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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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.

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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. Here is a recap of some of her most useful lessons: PM Lesson #1: Successful communication is the bedrock of Product Management.

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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. What’s Hot on Twitter.

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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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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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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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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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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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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. Cultural homogeneity in product teams is dead, welcome cultural diversity. Product managers who work with cross-cultural teams are in the crossfire. Dealing With Culture.

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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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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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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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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

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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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.

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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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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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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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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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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

Subscribe now People should matter more than the location I’ve been working remotely since 2014. This approach enables work to be driven by authenticity and collaboration instead of one-sided ownership. When I moved from London to the Bay Area all my colleagues were on the East Coast or overseas.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 11, 2024

Before moving into venture capital, he played a crucial role as VP of Product and Design at Dropbox, guiding the company until its IPO in 2018. Prior to Dropbox, Todd led product management for Twitter’s Content and Discovery teams after selling his startup, Cover, to Twitter in 2014.

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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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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. email us here.

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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. Organizations across sectors invested much in the way of building out product teams.

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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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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 27, 2018

Over at General Motors, their product managers have been hard at work trying to come up with ways to change their product development definition and get more people to select Cadillacs when it comes time to buy or lease their next car. If this works, it’s going to look good on somebody’s product manager resume.

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The Accidental Product Manager

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Paytm is one such firm and their product managers have done an excellent job of conquering the Indian payment market. All of this would look good on a product manager resume. The company got into a disagreement in 2014 with India’s central bank who put restrictions how they were going to accept credit card payments.

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Good Product Manager

JUNE 7, 2017

.” This SiriusView covers seven vendors whose offerings are designed to assist product managers with developing product plans, prioritizing features and enhancements, and maintaining and communicating product roadmaps. Podcast: B2B Product Management with The Everyday Innovator.

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Good Product Manager

JUNE 7, 2017

.” This SiriusView covers seven vendors whose offerings are designed to assist product managers with developing product plans, prioritizing features and enhancements, and maintaining and communicating product roadmaps. Podcast: B2B Product Management with The Everyday Innovator.

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Good Product Manager

JUNE 7, 2017

.” This SiriusView covers seven vendors whose offerings are designed to assist product managers with developing product plans, prioritizing features and enhancements, and maintaining and communicating product roadmaps. Podcast: B2B Product Management with The Everyday Innovator.

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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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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 Hardcore Product Management. I’ll do another article on that soon. Generic – CC BY-SA 2.0 ) .

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

What role can product managers play in the creation of meat product substitutes? Looks like its time for the product managers to step in and lend a helping hand by changing their protein product development definition. The New World Of Meat-Product Substitutes. Image Credit: Kelly Garbato. In the U.S.,

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 12, 2020

Roposo was launched in 2014 and has seen a steady growth in popularity since then. This app has also been around since 2014. One can clearly tell which teams have the right product management skills. It is the responsibility of a product manager to find the right target audience and the best possible niche.

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