UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 22, 2021

They get most of the recognition, but they also have to be involved in everything, which is super tiring and often leads to stress, burnout, and bad health. They don’t have to make every decision and double-check everything done by their teams. Context: the most important tool to empower your team. All without their manager.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

How to upskill as a product manager. TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. Measuring the value of product management is difficult too. Average ships per person in the team. Is giving up any easier?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

TL;DR The machine learning-powered ChatGPT can help product managers generate ideas, conduct market and user research , analyze data (app store reviews, user feedback, etc.), Perform a SWOT analysis, identify the strengths and weaknesses of your top competing products, etc. What is the break-even point for the product?

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Mind the Product

JUNE 14, 2019

A bad day in the office, a chance LinkedIn message, and before you know it, someone has moved jobs. This kind of serendipity is not a viable career strategy! It wouldn’t happen, because we all realise that serendipity is not a viable product strategy. Just as with a product, you should start with a vision.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 27, 2023

This post will focus on the last example, product roadmaps. The details at the drill-down level don’t support the big-picture vision. This inconsistency is the most insidious sign of a poor product strategy. It has the consequence of individual teams failing to align. Why does roadmap inconsistency matter?

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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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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Technical Officer : Responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Average salary: $196,172/yr.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. .

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Start with your company and product mission and vision. ProductPlan is the product management platform that operationalizes product strategy and execution best practices and drives innovation, trust, and accountability. Bonus Tip: When a customer shows up late to a meeting (happens all the time, right?)

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Userpilot

JANUARY 21, 2021

In this post – we will make it clear how Product Owner vs. Product Manager’s roles differ, what skills each need to have to excel in their roles, why you need both in your product team and when is a good time to hire for those roles! a Product Owner. a Product Owner. In a hurry?

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Up until now, Product Leaders have had to rely on the approaches and frameworks designed specifically for Product Managers or use generic leadership practices which don’t necessarily cover the unique leadership challenges Product Leaders experience. This often goes unnoticed as the pace of development and deadlines increases.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 17, 2019

The impact you have in the world is all about change: how does your product change people lives? This is not a one way street: how does your customer expectations change your product strategy and direction? This is the most basic need for a product. A product needs to have customers, partners and competitors.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

Initially JustGiving supported only registered charities on its website, but the founders’ vision was to support all good causes. In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes.

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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. But how does this apply to the PM role?

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Folding Burritos

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Naturally, this is extremely frustrating; you know it’s the pathway to a disconnected and incoherent product. Tying everything to a strong value proposition and vision is effectively the kind of thing that produces a cohesive product. The product is viewed as a set of features. Solutions and ideas are often half-baked.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Up until now, Product Leaders have had to rely on the approaches and frameworks designed specifically for Product Managers or use generic leadership practices which don’t necessarily cover the unique leadership challenges Product Leaders experience. This often goes unnoticed as the pace of development and deadlines increases.

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Userpilot

JUNE 9, 2021

How to get your first Product Management job. How to get your first Product Marketing job. A Product Manager builds the product by identifying customer needs and creating specifications for developers. A Product Marketer’s role is to communicate the value of the product to the market.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 29, 2020

Productivity expert David Allen once said , “You can do anything, but not everything.” This quote has taken on a life of its own, but this truth certainly applies to product management. Particularly in the software business, if you ask a team to build it, they likely can pull it off. Just say no. Ready to roadmap what matters?

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 19, 2023

With that as the backdrop, there’s a good chance all of your launch content and messaging follows the theme of the headline in the press release. Lackluster sales and/or poor adoption shouldn’t come as a surprise. For sure, but let’s not stop with the product value story. The intent of that design and development changes a lot.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy. Far too many businesses rely on early-on hunches to inform their product strategies. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams. Webflow’s Maggie Hott on building a scalable sales team from the ground up.

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 1, 2013

How can Theodore Levitt’s classic Whole Product approach help with defining a product roadmap? I’ve been revisiting his concepts and their use recently, thinking about how to revise them for some exercises I’ve been doing with product teams. Whole Product Game Background. Thanks, Luke!

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UX Studio

MARCH 11, 2024

I realized that that wasn’t really gonna happen I’m very very bad at competition. And like the warmups and practice, I could see that I was kind of… you can kind of know how good you are on the team [00:04:00] in the warmups. Really anything to do with the wind surfing. And it’s like, yes, that’s true.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Hiring product managers is one of the most challenging and important tasks for product team leaders. The diversity of backgrounds in product manager applicants increases the level of difficulty in making a good hire. Moreover, product manager roles and job descriptions also vary wildly from one organization to the next.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2022

SaaS companies often struggle to identify user problems worth solving, differentiate their products, and get the pricing right. Entering immature markets and devising a relatable product vision are also serious challenges. To avoid product failure, don’t launch without achieving product-market fit first.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Roadmapping software has emerged as a core need for the modern product manager. Product Introduction. In the case of ProductPlan vs. Roadmunk, both do an excellent job of introducing you to the platform with the following features: In-app tutorials and help messages. can submit feedback for product managers to review.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Roadmapping software has emerged as a core need for the modern product manager. Product Introduction. In the case of ProductPlan vs. Roadmunk, both do an excellent job of introducing you to the platform with the following features: In-app tutorials and help messages. can submit feedback for product managers to review.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

One of the biggest determining factors of a company’s success is the clarity of its message, and how that clarity comes across in every interaction across the product and brand. 1 Poor definition of value proposition and feature focus. Brand Identity: When customers interact with your brand, is your value proposition clear?

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

As a product team grows from one or two individual contributors to a larger, more diverse team, it takes some work to ensure everyone is set up for success. Different personalities, styles, and expectations can create inconsistent experiences for others when dealing with the product team. Empowered and autonomous.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Unlike a go-to-market strategy, which focuses on the product launch phase alone, a marketing strategy refers to a longer-term approach toward achieving success with your brand. A product strategy , on the other hand, focuses only on the product (answering the who, what, and why of the product).

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Of course, not every roadmap is well suited for a SaaS operation, so we’ve selected five very different types of roadmap templates that can play a critical role in keeping a SaaS product’s house in order despite the non-stop pace of product development. Product roadmap. Product development roadmap.

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Department of Product

AUGUST 22, 2022

With that, we had a little discussion about what the best places for a product leader to focus on might be in the early days after joining a company – and how a leader in product might be able to conduct a ‘Product Health Check’. A consumer social media app is more likely to have more mobile users.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

The Best Product Managers use Product Management Software for: We’ve broken down this list into four stages of the feature life cycle that contributes to building the product value: opportunity identification and validation, design and prototyping, feature development, and launch and iteration.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As usual, you really had to be there but here are the Sigmacorn notes… 9:00 Mark Littlewood: Opening remarks Welcome to BoS! How will we win?

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Userpilot

JUNE 8, 2022

Specifically, it gives your data to answer what users actually do i n the product instead of what they say they do. Multiple teams need to gauge product analytics data. Product managers — for making strategic decisions. Product marketers — for identifying new opportunities. Product management KPIs.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

In these cases, my observation is that the true failing was in the definition and communication of the strategy rather than than a cultural inability to execute. Through these failures, I’ve come up with a framework for defining, layering, and communicating an effective product strategy that can close the gap between strategy and execution.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Any advice on developing that elusive product intuition or product “spidey sense” ability? Constant, deliberate observation of a lot of different products. Go to Techmeme or Product Hunt weekly or even daily, read about product decisions and check out the top products.

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Roadmunk

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

I remember sitting down with the designer at the time saying, please tell me what the difference is between a graphic designer and a software developer. Eleni: A lot of the writing that product managers do might be in context that we don’t consider writing—like a Slack message or slide deck. Evan: Everything.

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