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3 Things Product Managers Owe to Internal Constituents

ProductPlan

If you’re a product manager, then you probably have a lot on your plate. One of the most important things you can do as a product manager is regularly communicate the product vision to your team. A clearly stated product vision helps others in your organization better understand your product strategy.

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An 8-Step Framework for Product Growth by Sylvia Ng

Mind the Product

As a product professional, your company is looking to you to meaningfully change the bottom line. If you want to seriously develop a product growth competency, how do you ensure success instead of just haphazardly launching new products and features? But are you getting the results you want? Growth should be a mindset.

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New Data: Listening to, Acting on, and Prioritizing Customer Feedback

Alchemer Mobile

We recently hosted a webinar sharing exclusive new data from our 2019 Mobile Customer Engagement Benchmark Report , which empowers companies seeking to understand how their customer feedback metrics stack up against the market, provides insight into where top brands set the bar, and explores opportunities to improve their mobile customer experience.

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How To Cross the Strategy-to-Execution Chasm

The Product Coalition

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. Why Defining Product Strategy is Hard Strategy Overload One of the challenges with the word “Strategy” is that it is an overloaded term.

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How King Crushes New Product Development using Data-Driven Insights

Speaker: Ian Thompson, Head of Business Intelligence at King, and Zara Wells, Strategic Customer Success Manager at Looker

Product Managers looking to leverage data to make informed product design decisions can learn a lot from renowned gaming company King, maker of Candy Crush and many other games - even if their product has seemingly no overlap with games. Don't miss King’s data expert (dare we say king?)

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How to Manage 6 Challenging Personality Types in Meetings

Modus Create

While different teams will have different roles, a typical software team might look something like this: Product Managers. Plus, teams will have regular interactions with stakeholders outside their immediate team, such as executives, subject matter experts, customer service, marketing, and end users. User Experience Designers.

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Seven Reasons Why Your Customers Won’t Renew

Gainsight

We think about it like this: On the two-by-two, the x-axis is outcomes, or you could call it ROI or business value realization—is the customer achieving their desired outcome with your product or service? This could just mean there’s not a lot of choice in your market. The y-axis is experience—does the customer like you?

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Shaping the Future: Product Strategy in the Age of Uncertainty

Speaker: William Haas Evans - Principal Consultant, Product Strategy Practice Lead, Kuroshio Consulting

A value-driven product organization optimizes team structures, funding cycles, processes, and metrics to drive traction and growth across the entire product adoption curve by identifying opportunities to solve valuable customer problems and closing those market gaps for either over-served or under-served markets.

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Navigating the Product Tightrope: Balancing Innovation and Current User Demands

Speaker: Jason Brett - Founder & Chief Product Officer, Product Coffee

In today's rapidly evolving market, product managers face the challenge of driving innovation while also meeting the needs and expectations of their existing user base. This webinar aims to equip you with strategies and insights to successfully navigate this delicate balancing act.

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The Problem with Product Market Fit (and What to Use Instead)

Speaker: Daniel Elizalde - Product Executive and Advisor

There is a big problem with the term "product market fit." Launching successful products requires a rare combination of market understanding, iterative development, and a lot of luck. Our role as Product Managers is to eliminate confusion, not add to it. May 9, 2023 at 12:30 pm PT, 3:30 pm ET, 8:30 pm GMT

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Drive in the Express Lane to Product Growth

Speaker: John Mansour - President, Product Management University

Product analytics are all the rage, but how can you use them to your advantage? With uncertainty surrounding our economical future — and whispers of an impending recession — what insights can we get from our product analytics that’ll put us in the express lane to growth? The most crucial product metrics you need.

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Product Analytics, Prioritization, and Decision-Making - What We Can Learn from Einstein and Drucker

Speaker: Nils Davis, Principal, NPD Associates

As a Product Manager, a big part of your job will always be to balance which features to develop, and which to scrap. And sometimes the most important feature for selling your product is one that customers never end up using. Don’t miss this surprising webinar from Nils Davis, author of The Secret Product Manager Handbook!

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How Leveraging Data Creates Efficient Product Roadmaps

Speaker: Hannah Chaplin - Product Marketing Principal & Steve Cheshire - Product Manager

Without product usage data and user feedback guiding your product roadmap, product managers and engineers end up wasting money, time, and effort building what they think stakeholders want, rather than what they know they need. Product roadmaps must focus on the "now" and allow feedback to inform the "later."

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Hooked - How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Speaker: Nir Eyal, Author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Why do some products capture widespread attention while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of sheer habit? Nir Eyal answers these questions (and many more) by explaining the Hook Model—a four-step process embedded into the products of many successful companies to subtly encourage customer behavior.

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Fuel the Engine of Product Growth with an Impeccable Framing Model

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst - President, Tyner Blain

A product-led company is one that grows through user adoption and word-of-mouth recommendation. For this model to work, your product has to be genuinely desirable to the users you want to engage as the company's engine of growth. The importance of retaining as well as acquiring customers to succeed in a product-led business.

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The Product Symphony: Orchestrating Success with Storymapping

Speaker: Jamie Bernard - Senior Product Director at Launch by NTT Data

In today’s dynamic business landscape, successful product management hinges on a keen understanding of customer needs and market dynamics. It serves as a catalyst to better align your entire organization, setting the stage for impactful, customer-centric product management.

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The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Strong and Effective Value Proposition

Speaker: Robin Zaragoza, Product Coach and CEO of The Product Refinery

Every product manager has heard, “Keep the customer at the heart of everything you do". But what strategy do managers use to keep the customer and their key problems at the center of the product development process? How do product managers instill this knowledge of the customer across the rest of the organization?

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Cracking the Code to Product Team Success: Data, Empathy, and Extraordinary Communication

Speaker: Donna Shaw - Senior Product Manager & Eric Frierson - Director of Innovation for Public and School Libraries

Product management goes beyond product development; it involves nurturing a cohesive team. Nonetheless, by leveraging foresight and valuable insights, you can cultivate a thriving product management team that works together harmoniously to craft customer-centric products.

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Changing Times, Changing Roadmaps

Speaker: Stephanie Lewandowski, Senior Product Manager, Teachstone

How often do your product priorities change? Have you found yourself scrambling to adapt to the market changes? Join Stephanie Lewandowski as she candidly talks about the realities of roadmaps - how often they change, how to navigate the changes, and how to survive in an uncertain market. Has 2020 led you in a new direction?

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Feedback Frenzy: Restoring Customer and Internal Alignment for Product Success

Speaker: Evan Leong - CEO & Founder, Product Signals

Customer feedback is integral to effective problem management and product development for senior product professionals. How do industry leaders like Apple and Amazon successfully leverage customer and market insights to enhance their products, even with vast customer bases and extensive market data?

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How to Develop a Recession-Proof Product-Led Strategy

Speaker: Wes Bush, Author of "Product-Led Growth"

As PMs, we all know the importance of building a successful product-led growth strategy. What features do their strategies have that allow them to see continued success in this ever-changing market? The important aspects of a great product-led strategy. How to adjust your product-led strategy during uncertain times.

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Leverage Your Organization for Best Product Decisions

Speaker: Rene Kolga, Senior Director of Product and Marketing, Nyotron

You can learn a lot by studying your product data, but the real magic happens when product managers blend different types of data from different sources. Rene Kolga, Senior Director of Product and Marketing at Nyotron, knows the answer: from other teams in your organization!

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Get Growth With Partner Integrations

Speaker: Mandy Howard, Product Manager, ServiceTitan

Once your SaaS product hits a certain level of revenue, you'll need to change things up to move past the plateau. One of the ways to do this is to move past your core product and introduce new business streams. If you're strategic about your integrations, you can strengthen your ties to your target market.

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The Product Corner: Maximizing Impact, Reducing Hours, and Accelerating Roadmaps with Data

Speaker: Edie Kirkman - VP, Digital at Focus Brands

In today's hyper-digital landscape, organizations face the challenge of launching successful products while making the most of limited resources. To overcome this challenge, it is crucial to build core product and technology competencies that provide actionable insights through qualitative and quantitative data analysis.

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Feedback Management: A PM's Key for Continuous and Impactful Product Growth

Speaker: Hannah Chaplin - Product Marketing Principal at Pendo & Steve Cheshire - Product Manager at Pendo

Working with customers to improve product feedback management is a major driver of product-led growth. Consulting customers throughout the product development process enables businesses to focus on the features that matter.

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Run a Business, Not a Backlog

Speaker: John Mecke, Managing Director of DevelopmentCorporate, Jon Gatrell, Principal Partner at Market Driven Business

The role of a product manager has evolved significantly over the past 20 years. In today’s Agile world, product managers are expected to be leaders in market knowledge, strategy, organizational enablement, etc. Numerical literacy is a key skill for effective product managers.

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Maybe We Should Be Problem Managers Instead

Speaker: Steve Johnson, Founder and CEO, Under10 Playbook

Rather than departmental issues, these are product strategy issues. Yet many product managers and most product owners are too busy with tactical issues that they never come close to addressing these issues. Is product management primarily supporting the tactics of other departments? Will it add complexity?

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How to Achieve Product-Market Fit

Speaker: Dan Olsen - Product Management Trainer and Consultant, Author, and Speaker

Everyone working on a product is trying to achieve the same goal: product-market fit. But most products fail to do so. In this webinar, product management expert Dan Olsen will share his simple but effective framework for achieving product-market fit from his book The Lean Product Playbook.

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What Is (and Isn’t) Product Management?

Speaker: Steve Johnson, VP of Products, Pragmatic Institute

Product Management is one of the most exciting - and most misunderstood - functions in technical organizations. Many product professionals are unclear about what is (and isn't) product management. After all, product management spans many activities from business planning to market readiness.

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Iterate Your Way to a Top Analytics Product Experience

Speaker: Richard Cheng, Associate Product Manager, Mark43

Mark43 is on a mission to bring public safety data management into the 21st century. To fix traditionally paper-heavy and error-prone processes, they needed a secure and easy-to-use product experience that simplified and unified crime data collection and management. August 7, 2018 11:00 AM PDT, 2:00 PM EST, 6:00 PM GMT

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Why the Product Message Should Come From Product Management

Speaker: Jordan Bergtraum, Head of Product at Equip ID & Consultant

Compelling product messages have a profound impact on attracting new customers and commanding value-based pricing. Perceived “value” of your offering(s) is directly related to how you talk about your product and company. Product Managers may feel the “message” should be developed by the Product Marketing function, but I disagree.

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Your #1 KPI as a Product Manager

Speaker: Shardul Mehta, VP of Product Management, American Well

What's the #1 metric you should be tracking as a product manager? Speed-to-market? Because to understand your #1 KPI, you need to understand your primary job as a product manager. Because to understand your #1 KPI, you need to understand your primary job as a product manager. Is it on-time delivery?

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Product Market Fit: A Lesson from Sephora’s Head of Product

Speaker: Sneha Narahalli - VP, Head of Product at Sephora

Only 20% of these companies attain product market fit, despite years of excruciating effort by founders, early employees, and investors. The first and most important step in product development is finding PMF. Creating an iterative process to identify Product Market Fit.

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How Product Teams Can Leverage Community

Speaker: Scott Baldwin of ProductBoard

Product managers and community managers share a common goal: to deliver value to their users. Through in-depth user insights, a clear product strategy, and an inspiring roadmap. Building products is a team sport and involves everyone working together to get the right products to market faster.

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Power of the Platform: A PM's Path to a Winning Product Experience

Speaker: Marcus Andrews - Director of Product Marketing & Keren Wexler - Sr. Director of Product

Product teams need a complete, end-to-end solution to address their most common challenges. Leveraging a single platform that combines product analytics, in-app guides, and feedback management solutions can be the most effective way to deliver digital experiences users love. This is an exclusive session you don't want to miss!

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Optimize Your Product Team to Win in the Market

According to research from Harvard Business School, of the 30,000+ new products introduced every year, 95% fail—and it’s often due to poor product management. The benefits of improving the product team significantly impact your organization’s bottom line. Double down on skills.

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Meet Your Goals with a Practical Product Strategy

Speaker: Nils Davis, Principal, NPD Associates

Whether you manage a feature, a product, or a whole suite of products, you likely have some goals that you're trying to meet. For example, if you want grow your revenue, your strategy may be to enter a new market - and you may decide to make your product stand out in that market by adding analytics.

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How can your firm attract the best product managers?

Product managers help accelerate the product development and launch for many companies. However, the pool of talented product managers can be elusive, the following article explores how companies can aim to attract and retain the best talents. Therefore, it's important to have the right employee in place.

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Mitigating Risk in Digital Product Development

As a product leader, mitigating risk in your digital product development is one of your highest priorities—and likely what’s keeping you up at night. Failed products. These are costly scenarios product leaders must try to avoid. Missed launch dates. Wasted sprints.

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Product Management Careers: Job Prospects, Pathways, and Must-Have Skills (2024)

The product management job market in 2024 reflects the fast-growing and ever-evolving nature of the field. For product managers looking to future-proof their careers and take advantage of new opportunities, staying informed about the professional landscape is a smart move.

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How to Use Customer Feedback for Business Growth

Customer feedback is a crucial element of every product-led growth company: it helps product managers prioritize, build, and sustain their products while working towards business growth. Customer feedback by product lifecycle. “Feedback is the breakfast of champions.” - Rick Tate.