Good Product Manager

JANUARY 11, 2016

Improving Product Management in 2016: Strategy vs. Technique. Certainly improving technique will have an impact on product management performance, but often product management leaders focus on upskilling on technique and neglect the strategic elements. Product Management is Not User Experience.

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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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Mixpanel

MARCH 30, 2020

Latest studies note that only 35% of product manager roles are filled by women, and most of those roles are entry-level positions, meaning they are often removed from influential decision making. In fact, from 2015 to 2018, gender representation had only increased by 2 percent. Let’s dive in. Want to add users?

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Good Product Manager

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Upcoming Product Management Webcasts. I’m excited to announce a new series of SiriusDecisions product management webcasts I’ll be hosting along with my colleague Lisa Singer. These complimentary webcasts are focused on best practices for b-to-b product management leaders and product managers.

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Good Product Manager

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Upcoming Product Management Webcasts. I’m excited to announce a new series of SiriusDecisions product management webcasts I’ll be hosting along with my colleague Lisa Singer. These complimentary webcasts are focused on best practices for b-to-b product management leaders and product managers.

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 11, 2016

Improving Product Management in 2016: Strategy vs. Technique. Certainly improving technique will have an impact on product management performance, but often product management leaders focus on upskilling on technique and neglect the strategic elements. Product Management is Not User Experience.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This will change the way that a lot of people think about product market fit, BS metrics, understanding the needs of the people that really matter. Rahul Vohra (Founder/CEO, Superhuman) – The Product-Market Fit Engine from Business of Software Conference. So I’m going to talk about Product-Market Fit.

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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. What is Good Product Strategy? Learn more here: blog.aha.io/business-strategy-link-roadmap.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Here are a few of my tweets that have generated the most interest recently; to get these in real-time, follow me at @jefflash : Product manager vs. product owner: one person or two? — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) August 17, 2015. — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) August 31, 2015.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Here are a few of my tweets that have generated the most interest recently; to get these in real-time, follow me at @jefflash : Product manager vs. product owner: one person or two? — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) August 17, 2015. — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) August 31, 2015.

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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. Mastering the Problem Space for Product/Market Fit by Dan Olsen. 20 Years of Product Management in 25 Minutes by Dave Wascha.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 12, 2023

It’s the “pivotal moment when a new user first realizes the value of your product and why they need it,” according to Appcues. It’s also a moment when someone is likely to signup and/or buy your product. Product and growth managers often build onboarding flows that get users to this moment fast.

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Bain Public

APRIL 13, 2020

According to Alpha’s 2020 Product Management Insights Report , product management has entered the c-suite. As product management influences more high-level decisions and business strategies, partner alignment/collaboration becomes key. I hate product managers who come with a long list of prepared questions.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

2015 – Launch as JustGiving Crowdfunding. The fundraising “interstitial”, where you could choose how to raise money, in 2015. JustGiving Crowdfunding launched in April 2015, and volumes increased so much that our customer success team was overwhelmed. JustGiving Crowdfunding homepage, 2015.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

How do you develop an understanding of what will set a product up for success throughout your organization? This blog looks at what actions product managers can take to ensure their teams are investing their time wisely. “If Your job as a product manager is to help your squad to answer these questions, fast.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. Thus, I arrived at the Product Mentor program with ambitions to learn strategy development from a seasoned product mentor. Two major obstacles stood in my way.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

But in product management, there are several horizons that need to be considered—how many depends on the product planning model you use. After launch, the product strategy should describe how to achieve product-market fit and enter the growth stage. Take the Apple Watch as an example. Re-planning Cadence.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

It’s not rocket science that awesome products come from awesome teams, so what’s the key to creating and managing a team that’s designed for maximum impact? Here, taking advice from a number of product pros, we look at a selection of ways to build product teams and empower them to achieve success.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

APM programs or Associate Product Manager programs are roles designed for graduates, to introduce them to the world of PM. Their main goal is to provide mentorship for young talent, and for some, it serves as a good alternative to non-existent Product Management bachelor’s degrees. What is the company culture/mission?

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 23, 2017

Aparna Chennapragada, Director of Product Management, Google. Aparna Chennapragada is a Director of Product Management at Google and Technical Assistant (TA) to the CEO. She most recently led the product development of Google Now, a digital assistant that proactively brings information to you through the day.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2018

Believing the best product always wins leads us directly to the second trap: ?being being willfully naive about marketing. Matt Hodges , originally our Director of Product Marketing, was the first Intercom hire with the actual word “marketing” in his title. Marketing isn’t a single team. Sign me up.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 20, 2023

PLG companies can spend less on customer acquisition also because of product virality inherent in some SaaS products. Product-led businesses manage to increase user activation and product adoption by removing friction from the user experience. Such rapid success was possible thanks to the product-led growth model.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Those who are looking for a job in tech, whether it be in product management, software engineering, data science, or the like, have undoubtedly considered a career at Google. One of them was our co-founder Stephen Cognetta back in 2014-2015. Many attribute this to the sprawling bureaucracy of middle managers.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

APM programs or Associate Product Manager programs are roles designed for graduates, to introduce them to the world of PM. Their main goal is to provide mentorship for young talent, and for some, it serves as a good alternative to non-existent Product Management bachelor’s degrees. link] How mature is the program?

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

 (See this 2015 talk and supporting blog series. What do I mean by software product vs software services ?  A Now, let’s redeploy a few of the brilliant folks formerly doing post-sales implementation and project management into new account sales.  And  And very few companies can balance the two.  (See

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

I joined this highly motivated group of fifteen people in September 2015. My first challenge was to create the product management function within the organization and take over a major app redesign. We managed to officially launch the new version of the app, now under the name Elium, and we raise a 4m€ Series A.

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Sachin Rekhi

DECEMBER 26, 2019

In that past decade, I've authored 150 essays , mostly sharing everything I've learned about product management and entrepreneurship throughout my career in Silicon Valley. Video: The Art of Product Management. Product Management Career Ladders at 8 Top Technology Firms. quite the opposite.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2018

Believing the best product always wins leads us directly to the second trap: ?being being willfully naive about marketing. Matt Hodges , originally our Director of Product Marketing, was the first Intercom hire with the actual word “marketing” in his title. Marketing isn’t a single team. Sign me up.

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Dear Strategy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

When I released my book back in 2015, I had the opportunity to participate in some 20+ radio interviews. Keep in mind that I typically help product managers, marketing managers, and sales managers develop strategies for the individual portfolios, markets, and channels that they manage.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 16, 2017

Josh also held roles leading product management for Zazzle, and product and engineering for RealJukebox and RealPlayer at RealNetworks. Janice is a serial entrepreneur and a globally recognized expert on the management practices needed to support innovation at scale. Janna Bastow, CEO & Co-Founder, ProdPad.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 2, 2016

billion, and in 2015 sales were $5.2 For example a “how do I” question means that the customer already knows that something is possible with your product, so it’s not a product marketing or education issue, it’s a user experience issue. Product marketing issues. In 2010 Lego was profitable with sales of $2.3

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Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2017

Josh also held roles leading product management for Zazzle, and product and engineering for RealJukebox and RealPlayer at RealNetworks. Janice is a serial entrepreneur and a globally recognized expert on the management practices needed to support innovation at scale. Janna Bastow, CEO & Co-Founder, ProdPad.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 26, 2019

The Impact of Bugs on the Customer Experience Now let’s look at it from a product management perspective: what I ran into was a bug in the algorithm responsible for detecting car movement. Take for example Google photos’ infamous Gorilla incident from 2015. Not a happy experience for developers, product and company management.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 12, 2024

It helps product managers motivate teams to action, impress stakeholders, and quickly derive actionable insights. Planning and documenting project flows in project management. You can easily see that sales peaked in April 2015 and were lowest in November 2014. file sharing, task management, etc.),

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 3, 2018

their computer and mobile usage , what apps they’re using and where they’re buying products. Combined with internet and market research, this is often your most effective approach. The insights you gain will allow you to modify and refine your product.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 19, 2019

And as the Group Product Marketing Manager for Platform here at Intercom, I’ve loved seeing all the creative apps our partners have built. So we’re delighted to host Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing, Ceci Stallsmith, on the show. And that just gives you more product-market fit and helps you grow faster.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 11, 2021

Can you tell us a little bit about the company and product, and where you’re focused? Viacom18 proactively forayed into the OTT business in late 2015 and went live with Voot—our mobile-first video-on-demand platform—in mid-2016. It sounds like you have a very data-informed approach to product prioritization.

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