The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Guest Post by: Julian Dunn (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Vikas Batra]. I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. Thus, I arrived at the Product Mentor program with ambitions to learn strategy development from a seasoned product mentor.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Product leader Aatir Abdul Rauf outlines questions product managers should ask when crafting a product strategy. By Tremis Skeete , for Product Coalition Product strategy continues to be a misunderstood concept and energizes many conversations and debates on LinkedIn. It’s not a set of goals.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 14, 2016

“What is your Product Strategy? YOU NEED A STRATEGY.” When I replay this scene in my head, I can hear the CTO very audibly yelling (slash pleading) with our product team. This is the way we were taught to think about Product Strategy. This isn’t a strategy, this is a plan. He was on edge.

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Ronke PM

MAY 8, 2024

The importance of culture-driven leadership in product management. Product management revolves around human needs, wants, and desires, making it a humbling responsibility. Influential product leaders manage their teams with well-being in mind, necessitating culture-driven leadership. Final thoughts.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Why a Product Strategy Process Matters. An effective product strategy process should ensure that a valid product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are always available—that a shared and valid approach to achieving product success is available at anytime, as the picture below illustrates.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 1 — Seed) A good product strategy is something every company needs. Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. Product strategy is such a vague term for most people.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. Here is how it works.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

In the past decade, the field of product management has evolved, shedding much of its earlier ambiguity. The spectrum of roles in product management is broad, ranging from highly specialised to more generalist positions. Every company has an area that “leads”. Maybe it’s “product led”.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 19, 2023

An expanding portfolio requires stronger collaboration among product managers to ensure customers get what they need: solutions that deliver quantifiable value at a level higher than just the users. That means each product becomes a lever to forming solutions that are the highest value in those chosen market segments.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 30, 2017

These words couldn’t be more relevant to product management. But how do you develop the confidence required to lead a team of stakeholders to a positive outcome? Such a trait is crucial to Product Management roles if you want sales, marketing and engineering to trust and follow your direction.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 20, 2024

For 2024, several excellent conferences dedicated to product management are available, addressing the increasing interest in this field. I would like to thank Tremis Skeete, Executive Editor of Product Coalition for his valuable contributions in the research, development and writing of this article.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. Here is how it works.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 18, 2021

Creating a product strategy is almost never a matter of answering a few simple questions and figuring it out. Being very pragmatic, he hates stale discussions and so in almost every meeting we have, he keeps questioning the process that will lead us to the right product strategy. Sounds confusing? The primary reason W.

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Mind the Product

JULY 23, 2020

Every team needs a product strategy. The Business Model Canvas, Bootstrap or Atomic Design – it seems like everyone from MBAs to developers to designers seems to have a framework to structure their strategy, except for product managers.

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Gocious Blog

JULY 19, 2023

The main objective of a product strategy is to create a plan to help a company achieve its overall goals. This plan should be clear and concise and reduce the time and effort in the development process while increasing growth and efficiency.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Eight Core Elements of a Winning Product Strategy “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”?—?Michael After what seemed like months of work, our product was emerging from stealth mode. No choices = no product strategy. The series of choices following a framework = the product strategy.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Without well-researched facts that are based on reality for your company and customers ( insights ), you won’t make good decisions. There’s no separate ‘product strategy’ from company strategy?—?strategy strategy needs to be cross-departmental. Everyone at work is constantly making decisions.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

As I often do when thinking about a question, I ran a poll on Twitter and LinkedIn asking which core skills of product management folks think are most likely to be impacted/replaced by AI. Here’s the day-to-day product-shaping work of a PM, and how I believe AI will impact it: 1. Think about it—what is AI best at?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Having “no company strategy” is one of the biggest issues facing product managers, according to a recent survey of over 600 product people. After all, how can you set a reasonable direction for your product when you don’t know where your company is headed? what’s its mission)?

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Now more than ever, being a principal product manager is a job title that most product professionals aspire to attain. Product management has established itself as one of the leading fields for career development today. According to Glassdoor , the average salary for a product manager is $155,611 as of 2024.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

For years now loyal readers have been asking me to package up my learnings on product management into a cohesive course on the subject. So in 2020, I took a survey of all the available product management courses out there. There were plenty of courses introducing product management to those new to the role.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

After countless conversations, articles, webinars and conference sessions, I started to feel like the profession of product management had been reduced to…. Convincing stakeholders the above supports company goals (product strategy). After hearing this, my gut reaction was OMG, the product gods are alive and well!

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Meet the mentors….

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

In recent years it seems that product management is all about execution and delivery. But you can’t really succeed this way, at least not the way your company needs you to. Photo by Kea Mowat on Unsplash When I moved into product management, almost 20 years ago, it used to be a very senior role.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 11, 2016

Establish a clear vision for introducing a product management group and explore why your company would benefit from it. But the core value proposition of product management is enabling growth : A product manager is responsible for making and keeping a product successful.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

To be a kick-ass product manager , you need a very diverse skill set. This article explores both hard and soft skills that product managers need in their everyday work, so if you’re curious to learn more, dive right in. PMs need to know how to use product analytics tools to gain actionable insights.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 23, 2023

If so, chances are you were working without the benefit of a concrete product strategy. Product strategy helps with feeling overwhelmed because it Helps your product team see how your product contributes to your company’s goals. Guides your product decisions. Their product strategy is reactive.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Startup Product managers are in charge of setting up the foundation for product management at a new company. Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. According to Airfocus , an optimized product manager boosts profitability and sales, by 34.2

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

MAY 7, 2024

Navigating the world of product management can be overwhelming, especially when trying to understand the different roles and responsibilities. Two positions that often cause confusion are Staff Product Manager and Senior Product Manager. What is a Staff Product Manager?

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Looking to become a technical product manager? According to Salary , the average technical product manager in the United States earns as much as $123,609 a year. Hence, a technical product manager is one of the most rewarding careers. Steps to become a Technical Product Manager Let’s dive right in.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

If you’re wondering what strategic product management is, you’ve come to the right place! In the article, we’re looking at the responsibilities of strategic product managers and how they can use data effectively to shape product strategy and deliver delightful experiences to users!

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2021

Product strategy is one of the most important tasks of the product leader, and definitely one of the hardest things to do. In the effort to bring the company’s vision into reality, the details matter, often more than the innovation and completeness of the vision itself. in detail?—?which

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

Product management is equal parts art and science – and it’s vital to the success of your SaaS. TL;DR Product management describes the continual process of overseeing the development of a product across its entire lifecycle. Product teams are staffed with various skilled professionals.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Looking to become a SaaS product manager? The need for SaaS product managers is skyrocketing with each passing year. More and more businesses develop Software as a Service (SaaS) products to remain relevant in their respective markets and grow their income streams. How to Become SaaS Product Manager?

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The roadmap guides and informs everyone involved with the product from ideation to market. Using Your Product Strategy and Product Vision to Plan Your Roadmap. Product strategies must be rooted in the overall vision of the company and product. The product roadmap then reflects that strategy.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Jack Welch Product strategists = coaches You, as the product strategist, are the coach. The product strategy acts as the playbook for the team, taking them to victory. Products without a product strategist are like athletes without a coach, wandering campus unable to find the gym, let alone execute a successful practice.

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