Product Management University

JANUARY 2, 2024

If you ask 10 different product managers to describe strategic product management, you’ll probably get at least 10 answers, maybe more. What is Strategic Product Management? In a nutshell, strategic product management is about the impact and value your products deliver.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

If you’re looking to climb the product marketing career ladder faster, here are five things you can do that’ll accelerate your climb. Track Record of Year-Over-Year Product Revenue Growth Not to state the obvious here, but product revenue is always top the priority. I came into a product marketing role from pre-sales.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Product success is not something you can achieve on your own as a product manager or Scrum product owner. Instead, you rely on the contributions and the support of the key stakeholders , the development team members, and possibly other product people who help you manage a large product.

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Product Management University

MARCH 16, 2023

When it comes to innovation and product management, a great idea can only get you so far. The result is a product backlog, which will take you task-by-task from conception to launch. In this post, we’ll introduce outcome-based product backlogs and how to develop one so you can consistently deliver winning products.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 5, 2022

The Head of Product Role. A head of product is someone who manages a group of product people—individuals who look after one or more products and who may be called product manager or product owner. People Management. Note that I have kept the description of the responsibilities concise.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 8, 2024

Product management is an attractive career path, and getting into the field is harder than ever. Why is product management an attractive career? For starters, product Managers generally have attractive salaries. Built In lists the average Product Manager salary at $128,820.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

You followed the textbook process for uncovering an unmet market need, justified the financial investment and successfully released product version 1 to market with great success. The Product Version 1 and Done Dilemma – Root Causes! Both components collectively form the vision for the product.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Market and customer discovery is the single most foundational skill for success in product management and product marketing. This is the lynchpin to finding the departments, users and jobs that have the biggest impact on those strategic goals. One of them is obvious and the other is rarely if ever discussed.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Market and customer discovery is the single most foundational skill for success in product management and product marketing. This is the lynchpin to finding the departments, users and jobs that have the biggest impact on those strategic goals. One of them is obvious and the other is rarely if ever discussed.

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Product Management University

APRIL 25, 2023

Creating a value based resume means it’s time to treat yourself as a product that has strategic (employer) value. The hard part is avoiding the trap of TELLING employers what the product (you) does versus SELLING its value. I’d get each and every one of you into a job that leveraged your talents to the fullest.

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Product Management University

JULY 31, 2023

If you think about it, those skills, to a greater or lesser degree, are required in just about any market or customer-facing role in a high-tech company. The product demo is usually the biggest hurdle to clear on the way to a signed contract. Answer RFPs – mostly the product sections.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. I want to create a low-risk, low-friction way for you to unlock the knowledge in your head, while benefiting the next generation of product builders and helping you explore the solopreneur path.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Opportunity solution trees help product teams chart the best path to their desired outcome. They keep the team aligned as they manage the messy cycles of continuous discovery. How do you manage the messiness of the opportunity space over time? Where can you get an opportunity solution tree template? Let’s dive right in.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Including free access to a customized JTBD GPT and printable checklist, this is the only guide you’ll ever need for your product discovery. Over the past few months, I’ve been on a deep dive into the world of customer discovery and the Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) framework. resource section to get access!

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In most B2B organizations, it’s more the exception than the rule that customer success managers inherit accounts where they’re in a position to play offense because the customer is thrilled with your products. That’s the beauty of a portfolio management approach that begins in product management.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

JULY 24, 2023

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. It’s part of our job to ask questions about their plans, challenge their assumptions, and suggest paths to success. How will you be taking this to market? Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 14, 2024

And even if you can find an agile coaching or Scrum Master job, the pay is so terrible, you don’t want to take it. That’s because potential employers think these jobs are staff positions. Your previous managers and potential managers don’t see the value of someone in your position.

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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.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 15, 2024

The habits that set apart transformational product leaders Today we are talking about why organizations are increasingly facing the need to transform and how to navigate those changes. Big Bets typically happen at the enterprise level but can happen at the team or product level. I think you ought to write a book about it.”

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Few books have chronicled how innovation takes place – and how market leaders fail to seize it – as well as Clayton Christensen ’s seminal book The Innovator’s Dilemma. Reinventing your product offering and even competing with yourself is a crucial mindset in the tech industry. Jeff Loomans , Senior IT Manager at Vermeer Corporation.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

Are you thinking of a career in product management and wondering what the product manager career path looks like? In particular, we look at: What the product manager’s role involves Their main responsibilities Common product management positions Tips on how to advance your PM career Let’s dive in.

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Userpilot

APRIL 26, 2024

You’re looking to track your customer data and build your sales and marketing efforts around it. However, it’s not easy to pick a tool among a myriad of tools available on the market. We’ve broken them down into three categories, including product analytics. Get a demo. Let’s dig in!

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

Expanding on a recent post ( Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies ), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product, engineering, design) struggling to form product strategies without a company strategy to hang them on.  Why is this so critical to Product Management and the larger maker organization? 

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Especially in product management, where authority is limited, you need to act beyond the limits of formality. Photo by Blake Cheek on Unsplash I once coached a very talented senior product manager. He asked what was going on but kept getting insufficient answers. Here is how. He was a good person.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

After regenerating the image 18 times -and getting pretty much the same result every time – I gave up… According to AI, the ‘tech CEO’ is young, white, and male. And yet – even when they work harder – they get paid less. Recently, I did a little experiment. I asked DALLE to ‘Give me an image of a tech CEO’.

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Userpilot

APRIL 21, 2024

Wondering how to build a conversion path for your SaaS product or e-commerce site? Let’s get to it! From the moment they learn about the product until they complete a desired action, like a demo booking, and beyond. Focus on their JTBDs, pain points , and gains from using your product. Follow our 6-step guide.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. It’s easy to think AI tools are a fad, too complicated, or unlikely to have real impact on your job. Welcome to this month’s ✨ free edition ✨ of Lenny’s Newsletter. But you’re wrong.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

You may have already learned that change is not always welcomed, such as when the new product you created also cannibalizes an existing product your organization provides. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [2:31] Why do organizations need to transform and what are some examples of transformation?

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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.

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Bryce York

APRIL 7, 2024

To become a product manager, you’ll need to build a skillset that spans business, technology, and user experience. Many product managers don’t have a master’s degree (myself included!). So don’t assume that’s a hard requirement, even when it’s listed in the job description.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

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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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Market research essentials for product managers Today we are talking about the knowledge area called market research. How do you know that the product you’re developing will actually create value for customers, that they’ll love it, and that they’ll buy it? Needs are not solutions.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

To be a kick-ass product manager , you need a very diverse skill set. This article explores both hard and soft skills that product managers need in their everyday work, so if you’re curious to learn more, dive right in. PMs need to know how to use product analytics tools to gain actionable insights.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2021

I wrote a variation of this for the various product teams at Whispir recently and then as fate would have it, a CEO I know reached out to me on LinkedIn asking the same thing?—?so Whispir product teams use the Circles method to get to final recommendations. Circles method. They are; The four base needs of any good idea.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Becoming a great product manager isn’t about acquiring hard skills. So what makes a great product manager? When I started my career in product I looked up to the Google Product Manager. I assumed this is what a great product manager was like. You work with a product team.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

In recent years it seems that product management is all about execution and delivery. Photo by Kea Mowat on Unsplash When I moved into product management, almost 20 years ago, it used to be a very senior role. The discussion was about whether or not someone is senior enough to move into product management.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 1, 2024

How product managers can design their customer experience journey We all want to create products that customers find valuable and even delightful. How can using the customer experience journey help you make better products? How can using the customer experience journey help you make better products?

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