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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

Mind the Product returns to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on July 16-17 and promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with a leadership forum, more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Dan Olsen, Author and Consultant. Nir Eyal, Author and Investor.

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What is Product Management, exactly?

BrainMates

According to The Product Management Body of Knowledge, Product Management is: “A discipline that provides managerial focus to products that in turn will generate measurable business benefits.”. Product Managers are often described as “the CEO of the product”. Product Management is hard.

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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

” There is a senior functional manager, where the function is Engineering or IT or some name like that. In this image, that’s the VP/CIO/CTO. The middle managers—the directors—often reflect layers in the architecture. Note that the product management and customer support folks have no representation here.

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What Do Product Leaders Do?

Mironov Consulting

Defining my label carefully, a “product leader” is someone who manages a team of product managers. That maps to titles like Director of Product Management, Group Product Manager, VP of Products, or Chief Product Officer. See Melissa Perri’s product kata ).

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Why CEOs Should Not Be Our Primary Source of Customer Input

Mironov Consulting

Bare metal startups don’t have a product management team, just as they don’t have a sales/marketing organization or support group or a business analytics squad. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO. First, some context.

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Hiring a Head of Product

Mironov Consulting

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. Here are some patterns I’ve seen in picking successful Heads of Product.

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Chief Product Officer: Their Superpowers and Role in SaaS Growth!

Usersnap

Activities of a Product Team Tactical activities Strategic activities Operational activities. What Is a Chief Product Officer? . Also known as the Director of Product or VP of Product, the chief product officer leads the product management team, which consists of product managers with varying levels of responsibility.