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. Product Management Books #1 – Continuous Discovery Habits [NEW! ].

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products. I started as a product manager and ended up as the VP of product. How to use technology to create something. And here we are, six years later.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 9, 2018

Focus on Problem Validation, not Solution Building. Your product discovery work should focus on nailing the value proposition, target group, business goals, business model, and stand-out features of the product—not on writing user stories, designing the user interface, or building the actual solution.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

You hear a lot about the need for soft skills in product management, but product managers also need hard skills. In fact, any discussion about product management soft skills should presuppose you’ve already mastered the specific abilities required for the job: the hard skills. They are your technical skills.

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Bain Public

AUGUST 22, 2022

Second, to assist and work in collaboration with the rest of the Product Management team and third, to work in collaboration with our broader team – which includes UX/UI, Engineering and a team of Data Scientists. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2023

If You Don’t Know What a Product Manager Is — Don’t Hire Me. If you really want me to be your product manager, then this is explicitly the kind of product manager I will be in our company. Being a Product Manager (PM) in a IT (Information Technology) services company may seem complicated. We are not.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The below image is a simple framework but it is a growth platform that helps in setting up startups, mid-size or even big enterprises. The framework provides a platform to keep the pace of sustainability for a longer time than quick failure. Pro Tips: Invest a good time in brainstorming to get the vision done. What is S.M.A.R.T?

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Product Managers have the enviable job of taking a product from its roots as an idea and steering its lifecycle through launch and beyond. It’s no wonder Product Managers are so well-compensated; Hired’s 2017 Global State of Tech Salaries survey found that Product Managers’ average salary of $138,000 was the very highest of any tech role.

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Userpilot

MAY 26, 2021

Love it or hate it, one thing is clear: product onboarding is an important driver of activation and retention in SaaS businesses. Allow us to walk you through the product onboarding best practices that we’ve learned through working with hundreds of SaaS businesses. Userpilot is a phenomenally versatile onboarding tool.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Second, to assist and work in collaboration with the rest of the Product Management team and third, to work in collaboration with our broader team – which includes UX/UI, Engineering and a team of Data Scientists. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Second, to assist and work in collaboration with the rest of the Product Management team and third, to work in collaboration with our broader team – which includes UX/UI, Engineering and a team of Data Scientists. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Second, to assist and work in collaboration with the rest of the Product Management team and third, to work in collaboration with our broader team – which includes UX/UI, Engineering and a team of Data Scientists. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

UX studio is one of the global innovation design consulting firms focusing on UX design, research, and strategic consulting. We researched the top design consulting firms’ competency level, experience, and portfolio to define the most reliable design thinking companies you can trust and partner with in 2021.

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Product Managers have the enviable job of taking a product from its roots as an idea and steering its lifecycle through launch and beyond. It’s no wonder Product Managers are so well-compensated; Hired’s 2017 Global State of Tech Salaries survey found that Product Managers’ average salary of $138,000 was the very highest of any tech role.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

An inside look at product management at IBM and the interview process. Kevin Wei is an Offering Manager at IBM managing Watson Knowledge Catalog and DataStage. Hi I'm Kevin Wei, a product manager (aka an offering manager -- I can get into that in a bit) on IBM's data + AI team. What is an IBM offering manager?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

Product discovery encompasses all the research and decisions on the product, whether that’s planning your next feature, or testing your latest product proposition. Challenge definition A challenge could be responding to customer feedback, introducing a proposition, or overcoming a technical problem. What is product discovery?

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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. It’s seldom their ability to do the job technically?—?to How do I build alignment?

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

FUN FACT: It is actually thanks to the coaching service for innovative and technological SMBs (PMEit) administered by MAIN that we’ve been able to work with some of our incredible clients, Wastack , LiveScale , Blaise Transit and Enkidoo , and provide them with product management, consultancy and coaching support. Startup founder?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 4, 2022

Product operations is a new discipline within product management, and the product operations analyst role is even newer. As we found in our research for ProductPlan’s 2022 State of the Product Report , only 25% of businesses with 20 to 100 employees have a product operations role or team. Project management tools.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 10, 2017

As a product manager it’s not uncommon to feel pulled in a million different directions as you work to meet the needs of your customers, developers and company stakeholders. The practices I describe are not an exhaustive list of tools and methods. We have adopted Slack as the main communication tool for the Zalora engineering team.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. Skills a Product Manager Need Analytical Skills In your current role as a consultant, you will have developed and honed your analytical skills. Ideally, you will have directly assisted a product manager on one of your projects.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. Skills a Product Manager Need Analytical Skills In your current role as a consultant, you will have developed and honed your analytical skills. Ideally, you will have directly assisted a product manager on one of your projects.

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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. Scrum and the agile manifesto were created in a time where we used to still package and ship software physically. Later whilst being an adviser at Stanford university Neil H. including myself?—?went

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 1, 2024

Decode A Job Posting from Spotify: Senior Product Manager — Playlist Platform Spotify is an innovative business that changes the surrounding reality: almost everyone you see on the street or in a café wearing headphones listens to music on Spotify. What technical knowledge does Spotify expect from a candidate?

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 29, 2018

He has created products and led product teams for Fortune 500 companies including Cisco and Capital One, advised several small and medium businesses, and founded a Product Innovation, Design Thinking and Agile coaching practice called 5D Vision. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:46]

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We talk to Hemanth Kempanna, an Exponent alumnus, on his journey to breaking into product management and his experience building cloud-based products. This can be in terms of the companies you want to target, the roles you want to get into or the kind of industry, products, or technologies you want to work on. Interview preparation.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Brant previously authored The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development, the first purpose-written book to discuss Lean Startup and Customer Development concepts and he is the Co-Founder of Moves the Needle, which has advised the innovation practices of such leading companies as GE, Intuit, Capital One, ING and Cisco.

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Let’s establish this right upfront: nothing beats a well-managed full-time in-house team of local developers. For example, a local startup team I consult for are developing their web app in-house while outsourcing their mobile development team of 12 to Poland. Do your own research. As with anything complex, it depends.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How deep does your understanding of the technology go as a PM? And how much do you try to be, like, a subject matter expert from a technological standpoint compared to your engineering team? How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? I’m a product manager at Stripe.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

Collect information and work with your cross-functional partners to be an effective product manager. Take Charge Product Management by Greg Geracie. You won’t find these two sentences in any books on product management: “It was 6:45am. .” Your role as product manager is to see the forest, not the trees.

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Userzoom

AUGUST 24, 2017

How you can make your next research project more actionable and valuable. Executives, Marketers, Designers, and Product Managers all want to make an informed decision and manage risk intelligently. This is why a lot of companies are investing in User Research. Most research studies have a small shelf life.

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Effective Roadmap Planning and Development Process for Enterprise Products

AUGUST 2, 2018

Market Research : Adopt Primary and Secondary research techniques to gather intelligence on the market. If the users don’t use the product actively then whom are we managing the product for, is the question we need to constantly ask. I typically advise the below format. Similar approach applies to user persona.

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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Barbara Nelson said in The Politics of Agile , “When product managers weren’t looking, the developers went agile.” ” Indeed, many Product Managers were taken by surprise at the speed of Agile’s adoption. Ultimately, we are responsible for the success of the product and, thus, the company. The Problem.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 10, 2024

Members of the PHQ Slack community regularly host awesome events for product managers to swap tips and learn from one another. In San Francisco, Vinay Melwani (Product Manager at HouseCanary) has organized a monthly morning meetup called AM | PM. One of the questions: “What viable career paths exist for product managers?”

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Building a powerful SaaS product takes way more than just an idea. Without a systematic approach to your product management process and clear roadmap, you’ll likely face several hurdles like lack of direction, unclear priorities, wasted resources, missed deadlines, difficulty in scaling, and more. What is a product management process?

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 7, 2021

In this guest post Paul Kenny (founder of Ocean Learning and long time BoS participant and speaker) argues that software and SaaS “proven sales playbooks” are BS. Our CRM system can prompt the team to make the optimum number of calls, to follow up efficiently and to be better at predicting call or demo outcomes.

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