) model, you start with a plan which can include — budgeting, gathering the right talent, deciding on the right tools/frameworks to use, and other items to implement the plan, and then we are left with the outcome. A good tool we can use to study that is the Nir Eyal’s hook framework.

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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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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

Do you follow any product manager blogs? Would you like to discover new ones that will give you valuable insights into product management ? In our article, we introduce 20 of our favorite product manager blogs that every product pro should follow, regardless of their experience.

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Melissa Perri

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Back when I was gearing up to write "Escaping the Build Trap," I bumped into a publisher who was keen on me penning a book about Agile UX. But my heart was set on Product Management. If we'd really covered all there was to cover on Product Management, why were folks clamoring for more of my blog posts? Bulk orders?

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2019

Establishing agile and product culture is critical to us becoming a modern organisation that continuously improves. Taking one of Barry O’Reilly’s lean mantras on board – think big and start small – I started with our product managers. There is appetite for an agile product culture, hurrah!

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

. “You must be intentional about your personal and career development” Oluwatobi Otokiti, a Product Manager at Andela in Nigeria, has been working in product management for five years. However, just seven years ago, she had no idea what product management was. Oluwatobi Otokiti.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 8, 2019

publication Shape Up – Stop Running In Circles and Ship Work That Matters , Head of Strategy Ryan Singer shares an approach that challenges most of the orthodoxy around Agile (as a framework) but retains all of the spirit of agile (as a philosophy). The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 6, 2019

Reading the “The Use of Knowledge in Society” through a Product Manager lens Friedrich Hayek?—?Austrian Which of the events which happen beyond the horizon of his immediate knowledge are of relevance to his immediate decision, and how much of them need he know?” Austrian Economics?—?Hallstatt Hallstatt in Austria.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 7, 2020

Combining the two platforms enables app providers to move with the speed and agility to meet the needs of their customers, while still maintaining the security and control required for regulatory concerns. Mobile marketers and product managers can immediately take action on events in Apptentive by simply flipping a switch.

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The Basics of Product Management

MAY 2, 2020

To be a successful Product Manager, you need to know Scrum. Speaking of excellence, do you know what makes Elon Musk such a great Product Manager? Scrum is at the heart of the Agile Methodology. Staying agile is critical for product professionals. Staying agile is critical for product professionals.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 28, 2017

Jamie Parkins is a senior product manager at JustGiving, the online fundraising platform that enables people from all round the world to raise money for their cause of choice. He has been the product manager for this B2B audience. It has been running for 17 years and has raised in excess of £3 billion to date.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Wondering what the best product conferences of 2021 are? We’ve collected the best events for product folks that you can attend online or in-person. What: 1,500 tech product managers and product developers gather online at one of the world’s largest product management & development conferences.

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Mind the Product

MAY 9, 2019

I’ve worked in B2B tech marketing for about eight years, as a product marketer for a large portfolio of niche software, and now as the marketing manager for Mind the Product’s growing collection of events and community-building initiatives. All product managers love a good test. Test Everything.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. Highly effective Product Managers (or what I call Exponential PMs) tend to be strong in all of these areas. This is based on studying, speaking with, and coaching PMs and product leaders. Product vision, strategy, goal setting User experience.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

This means that not every product will benefit from Scrum: Products that are maturing or declining won’t benefit from Scrum—at least not to the same degree. If the answer to these questions is yes, then Scrum is probably not the best framework for your product. Neither Scrum nor any other framework is always the best fit.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Part 2 of series on experimentation When should product managers experiment? Running Experiments has become one of the most valuable tools for Product Managers to validate ideas, de-risk releases and measure the impact of their work. This is the part 2 of a series on Product experimentation and Growth.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 8, 2021

After reading a blog or a book or attending a conference or talk on product management, I’m always excited to try out the new processes and frameworks I’ve learned about. Event participation—Talk to people and learn about their lives outside your product for invaluable context. Meaningful.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 11, 2017

10 common mistakes or pitfalls new product managers should avoid. A few months ago I was contacted by a product manager, Areo Wong, who works in Hong Kong. He has been struggling to learn what the role of product manager was really about. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [3:09]

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The launch of the kiosks failed because we failed to realize how the product risks pose a threat to the success of a product. In addition, choosing the wrong product management framework added to the failure of the launch. A risk is an uncertain event that may have both a positive or negative impact on a product.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

What is agile release planning? How can product managers leverage them to build successful products? TL;DR Agile release planning breaks the project scope into smaller chunks and prioritizes their delivery over a number of iterations. What is agile release planning? Agile release planning.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 3, 2019

Some of the things that I miss about the “other” way of project management The world of product management is very much one of “our way vs. the highway”. We can all agree that agile is a descriptor that everyone is striving to achieve and that anti-agility tends to be anti-success. This makes sense.

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Mind the Product

MAY 4, 2018

MTP Engage is the smaller sister of the #mtpcon product conferences in London and San Francisco, and this year we had close to 400 people at the main event (25% more than last year). All talks will be published here on Mind the Product over the next few weeks. Let’s Engage Session. pic.twitter.com/io23udCrkI.

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