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

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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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

One of the key elements underpinning any successful product, service or solution is that it addresses buyer and user needs. That is not a guarantee of success, but it is difficult to create and sustain a successful offering in the market that does not satisfy customer needs. — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) August 17, 2015.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

One of the key elements underpinning any successful product, service or solution is that it addresses buyer and user needs. That is not a guarantee of success, but it is difficult to create and sustain a successful offering in the market that does not satisfy customer needs. — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) August 17, 2015.

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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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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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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Guest Post by: Julian Dunn (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Vikas Batra]. 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.

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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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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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Mixpanel

JANUARY 12, 2023

It’s a scientific study in human psychology and empathy, the science of knowing what words will help people understand and connect with your brand and product. You wouldn’t build a product without doing customer research and validating your idea. Don’t write marketing copy without understanding the customer and their pain points.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

After the 12-week build, a team of three was tasked with validating and growing the product: myself, and two talented marketers. Until this point, we’d had to improvise with our growth tactics, and growth had been entirely marketing or partnership driven. 2015 – Launch as JustGiving Crowdfunding.

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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. For a brand-new product, the strategy should communicate what it takes to get to launch, enter the introduction stage, and serve the early market.

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In fact, studies such as the 2015 McKinsey report – Diversity Matters , have shown that working on a team with people who are different from you can challenge your thinking in such a way that it can actually help to sharpen up its performance.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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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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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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Mind the Product

JUNE 18, 2019

Tech billionaire Marc Andreessen has been credited with bringing the term “product/market fit” into the mainstream lexicon in 2007. During my dealings with investors and product veterans, I’ve often heard that you can always feel when product/market fit is happening. Usual Benchmarks to Measure Product/Market Fit.

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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. Janna is the CEO and co-founder of ProdPad, product management and roadmapping software for product people, an international speaker, as well as co-founder of Mind the Product.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 3, 2018

In my previous blog, ‘Launching your product into new markets? Here’s how’ , I talked about the importance of understanding the customer and market you’re looking to enter. Because arguably, how can companies who have never been present in a given market truly understand local needs and preference?

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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. Josh is a designer, author, coach, and product leader who has been creating digital products and services for more than 25 years including at Cooper at Luxr.

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

Product managers and product leaders should have an inherent sense of what’s valuable to customers. If a product person isn’t equipped with the ability to sense what might be valuable to others, product management might not be the best career choice in the first place.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 13, 2018

Product / Market Fit “Product/market fit means being in a good market with a product that can satisfy that market.”?—?Marc Marc Andreessen Good Market ? Therein lies the blue ocean (the “good market”): an untapped segment of people who 1. Photo from April 2017 Satisfactory Product ?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2020

Especially those who are in design, product management, etc. These types of people totally understand the change and are inspired by the company and the product now. John: Is that where you initially found traction with designers and product teams? Designers are a good example of those and product managers.

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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. Jared Spool’s excoriation of the use of NPS by marketing departments had struck a chord earlier in the week. So I’m going to talk about Product-Market Fit.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2018

Big clients end up dictating the roadmap, there’s no product vision, and your product quickly turns into incoherent bloatware. This led to an era of marketing-driven companies. Dan Kaplan framed marketing’s tarnished legacy this way: “Many of history’s most brilliant marketing strategies were crafted to persuade consumers to?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2018

Big clients end up dictating the roadmap, there’s no product vision, and your product quickly turns into incoherent bloatware. This led to an era of marketing-driven companies. Dan Kaplan framed marketing’s tarnished legacy this way: “Many of history’s most brilliant marketing strategies were crafted to persuade consumers to?

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Innovative product design agency based in Stuttgart, Germany. PDlab was established by a design expert, Özkan Isik, in 2015. . It’s a relatively small web design company in Germany with up to ten product design experts. . In contrast, small design companies serve niche markets with their services. . out of 5. .

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Bryce York

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

But came back for the first time in 30 years to speak at SydStart 2015? Sean also popularized the term product/market fit and coined the term growth hacking. The days of traditional interruption marketing are dead. The one metric that matters for marketing today is simple: GROWTH. How do you plan for growth?

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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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DISQO

JANUARY 8, 2018

“We’re a 160 year old company whose bread and butter was life insurance and risk products – but for the last 10-15 years we’ve been transforming into a holistic financial planning company.”. In March 2015, Northwestern Mutual acquired LearnVest, a fast-growing New York-based startup with a personal finance tracking suite.

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DISQO

JANUARY 8, 2018

“We’re a 160 year old company whose bread and butter was life insurance and risk products – but for the last 10-15 years we’ve been transforming into a holistic financial planning company.”. In March 2015, Northwestern Mutual acquired LearnVest, a fast-growing New York-based startup with a personal finance tracking suite.

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DISQO

JANUARY 8, 2018

“We’re a 160 year old company whose bread and butter was life insurance and risk products – but for the last 10-15 years we’ve been transforming into a holistic financial planning company.”. In March 2015, Northwestern Mutual acquired LearnVest, a fast-growing New York-based startup with a personal finance tracking suite.

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DISQO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Iteration in traditional product marketing is test, scientific method, evaluate, and customer discovery. I see it early, I evangelize the market. Berkeley did a study in 2015 , and found that entrepreneurs are indeed special, but not in the way that most of us think. Kelly : I would say evangelist.

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DISQO

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Iteration in traditional product marketing is test, scientific method, evaluate, and customer discovery. I see it early, I evangelize the market. Berkeley did a study in 2015 , and found that entrepreneurs are indeed special, but not in the way that most of us think. Kelly : I would say evangelist.

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