Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

I've been reflecting on the last decade in Product Management. Not every company has seen all these changes, but by and large I think it's been a positive push forward and I'm proud of where we've come from and where we have gotten to. -- 2014: "I do not need Product Managers, I can run my company myself,I have the strategy."

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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 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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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 27, 2016

I believe the same synthesis of skill sets is occurring between marketers and product managers, but all too often, they’re treated organisationally as separate disciplines, broken up into siloed teams. To quote Adaptive Path co-founder Peter Merholz from this blog: “The experience is the product.”.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Alternatively, you may want to consider breaking up your product, for example, by unbundling one or more features and launching them as a separate product like Facebook did with the Messenger app in 2014. Please refer to my article “ Scaling the Product Owner Role ” for more information on how to jointly manage a product.).

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

For product managers, this means evolving to build for upmarket companies while ensuring Intercom’s long-standing customers remain at the center of what we do. Product management varies depending on your industry, company stage, company leadership, or teammates. Sound like something you’d be interested in?

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 26, 2022

In this week’s Learnings from London, we look back at the high spots from #mtpcon London in years past we bring you Dave Wascha’s talk from 2014, Inside the mind of a product manager. [.]

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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. When Hewlett-Packard ran with his ideas, it introduced an organizational structure where each product group functioned as a separate organization.

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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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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

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.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

Guest Post by: Terri Boshoff (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Nis Frome]. 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. Start at the Top. About Terri Boshoff.

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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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Good Product Manager

OCTOBER 8, 2014

What tools do you use for product management? What tools and technologies do you use for product management? At SiriusDecisions, we’re conducting a survey of b-to-b product managers and what applications they do (and don’t) use. Take the 2014 SiriusDecisions Product Management Tools Survey now !

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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 8, 2014

SiriusDecisions Field Guide Product Management Tools. I’m pleased to announce the release of the SiriusDecisions Field Guide “Product Planning, Prioritization and Roadmapping 2015.” Few product managers are using tools designed specifically for product management. Happy Holidays.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Several listeners have asked about medical device products and I searched for someone with deep experience in this area. I realize most of us are not involved with medical devices, but there is much any product manager can learn from the upcoming discussion. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:38]

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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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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

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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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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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. In the box industry, the average profit margin increased from 5% of revenue back in 2014 by 5.8%

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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. This is certainly not a new trend.

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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. Google and Apple both have competing products. This means that the Amazon product managers have to do something to make their product unique. That’s not going to look good on anyone’s product manager resume.

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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

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. by Jon Kolko.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 9, 2020

Carlos González de Villaumbrosia has over 10 years of experience building teams and digital products in the US, Europe, and Latin America. 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.

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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. What’s Hot on Twitter.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 9, 2020

A lot of information and knowledge comes your way when you’re a new Product Manager. But one of the major concepts you absolutely need to get your head around is Product-Market Fit. If you don’t do your research, and understand how your product fits into the market (see what we did there?) It can be a little overwhelming!

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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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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.

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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). We conducted two more retrospective analyses covering 2004-2013 and 2014-2021.

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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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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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Product Talk

AUGUST 12, 2020

Hello Product Talk readers, we’re excited to share the latest Product in Practice with you! For this story, we caught up with Sonja Martin , Product Manager at tails.com. Business outcomes are lagging indicators and often influenced by many factors that have nothing to do with the product team. Tweet This.

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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. What’s Hot on Twitter.

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The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Image “No” copyright (c) 2014 Henry Burrows, Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 The post How To Say “No” To A Feature Request appeared first on The Secret Product Manager Handbook. I’ll do another article on that soon. Generic – CC BY-SA 2.0 ) .

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The Accidental Product Manager

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Product managers attempt to get customers to shop for toys all year long. Product managers for stores that sell toys have an interesting problem on their hands. However, once Christmas has come and gone, just exactly how are the product managers supposed to get people to come into their stores?

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