The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 5, 2017

One of the most challenging questions about product management has been – in my experience – “What is Product Management?”. In this post, I share a simple model or framework to answer this question. We’re called “product” managers. We’ll start with a box labeled “Product.” Product manager =? Product Owner.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Whether you’re new to the product management field or a seasoned professional, it’s always valuable to learn from your peers’ lived experiences. We recently sat down with four product experts and asked them about their experiences in this field. What strategies do you use to prioritize your product roadmap?

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Prescriptive Agile frameworks make it hard for designers to add valuable contributions to the team. Without discovery practices as part of the sprint, the product is destined to fail. After delivery, we prayed to the gods that the final product would work as designed. In 2011 I was a UX Designer in a design studio. Guess what?

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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

“What is the difference between a Product Owner and a Product Manager?”. Let’s look at where these terms and disciplines originated from and how some common frameworks explain them. Honestly, I did very little of what I teach as Product Management now either. I had not heard of the term Product Owner until years later.

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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? Examples of different prioritization frameworks. TL;DR A feature prioritization matrix helps product teams decide which features to develop next, focusing on high-impact features and resource optimization.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In the previous article, I discussed in detail about Agile Product Life Cycle and its different phases and outcomes that allow an organization to function end to end in an agile product life cycle. In image 1 I have listed some practices in sticky notes below each of the phases to drive the Agile product life cycle.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The articles: Defines the weighted scoring model Discusses its advantages and disadvantages Shows how product and project managers can create their own model Explains how to follow up on the results Let’s get right into it! These could come from your organization or you can use a ready framework like RICE or ICE.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Our industry is in the midst of a big philosophical debate about the fundamental way of thinking about how we build our products, with the focus shifting from the outputs of what we build to the business outcomes generated by those outputs. The Product Impact Framework felt like a natural progression from features to outcome.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 18, 2021

Product discovery is becoming a trendy topic in the world of digital products. This article will cover the ins and outs of product discovery. What is Product Discovery? Product discovery is often defined in comparison to product delivery. Product discovery is a decision-making process. What is it?

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Userpilot

JUNE 26, 2023

Choosing the right feature request prioritization framework enables product teams to make informed decisions and deliver the maximum customer value possible, especially when resources are limited. They can also help product managers secure key stakeholder buy-in. Let’s dive in.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

Why do product managers need a new feature validation framework? What techniques and methods can you use to validate feature ideas effectively? TL;DR Product managers need a new feature validation framework to ensure that they meet user needs or drive organizational goals and avert product failure.

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Product Talk

APRIL 21, 2021

I work as a product discovery coach. The reason why I like to share that is in today’s talk, we’re going to get into my continuous discovery framework. And I like to set the tone that this framework was developed and co-created with dozens of teams from all over the world. I’m Teresa Torres. Tweet This.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A mindset of product experimentation is vitally important for product success and growth. TL;DR Product experimentation is a systematic and data-driven approach, where you consistently design and run experiments that help you make better product decisions. There are many different types of product experiments.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Data Driven Expectations and Validation Shot in Budapest in 2018 during our MBA trip Setting the Context Product Managers often start with an Outside-In perspective. At the same time, customers usually tend to attribute symptoms as a problem. The MVP would need to target specific customers. The Return of the King?—?Data

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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. SurbhiBSooni : Framework for Startups, Mid Size org How does this framework work?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Do you even need a product launch checklist? More importantly, you will find here 2 different checklists: one for new products and the other for updates or feature releases. We also share some best practices for product managers on how to pull off a successful product launch. What is a product launch checklist?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Are you wondering what the customer development process is? Would you like to know how a product manager can use it to deliver products that customers love? The customer development framework helps teams validate product ideas and build products that solve customers’ problems.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Software Development Life Cycle provides a practical framework you can apply to your product and improve your processes. It helps us meet customers’ demands, needs, and expectations. With the support of the SDLC, You can track and control your calendar, and increase productivity and speed of development.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2022

If you’re looking to improve your team's work, a product management framework can be an excellent starting point. A framework is a set of guidelines or principles that can help guide your team’s decisions and provide a common understanding for all team members. Example of Applying DACI Framework 2. DACI What is it?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

According to Jamie Levy, the main tenets of a UX strategy are business strategy, value innovation, validated user research , and frictionless UX. Goals are the specific UX objectives the product aspires to achieve, for example, improving usability. A UX strategy is a plan that guides product design and development.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

When your product can do more than it could do before, that sounds like a good thing. Added functionality, new capabilities, a more robust feature set…these are the talking points product marketers salivate over and executives search for on product roadmaps. But are you solving for actual customer problems?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2022

Nimble young businesses, who live by the Lean Startup approach of building, measuring, and learning, move from nothing to a product customers love in what appears, from an established company perspective at least, virtually no time. List everything you already believe about your product. List every expected product feature.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 20, 2024

How do you conduct root cause analysis in product management? We also explain why it’s important for product managers and share useful tips. This is more cost-effective and allows organizations to improve the customer experience in the long run. What is root cause analysis in product management?

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

5-step process The Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) is a powerful tool in product design that helps teams focus on understanding the needs and objectives of their customers rather than just the product itself. Here’s how to use the JTBD framework in product design: [link] 1. Why do they want to use your product?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I enjoyed in-person meetings, especially in-person product review meetings. Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively.

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AB Tasty

APRIL 25, 2024

Secondly, dive into your customer data by looking at your conversion points. Draw a parallel to where your customers are dropping off and mix them with your qualitative insights. Prioritization Frameworks: PIE or ICE? The importance of UX Running A/B tests is a great way of conducting UX research while your product is live.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

A four-layer framework to create a winning product strategy Today we are talking about creating product strategy. He is a strategic practitioner, having spent 20 years leading product, marketing, and business functions for large international corporations. Product strategy is doing that at a product level.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

It presents a unique opportunity for companies to create and capture new market demand by offering innovative products or services that address unmet customer needs. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne in their influential book “Blue Ocean Strategy,” this concept had always been an aspiration for me as a product person.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

If you’ve read Teresa’s Torres book, Continuous Discovery Habits , you’re probably familiar with her continuous discovery framework for building better products that are actually guided by user feedback. What is actually the “product role” in a startup? Product-led growth. Product-led growth.

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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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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We’re kicking off a new venture with an enterprise tech product at its core. I’m eager to see the founding team we’ve put together succeed, so I’ve put together a list of books that contain the ideas that I’ve found most useful for a new product venture at this stage (getting from 0.1 theories, frameworks and approaches?—?for

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2021

Gousto’s approach to solving customer problems to create massive business value has radically changed in the last two years. We’ve expanded our principles to reflect Brian Balfour’s better-defined “New Age Growth”, and adopted Product Thinking to unlock huge A/B tested conversion, retention and AOV uplifts.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

To be a kick-ass product manager , you need a very diverse skill set. This article explores both hard and soft skills that product managers need in their everyday work, so if you’re curious to learn more, dive right in. PMs need to know how to use product analytics tools to gain actionable insights. Book the demo!

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Similarly, there are also many products that should have failed but didn’t. Idea validation likely played a role in both. In this article, we’ll look into idea validation. We’ll explore how you can test and research ideas for your product, service, or business model. What is idea validation? Google Glass, anyone?

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UX Planet

JANUARY 17, 2024

Notion A curated collection of Notion templates for various product design activities — from user research to usability testing. Research Question Bank by Maze Minimal assumption map by Swiss innovation The template helps you list assumptions about product design and asks you then how you’ll confirm these assumptions.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2021

At Intercom, we believe product managers (PMs) should focus on problems , not solutions. ” The secret to shipping successful product, then, is clearly defining for your team the problem that you’re setting out to solve. A great problem statement supercharges product development. 1: The outcome the customer wants.

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