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When You Should Not Listen to Your Customers

The Product Coalition

Berlyne As product managers, we have all enthusiastically dived into customer feedback, hoping to find insights that will take our product game to the next level. To overcome the Einstellung effect, product managers can start asking customers why they want the things they want.

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Business Development vs. Product Management

The Product Guy

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Why we need Product Management, with Rich Mironov

BrainMates

This blog is a transcript of part of that meetup, focusing on why we need Product Management. Rich Mironov presenting on why we need Product Management. Why do we need a Product Management team? I have 30 years in Silicon Valley product management, so this isn’t a new thing.

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Rapid Prototyping for Product Managers

The Product Guy

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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When going fast is not the same as going somewhere

The Product Coalition

Companies like Gillette, a P&G acquisition in 2005, integrated into P&G’s reinforcing rods and maintained a sustainable competitive advantages in their market. Porter differentiates between merely running in the same direction, s imple consistency, and working together to create synergy effects, reinforcement.

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K.I.S.S??—?my ass!

The Product Coalition

2005 almost prehistoric… So let’s talk something a bit more recent targeting a younger population?—?Fortnite. And the investment / learning process that we’ve painfully gone through is what differentiates us from those who have yet to ‘join the elite club’. But Facebook is ancient some will say.

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Product Strategies for Non-Strategists

The Product Guy

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.