The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Guest Post by: Eric Wang (Mentee, Session 8, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Chris Butler]. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. Make a list of the scope and the challenges to your product. First Attempt.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 13, 2024

How product managers can master product portfolio management Watch on YouTube TLDR Portfolio management is a crucial aspect of product development that helps organizations strategically allocate resources, balance projects, and align their product innovation efforts with overall business goals.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Meet the Continuous Discovery Champion, Sandrine Veillet Meet Sandrine Veillet, Vice President of Global Product at WebMD. Sandrine Veillet is the Vice President of Global Product at WebMD. While teams were organized as cross-functional scrum teams, there was no core product trio that would work on discovery. “It

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The 6 step guide to learning product © 2011 Martin Eriksson. There is a lot of confusion out there about product, product management, product owners, product manager. Many students particularly follow general Computer Science courses only to find out their real interest?—?in

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    Now.   The PdM equivalent of mansplaining.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 7, 2019

Technology today has started to unfold around us to change our lives for good, and it’s vital for UX Designers to keep up-to-date with the latest digital trends in the industry. Fintech, Healthtech, Edtech – what sort of tech is used within them? Fintech, Healthtech, Edtech – what sort of tech is used within them?

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2018

Product management tends to work with most areas of a company, and product managers should spend much of their time focussed outside walls of the company too. All the while my products suffered abandonment issues. Thought leadership fits well within the established realm of product management.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 4, 2020

In this post, an enterprise (IBM) and a consumer (Google) product manager describe a typical day in their life on the job. While there doesn't exactly exist a "typical" day in product management, you can expect to perform certain tasks based on the stage of your product. Here's a snapshot of my day.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Moving from project-based thinking to product-based thinking is an essential part of delivering a successful digital transformation. What are the benefits of taking on such an initiative, and how does product management give you the best possible chance of success? How Does Product Management Enable Digital Transformation?

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Here, to help you, are five product management tricks and tools for every product leader. As a Digital Team in a Large Enterprise.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The build vs. buy question is both one of the most common and one of the most challenging dilemmas facing product managers. 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. It thus becomes less a matter of “Can we do it?”

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The build vs. buy question is both one of the most common and one of the most challenging dilemmas facing product managers. . 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. and more a matter of “Should we do it?”.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 25, 2018

This article highlights a few ways to increase clarity and provide better role definition between a manager and a direct report as it pertains to daily situations involving escalations, blockers, and air cover. Given the split responsibility between manager and direct report, alignment and effective communication in these situations is key.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Product Talk’s North Star metric is to increase the number of product trios who adopt a continuous cadence to their discovery work. Teresa shared this goal at the beginning of 2022 when describing her plans to scale the impact of Product Talk. Bridging that gap from creative to technical had some challenges.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 13, 2020

Product Managers are often called “Product CEOs” or “Mini GMs”, but they rarely have direct control over the inputs that lead to successful products. Bachelor’s in Marketing, an MBA, or a technical degree depending on which company you’re targeting.) No course is going to be a substitute for experience.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 9, 2024

One technique that I teach in my product courses/workshops is something I call “count the digits.”  We won’t be accurate, of course, but we’ll be able to sort huge from tiny with a bit of practice.    (And we’ll be speaking the language of money , not technical processes.)

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 27, 2022

"In a nutshell, you are solving problems, you are providing solutions, and you accompany the product post-deployment." How to Prepare for the Solutions Architect Interview We asked solutions architect interviewers from top tech companies to share what’s asked in the solutions architect interview and how to prepare.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Fifteen years ago Ben Horowitz published his now famous memo, “G ood Product Manager/Bad Product Manager ” in which he posits that “A good product manager is the CEO of the product”. I’m of course being facetious, but you get my point). It’s a relative term?—?some A good leader takes notes.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Truly understanding your customers and finding ways to improve your product is an overwhelmingly daunting task. Customer discovery is key to informing product strategy and there is a mountain of techniques and methods available for conducting customer discovery. Get permission first of course. More About The Product Mentor.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Source: [link] I would like to thank Tremis Skeete, Executive Editor of Product Coalition for his valuable contributions in the writing of this article. I also thank Product Coalition founder Jay Stansell, who has provided a trustworthy and collaborative product management education environment. They all loved SharePoint.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Product managers, product leaders, and product executives have no shortage of educational opportunities. From books , podcasts , and blogs to earning certificates and joining online communities , there is truly an abundance of options (read the short Guide to Product Management Resources to learn even more).

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

After reviewing over 50 candidates, 25 phone interviews, and 15 full interviews, I eventually had to choose between a few final contenders. Of course, it would have been ideal to find someone who had had both extensive experience and amazing learning abilities, but there’s a reason unicorns are so rare.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 30, 2017

I’ve noticed a frequent executive-level misalignment of expectations across a range of software/tech companies, particularly in B2B/Enterprise companies and where Sales/Marketing is geographically far away from Engineering/Product Management. In fact, we fire enterprise sales folks who don’t close big deals.

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Modus Create

APRIL 27, 2020

Adopting a modern tech stack is essential for any organization embracing the digital transformation journey. In our experience, React is the most desired front end JavaScript framework for enterprises. Business goals, product goals, tech goals, and team goals should be identified and shared. Audit the legacy application.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

Guest Post by: Lamia Benhaddou (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Amanda Ralph]. Amanda had 18 years of product management experience and was able to clearly foresee the obstacles I might encounter in my new role. Indeed the role of a product leader is different to that of a product manager.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Both Pendo and Heap support funnel analysis which allows product managers to identify friction points and optimize the product to help users experience value in less time. The majority of Heap's clients are large enterprises, like Uber or Salesforce. G2 reviewers give Heap an average score of 4.3,

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

A strategic product manager (PM) is responsible for shaping and sharing a strategic vision for a product, and yet—oddly enough—finding time for strategic activities can be a very real challenge. So, how does a product manager take ownership of more than just backlog management? Product Vision.

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Mixpanel

JULY 28, 2022

For example, when employees need to be trained on an internal tool, that effort might come from the company’s technical team that built it. As companies expand, the costs to maintain the internal tool will also grow as new features and technologies are added. The verdict.

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B2B Product Management

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Getting confused between what to do as a B2B Product vs B2C Product manager role? Let us start with understanding the difference in those two types of products. It is important to understand what B2B and B2C products are. And B2C products are products or services that are sold directly to consumers.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

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” ??. SaaS product management is undoubtedly the engine that helps digital enterprises grow. What is SaaS Product Management?

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Roadmaps for sales and marketing tout new functionality and minimize the time spent on technical debt and scalability. But while each roadmap for a specific audience serves a particular purpose, there are times when we need everyone to gather together and agree on a singular vision for the product. Gather consensus around goals.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

People in non-technical roles rely on data every day to make decisions, develop ideas or measure success. Francesca is a Product Manager. Not everything Not everything involving data is owned by one person or team, even at a large enterprise company. Our Product Manager friend, Sophia, knows this feeling well.

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Userpilot

JUNE 4, 2021

WalkMe is a cloud-based platform that helps product managers and customer success managers to manage in-app experiences and create product tours. Of course not. Because of its strengths and powers, WalkMe is a great tool for big enterprises. But, is it suitable for everyone? Simple as that.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Looking to become a B2B Product Manager? This career guide offers a detailed overview of the best B2B product management training options. It also describes valuable skills you need to learn and career paths within product management, among other things. Well, you’re in the right place.

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Userpilot

MARCH 14, 2024

We’ll explore its features, pricing, and offer a comprehensive review to aid in your decision-making process. If your team members come from non-technical backgrounds, they might struggle to use Heap to the fullest. Easy setup – Getting started with Heap is as easy as installing a code snippet into your product.

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Userpilot

MARCH 14, 2024

We’ll explore its features, pricing, and offer a comprehensive review to aid in your decision-making process. If your team members come from non-technical backgrounds, they might struggle to use Heap to the fullest. Easy setup – Getting started with Heap is as easy as installing a code snippet into your product.

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