The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Why do I need a framework? A research conducted by Alpha UX found that 25% of Product Manager surveyed wished for a clearer product roadmap and strategy. Without a clear roadmap and strategy, a Product Manager won’t be able to make impactful decisions. But why did I choose this framework?

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

MAY 7, 2024

Communication Excellence: Possessing the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly across various organizational levels to ensure alignment and execution of strategies. Advanced Analytical Abilities: Excelling at dissecting complex data, identifying patterns, and formulating strategies based on comprehensive market analysis.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. Many companies lack differentiation strategies and drive product development by copying competitors. Build a product that users love by delivering value and a good product experience.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

How to create a scalable product organization. How product strategy uses a company's vision to fuel profitability. An iterative product framework for identifying and pursuing the right opportunities to create value. Melissa broke silence over the excessive focus on delivery in product teams.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2023

Sales organizations have frameworks like BANT and MEDDIC to rank prospects and make sure they have a high chance of converting into paying customers. Knowing that you have a problem and knowing what to do about it aren’t usually enough — either because you need to convince others like in the B2B example, or because talk is cheap.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Five years ago I wrote about how product strategy means saying no – you must ruthlessly protect your product from feature creep. . Saying no, however, is just one part of a successful product strategy. The meeting point of company and product strategy. Des: Welcome to Intercom on Product.

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Product Collective’s INDUSTRY: The Product Conference was created in Ohio by product people Paul McAvinchey, Mike Belsito, and Rebecca Feliciano with the goal of bringing the best software product management professionals together. QUESTION 1: Do you think that company strategy and product strategy are the same?

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Userpilot

APRIL 19, 2024

TL;DR Market research is vital for making informed business decisions, enabling companies to understand the market, target audience, and competitors, reducing risks, and optimizing marketing communications and product strategies. Product usage patterns. The outcome? Organizational scale. Customer demographics profiles.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

What strategies can you implement to drive acquisition and retention faster? The expert speakers at Product Drive 2023 will answer these and many more questions. But you need a solid strategy and must pay attention to creating mind-blowing user experiences. Product growth speakers. But how do you do that?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

Vertical Integration for Startups In the past couple of years, I have worked with multiple startups in an advisory capacity and this has provided an opportunity to think about strategy in innovative ways. Going from concept to production and subsequently getting the product in the hands of a customer takes significant effort.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 18, 2020

When they spoke with over 350 product development leaders for Amplitude’s 2020 Product Intelligence Report , they found that 44% of the companies we surveyed grew by at least 25% by using product analytics as a part of their growth strategy. What Is Product Analytics?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 11, 2022

Yet we continue to think our customers won’t mind changing to use our products. In the B2B hemisphere, change goes hand and hand with new products. B2B product leaders, I am calling you out on the dreaded implementation phase. Use the framework highlighted in this post as a guide. But should it?

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Product Management University

AUGUST 9, 2017

If a customer-goal based approach can help you deliver, market and sell more valuable solutions and accelerate your growth, contact Proficientz to learn how our framework and training programs will get you there faster and easier than all the other market problem approaches. Why Every Product Strategy Needs a Strong Narrative .

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

Each such level requires a different skill level and different frameworks, and moving from one to another (at least to doing it well) might take time and practice. Level 3: Deciding What to Draw When I joined Twiggle — a seed stage startup — as the VP of Product, I thought I was extremely ready.

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Department of Product

JANUARY 17, 2023

Product teams – and especially B2B SaaS product teams – are all too familiar with subscription pricing, but it’s still rare to see many businesses outside of the major entertainment companies opt for micro subscriptions. Are there specific features of your product you could package into a microsubscription?

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

The competencies vary as you grow in the product organization from a Junior PM role to a VP, Products. As you climb the ladder, primarily the focus changes from solution and execution to strategy. Also, in various organizations which have grown in product maturity, customer base etc., Product Strategy.

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Product Management University

MARCH 14, 2017

If product management is a contact sport, what’s your organization’s risk of injury? Delivering, marketing and selling products in B2B is a contact sport in many ways. Think of the product delivery process as the athlete. The Body Part: Product Strategy & Planning.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 29, 2019

Product Themes and North Stars. Themes and the North Star framework can be used by themselves or in tandem to address the traps above. Themes are a great nudge to see the bigger picture, link to a particular strategy or companywide objective, and allow for stakeholder buy-in. North Star Framework. It is not generic.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

How to Drive Product-Led Growth By KATHRYN SHEPHERD-KING If you’ve been in the product management world for any length of time, you’ll have probably heard about product-led growth. Product-led growth is a go-to-market strategy that relies on using your product as the primary vehicle to acquire, activate, and retain customers.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

Later, as I begin to lead other Product Managers, I again revisited this desire for something a little more straight-forward so that I could coach those Product Managers in the growth of their career, beyond what our own company’s definition of Product might be. An internal tools Product Manager likely skews to the bottom-right.

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

JULY 24, 2018

The link between a product change and its impact to the bottom line should be clear and measurable; anyone working on the product should have a clear picture of how a feature (or even a bug) they are working on translates to success. That’s where having a clear, well articulated formula can help.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

Product Coalition publishes the most popular one of the product manager blogs on our list. The Reforge blog helps product managers with topics like analytics , team management and development, product leadership , or product strategy. Product Talk is a valuable resource for product professionals.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Since product development is often a blank canvas (particularly in startups) the sheer number of possible scenarios and opportunities you might want to explore can be overwhelming: Should we build a mobile app or not? Yes, we’re B2B but are we targeting small businesses or enterprise? Sign up for the weekly Product Briefing.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 29, 2019

An IoT Technology stack and framework for product managers. More and more product managers and innovators are bumping into IoT, the Internet of Things, as part of their current or future product roadmaps. I’m seeing a convergence of product forms. A Simple IoT Framework for Product Managers.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Every SaaS company, whether B2B or not, looks to get more intimately connected with their customers’ needs and pains to grow. In order to understand customer needs, get more customer feedback , and use it actionably, the rise and importance of SaaS product management within digital companies are “mooning” ??. Product Development.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 14, 2020

PMs carry the weight of collective feedback on their shoulders, and with the right tools, they can bring the product to the finish line—ultimate customer satisfaction. In the B2B space, product-driven companies have typically grown faster at scale versus sales or marketing-led organizations. Breakout Sessions. Revenue or Reach?

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

A product manager is the CRO (chief repeating officer) One of the main responsibilities as a product manager is the never-ending and difficult task of building a shared understanding of the product strategy through listening, influencing, and repetition. The key is using the right decision-making framework.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2018

In many companies, improving engagement is a reactive process: as a product manager you wake up to a barrage of support requests after launching a new feature, or your in-app analytics reveal that new users are skipping over key functionality and never reaching their “aha!” ” – Martin Eriksson , Mind the Product.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Your product go-to-market strategy is the final ingredient for any successful product launch. It is a small but prominent element that drives every other component of your marketing strategy. This article covers all you need to know to create a solid GTM strategy for your SaaS startup or B2B business model.

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 28, 2018

On an almost daily basis, I’m talking to product management leaders who find that agile is causing their product managers to focus too much on short-term tactical activities that are isolated from the broader product strategy and lifecycle. Sales Is Trying to Change My Product Roadmap! Even in agile.).

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 28, 2018

On an almost daily basis, I’m talking to product management leaders who find that agile is causing their product managers to focus too much on short-term tactical activities that are isolated from the broader product strategy and lifecycle. Sales Is Trying to Change My Product Roadmap! Even in agile.).

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

You might also be interested in: How I Created A B2B Customer Lead Prioritization Model 2. You might also be interested in: Product Strategy and Prioritization with ServiceNow Group PM Which Model Should I Use? Knowing which model to use is tough!

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NextBigWhat

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

In the week prior to this, we had Deepak Abbot, VP of Product @ Paytm share key insights on what makes the growth tick at Paytm & much more. And in this week’s AMA, we had the pleasure of hosting Shashank Mehta, Director of Product Strategy at Razorpay to talk about Product Management career and had an extremely lively conversation.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

In today’s digital age, it’s this kind of impact-driven product strategy that is the foundation of systematic growth. Because of this, Product Managers are always trying to develop a deeper understanding of their users’ product journey, identify new opportunities to offer value, and continuously improve product engagement.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

But I was in B2B for 7 years and I know that there are many other reasons the sale could have gone through. In the land of B2B, “y” customers may have said they were going to sign if you have feature “x”. And this discussion has the added bonus of creating alignment and reenforcing the vision and strategy. We are guessing.

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Product Bookshelf

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

The breadth of knowledge you need to be an effective product manager is very complex. ” The book contains a lot of product strategy, positioning, and go to market content which is often missing in books that focus primarily on execution. The Whole Product.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

That was my first introduction to the continuous discovery framework. There’s changing business strategies and changing talking with investors and changing market landscapes and the pandemic. ” I think we were also still missing tying that back to the business strategy piece. ” I was able to sign up for that.

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