The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Cosmetic product managers are going after millennials Image Credit: Albert Lugosi. I mean, customers try products, select the ones that they like, and that’s the end of the story, right? Growth like that would look good on anyone’s product manager resume. New Arrivals In The Business Of Beauty.

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The Secret PM Handbook

APRIL 26, 2017

In my Writing Tips for Product Managers post I suggested making your writing more readable. I’ll start with a paragraph from a blog post I wrote in 2013. I’ll start with a paragraph from a blog post I wrote in 2013. I mentioned a tool I use called Hemingway. It has both a Mac app and an online version.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

GM’s Product Managers Have Run Into A Battery Problem Image Credit: Frank Hebbert. So I’m willing to bet that you are pretty proud of your product. This is all fine and good as long as the product that you are delivering is truly high quality. The product managers still intend to launch 10 EVs in China.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

I'm often asked what's the best way for a new product manager to learn the fundamentals of the role or for an experienced product manager to continue to master their craft. I've organized this collection into several sections, starting with product management 101.

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ProductBoard

DECEMBER 5, 2019

It was the fall of 2013 when productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan became convinced there must be a better way to create and share the product roadmap, and not long after that he learned that wasn’t the problem at all.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 16, 2020

My journey in Project Management began in September 2013. I started my journey by joining one of the software houses in Jakarta, a few… Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Apply to join the Product Mastery Now Community — Application deadline is soon. The journey to product mastery – for product managers. I expect you, as a product person, love shaping the direction of a product, especially a product that provides you value.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2022

This week in our Learnings from London series, we turn our attention to #mtpcon London 2013 where George Berkowski, former Head of Product at hit startup Hailo, led a session on the main stage to inspire us on how feasible it is to build a billion-dollar app! [.]

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

This is a free sample story from my book The Making of Product Managers. Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. After graduating in 2013, she moved to London, U.K. Unfortunately, there were none.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 31, 2021

I’ve spoken with so many product managers who have a dream of becoming an entrepreneur or launching their own product one day. After a decade of working with others to launch successful SaaS products, I took the plunge to launch a startup in 2013. 4 Ways Product Managers Make Better Entrepreneurs.

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Product Manager in Heels

AUGUST 29, 2013

I am really looking forward to fall - the weather in New England, football and hockey, school starting, a few trips coming my way, and most of all the end of the year which is always a busy time for product managers planning for the year ahead. Looking forward to Fall 2013! and let the games begin! Stay tuned!

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 8, 2016

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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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 22, 2022

Grocery store product managers are deciding what goes where Image Credit: Erin Sparling. Traditionally this has been controlled by the big food manufacturing firms who told the grocery stores where their products were to be displayed. Product Managers Take Back The Grocery Shelves. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

When I first came across the methodology in 2013, I was wowed by stories of organisational alignment and focus from the likes of Google, Twitter and LinkedIn. Many of us are familiar with the history of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). I rushed out to buy John Doerr’s back catalogue. After 7 years of implementing OKRs [.].

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 3, 2023

Product Management Technology If you’re unfamiliar with software development, you may not have heard of Scrum. Scrum is an Agile methodology that can help teams work together more efficiently to develop products. The product manager can take on the role of the product owner in the Scrum framework.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 31, 2021

I’ve spoken with so many product managers who have a dream of becoming an entrepreneur or launching their own product one day. After a decade of working with others to launch successful SaaS products, I took the plunge to launch a startup in 2013. 4 Ways Product Managers Make Better Entrepreneurs.

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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

APRIL 18, 2018

In 2013, before Shared Parental Leave was a thing in the UK, I decided that I wanted to change my work-life balance from full-time to a four-day working week with one day of childcare. Part-time product manager roles are rare, but luckily I worked for an employer who was open to the idea. Becoming More Efficient.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2018

We have some very special news: Product Management Festival is coming to Singapore. We started the conference in 2013, and over the last 5 years thousands of people have visited wonderful Switzerland and we had the honour of having them as guests during Product Management Festival. Our home-base will be Singapore.

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The Product Bistro

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

I originally came across it in 2013 after its successful Kickstarter campaign funded it, and its bare-bones simplicity was appealing. Now that that experiment is over, and I have a solid job, I will look to write more posts on general observations, trends in product management, and even some off topic, humorous posts.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 25, 2020

Lin has long been a favorite prep book for those interviewing for product management roles. The author, Lewis Lin, is widely impressive as he was the Director of Product Management at Microsoft and worked at Google where he was responsible for launching new AdWords products. What's great about Decode & Conquer.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 2, 2023

How product managers can use Adobe’s Kickbox innovation system Today we are talking about using the open source innovation system called Kickbox that was created at Adobe. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [2:50] W hat was going on at Adobe that led to Kickbox?

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ProductBoard

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Petra Wille is a freelance Product Leadership Coach who’s been helping product teams to boost their skillset and up their game since 2013. She is the author of “Strong Product People.” ” One hot summer morning.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

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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Mind the Product

JULY 5, 2017

Prad Patel is the product manager of video experience in Trinity Mirror, one of the UK’s largest newspaper, magazine and digital publishers. Prad doesn’t believe that most people choose to become a product manager but rather that they “fall into the role”. Joys and Sorrows.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 14, 2017

Since it’s very lean MVP kick-off in 2013, The Product Mentor has grown to 20+ countries and over 800 mentees in our backlog. The Product Mentor is a very exclusive program to be chosen for. Learn what to look out for as a product manager working on a digital health application and set yourself up for success. @

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NextBigWhat

JUNE 12, 2020

. ‘getting a basic/minimal version out’ Lean how to build MVP with our free product management course. In late 2013, Slack hired us to help them turn their early prototype into a polished product. In July 2013, I got an email from Stewart Butterfield. Apply for the invite.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 17, 2017

Product Management teams need to pivot from asking “What do we want to build?” You can also link the product roadmap to your objectives. Product managers are uniquely placed to tie these pieces together, and best practices follow a process that results in strategic linkage between strategy, objectives, and roadmap.

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Izenda

JUNE 17, 2019

In 2013, during the third quarter of Super Bowl XLVII, something happened that had never happened at a super bowl before: the power went out. A product manager needs to be a leader, and there are many kinds of management styles to choose from , each with their own benefits and downsides. The Reactive Product Manager.

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The Review by First Round

JUNE 23, 2022

Todd is also a Partner at First Round, and the episodes he hosts will mostly focus on product, given his previous product roles, from the VP of Product & Design at Dropbox and Director of Product Management at Twitter, to being a PM at Facebook and Google, leading Newsfeed and Gmail.

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The Review by First Round

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Since launching in 2013, Canva has grown from an Australian startup to a global company, with 60 million monthly active users, over 2,000 employees, and a $40 billion valuation. Whether you’re a marketer, a founder, a people leader, or a product manager, there are tons of helpful takeaways for everyone in this conversation.

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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 4, 2024

When WhatsApp introduced voice messaging in 2013, it was a novel and convenient way to communicate compared to traditional text-based messaging. People were excited about the idea of logging in with just a phone number and sending messages to contacts using the internet instead of expensive operator SMS plans.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Here, I’d like to share the lessons I’ve learned from my years working as a product manager, focused on growth. In modern tech companies, growth teams and growth product managers are becoming common, although all product managers aim to deliver business growth within their sphere of influence.

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Indicative

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The app was acquired by Match.com in 2013, but it was the intervening years that gave Jeremy the inspiration for Indicative. Building a Product for Product People. As Jeremy explained, “[Indicative’s] vision is to be able to provide tools so that any product manager can use data to inform those decisions.”. “A

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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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Gainsight

APRIL 26, 2023

During the Pulse 2022 opening keynote, Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight, reflected “In 2013, there were 300 people in this room, and there were like 500 people in customer success, literally.” In fact, Moore and Levie were with us at the first Pulse all the way back in 2013.

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