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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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Managing the product backlog should be a collaborative effort. Consequently, stakeholder management can feel like herding cats. This will increase people’s buy-in and reduce the need for continued re-alignment meetings or possibly some crisis management if you find out that people did not implement an important decision.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The role of the product manager is changing faster than ever. Here are some of our favorite product and product management quotes from the top product leaders over the years. Here are some of our favorite product and product management quotes from the top product leaders over the years. Yan , Product at Remitly / @crystalcy.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Jay Forrester, an MIT engineer, applied these ideas to understand social and management systems. Strategic Stakeholder Management Mapping all relevant stakeholders and developing systemic strategies to meet their needs and manage relationships. Systems Thinker, 2014. 91–128, 2014. JONES, Peter H. ARNOLD, Ross D.;

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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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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 30, 2017

These words couldn’t be more relevant to product management. Such a trait is crucial to Product Management roles if you want sales, marketing and engineering to trust and follow your direction. With her background in product management and marketing, the lessons, stories and tips she has to convey will be very relevant to you.

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TSIA

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Now that we're wrapping up 2014, I wanted to recap with some of the insights I learned mid-year as food for thought going forward into 2015. At our Spring Technology Services World (TSW) Best Practices conference in Santa Clara, California, any time I wasn’t presenting, I was in one-to-one meetings with TSIA members and partners.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 4, 2024

Sequoia, on the other hand, reaped significant rewards when Facebook acquired WhatsApp for a staggering $22 billion in 2014. For WhatsApp, the injection of capital provided the resources needed to scale its operations, develop new features, and ultimately reach a global audience. Facebook, now known as Meta Platforms, Inc.,

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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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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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Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2017

Or “ How to Manage Software Development in Teams who Think Nothing Like you “ Product management has two diversity problems. Our engineers and designers can come from anywhere, yet everything we learn about product management focuses on teams that consist mostly of white Westerners. How’s that for a mini-UN?

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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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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Visionary Approach: Revolutionizing Investment Management Photo by Gilles Lambert on Unsplash Discover how Scalable Capital elevates user experience by integrating cutting-edge mobile scanning technology into their mobile application. The Vision Investing and managing assets can be a daunting endeavor for many individuals.

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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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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Last Chance: Product Management Leader priorities survey. We conducted a similar survey in 2014, so this will allow us to see trends and changes over the past five years. We conducted a similar survey in 2014, so this will allow us to see trends and changes over the past five years. Will you take 3 minutes to participate?

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 17, 2017

Product Management teams need to pivot from asking “What do we want to build?” 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. The Fundamentals – Objectives & Key Results, NikeT , Nov 27, 2014.

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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

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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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 11, 2024

Prior to Dropbox, Todd led product management for Twitter’s Content and Discovery teams after selling his startup, Cover, to Twitter in 2014. He kickstarted his career at Google as an associate product manager and eventually led product for Gmail, witnessing its growth from beta to 200 million users.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Last Chance: Product Management Leader priorities survey. We conducted a similar survey in 2014, so this will allow us to see trends and changes over the past five years. We conducted a similar survey in 2014, so this will allow us to see trends and changes over the past five years. Will you take 3 minutes to participate?

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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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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The product managers at Amazon have a bit of a problem on their hands right now. This means that the Amazon product managers have to do something to make their product unique. The systems were first introduced in 2014 and now one in five homes is reporting that they have at least one of them. Image Credit: Jeff Eaton.

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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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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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TSIA

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Originally published on Ragsdale's Eye On Service - Today at Technology Services World I am releasing the results of my August knowledge management survey both online, and in my Power Hour session at 4:15.

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bpma ProductHub

JANUARY 3, 2017

While talking to her we realized her deep roots in Product Management in the Greater Boston area all way into Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in the late 80s. Product Management was still figuring out if it’s a necessary discipline in software companies. Cute puns aside, there is truth to these issues even today.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

Nobody wants you to be more awesome than your manager does, because when you're amazing, your manager, his life gets easier, her life gets easier. Subscribe now People should matter more than the location I’ve been working remotely since 2014. So, I just think that the mentality we get into [of], "No, no, no. They're not.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 18, 2019

What should a product manager do when their new product is followed by a similar one? What’s a product manager to do? It’s also not clear how this is going to look on your product manager resume. The inventor of the balloon filling toy says that the idea initially came to him in 2014. Image Credit: Andrew Macpherson.

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Sequent Learning

MAY 6, 2021

The Product Manager’s Desk Reference has been updated for a post-Covid world while providing a reliable resource for product managers to excel in their role. This book often referred to as the “bible of product management” was originally published in 2008 and 2014. Tate Atkinson. Sequent Learning Networks. email us here.

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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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The Product Guy

JUNE 25, 2018

This article highlights a few ways to increase clarity and provide better role definition between a manager and a direct report as it pertains to daily situations involving escalations, blockers, and air cover. Given the split responsibility between manager and direct report, alignment and effective communication in these situations is key.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 13, 2019

If that’s the case for your product, then reduce the product backlog size by unbundling one or more features and releasing them as products in their own right, like Facebook did with Messenger in 2014. Your third option is to structure the product backlog in order to make it more manageable thereby hiding detailed items.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 9, 2020

Carlos founded Product School in San Francisco in 2014. Today, the company is the global leader in product management training with 20 campuses worldwide and a live online campus. Let’s take a look at what product managers need qualitative data for and how to do it right! Use it with your product marketing manager.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 7, 2021

A product that started out being built in a bedroom has now evolved into a household name amongst social media management platforms. Joel Gascoigne speaking at BoS USA 2014. Buffer now employs almost 90 people worldwide (remote-first) with a unique and loved company culture. A decade of transitions and decisions.

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TSIA

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

The world of tech is changing. Consumers of enterprise technology have voted with their wallets. They are concerned with the lack of return on investment for their infrastructure technology expenditures. They are frustrated with the ever-increasing complexity of their IT solutions driven by the rise in software centricity and network dependency.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 16, 2022

In the years leading up to the pandemic, there was already a notable increase in demand for product managers. And as organizations pivoted to digital spaces, this hunger for product management expertise grew ravenous. In a remote work environment, the demand for product managers has increased. Growth PM Explainer.

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Innovatemap

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Launched in 2014, we’ll officially celebrate our 10th anniversary later this month. To have a partner like Innovatemap riding shotgun with you and helping you through the journey is incredibly valuable,” said Scott Kraege , Managing Partner at Ivy Ventures. Innovatemap is an anchor in our tech community.

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