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The Top 10 Deliverables of Product Managers

Sachin Rekhi

Mastering the craft of product management is no easy task. I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables.

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Bigger and Better – Product Management Survey Results 2016

Mind the Product

More than 1,200 of you took part in this year’s Product Manager survey, double the number who took part in our survey three years ago. There now look to be more women in a product management role. In this year’s survey 38% of respondents had a Product Manager job title, down from 46% in 2013.

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Driven by Purpose: The Secret Behind Successful Products

The Product Coalition

By the look on the face of the product manager asking me, she didn’t want a canned answer; she was looking for a reason to believe, to rekindle her energy. I knew why the company existed, but I never thought about the purpose behind the product other than the problem it solved for the customer and the value it delivered.

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Spotlight Vision and the Diminishing Returns of Obsessive Customer Focus

The Product Coalition

When Microsoft was building a new version of Windows back in 2013, the meteoric rise of smartphones was all the rage and getting all the attention. To avoid the pitfall of making a few people happy at the expense of the rest, product managers can proactively broaden their area of visibility during discovery.

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How to Leverage AI in SaaS? (+Best Tools)

Userpilot

companies use AI in their operations and the number of jobs requiring AI has increased by 450% since 2013. From marketing to product management and customer success, AI is improving productivity, helping teams make better decisions, and improving customer experience. About 73% of U.S. This includes the SaaS industry too.

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The Five Most Common Mistakes in Product Development

BrainMates

On average, about 40% of the products launched by organisations fail to meet their intended objectives. Some quotes put this higher – even up to 95% – but 40% is what empirical evidence indicates (see Castellion & Markham 2013 ). Isn’t product failure just the inevitable cost of product innovation? . #1

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Five Habits of Highly-Effective Product Teams

Mind the Product

How do you develop an understanding of what will set a product up for success throughout your organization? This blog looks at what actions product managers can take to ensure their teams are investing their time wisely. “If Your job as a product manager is to help your squad to answer these questions, fast.