The Product Manager Coach Blog

MAY 7, 2024

Navigating the world of product management can be overwhelming, especially when trying to understand the different roles and responsibilities. Two positions that often cause confusion are Staff Product Manager and Senior Product Manager. What is a Staff Product Manager?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

What are the different types of product managers? We also look at the levels of seniority among product managers as well as the skills they need to lead successful teams and build products that delight customers. The types of product managers differ in focus and required skills.

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

What does a product manager do? We look at: 7 key responsibilities of product managers. Different kinds of product manager roles. Qualities of a good product manager. TL;DR A product manager is in charge of the entire product lifecycle. Who is a product manager?

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. Product Vision puts a company’s Vision and Mission into action The Product Vision ensures the Roadmap reflects the priorities which matter the most to the company’s customers and to the company. You’ve met the people.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

And if you’re really excited about an idea, you might look for opportunities to share it outside your company with the broader product community. Today’s Product in Practice features a continuous discovery champion who did all three. Texthelp has over 50 million users served by 12 product teams in the US, the UK, and in the Nordics.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How do product management and marketing teams work together to build successful products? TL;DR Product managers define the overall product direction and oversee the entire product lifecycle. Product marketing sits between product development and the market. What is product management?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

The product manager career path is an exciting one with lots of possible on- and off-ramps. According to LinkedIn, interest in product management has doubled in the United States in the past 5 years. What is the Product Manager’s Career Path? Typical Product Management Roles. Product Manager.

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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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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Our new guide, Five Hard Questions for Mobile Product Managers , covers tough questions product leaders should ask themselves, especially through a mobile lens. If you’re aiming to push yourself and your product to the next level, analyzing yourself is the best place to start! Question #1: Am I the CEO of the product?

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

In this article, we look at different ways for product managers to avoid falling into the overengineering trap. TL;DR An over-engineered product is more complex than it should be and it solves problems that don’t exist. This means complicated UI , redundant features, and unnecessary use of complex technologies.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

The product manager career path is an exciting one with lots of possible on- and off-ramps. According to LinkedIn, interest in product management has doubled in the United States in the past 5 years. What is the Product Manager’s Career Path? Typical Product Management Roles. Product Manager.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The importance of measuring the small outcomes associated with their product goals or visions is the key to churn expected benefits throughout the product life cycle. In summary, this framework gives an opportunity to discover, experiment, build, measure, learn and sell the product for outcomes aligned with the product vision.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2023

GQM Use in Ancient Times On a recent product requirements document, I laid out measures of success using an old favorite: Goal-Question-Metric (GQM). The result was a very clear definition of success for the product and also a roadmap to measure progress. Why do we want to double technology training for job seekers?

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Who is the face behind Timechain’s innovative product management? Meet Mario Munoz, the Product Manager at Timechain. His job is to not only create and maintain a product roadmap according to the business ROI, but also lead the quarterly roadmap prioritization and help with development and go to market efforts.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 18, 2022

Many tech professionals follow a product manager career path because it blends responsibilities and exciting job duties. Product managers are often called "mini-CEOs" because of the influence they have at a company. They manage complex products and work with team members in all departments.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

The role of a Product Owner/Manager/Strategist is to help startups capture and transform customer insights into full product experiences that in turn increase customer satisfaction, loyalty, retention, and the business values. Analysis of Share of Voice (how consumers perceive the product) 4.

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Modus Create

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Communicating the impact of technical debt in business terms makes it visible, which helps stakeholders prioritize issues on the product roadmap. . Align Technology & Product Roadmaps. provides an elegant way to look at both technology and product roadmaps — they are two sides of the same coin.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Most companies don’t have a clear picture of their roadmap. Bain Public’s SOAP™ methodology and tool offers a full picture of your product strategy, tactics, metrics and roadmap all in one place. In this 30-min demo, we’ll dive deeper into how our SOAP™ methodology and tool can help you achieve your product goals.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 30, 2018

Because market awareness drives roadmaps that have the highest likelihood of “changing the game”. You’ll learn things that change your roadmaps for the better. You’ll learn things that confirm your roadmap is right. You’ll learn things that have no impact on your roadmap. And I wasn’t half bad.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 14, 2018

by Ashley Sefferman , Head of Content at Apptentive When Ben Horowitz published his thoughts on the idea that product managers are the CEO of their products in “ Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager ” nearly two decades ago, the concept was profound, but divisive. Here are four of our favorites.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2021

Photo by Ono Kosuki from Pexels OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) are a useful tool for goal setting and team alignment, and in recent years they have gone from being used primarily in quantitative parts of the organization (namely sales and marketing) to being very popular in product and technology as well.

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The two hosts, Magnus Billgren and Petra Färm, have product experts on as guests from all over the world to share, inspire, and inform other product people of the latest news, topics and trends in a fun and engaging way. have goals moving in the same direction. This results in poor habits around roadmap completion.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. But why is working in enterprise software now different?

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Most companies don’t have a clear picture of their roadmap. Bain Public’s SOAP™ methodology and tool offers a full picture of your product strategy, tactics, metrics and roadmap all in one place. In this 30-min demo, we’ll dive deeper into how our SOAP™ methodology and tool can help you achieve your product goals.

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Product Talk

JUNE 21, 2023

I then decided to pursue a Master’s of Education, which was focused on building online learning and technology. I took a class on educational product development and I really loved it, so I started asking, “What’s the job that would allow me to do this full time?”

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Becoming a director of product requires years of experience managing products and working with other product managers. That gives you the experience and expertise to get to the next level, where you start managing other product managers. Then you’ve come to the right place.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

It’s about aligning feedback with your product goals and the company’s vision A simple framework you can use: Impact vs. Effort: How impactful is the feedback, and what’s the effort required to implement it? Urgency vs. Aligning feedback with your product’s raison d’être ensures you remain on course.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

For this reason, your team should understand the difference between annual product planning and quarterly planning. Companies must react to changes in market dynamics, technology, and customer needs. Moreover, they must maintain a consistent overall business strategy and set goals. Annual planning and the product roadmap.

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Sequent Learning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Fundamentals of Product Management – For the Last Time. People often ask me why I write books and articles about product management. Sometimes I detect patterns or trends in business performance that would benefit product people with a clarification or a ‘how-to’ guideline. That’s great news.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 4, 2019

The great thing about technology is that anything is possible. Anything in the top right, like ‘idea 7’, should go straight to the top of your roadmap. Scrap that roadmap, it’s time to pivot! Well, in the oft-used words of any product professional, it depends. But when anything is possible, how do you decide what to do?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 19, 2020

Gap analysis reports are most commonly used by product managers and process improvement teams. This is because you can compare current processes to future productivity goals. Then, you can use gap analysis to evaluate your IT systems and technology stack. What have you already outlined as your future goals?

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Bain Public

MARCH 21, 2020

Within these organizations exist hundreds, perhaps thousands of dedicated product managers. But the product manager is often mistaken for the "project manager." One fosters an "IT mindset," while the other fosters a "Product mindset." Because product managers work at the intersection of many roles?—?marketing,

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Step 1: Ensure that you know who the product is for and why people will want to use it. I’ll never forget the day when I suggested to the product manager of a brand-new healthcare product to prioritise its features. ” (Note that I have chosen a dual goal that captures the desired business and user benefits.).

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

Working as a product manager can be a busy, unpredictable and octopus-like existence. Bringing team members together, organizing user research, product demos, road mapping and more. If you’re a mobile app product manager there’s a whole additional layer of complexity to add to that cake.

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Modus Create

APRIL 30, 2020

Just like building a house, if a product’s vision, blueprint, or the foundation is wrong, the output has serious problems. Successful projects start with everyone understanding the goals, processes, general requirements, and technologies. Modus Kickstart Workshop, Business, and Product Goals.

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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. Potential technical program managers must keep this unique communication challenge in mind.

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DISQO

JULY 1, 2016

But as companies grow, they tend to become further removed from the customer, shifting focus to internal processes and technologies. To combat this, Wizeline’s Head of Product, Wendy Johansson, argues for organizations to diversify their pool of product managers. Customer-informed roadmaps.

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