The Accidental Product Manager

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Is it possible that new sources of data will help product managers in hard times? Your best laid plans for how you were going to boost the success of your product at the beginning of the year got turned on their heads. Product managers have to be ready to act upon what the data is telling them.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Measuring the performance of product managers is a real challenge for a number of reasons. When planning the product managers’ goals, this challenge can translate into taking the wrong direction altogether. Here is a new way to look at product management goals, and make them a useful tool for both you and your team.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. . This article explores multiple aspects of product management. Understanding the Role Definition. Definition of PM role.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The goal is to sell more cars, perhaps software is the key Image Credit: rakyan ‘boyan’ tantular Product managers know that if we want to sell more of their product, we need to find ways to make the product more appealing to our customers. These days, that can be very difficult to do.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 29, 2024

Auto product managers believe that software will control the future Image Credit: JC As product managers, we are generally fairly focused on what we need to do to make our product become a success. However, some auto product managers are starting to realize this.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Product managers start to equip their tires with AI Image Credit: Yamanaka Tamaki When was the last time that you thought about the tires that are on your car? Either the “low pressure” bulb on your dashboard lit up or you had a flat tire. Last-mile delivery vehicles can easily go through four sets of tires a year.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JUNE 12, 2023

That’s why being a cruise line product manager can be a very good job. Now that they have once again been granted permission to sail, how are their product managers going to go about finding ways to get their customers to come back and travel the high seas with them? Clearly passengers are willing to climb aboard.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 28, 2020

Inspire Top Product Talent to Grow Their Career at Your Organization | Photo by Kolleen Gladden on Unsplash To motivate product managers to grow their career with your organization, a transparent and documented process for roles and promotions is critical. liking to UX studies, mockups, and KPI dashboards).

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

What’s product differentiation? What differentiation strategies can a product manager use to make the product stand out in a saturated market? For many corporate clients, the ability to customize the product functionality or interface to their needs or branding may be what will set you apart from your rivals.

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The Accidental Product Manager

DECEMBER 11, 2017

That is unless you happen to be a product manager who is involved in the business of death. This changes the product development definition of death. The problem that death product managers have is that they built their industry around selling caskets. How would that look on your product manager resume?

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Mind the Product

MAY 15, 2017

In Josh’s Product Tank NYC presentation, he explains his evolution as a product manager. His roles over the last 15 years have started with engineering and architecture, and moved on from there to product management, and now he oversees product, but also data science, engineering, and UI/UX teams.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2022

That stereotypical image of a room teeming with monitors and elaborate dashboards where all the decisions are made isn’t real, and it’s high time we move away from it. The easy way to think about it is thinking about what you see in caricatures on movies and stuff, like rooms full of dashboards and charts where people are making decisions.

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Userpilot

MARCH 3, 2022

Looking for a product manager CV template? What does a solid product manager’s CV look like? This article will help you develop and finetune your product manager resume, present your skills in the most favorable light, win the attention of the hiring managers, get interviews, and ultimately land your dream job.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 13, 2023

Ensure the dictionary definitions are agreed upon by stakeholders. And that definitely isn’t z.” MOCK IT UP It’s a lot easier to build a dashboard in Slides or Sheets than in your BI tool. A *business definition* for a “connected call” might be, “any call in which we speak to a live person for any length of time.”

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The Secret PM Handbook

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The definition of the ideal customer – the demographics, the characteristics, the industries – comes from Product Management. Product Management does the research to determine that there is a problem that can be solved. Imagine your product is a project management tool. Click To Tweet.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 25, 2021

These are very different points of view, that would bring you to very different definitions at the end. Someone (engineering, BI, product analysts, or product managers) would need to know how to calculate the number that tells you the current metric value. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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The Accidental Product Manager

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

If you were a product manager who worked for a car company, would my behavior be a boon or a threat to you? What Car Maker Product Manager Product Managers Would Like Us To Do. Car maker product managers don’t want to give up either the entrainment links nor the key information in their vehicles.

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Userpilot

APRIL 7, 2024

SaaS product management is about understanding user pain points, crafting features that solve real problems, and constantly improving the user experience. The approach to managing SaaS products is entirely different from traditional on-premise software. Specify product vision and create the product strategy.

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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”. A good CEO, a good product manager does the exact opposite. It’s a relative term?—?some

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 6, 2022

So if you are looking to launch a new product or feature, you are prepared with some tips to reduce that blank page anxiety. Start with your company and product mission and vision. To fully realize this and empower product teams to change the world through their products and the people they serve, ProductPlan is more than roadmapping.

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Mixpanel

MAY 27, 2021

When identifying your key performance indicators (KPIs), it’s crucial to tailor the exact definition to your business. For example, what does it mean to be “active” in your product? No stock definition or out-of-the-box dashboard can capture this for you. Summary KPIs vs. Growth KPIs.

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Mixpanel

MAY 23, 2024

As a product manager at Mixpanel, I spend a lot of my time testing and evaluating new features and changes for our product. In this blog, I’ll walk you through the four key phases of product testing I follow—with one being the most important to get right for large launches.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 17, 2023

The value realization process has five stages: Definition. Which involves the implementation of your product through in-app onboarding and self-service support. An empty state is what users see when they sign-up, and all they see is a blank dashboard, which puts barriers to value realization and hurts time to value. Realization.

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 31, 2022

While it sounds opaque, net promoter score is tethered to one key question: How likely is a customer to recommend your product to others? You’ve definitely seen this question in any customer feedback survey at an online store, and it remains a core component of customer retention. Net promoter score (NPS).

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Sachin Rekhi

MARCH 25, 2013

Product managers spend much of their time communicating ideas, plans, designs, and tasks to their teams. This includes everything from emails communicating decisions, to presentations communicating product roadmaps, to specs communicating product designs, to bug tickets communicating errors in the product.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

And how can product managers use them to tackle the challenges they face? A framework for problem-solving allows product teams to find the causes of the problems and generate solutions in an organized way. The framework is particularly suitable for product management. What is a framework for problem-solving?

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

You may not understand someone else’s definition or report. Francesca is a Product Manager. Our Product Manager friend, Sophia, knows this feeling well. She turns to a saved dashboard in their business intelligence tool. If you use plain language, it’s easier to keep definitions consistent across a company.

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Mixpanel

MAY 2, 2023

Though our marketing team at the time was reporting healthy acquisition in Google Analytics leading to high numbers of new signups, our product team’s Mixpanel dashboard showed conversion from those signups to paying customers was low. See a Mixpanel Marketing Analytics Board in action by clicking the image above.

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The Product Cafe

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Hello, all you product-loving folks! 💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, AI, and more. ☕ Thanks for reading Product Café Newsletter ☕️! So, what is a habit? and "Why is this a priority now?"—

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Folding Burritos

JANUARY 25, 2018

Create internal dashboards, docs or wiki pages, only to realize that’s where information goes to die, because people can’t find it, don’t understand the tool or forget to go there. The post Optimizing internal product communications appeared first on Folding Burritos. ” “What’s working well and what isn’t?”

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

As a product analytics solution, our main value proposition was helping product managers and analysts answer questions, so we decided to use a ‘query’ as our indicator of value. We ultimately landed on a north star definition that we felt was simple enough for people to understand…we call it the “weekly learning user” (WLU).

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Usersnap

JULY 27, 2020

Tracking feature requests from customers is a blessing, and also a nightmare for Product Managers. We at Usersnap believe the voice of customers should be the driver of product development. Below you can see how our product managers work with feature requests. Step 3: Manage feature requests like a breeze.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

Product management is about solving problems. Rohini Pondhi , product management lead for Square’s Invoices product, knows this challenge well. I hosted Rohini on our podcast to talk about everything from prioritization and product roadmaps to the nitty-gritty techniques for parsing customer feedback.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

That means your tools will be your CS platform dashboards tailored for this use and other presentation tools, such as Microsoft’s PowerPoint, Apple’s Keynote, or Google’s Slides. Dashboard information that reports on login and use are good indicators of adoption and use. Yes, that includes dashboards and Health Scores.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Mastering the craft of product management is no easy task. I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2023

Amplitude helps you get critical insights related to your digital product strategy, like: What features do your customers engage with the most? How do users navigate your product? Amplitude’s dashboard. How can you improve your long-term retention rates? Why is Amplitude better than Google Analytics?

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Monitor performance and continuously iterate As you implement changes, track their impact on product performance. Tools like Userpilot allow you to create custom dashboards , so you can track all the key metrics from one place. Welcome screen created in Userpilot. Don’t stop there.

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