Userpilot

APRIL 29, 2021

Then, repeat after me (or Andrew Chen of Andreessen Horowitz, to be precise): “The natural state of any new product is that no one’s using it :)”. Product Death Cycle by David Bland. And while most product managers think the users need more features to start using their product…the opposite is often true.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. For instance, you might show the individuals how they can make effective strategic product decisions, create an actionable product roadmap, and effectively use the right KPIs.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

Every time I navigate the ocean of Product Management frameworks, we are not tackling one essential part of our role: People and Ourselves. There is a framework for almost every stage of our Product development lifecycle, but one of the only transversal things is that we need people to make things happen.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Why do product managers need them? That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes. They lack vision and lead nowhere. Ready to dive in to learn more?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Instead, you should engage the stakeholders, leverage their expertise, and generate as much buy-in as possible , as I explain in more detail in my article “ Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People.” ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

If you do things that are purposeful, you’ll eventually be successful.” — Howard Schultz Several years ago, I found myself in a heated discussion about product roadmaps with a client. This exchange unfolded over weak, black coffee in your typical, bland white-walled corporate conference room. That’s simply a byproduct.

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Userpilot

JULY 31, 2023

TL;DR Pendo is a product growth platform for product , marketing , customer success , and UX design teams. Roadmaps are a new Pendo feature for communicating and sharing product vision. In short, the feature allows teams to collect and prioritize feature requests at scale. Let’s get right to it!

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 29, 2018

“We just pushed it live,” the release manager belts out, to a team fresh off the battlefield that is software product development. I was fortuitously dropped into this arena, with not a hint of prior experience building and releasing products. Why is the vision important? You’re all part of a team.

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Userpilot

MARCH 27, 2023

How can product analytics help product managers create better digital products and more satisfying user experiences? We start by looking at different kinds of analyses and the metrics to track and then explore some practical ways of using each of them to drive various product goals. Let’s get right to it.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

When plotting out our product’s trajectory, there’s a constant tension between two competing mindsets. Where charismatic leaders rally the troops around an ambitious vision with a massive potential payoff. Meanwhile, the slow, steady drumbeat of cautious experimentation and incremental enhancements always makes the product better.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2021

When you think of company-sponsored events, a few scenes may come to mind. When your team participates in video calls all day, the idea of an extended virtual gathering may fill your team with dread. Here at ProductPlan, we believe we’ve cracked the code on making these events fun, engaging, informative, and meaningful.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2021

When you think of company-sponsored events, a few scenes may come to mind. When your team participates in video calls all day, the idea of an extended virtual gathering may fill your team with dread. Here at ProductPlan, we believe we’ve cracked the code on making these events fun, engaging, informative, and meaningful.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. Teresa Torres, Author of Continuous Discovery Habits.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Product Principles – Examples for Product Managers Make decision making easier with inspiration from top product companies Product principles are used by product teams to help guide decision making. Principles can help guide both strategic decisions and tactical decisions.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 3, 2022

As data-driven product development continues to balloon in popularity, so does the need for accurate and sophisticated implementation of analytics tracking in software products. From the perspective of many engineering teams, product analytics is treated as a second-class citizen.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. For instance, you might show the individuals how they can make effective strategic product decisions, create an actionable product roadmap, and effectively use the right KPIs.

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Izenda

JUNE 17, 2019

For 34 minutes, the most-watched sporting event of the year was reduced to the half lit interior of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. A product manager needs to be a leader, and there are many kinds of management styles to choose from , each with their own benefits and downsides. The Reactive Product Manager.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 9, 2019

For a product manager to be successful, they must be viewed as both credible and trustworthy. Without that confidence, product managers can get stuck in an ongoing cycle of attempting to quash doubts by revisiting topics over and over again because they haven’t secured buy in on various ideas, projects and initiatives.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership. How do I build alignment?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 29, 2019

Product managers act as the glue between multiple cross-functional teams and effective communication is the foundation of their success; from here the general sense that product managers can’t do their job productively unless they are co-located with their teams.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 4, 2019

As a product manager, you’re more likely to find yourself embroiled in these events since you sit at the nexus of so many activities and constituencies. We outlined the seven internal politics situations you’ll likely encounter at least once in your product management career and how you can handle them.

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Userpilot

MAY 21, 2023

In our guide, we discuss; The importance of features releases The stages of a successful release Best practices for each of these stages We also mention how Userpilot can help your product team orchestrate your feature releases. Before developing a new feature, make sure it’s in line with your product vision.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 12, 2023

We’ve run dozens of customer interviews, analyzed our competitors, tracked our customer lifecycle, and aligned with the company vision: now we’re finally ready to write copy. If you know a thing or two about product development, you’ve heard of the “a-ha” moment. They’re crystal clear that they speak to and for developers.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

When plotting out our product’s trajectory, there’s a constant tension between two competing mindsets. Where charismatic leaders rally the troops around an ambitious vision with a massive potential payoff. Meanwhile, the slow, steady drumbeat of cautious experimentation and incremental enhancements always makes the product better.

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BrainMates

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The gap between rich and poor is widening, and this is causing an increasing disenchantment with the model which has been so successful. As a social entrepreneur with Full Time Lives and in my Product Management consulting work for Brainmates. How does this affect the world of Product Management?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

One signal I’ve been giving much thought too of late is the collision of two roles, Product Management and Product Ownership. A topic of hot debate in the agile and product circles but with very few answers. Credit: DataKitchen Since its inception, Scrum and the Product Owner role has become widely adopted.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In this post, we interview Stephen on how to ace your product management behavioral interview questions. Previously, he was a product manager at Google. that demonstrate you’re desire to be involved in the space and to keep abreast of developments in the space. Be authentic. Don't be a robot and be truthful.

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Tyner Blain

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

These mistakes can make a product strategy incoherent, excessively expensive, and ineffective. How we talk about what we choose to do sets our teams up for success. When developing a product strategy, we are not only activating our teams to go “in that direction” but also establishing “how far to go.”

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 10, 2019

No product management method is universally going to get you out of trouble. Team structure, work patterns, timing, tool deployment… They are holistic in the way they seek to address your overall operations. One of the ways this is done is by aligning development with user needs. Well, of course ! Is that right?

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

The day before Mind the Product London 2017 we ran a forum for invited product leaders on a series of topics with some of the leading product managers from around the world. Here’s what we learned about product leadership. Developing Your own Team. Collaborating with other teams.

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Under 10 Consulting

MAY 15, 2020

The roadmap is one of the most common tools requested of product teams by executives, development and operations, sales and marketing teams, and key customers. . ?. A roadmap is a vision document showing where the product might be headed over the next few months or years. And changing market conditions!

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Image provided by Melon Heads Illustrating Being a product manager in a hungry, cross-functional, talented squad is exciting and satisfying. So how can a product manager keep their head above water? that I have written up about how to manage that squad life. these feelings can quickly compound. Let’s jump into it.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I first met Petra Wille, a fellow product coach, at Mind the Product and was immediately impressed with her work. While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. That was my first real product management role.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In this post, we interview Stephen on how to ace your product management behavioral interview questions. Previously, he was a product manager at Google. that demonstrate you’re desire to be involved in the space and to keep abreast of developments in the space. Be authentic. Don't be a robot and be truthful.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 21, 2020

In our mission to make you the best possible Product Manager, we’re taking you through some of the most fundamental, but often most misunderstood and overlooked aspects of the product world. Today’s topic; What Is Product Design? Instinctively, we all know what bad design looks like. A product designer.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Balance is a key element to navigating a roadmap – between customer-facing and internal, creativity and productivity, between different functions. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. Des: Welcome to the 12th episode of Intercom on Product. That’s the dream, that’s the vision.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Balance is a key element to navigating a roadmap – between customer-facing and internal, creativity and productivity, between different functions. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. Des: Welcome to the 12th episode of Intercom on Product. That’s the dream, that’s the vision.

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