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3 Empowerment Levels in Product Management

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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Product Management University Launches The Customer Outcome Framework for Product Management, Product Marketing, Sales and Customer Success

Product Management University

One View of the Customer. Measurable Customer Value. Today, Product Management University announced the availability of its Customer Outcome Framework for B2B. It’s a simpler approach for bringing quantifiable strategic value to the customer versus the typical approach of focusing solely on customer problems.

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The Best Bang For Your Discovery Buck – Customer Advisory Boards

Product Management University

Customer Advisory Boards (CABs) are still the best bang for the buck when it comes to “customer discovery,” not to be confused with user or product discovery! Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of facilitating numerous customer advisory boards for my clients. More on that later.

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Product Managers Discover Older Customers

The Accidental Product Manager

Products made for older customers are getting a makeover Image Credit: Katie Mims Who do you sell your product to? Is there a possibility that your product is being used by older customers? If this is the case, what you have done to make it easy for them to use your product?

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The Complete Guide to Managing User Feedback

To build better products, you need to listen and act on user feedback. Having an effective feedback management system can help! It can help you not only build the right features, but also avoid wasting time and resources. Download the guide today and start building an effective product management system!

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Product Management Outcomes – The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Product Management University

It’s refreshing to see so many discussions and articles themed around product management outcomes. After all, it’s the reason we product managers do what we do, right? Here’s a look at the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to product management outcomes. But not all outcomes are created equal.

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Why Market Leadership Starts With Product Management

Product Management University

But products are the nucleus, and that means market leadership starts with product management. There are the obvious things product management does. I want to focus on the responsibilities of B2B product management that don’t get much airtime. To some product managers, market is synonymous with users.

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How Infused Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

There are so many analytics products out there that can assist Product Managers in delivering cutting edge experiences to their end-users which align to important KPIs. Discover five ways infused analytics help PMs exceed their key performance indicators.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business.

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How AI Can Help You Build Better Products: 10 Tools To Save You Time

So, how can product managers use AI to save time and build better products? AI can help with research, feedback management, user engagement, and roadmapping. With AI, product managers can work faster and smarter. Learn how to get your time back with this AI guide.

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How Product Managers Can Shape Inclusive Futures with UX

Speaker: Bronwen Rees, Author and Lead Product Designer at Xero

We all want a world where everyone has equal access to digital information, just as we want all online experiences to be equitable. Many in the UX space reiterate that “knowing your audience” is paramount to developing great user experience, and that empathy is the cornerstone of UX.

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Improve Retention & Recruitment Efforts Amidst Economic Uncertainty

280 Group went above and beyond to help us transform our product management teams, and we look forward to continuing to partner with them as we evolve our business for the 21st century.” “We found a real partnership – not just a vendor coming in and giving us a training class.

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How Can We Stop Under Utilizing a Key User Experience Champion?

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

Customer representation has always been a key reason for success in product development. It’s a truth universally acknowledged by the best product managers. Despite this, those building the product itself are often detached from their customers, leading to a gap between vision and execution on the most practical metrics.

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How Product Managers Can Define a Product Vision to Guide Their Team

Speaker: Christian Bonilla, VP of Product Management at UserTesting

Every product team wants to build things users love. It’s why breakthrough products rarely happen by accident. Rather, they start with a strong product vision. Getting that vision right is one of the most important responsibilities of the product team. The goal may sound simple, but it’s hard to do.

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Iterate Your Way to a Top Analytics Product Experience

Speaker: Richard Cheng, Associate Product Manager, Mark43

Mark43 is on a mission to bring public safety data management into the 21st century. To fix traditionally paper-heavy and error-prone processes, they needed a secure and easy-to-use product experience that simplified and unified crime data collection and management. August 7, 2018 11:00 AM PDT, 2:00 PM EST, 6:00 PM GMT