The Accidental Product Manager

JUNE 25, 2018

Coke product managers are fighting for the rights to “zero” Image Credit: Daniel Go. As a product manager, you know just how important the name of your product is. A good example of this is Dr. Pepper’s “Diet Rite Pure Zero” product.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

In 2007, the company launched its streaming service, allowing subscribers to instantly watch a vast library of movies and TV shows online. However, with the rise of streaming technology, Netflix introduced its streaming service in 2007, initially bundled with DVD rental subscriptions at no extra cost.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

If you were the product manager for a grocery store, you wouldn’t think that you’d have to worry about getting young people to come into your store and buy things, would you? I mean, we all need the food products that grocery stores sell. What Grocery Store Product Managers Can Do To Attract Millenials.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 8, 2019

Given that I’m also a product manager, as well as a (still active) musician, I decided to “be inspired” by John’s title (see “ Be inspired?—?and Here we go: First of all, some background: I’ve got 5 years of IT product management experience under my belt. Hope you do too?—?and and that this is still considered fair use.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 21, 2023

A treatment for Alzheimer’s was botched Image Credit: Diverse Stock Photos The one thing that every product manager would love to have would be a product that everyone needed. Over at Biogen, their product managers thought that they just might have such a product.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

I would like to thank Tremis Skeete, Executive Editor of Product Coalition, for his valuable contributions to this article's research, development, and writing. I also thank Product Coalition founder Jay Stansell, who has provided a collaborative product management education environment.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2023

The first iPhone (2007) differentiated this way: 3. Start with tactics Having great tactics is the best product strategy you can have. I will help you build something different. And focus your resources on what you’re the best in the world at. Apple used it too. Picture tactics as short paths.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 23, 2022

I've dedicated my entire career to five such hunts across the three startups I co-founded as well as the new products I built at LinkedIn and Microsoft. Despite sounding so simple, I have plenty of scars from failing to find product/market fit, but also from the long and winding path it ultimately took to get there.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Product-market fit (PMF) is a tricky thing for startups. It’s that sweet spot where the needs of your target market perfectly align with what your product is offering, and if you’re a product manager at an early startup, it’s your job to help your product find that fit. but nothing around how to measure it.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

I am ready to provide business leaders and product managers the information, access, and expert guidance that they wish they had earlier in their product journey. I share my passion for product through workshops, published articles and speaking engagements. Flash Forward 2007, Boston, U.S. Reach out to me.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 12, 2017

Product managers tell me – and the people managing product managers tell me – that one of their biggest challenges is communicating with the development team. Product management has all the responsibility, and none of the authority. Product requirements are our “stock in trade” as product managers.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 12, 2017

Product managers tell me – and the people managing product managers tell me – that one of their biggest challenges is communicating with the development team. Product management has all the responsibility, and none of the authority. Product requirements are our “stock in trade” as product managers.

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Bain Public

JULY 14, 2021

Since 2007, OnDeck has delivered over $2 billion to businesses all across the United States in more than 700 industries and has been lending in Canada since 2014. Bain Public helps product-driven companies solve their unique problems by relying on our SOAP™ methodology.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 24, 2018

The term Product/Market Fit was coined by Marc Andreesen back in 2007 and it’s been a key goal for any new product or startup ever since. In this talk from Mind the Product San Francisco, Dan Olsen, the author of The Lean Product Playbook , tackles the key components of product/market fit and how to achieve it.

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Street Smart Product Manager

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

In 2007, ProductRepair (name changed), a market leader in its industry, was facing some serious threats: A rapidly maturing business. The post When I built products the stupid way appeared first on Street Smart Product Manager. New “digitally native” entrants with greatly enhanced data collection abilities.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 13, 2020

In some fields like product management and project management, every single person is expected to display leadership qualities. Learn how to become a Product Manager. The individual tasks of a Product Manager may be different from those of a Project Manager, but the leadership qualities should remain the same.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

Participants: Senior Leadership (required), Product Manager (required), Product Owner (optional) Guiding Question: What is the purpose of this platform and how does it support company goals? Let’s use an existing product launch to illustrate how to apply this framework.

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The Product Cafe

MARCH 22, 2023

Hello, all you product-loving folks! 💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, and more. Riddle of the Week 🧩 What product can you sell even if it's broken? .🫡 👇🏻 That’s all folks!

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 14, 2016

But products have a different life cycle and typically exist for longer. The ancestor of Windows 10, Windows NT, was launched in 1993, and iOS was introduced with the first iPhone in 2007, for example. Similarly, products have different success criteria compared to projects.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Good and bad metrics for product improvements No product manager, experience designer or software engineer would have a job if all they did is deliver products on time and on budget. For any activity product managers, designers or engineers are engaged with, there should always be a measurable outcome.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 17, 2020

Choosing the right product strategy framework is very important for every product manager. Remember, choosing the right product strategy will go a long way in making sure that the entire product life cycle proceeds flawlessly. Learn the top skills of product management. Product Strategy Frameworks.

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BrainMates

MAY 19, 2020

Back in the early noughties, when Brainmates began, nobody knew what Product Management was. When we spoke about it, people thought we were talking about Project Management. We also had a deep belief in the value of Product Management. It really started with our Product Talks Meetup back in 2007.

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The Product Bistro

JANUARY 31, 2017

Then in 2007 it all changed. On June 29 th , 2007, Apple launched the original iPhone. Still, the second wave of web businesses began to thrive. This brought the power of the internet, and real browsing to your pocket. (Of

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

It was Friday, November 16th, 2007. It’s not about your product, it’s about their unmet need. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.ganotnoa.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on January 4, 2021.

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Mixpanel

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Launched in 2007, over 7 million active users spend over 300 minutes per month on its website and mobile app. Paolo has been at Immobiliare for just over a year, having previously worked in product roles across sectors. . The ratio between engineers and product managers or designers in our company is very high.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 21, 2020

Apple products are known to possess a certain style element that captures the user’s imagination. This holds true for all the recent Apple product categories. The Apple iPhone was a game changer in 2007. The marketing of these products focuses on the aethetic design, and not so much on the underlying technology.

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All About Product Management

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

Agile development gives the software product manager a good sense of orientation. Totally moving away from scrum/agile The first time was in the summer of 2007 when we where planning a major redesign of a B2B website. I've observed this on two occasions over the past few years.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Simple steps product managers can take to become Time Rich. Product managers are pulled in many directions, and if you are like others, you struggle to get the most important things done, let along everything you are asked to do. . Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:17]

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 17, 2023

In 2003, Managing Software Requirements: A Use Case Approach by Leffingwell and Widrig (p.101) Dean references his work from 2007 & 2011 in support of this page. Ad hoc narrative structure doesn’t help, so I don’t encourage product managers to use it. 101) introduced a slightly different syntax.

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The Product Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Hello, all you product-loving folks! 🥰 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, and more. ☕ Thank you for reading Product Café’s newsletter ☕️ Subscribe for free to receive new posts every week!

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 8, 2020

Prompted by discussions with Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh , Phil Wolff and John Sebes , I’ve been thinking about tech products that are doing harm in the world – intentionally or otherwise. And whether a code of ethics or other agreement among product leaders/product managers would be helpful. Let’s break it down a bit.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2018

A Twitter user used it in 2007 as a way to track conversations when he tweeted at some of his friends. Twitter saw its users doing this value-creating behavior, and so built it into its product. A product manager noticed a way to pivot the project towards a male audience. The Project.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 22, 2017

Then in 2007, Netflix launched their streaming platform. In 2007, Netflix started to look into partnering with hardware manufacturers to get Netflix content streaming on people’s televisions. In 2002, Netflix went public. While they had around 600,000 subscribers at launch, they had a challenge to face.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

For example, 2007 was a fantastic year to be a satnav company. Customers don’t wait around for you to write new Jira tickets… The thing we as product managers have to constantly be aware of is the butterfly effect. Mind the product. And these things happen fast. Really fast. That’s revolutionary.

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NextBigWhat

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

came out on January 22nd, 2007. There is a dark time in WordPress development history, a lost year. was released on December 31st, 2005, and version 2.1 What killed us was “One more thing.”

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All About Product Management

JANUARY 13, 2008

This would result in an angry customer contacting the company and demanding that the products be either swapped out or that a customer support engineer come and reconfigure the firmware and/or hardware on site (which could be anywhere in the world). See also: How to keep Product Management Simple and Effective.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 18, 2019

Tech billionaire Marc Andreessen has been credited with bringing the term “product/market fit” into the mainstream lexicon in 2007. During my dealings with investors and product veterans, I’ve often heard that you can always feel when product/market fit is happening.

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