Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Priorities for Product Management Leaders. There’s something I hear a lot when talking with product management leaders about challenges – some variation of, “We can’t be the only ones having these issues… are we?” Recap in Tweets: Product Management Festival 2014. Room is packed!

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Mind the Product

JUNE 9, 2021

When I published Radical Focus in 2014, I had high hopes that the audience of entrepreneurs for whom I wrote it would see the value of using Objectives and Key Results (OKR) to manage goal-setting and achieving—and indeed, I was amazed by how many thousands did. What surprised me was the attention my book received from [.]

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

When I joined Wetu in 2014, I was the 7th employee, we had just over 100 companies using our software, we were exclusively available in Africa, and the product was already 5 years old. The founders have filled the role of product manager since the company was conceived and it is difficult for them to hand that management over.

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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 8, 2014

SiriusDecisions Field Guide Product Management Tools. The Field Guide covers 11 vendors whose offerings are designed to assist product managers with developing product plans, prioritizing features and enhancements, and maintaining and communicating product roadmaps. Three Questions to Ask to Improve Product Management.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

If you manage AI products, the answer is probably “many”. AI product management is a unique beast that can be quite challenging, but there are ways to make it easier. Photo by Skitterphoto from Pexels In 2014, at the ProductX conference, I won second place for my presentation on time management for busy product managers.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2020

With more people entering the Product landscape than ever, now is a good time to help the newbies understand where Product Management came from, and how far the industry has come. Product Management in the 90s The 90s in tech. At the time, Microsoft had Program Managers who were essentially engineers. Sound familiar?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 11, 2022

It’s time to perk up the product management industry by redoing Blackalicious’ most popular song, “Alphabet Aerobics”. The track gained renewed attention in 2014, when Daniel Radcliffe, performed the entire song flawlessly on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Outro: Female Voice] (Good… can you say it faster?)

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Mind the Product

JULY 1, 2019

Smart candidates know they need to prepare thoroughly for their product management interviews. Do not go into a product management interview without preparing questions for your interviewer. Winging it or asking generic questions here can kill your chances at landing a product management job.

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Good Product Manager

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Top Challenges for Product Management. At SiriusDecisions, we’ve recently been conducting research into the top priorities of product management leaders. We’ll be sharing more results from the survey in the “Priorities for Product Management Leaders for 2015″ webcast.

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The Accidental Product Manager

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The WhatsApp product managers may have come up with a way to make money Image Credit: Marina Stroganova. So just imaging this scenario: you are the product manager for a wildly successful mobile application. As a product manager, how would you go about transforming your free-to-use service into a money making machine?

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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. How to Survive the Hardest Part of Product Management by Janna Bastow. by Jon Kolko.

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The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

For example, let’s say your product is a project management tool. For example, you can specify that the project will take two DBAs, three Developers, a Project Manager, and a Business Analyst. For example, I always ask about how they expect to manage the association between skills and resources. Oh, That’s A Terrible Idea!

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 25, 2017

I realize most of us are not involved with medical devices, but there is much any product manager can learn from the upcoming discussion. This ability to learn from product managers in different industries is one of the things I most enjoy about this podcast. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:38]

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 8, 2019

Alternatively, you may want to unbundle one or more features into a new product, as Facebook did with Messenger in 2014 when the company released the messaging feature as a stand-alone app. Invest in Quality and Proactively Manage Your Portfolio. Unfortunately, the development effort took longer than expected.

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The Secret PM Handbook

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Nils first met Hubert Palan in November 2014 at the Product Management Summit in San Francisco. Nils was presenting some ideas on a “ roll your own product management system of record ,” while Hubert was there to talk about the product he was building – a real product management system of record.

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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. How to Survive the Hardest Part of Product Management by Janna Bastow. Marty Cagan. by Jon Kolko.

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The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

For example, let’s say your product is a project management tool. For example, you can specify that the project will take two DBAs, three Developers, a Project Manager, and a Business Analyst. For example, I always ask about how they expect to manage the association between skills and resources. Oh, That’s A Terrible Idea!

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Good Product Manager

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Common Mistakes in Implementing a New Product Management Framework. Based on our research at SiriusDecisions, we know that improving the overall product lifecycle management framework/process is a top priority for the coming year for many b-to-b product management leaders. What tools do you use for product management?

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 14, 2018

Mike got me thinking; should product managers also require a licence do their job? After all, we’re a sizeable professional community and having a product management certification or licence in place would ensure that all product managers comply with the same standards. Why I’m not Convinced.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 27, 2023

Lessons for product managers from PDMA’s Outstanding Corporate Innovators Award Every year the Product Management and Development Association (PDMA) recognizes an organization with the Outstanding Corporate Innovators Award (OCI). Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [3:04] Why was the OCI award created?

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

The vendor managed cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, and security certifications, delivering a turnkey solution within budget. Faster TimetoMarket In a health insurance policy management system project, a client achieved a fourmonth launch timeline by outsourcing development and QA to a dedicated vendor.

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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. Image Credits Geekbot Using Scrum for Product Development Scrum is a framework that can be useful for product managers to develop products. The product manager can take on the role of the product owner in the Scrum framework.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 20, 2017

Chinese users have been able to book a taxi with ride-sharing and taxi-hailing service Didi since January 2014. WeChat took this tradition digital in 2014, with the release of its Red Packet delivery as an extension of its mobile payment. It is just like UberEats (started August 2014) inside WeChat.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 2, 2021

Being a product manager in a growth industry is one of the best jobs that any of us can have. This is exactly how life must be for product managers who are involved in the fracking industry. A product management job in this industry has been one to have for a long time. The Problem With Sand.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 1, 2021

However, the product managers at Amazon have come to a realization that they need to find a way to save money. That kind of increase in sales would look good on anyone’s product manager resume. All of this would make you think that it must be a great job to be a product manager for one of those companies that makes boxes.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 20, 2018

We created our first sales function in 2014 and in the busyness of building out the team, we had little time to reflect on how our experiences on the frontline of sales could add value to our product roadmap. To fix it, we had to change how we worked with our product team. But in doing that, our suggestions became far too broad.

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Product Beautiful

MAY 28, 2014

On this Friday, June 6, 2014, I will be presenting at a virtual conference called PIPELINE 2014. PIPELINE is put on by Planview , and will include presentations about a wide variety of topics of interest to Product Management and Marketing professionals, including innovation, ideation, prioritization, and how to change your culture.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 2, 2019

Remember when Facebook unbundled Messenger in 2014 and launched it as a standalone app? Unbundling is a great technique to avoid that a successful product becomes bigger and bigger, more and more heterogeneous, and requires an ever-increasing amount of people to manage and develop it. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 12, 2020

For this story, we caught up with Sonja Martin , Product Manager at tails.com. Product manager Sonja Martin at tails.com experienced this firsthand. We launched in the UK in 2014 and we’re now in nine different countries across Europe. Hello Product Talk readers, we’re excited to share the latest Product in Practice with you!

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2016

This helped me better understand which strategy and roadmap-related challenges product managers commonly experience and which advice is helpful for them. In September 2014, I had a first version of the book available for review—MVP number two. This made the writing job less daunting and easier to manage but required integration effort.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2021

A few weeks ago I launched Product Gears ( [link] ), which is a platform for collecting and managing feedback. For us, it was clear that we solved a pain for newly created product founders and product managers. We’re first-timers on Product Hunt, although we had used the site since 2014 yet we had never submitted a product.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

Embracing a Lifelong Learner Mindset The year was 2014, and a quiet yet profound revolution was stirring in the world of education. While my college memories from 2009 were punctuated with the hum of videotape lectures, a new dawn was on the horizon, heralded by platforms like Coursera.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

To bring us up to early 2014, you might be familiar with Product Hunt. When 2014 arrived, we had engineers, business people, videos, our chat room, etc. There’s no one certain way to design a landing page, it just looks like great design, preferably with a good product to back it up. We had everything covered and optimized.

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Product Culture

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Some of you may know that I've taken on a role as Vice President and Chief Evangelist for the Boston Product Management Association. The BPMA is the second-largest professional association for product managers and product marketers, after the SVPMA, and I am honored to be involved.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 16, 2020

Loren, the General Manager of Shopify Plus , was hired to topple conventional notions of what enterprise software could (and should) look like. In 2014, the company smashed expectations, earning $105 million in revenue – double what they had taken in the year before.

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Product Management Unpacked

APRIL 25, 2019

The first 100 days after becoming a product leader while managing business disruption are especially important to your long-term success. New product leaders and business unit managers must build relationships, internally and externally. Under times of duress, a leader must act decisively and effectively.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 12, 2019

Change is happening and watch product managers need to learn to deal with it Image Credit: Barron Fujimoto. What can watch product managers do to change things? The Problems Facing Watch Product Managers. The challenge that watch product managers are facing is that we now live in a different world.

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