Product Management University

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Competitive demos are stressful, especially when you’re operating on very little knowledge or hearsay information about your competitor’s weaknesses. Here’s the thing about focusing on your competitor’s weaknesses. Sometimes, they just don’t like your competitor’s sales team. There’s no answer for that!

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

We’re in the Silly Season: companies of all sizes are doing annual planning — intending to lock down 12 months of iron-clad commitments, non-negotiable delivery dates, major organizational changes, and accurate predictions of revenue.    I’m not against planning. 

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A few years ago, I was asked to help a healthcare company with their agile transition and its impact on product management. One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me. The Product Backlog is Too Big.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

“If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design,” Ralf Speth, a former Jaguar Land Rover CEO. The study by the Design Management Institute analyzed the performance of design-led organizations that place influential design decisions at the top as compared to the Standard & Poor’s index over 10 years.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

This article assumes that you are familiar with the product vision board or the key elements of a product strategy : market, value proposition, standout features, and business goals. More Information : Market Segmentation Tips and Strategize , pp. A Brief Guide to this Article. Many Needs but No Compelling Reason for Using the Product.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

Everyone knows educating the market is hard to nearly impossible, but people always bring up examples like Facebook or the iPhone whenever I discuss it in my lectures. So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market? Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation, and rightfully so.

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Product Bookshelf

APRIL 15, 2024

Martin Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumels Product strategy is a set of choices informed by product vision and company objectives. Strategy development requires imagination and creativity ; a good strategy is not the result of detailed analysis. Playing to Win by A.G. Lafley and Roger L.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2017

Managing the “Shadow Product Team”. Responsibility for defining the roadmap may officially rest with the product team, but there are others in the organization who can directly influence it. However it’s a problem when those disruptions become more frequent or the product team loses control of the strategy.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 20, 2024

How product managers can master product process Watch on YouTube TLDR – The Product Innovation Charter (PIC) is a short document that provides direction and alignment for a product development project. – Stage-Gate and Agile Stage-Gate are popular product development processes that manage risk and incorporate Agile elements.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

At Latin American travel technology company Almundo , we believe that leaders are responsible for the people, whether that is via one-on-one meetings, career opportunities, company culture, or employee satisfaction. So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. This is how we did it.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? We also look at: What a UX design strategy is Why it’s important Its core principles and elements A practical example of a company with well-established UX strategies Let’s dive right in! The strategy should also have information about the UX team, processes, and guidelines.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2018

How do you best lead the stakeholders and development team as the person in charge of the product? A feature broker is a product person who relies on others—the stakeholders, development team, management, users, or a customer—to come up with ideas and make product decisions.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Prescriptive Agile frameworks make it hard for designers to add valuable contributions to the team. I designed every detail in Photoshop before handing the mockups to the developers. After failing to convince my manager to change our waterfall methodology, I joined a company where Agile was deeply ingrained in the culture.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JANUARY 12, 2017

In a recent Pragmatic Marketing webinar , Paul Schwada, managing partner of Locomotive Solutions and author of 8 Blocks: The Critical Realities for Growing Any Business , shared where to find the weak leak in your growth funnel (hint: it’s often in the math) and how to strengthen it. So what’s the weak link in your growth funnel?

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

Focusing on product experience allows companies to deliver more value to customers and to increase their lifetime value. Bad product experiences increase customer frustration, potentially creating resentment around having difficulty completing tasks within an application and increasing customer churn. Measure your progress.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2024

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” — Mike Tyson I’ve wrestled with weak roadmaps — even some downright disasters. Product managers and their teams start with enthusiasm, hit the ground running, and create a solid roadmap. Facing a company funding deadline, we pivoted to a new market with more potential.

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Userpilot

MARCH 22, 2021

The world of software is crowded with a variety of product marketing tools that are ‘supposed’ to transform your workflow. Product Marketing tools that can add real value to your business do exist, but finding the right software in such a noisy environment can be challenging. Product Marketing Tools Overview. Ready to dive in?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 12, 2022

Here are cases for when the cooperation between the product team and the client brakes down for objective reasons. Here I have tried to reveal the most common cases when the cooperation between the development team and the entrepreneur fails for reasons beyond the control of all parties involved. So I wrote this article.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 10, 2020

Today, your customers are using this same pattern-seeking skill to turn their product experiences into beliefs about your company and your products. What Happens to Your Customers After Bad Product Experiences. Therefore, we can’t sign up any new clients, so we weren’t comfortable marketing our services this tax season.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Market Competence ????? understanding your market, industry, competition) 3. Craft Competence ?? Craft Competence ??

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

The product management world relies on teams of product people who work in unison toward a central goal. For that reason, each person on the team needs to know exactly what they have to do and how. They work with typical product management software and also manage the product roadmap as well as the product team.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. Why should you invest in MVP development? You can successfully prevent these problems by starting software development with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). First, the developers create a wheel.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

As noted in my last post , Sales and Marketing often wonder whether Engineering is sufficiently motivated and engaged. But the symptoms aren’t so obvious to the outbound (and extroverted) part of the company. Some Engineering teams are unmotivated, though. Dev teams need more than task lists and reminders about productivity.

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svpg

JANUARY 11, 2016

I normally write about how to evolve your organization from a weak product org to a strong one. But in this article I want to talk about a pattern that I see in many companies that are actually doing really well, growing aggressively, yet they will sometimes, over time and unintentionally, replace their good behaviors with bad ones.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 12, 2019

Cultural fit is a relatively new concept in hiring and team building. Companies now realize just how important corporate culture is to their ability to grow, adapt, react, and thrive. This has given hiring managers the confidence to reject prospects who look perfect on paper, but might not mesh with the existing team and company norms.

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Userpilot

APRIL 19, 2024

Looking for the best way to do market research? From framing your initial question to extracting valuable customer insights, we’ll walk you through the lean market research process step-by-step. Get ready to empower your decisions with real-world market intelligence. Why should you do market research? The outcome?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

Everyone knows educating the market is hard to nearly impossible, but people always bring up examples like Facebook or the iPhone whenever I discuss it in my lectures. So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market? Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2023

Dark periods are when a product team knows what to design and develop and go about doing it, but the work has yet to be exposed to users in any significant way. Product dark periods are when a product team’s commitment and culture are tested. Developers will be knocking out cards. The dark periods are challenging.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 3, 2019

We spend lots of time praising the savvy strategic moves of winning products and companies. But for every success story, there’s a graveyard of failed products laid low by bad product strategies. A bad strategy is hard to overcome. What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like? Those are slogans, not strategies.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. If you ever had to face a Manager, Director or Exec as they make bad product decisions and you’re struggling to persuade them otherwise, this post will help you. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In the case of software, the dilemma becomes increasingly difficult as most enterprise companies have the resources and talent in-house to build the software. Core competencies: How central is the software to your business, and what would you be giving up to dedicate a team to its development and maintenance?

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Userpilot

JUNE 30, 2022

While everyone talks about product-market fit, finding product-customer fit is equally important when it comes to engaging the right customers and driving success. Product-market fit is about meeting the market’s demand by iterating the product, while customer fit is about attracting the right customers.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

Interestingly, the bounce rate tells a lot whether you are close to your product/market fit or not. Users can bounce because of multiple reasons such as poor design or poor content and/or product messaging. According to Customedialabs , the typical bounce rate for good performing e-commerce and retail products is 20%?—?45%,

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NextBigWhat

JUNE 12, 2020

Many founders are confused whether to outsource their MVP development to a development agency (or a freelancer) vs. build it fully in-house. The confusion lies in the fact that many investors / serial tech founders often share that one should own everything in-house and not outsource the development. Outsource the development.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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