Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

What does the product launch manager do? Does your organization really need such a role if you already have a product manager ? The product launch manager coordinates the work of cross-functional teams and supports the product manager during product launches. Ready to dive in? Let’s get to it.

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

Why is product idea validation important? As a product manager, how can you effectively validate ideas and build a successful product that delights users? We look at the process of idea validation and a range of tools and techniques you can leverage to aid the process. What is product idea validation?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are metrics that measure how your product is doing. Effective KPIs help you understand if your product is creating the desired value for the users, the customers, and the business. Without KPIs, you end up guessing how well your product is performing. A Goal-directed Approach to Choosing KPIs.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Many startups with an ordinary product make the way to growth and scalability whereas others with great products fail to survive. Both product and product strategy should fall in place to make the startup sustainable and help them to grow. Vision: It should be inspirational and the guiding post.

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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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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are metrics that measure how your product is doing. Effective KPIs help you understand if your product is creating the desired value for the users, the customers, and the business. Without KPIs, you end up guessing how well your product is performing. A Goal-directed Approach to Choosing KPIs.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Be Prepared to Look after People, Not Products. When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. 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. A great way to do this is to mentor and coach people.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Are you curious to learn the top finance product manager skills recruiters are looking for? Finance PMs occupy a unique position within the world of product management. Since finance PMs are responsible for a specific niche of products, recruiters who scout for them look for a particular set of skills in candidates.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Product roadmaps and backlogs serve different purposes, and using the terms interchangeably (or incorrectly) can lead to confusion and misalignment among the product team and the wider organization. TLDR Understanding the difference between a product roadmap and a backlog is crucial for product managers.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

What’s a feature prioritization matrix and how can product teams leverage it to make better product decisions? TL;DR A feature prioritization matrix helps product teams decide which features to develop next, focusing on high-impact features and resource optimization. These are the key questions we cover in the article.

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Modus Create

APRIL 30, 2020

Software development projects require a maker mindset and comprehensive planning to be successful. Just like building a house, if a product’s vision, blueprint, or the foundation is wrong, the output has serious problems. Many executives have experience and opinions about avoiding failing software projects.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Be Prepared to Look after People, Not Products. When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. 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. Listen to this article: [link].

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. Otherwise, you might ask the wrong people for feedback on the increments and hence draw the wrong conclusions. But don’t stop there.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2020

I’d like to share a few product management insights from Synch, a company I co-founded in 2017, to help entrepreneurs who are launching new marketplaces. Even though the article is intended for entrepreneurs, it could also provide fundamental insights to product managers who are tasked to improve metrics in a marketplace.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 20, 2017

Jason Fleitz is Director of Web Operations at LivePerson, where they develop products such as LiveEngage- a platform that gives companies the ability to engage with their customers anytime on web sites, mobile and social networks. Establish Understanding of the Product Vision. Get to Know Your Users. Uncover Motivation.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

A UX audit is an inspection or examination of a digital product's user experience. An outstanding audit will identify even the slightly less-than-perfect features of a product and discover potential issues that might slow and damage performance. The three-step process of a UX Audit involves research, evaluation, and execution.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Livescale is a software company in Montreal bringing brands an innovative live video shopping solution to create authentic and engaging relationships with customers. Who is the face behind the innovative product management? Meet Chanida Rayrolles, Product Manager at Livescale.

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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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DISQO

JULY 1, 2016

Product teams strive to stay up to date with market trends and ensure they’re in tune with the customer for whom they’re building products. But as companies grow, they tend to become further removed from the customer, shifting focus to internal processes and technologies. Instead of thinking “what is the problem in the system?”

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DISQO

JULY 1, 2016

Product teams strive to stay up to date with market trends and ensure they’re in tune with the customer for whom they’re building products. But as companies grow, they tend to become further removed from the customer, shifting focus to internal processes and technologies. Instead of thinking “what is the problem in the system?”

User Testing 40

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Why is product failure such a common feature of the SaaS landscape? We’re also looking at what product managers do to increase the survival chances of their products. We talk about product failure when the product doesn’t meet its objectives or goals. What is a product failure?

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DISQO

JULY 1, 2016

Product teams strive to stay up to date with market trends and ensure they’re in tune with the customer for whom they’re building products. But as companies grow, they tend to become further removed from the customer, shifting focus to internal processes and technologies. Instead of thinking “what is the problem in the system?”

User Testing 40

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Pitfalls of Service-Led vs Product-Focused startups I have been on both sides of the spectrum and it has worked well for companies like Infosys, TCS which take on large service agreements with organizations and provide consulting services or develop software. At what point should you shift gears and focus on the product?

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Usersnap

MARCH 4, 2021

This is the story of how Christina, a product manager, set up a feature request workflow with a simple button in her product, so she could learn directly from the customers what to build next. How about if I told you this was also the first time this product manager’s company created this particular process for feature requests?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

NAVIGATING THE NATURAL TENSION AMONG STAKEHOLDERS This is the first in a series on product roadmaps. It is ideally a galvanizing document to drive vision, bring teams into alignment and commitment, and lead them and your customers to your future, promised destination. Battleground The product roadmap. How do they need to staff?

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Userpilot

MARCH 13, 2024

Every seasoned product marketer knows that adding new features to your product is key to product management success. TL;DR Feature ideation is a process through which product teams brainstorm ideas for new features to introduce to their product. But not just any features will do.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

I talk to a lot of PMs and I ask them (and everyone who subscribes to my newsletter) the same question: what’s your biggest struggle as a Product Manager? Having put together a fairly popular resource on product prioritization methods, I would’ve hoped the situation to be different. But it’s not.

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Bain Public

MAY 24, 2019

It is no secret that a product manager needs momentum in areas such as product development, product sales and customer adoption in order to succeed. As a product leader, you need momentum to gain executive buy-in as well as engineering and marketing resources so that you can create interest and awareness around your product.

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Bain Public

MAY 24, 2019

At Bain Public, we have learned a lot in the many hours and conversations spent mentoring, advising and consulting in product management. Getting it wrong comes in two forms: building the wrong product and building the product wrong. A well-understood product roadmap aligns behavior within the business.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We found a fitting software called Perdoo and at least 50% of our employees were excited about the future. Then the leadership team took our quarterly goals and translated them into objectives and shared them with the managers. Since VAI is a product-driven company, it made sense for the product team to get into the driving seat.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2021

Product Ops facilitates communication across multiple teams and plays a key role in connecting resources and data. The work of product ops makes the product development process easier for the product team and helps to build user-friendly products. What is Product Ops. Does your company need Product Ops?

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 8, 2020

As a product manager, you may have already learned how to plan and prioritize a product roadmap. In response to a Reddit question asking whether there are product roles that exist with a work-life balance, one user answered: "It depends. Product managers are constantly plugged in with a fear of making the wrong decisions.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The following 58 Product Owner theses describe the PO role from a holistic product creation perspective. They cover the concept of the Product Owner role, product discovery, how to deal with external and internal stakeholders, product portfolio and product roadmap planning, and the Product Backlog refinement.

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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. At ProductPlan, we’ve surveyed and spoken to many product leaders about their career trajectories and past professional experience.

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Userpilot

MARCH 16, 2023

Analysis paralysis in product management can have some serious implications not only for the product but also for the business. We also look at how product managers can overcome analysis paralysis to make better product decisions. It slows down product delivery which may lead to missed opportunities and increased costs.

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UX Studio

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

With a background in Business Administration, Management, and Leadership, he has vast experience as a Business consultant, Product strategist, and now as an Innovation Portfolio Lead. years, I’ve been lucky enough to be involved in a lot of projects where we built amazing products in different industries. Should we do research?

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Interested in finding out how to become a director of product? 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.

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