The Product Manager Coach Blog

MAY 7, 2024

Two positions that often cause confusion are Staff Product Manager and Senior Product Manager. These titles may sound similar, but they encompass different levels of organizational expertise and leadership. What is a Senior Product Manager? Which one is right for you?

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Figure 2 contains a set of cascading goals: vision, user and business goals, product goals, and sprint goals. The vision guides the user and business goals, which are contained in the product strategy. A product goal, finally, helps determine the right sprint goals.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Tech PMs work actively with product teams on the product vision and strategy. A big part of their job is managing the roadmap and prioritizing technical initiatives in the product backlog. Their technical expertise allows them to identify risks and develop effective mitigation strategies. Product vision.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

The value the product should create is not clearly understood : A validated product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are missing. If this data is actioned, bad product decisions will be made. Then ask yourself how you can tell that these goals have been met. 3 Stakeholder or Big Boss Dictates KPIs.

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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. Grow Your Leadership Skills. Carrying out the relevant product discovery work and taking into account product ethics.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 17, 2023

Paul acquired the breadth of experience through his leadership roles at San Francisco Bay Area startups and high-growth companies. He helps rapidly scaling early-stage startups craft their Product Strategy and everything related to it. I eventually got fired as a product manager. Not really.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

Collaboratively set goals , for example, user and business goals on the product strategy and product goals on the product roadmap. Involve the Stakeholders in Important Product Decisions. The post Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People appeared first on Roman Pichler.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Impact mapping is a collaborative strategic planning technique used by product managers, product owners , and senior technical leadership, who work mostly in Agile software delivery. An impact map is a visual representation of the connections between the goals you want to achieve, the customers, and solutions.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Figure 2 contains a set of cascading goals: vision, user and business goals, product goals, and sprint goals. The vision guides the user and business goals, which are contained in the product strategy. A product goal, finally, helps determine the right sprint goals.

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Bain Public

MAY 24, 2019

Well, luckily we have outlined the different ways you can build momentum and succeed as a product leader. Embracing a growth mindset, communicating a product vision and strategy and striving for early-market success are all steps toward growth and prosperity. There can be no momentum without proper and solid leadership.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

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ProductPlan

JULY 16, 2021

Product managers who follow this concept understand the responsibility to influence others to achieve the organization’s product goals. The dynamic turns upside down as we progress through our careers and establish ourselves as product leaders. As product managers, we have the power to task others with responsibilities.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Its main goal is to bring the product to the market and ensure it’s well-received by the target customers. The product marketing manager role involves conducting customer research, developing the GTM strategy , refining product positioning and messaging , managing product launches , and creating onboarding experiences.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Today we wrap up the three part series on creating your strategy stack. Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on establishing the organization’s Mission, North Star, and Vision. Part 2, we continued the organizational journey by defining the Strategy and Goals.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The insights from the market research feed into the go-to-market strategy. This outlines how to launch the product to the right clientele at the right time. While developing the GTM strategy , they work with the marketing team to select the best ways of promoting the products. Go-To-Market strategy.

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

(Montreal, Canada) – Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product, Data and Strategy of Bain Public will be a guest speaker on the Product Beats Show on December 7th, 2021. The Product Beats Show is a live, free product show that runs every Tuesday. have goals moving in the same direction.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Aligning your manager and executive team members around product goals can help you to prioritize your projects when too many disruptions occur. There are many product decision-making stages in which to involve your leadership team, but I would recommend giving them as early a heads-up as possible. Be Flexible.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

To effectively staff the product team, I recommend including the people shown in Figure 1. [1] 1] Figure 1: The Product Team Members Let’s look at the product team members in Figure 1 in more detail starting with the person in charge of the product. Let’s take a look at them.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

As part of his role at Timechain, Mario works with leadership to research and analyze the market, and define the product mission, strate gies, tactics which lead to the product roadmap updates and product growth opportunities. How did Bain Public help Timechain reach their product goals?

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 20, 2019

I’m thrilled to be Master of Ceremonies for this year’s Leading the Product conference in Australia. As part of that, I’ll be offering one-day workshops on career ladders to product leadership: Melbourne , 16 October, What Do Product Leaders Do, and How Can I Become One? ( registration ).

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

I share my passion for product through workshops, published articles and speaking engagements. Paul Ortchanian is a pro in injecting strategies and tactics to monetize his client's businesses. A lack of strategy in planning your products is accompanied by a lack of focus and direction, which means things can quickly get out of hand.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Technical program manager (TPM) roles range from mid to senior-level positions that support organizations with their product goals. TPMs must communicate strategies, roadmaps, and program issues with all key stakeholders. Strong leadership is the ability to motivate and solve problems in an innovative way.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

It encompasses the quality and consistency of research and design processes, resources, tools, and operations, as well as the organization’s propensity to support and strengthen UX now and in the future, through its leadership, workforce, and culture. Have you defined your short-term and long-term product goals?

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Bain Public

MARCH 30, 2020

Nearly all Product Managers are now exposed to high-level business objectives and strategies and are challenged by the growing demands on time and responsibilities. Here’s a list of our product-centric articles that our contributors published. Originally published by Loren O'Brien-Egesborg Any company + product manager ?

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Userpilot

JULY 8, 2021

Online Product Management by General Assembly is a product manager course for beginner product managers that includes a final project at the end, that you can proudly add to your portfolio. A product manager course for advanced/pro product managers should teach you how to move from product execution to product strategy.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

Moreover, they must maintain a consistent overall business strategy and set goals. While some of this rapid recalibration is healthy—and might be heavily influenced by the Agile onion impact on planning —executive teams, board members, and investors take little comfort in a zig-zagging product plan.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

Alignment with product/business goals Using a feature prioritization matrix helps the team stay true to the product vision and strategy. It also helps them to avoid falling into the build trap and building bloated products with a diluted value proposition. Feedback request modal built in Userpilot.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Eventually, he managed the entire product from the execution standpoint, while I focused on the strategy and long-term planning. Little did I know that creating a solid product strategy takes such a major chunk of the product leader’s time. Should you hire a senior product manager? Who Should You Hire?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 18, 2022

Product managers must thoroughly understand the competitive space their products occupy, along with what their primary competitors are doing. From there, PMs must develop product vision and strategy to help achieve the company's goals. The average product manager salary is around $112,000/year.

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Bain Public

MARCH 21, 2020

Missing is the discovery of the necessary product to be built, the strategic decisions related to providing true customer value and creating revenue at a low cost. Having engineers, marketers, designers moving in the same direction, reaching a product goal to accelerate a company’s success is foundational to the Product mindset.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

In practical terms, involve stakeholders and dev teams in decisions that affect the product strategy and the product roadmap —be it that you create the plans or that you make bigger changes to them. To make things worse, it’s not clear who has the final say on product strategy changes.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This helps her outline their challenges and present them to the leadership team so the product can continue to improve. She pays close attention to Livescale’s competitors and industry trends, assesses value, develops cases, and prioritizes feature mixes, ensuring everything aligns with the product strategy.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

Over time with seniority and success, you will become increasingly responsible for product vision, goal setting, and the product roadmap. For succinctness, I’m not including leadership, management, process, and coordination responsibilities which will also come with more senior roles. Executives?—?Are Marketing?—?Do

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

But the discipline has matured, and more organizations value what dedicated product management has to offer. Product strategy has now become the primary focus of the job. Product strategy is a high-level plan for the product. It ties overall business objectives to the product. Metrics that Matter.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Then the leadership team took our quarterly goals and translated them into objectives and shared them with the managers. Lesson 2: Don’t let people with no time drive OKRs In our case, the founders were busy managing investors, planning the strategy, and securing partnerships. Good enough for a start.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Our goal was to define how we would set and communicate the company strategy, and how that strategy would lead OKRs and backlog definition. Product (and company) strategy is the backbone that guides product goal-setting and roadmap definition, although it’s sometimes overlooked or confused with having a vision.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This makes you reactive rather than proactive, resulting in a weak product and a product team stuck trying to keep up with competitors — rather than staying ahead of them. Your personal goals should therefore align with your KPIs and your overall professional growth plan. Visit our Solutions page ?.

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