The Accidental Product Manager

MAY 20, 2019

So if you are running a business and you’d like to keep your customers aware and informed about what products you are offering, what’s the best way to go about doing this? In our modern age, a lot of product managers would look at their product development definition and say that you need to update your web site and they’d be correct.

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NextBigWhat

AUGUST 10, 2019

There has been an array of definitions for the product management role – mostly derived from the standard one (shown below), which I believe isn’t the most accurate definition of Product Management role as of today. Product Management Role Definition (courtesy Atlassian blog).

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

While some may say that a Product Manager is ‘the CEO of the product’, that’s not entirely true. As a Product Manager, you have very little authority. While the buck stops with you when it comes to product decision making, the overall health of the company doesn’t rest on your shoulders.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

I’ve been building digital products for nearly a decade now. A few weeks ago, a friend messaged me for advice on becoming a product manager. Product Management HQ also has a well-established Slack community, though I’ve not tried it. The post How do you Become a Product Manager? How do I Find a job?

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

There is a ton of product management advice out there, but most of it is generic tips repeated over and over again. With a self-named newsletter and podcast, Lenny is a widely followed product expert. Lenny is a newsletter writer, podcast host, angel investor, and product consultant.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

I’ve been building digital products for nearly a decade now. A few weeks ago, a friend messaged me for advice on becoming a product manager. Product Management HQ also has a well-established Slack community, though I’ve not tried it. The post How do you Become a Product Manager? How do I Find a job?

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The Accidental Product Manager

MAY 3, 2021

Meal kit product managers need to find new ways to be successful Image Credit: Alyson Hurt. The world that we live in is changing and what this means for product managers is that we need to find ways to change with it. The challenge for the product managers at these meal kit companies is how to stay in business.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 10, 2020

Five factors of successful product managers. Do you and your product teams have the characteristics required for success? The Product Team Performance study has been identifying the characteristics of high-performing teams since 2012. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:50]

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The Accidental Product Manager

APRIL 1, 2019

This has created a problem for mall product managers. Creating and filling a mall with stores used to be a straightforward job for product managers: get a few big stores, get some smaller but still well known stores, and ta-da you had a mall. However, a customer’s need for new and unique products is unchanged.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 22, 2020

The recipe for rapid product design for product managers. More recently, I am seeing product managers using Design Sprints in organizations to create new product concepts, resulting in realistic prototypes in five days. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [6:28]

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The Accidental Product Manager

MAY 18, 2020

Product managers need to find a way to redefine the brand Image Credit: Arturo de Albornoz. Can you think of any job that would be more delicious than being a product manager for a pizza chain? It seems as though almost overnight what had been a pretty easy product manager job suddenly became very difficult.

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Izenda

APRIL 13, 2020

But for product managers, it’s worth thinking about. Especially if you consider how using one over the other can influence product development. In 2012, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey even urged the tech industry as a whole to completely abandon the term “user.” The post Product Managers: Are Your Building for Users or People?

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 1, 2018

However, things are starting to change for the Apple product managers. What’s a product manager to do? Who wouldn’t want to be able to put that on your product manager resume? A host of new competitors have shown up and are challenging the Apple product managers when it comes to music sales.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 17, 2017

A few years ago, I wrote a couple of blog posts about working as a consultant in product management. At that time in London – we’re talking 2011/2012 – it was, dare I say, a bold step to leave a full-time, good product position to go freelance. It’s a new year – filled with 12 months of opportunity.

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ProductCraft Debates

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Since its publication (and it’s been longer than you think, the book came out in 2012) there’s being a flurry of thought pieces arguing that the days of. The post Are Introverts or Extroverts Better Product Managers? appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 27, 2020

Product managers have to practice being frenemies with banks Image Credit: 401(K) 2012. Just imagine if you were a product manager at one of the big technology firms out there (Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Oracle, etc.). Being involved in that would look good on anyone’s product manager resume.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 3, 2021

With our first #mtpcon London hybrid event approaching on October 21 and 22, we thought it make for the perfect opportunity to turn the clocks back to when we hosted our very first #mtpcon London in 2012. This week on Sunday Rewind, we look at Marty Cagan’s talk on making products that customers love. [.]

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Spice Catalyst

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In this episode, Troy Trewin interviews David Fradin, the President of Spice Catalyst based in Silicon Valley, USA, a worldwide product success management and product success marketing training, consulting, and assessment organization. In 2012, Spice…

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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 4, 2016

On December 4, 2006, I published my first post on this blog , where I wrote, “If you want to be a good product manager, share your knowledge. I’ve heard from people who’ve realized they wanted to go into product management in part by reading this blog. Ten Year Anniversary! Nearly 850,000 sessions.

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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 4, 2016

On December 4, 2006, I published my first post on this blog , where I wrote, “If you want to be a good product manager, share your knowledge. I’ve heard from people who’ve realized they wanted to go into product management in part by reading this blog. Ten Year Anniversary! Nearly 850,000 sessions.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

It was launched in 2011 and went broke in 2013 because people didn’t buy the product. And Google Wave is a universal communication platform that appeared in 2010 and was closed in 2012, as nobody could understand what it was or how to use it. It’s obvious that these tools were developed with little or no customer participation.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Mind the Product started with a simple premise – that by coming together as a community we can all learn from each other, become better product managers, and improve our craft. We started with just 25 people in the back room of a London pub, but have quickly grown that product community to over 155 cities around the world.

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The Accidental Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The secret to keeping a product fresh is to always be reinventing it Image Credit: Albert Hsieh. Who wouldn’t want to be the product manager for a hugely popular mobile video game? What is the secret to success for these product managers? That would look good on anyone’s product manager resume.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

He has a storied career across enterprise and consumer products, and has been a product manager since the pre-internet era in the early 90s. Teresa Torres, Product Discovery Coach. She also held product and design roles at Become.com and HighWire Press. Kathy Pham, Fellow at Mozilla, Harvard, and MIT.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 30, 2018

For the past 7 years Mind the Product has run #mtpcon in London and San Francisco and #mtpengage in Hamburg – the biggest and best product management conferences in the world. 20 Years of Product Management in 25 Minutes by Dave Wascha. Building Products AI-First by Aparna Chennapragada.

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bpma ProductHub

JUNE 12, 2017

A Boston Women in Product Event Recap. By Garmia Painuly – No matter what the product, our goal as product managers is to deliver value to customers. How do we quantify and measure the value, and incorporate the findings into our product plans and roadmaps? Hub Recruiting. Garima has an M.S.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 1, 2024

Insights for product managers on fostering innovation in corporate environments Today we are talking about how established organizations can innovate, resulting in new products and ventures. Joining us is Andy Binns, a management advisor, award-winning author, and speaker on innovation and change.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

There’s no better conference to attend if you’re working in product management, digital, or marketing in or near Manchester. Garry Prior has been in and around the technology industry for more than 20 years, largely in product management / product leadership roles. Gabrielle Bufrem – Pivotal Labs.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The same principle accelerates growth for products, when resources that are thinly spread across multiple initiatives are all focused on the most successful value drivers. As a product manager I hosted a regular workshop called “Cutting Club”. Eight years later, Slack was sold to Salesforce for over USD 27 billion.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2017

For the past 6 years Mind the Product has run #mtpcon in London and San Francisco – the biggest and best product management conferences in the world. 20 Years of Product Management in 25 Minutes by Dave Wascha. Building Products AI-First by Aparna Chennapragada. Grounding Product by Scott Belsky.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

When do you need it and how does it help product managers build better products? Impact mapping is a collaborative strategic planning technique used by product managers, product owners , and senior technical leadership, who work mostly in Agile software delivery. What’s impact mapping?

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The Product HQ

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Justin Watt About: While attending university for psychology, Justin ventured into project & product management where he took part in internal products creation for Shaw and IBM. He’s worked on and launched products for Fortune 10 companies and startups. Leading a team of Product Managers.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

2012) Gamification on Donation-Based Crowdfunding Platform in Indonesia ? Gamification is expected to encourage users to participate in campaigns aimed at increasing potential opportunities to fund charitable projects. Gamification has the following dimensions and elements: Gamification Dimensions and Elements (Palmer et al., link] Palmer, D.,

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NextBigWhat

APRIL 5, 2021

Barry Enderwick Former marketing Netflix 2001 – 2012 ( Via ). If I tell you that you’re on the “3 DVDs-at-a-time” plan it is much clearer than telling you that you are on the “Gold” plan. Simple, right? The usual ‘Don’t-make-me-think’ strategy, which has gone super rare these days.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

determining what kind of product manager you are, what kind you want to be and creating a development plan based on it. A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants. This post is about just that?—?determining I’ll use myself as an example.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. 2012 – the Inception. The MVP in 2012 (and the world’s first fully responsive crowdfunding website).

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Bain Public

JANUARY 26, 2022

Fuckup Nights is a global movement born in Mexico in 2012 to share publicly business failure stories. Bain Public offers consistent roadmap planning processes & tools for business leaders and product managers organized around what motivates, inspires and improves growth. About Fuckup Nights (FUN). About Bain Public.

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