Mind the Product

DECEMBER 29, 2016

2016 was a year when the product management community grew significantly and continued to mature. I think what marks out the following is that they all deliver practical and actionable advice – advice which can be applied by anyone at any stage in their product career. Organise around customers.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 21, 2020

This information is critical for most product managers and mobile marketers to optimize the mobile customer experience. We published six new research reports today – each industry-specific guide reveals exclusive benchmark data gathered from more than 800 mobile apps with 5,000+ active users.

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Product Management Unpacked

MARCH 12, 2019

Marty Cagan, founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group , delivered the opening keynote to the 2016 Mind the Product Conference. His keynote, “Behind Every Great Product,” highlights professionals involved in some of the most iconic technology products of our time, including Netflix, iTunes and Word for Mac.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 15, 2019

The Product Management Awards (#TPMAS) are the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. The Best Product Person & The Best Product Leader. In this role, Gaudio drives the strategy behind roadmap management, agile product development, and cross-functional communication.

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Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2022

Product market fit, often just called product/market or “P/M” is one of the most important Lean Startup concepts. There is a lot of information out there about why it’s important for having a successful product and grow your business, but finding out how to achieve product-market fit can still feel elusive.

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 11, 2016

Improving Product Management in 2016: Strategy vs. Technique. For many people, the new year is a time to make personal or professional resolutions. Technique I talk about the key strategic behaviors for product managers, the importance of focusing on them, and how to quickly assess this as an area of focus for 2016.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 21, 2020

As we look ahead to our “new normal,” Finance app product managers and marketers must plan for usage swings both positive and negative depending on their offerings, and even within different pieces of their mobile experiences. Mobile Customer Sentiment. Let customer feedback drive your product roadmap.

Finance 147

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Mind the Product

JULY 14, 2020

Nandini Jammi started out in product marketing and growth, but after the US elections in 2016, her career took an unexpected turn when she joined Sleeping Giants, an organisation that aims to make bigotry and sexism less profitable. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

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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. I mean, how else were you going to be able to tell what time it was? Now when people want to know what time it is, they whip out their mobile phones and glance at them. The Problems Facing Watch Product Managers.

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Good Product Manager

MARCH 29, 2016

How Product Teams Understand Customer Needs for Innovation. My colleague Rachel Young and I have been conducting research for the past year on how b-to-b organizations understand customer needs and apply them to product innovation. Upcoming Product Management and Product Marketing Events.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

Intent on expanding the business to offer more to their users, the company observed a gap in the market and took a chance on something very different. In 2016, Sleep Stories was born. Since Sleep Stories, retention rates and time on app have increased dramatically. A subtle, but huge, win. I mean… just so good.

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bpma ProductHub

AUGUST 1, 2016

In 2016, Glassdoor identified Product Management as the #8 best job to have in America, with a job score of 4.5 Other jobs on the list included Data Scientist, Tax Manager and HR Manager. Unlike many of those jobs, product management is known for its nebulous career pathing and ambiguity.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Some think customers will see the advent of AI as a welcome way to get self-help quickly and get back to their task. Others worry that AI will worsen the customer experience as more and more companies use it to save costs. He joined me for a conversation on tackling issues that come up as you scale your customer experience.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Product Management in 2017: What Does the Future Hold? Product management is sometimes referred to as a “next year” job. It’s usually around this time of year that product management leaders are well into planning for the following calendar year. Upcoming Events for Fall 2016.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Product Management in 2017: What Does the Future Hold? Product management is sometimes referred to as a “next year” job. It’s usually around this time of year that product management leaders are well into planning for the following calendar year. Upcoming Events for Fall 2016.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Nandini Jammi started out in product marketing and growth, but after the US elections in 2016 her career took an unexpected turn when she joined Sleeping Giants, an organisation that aims to make bigotry and sexism less profitable. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 23, 2023

Burger product managers are battling for the same customers Image Credit: cyclonebill One of the biggest challenges that product managers face is when there is someone else offering a product that is very similar to ours. A situation like this is starting to develop in, of all places, the market for burgers.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

In 2016 I gave a talk on lean market validation at the opening night of Startup Weekend at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I believe that the tactics can help both entrepreneurs and product managers launch better products with a higher chance of succeeding in the market.

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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 2, 2015

We’ve been busy at SiriusDecisions with a lot of new research and resources for b-to-b product management leaders and product managers: The ABCs of Product Management Technologies. In my first post for the new SiriusDecisions Marketplace, I cover The ABCs of Product Management Technologies.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 14, 2023

Equipment product managers are searching for steady revenue Image Credit: Laura Gilmore The product managers for heavy equipment, you know things like cranes, backhoes, rollers, etc., When times are good and people are buying their product, then times are really good.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 18, 2022

Insights for product managers from a case study with an electric vehicle gamechanger. Today we are exploring technology-driven vs. market-driven innovation. There are times that a technology comes first and later a problem associated with a market need is found that the technology addresses.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 28, 2021

The internet is rife with advice on how to become a Product Manager – often written by people who have never worked as a Product Manager themselves. Contents: Why is breaking into the Product Management career path difficult? Tips for becoming a Project Manager John Fontenot’s Path to Product.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 15, 2020

One of the latest buzzwords in the Product world is ‘Product Led-Growth.’ And does focusing on a product-led growth strategy make you a Growth Product Manager? Let’s examine this “new” trend… What Does Product-Led Growth Mean? from engineering to sales and marketing?—?around It’s cheaper.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Nandini Jammi started out in product marketing and growth, but after the US elections in 2016 her career took an unexpected turn when she joined Sleeping Giants, an organisation that aims to make bigotry and sexism less profitable. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

Product Research 99

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Good Product Manager

MARCH 29, 2016

How Product Teams Understand Customer Needs for Innovation. My colleague Rachel Young and I have been conducting research for the past year on how b-to-b organizations understand customer needs and apply them to product innovation. Upcoming Product Management and Product Marketing Events.

Events 60

Events Product Research User Testing Customer Feedback 60

Good Product Manager

JUNE 9, 2016

SiriusDecisions 2016 Summit Recap. I’ve mentioned the annual SiriusDecisions Summit a few times previously here on this blog. We had 2500+ sales, marketing and product leaders together for 4 days of sharing of new research, practitioner case studies, lots of networking and some fantastic evening events.

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Good Product Manager

JUNE 9, 2016

SiriusDecisions 2016 Summit Recap. I’ve mentioned the annual SiriusDecisions Summit a few times previously here on this blog. We had 2500+ sales, marketing and product leaders together for 4 days of sharing of new research, practitioner case studies, lots of networking and some fantastic evening events.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 13, 2020

I’ve been working in digital products for 15 years and, throughout this time, I’ve found that product management has many faces. I’ve done the job in different companies and in each one, it was a completely different experience. one ops and one product manager). My Career Experience.

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Product Club

DECEMBER 20, 2016

On the 4th November the Product Manager Club attended JAM 2016 in London. We met a lot of great people and we learned a lot of interesting things and we thought it was only right to share our experience! Yeah but what’s Jam 2016?! How do product managers, designers and engineers make it all happen?

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

In 2016 I gave a talk on lean market validation at the opening night of Startup Weekend at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I believe that the tactics can help both entrepreneurs and product managers launch better products with a higher chance of succeeding in the market.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 4, 2018

Jim Kalbach is a respected author, speaker, and instructor in information architecture and UX strategy and currently Head of Customer Success at online whiteboard business Mural. Jim quotes Steve Jobs as saying in 1997: “You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology – not the other way around.”

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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 2, 2015

We’ve been busy at SiriusDecisions with a lot of new research and resources for b-to-b product management leaders and product managers: The ABCs of Product Management Technologies. In my first post for the new SiriusDecisions Marketplace, I cover The ABCs of Product Management Technologies.

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Melissa Perri

DECEMBER 29, 2023

But my heart was set on Product Management. That was back in 2016. If we'd really covered all there was to cover on Product Management, why were folks clamoring for more of my blog posts? My aim was to wrap up my thoughts on Product Management into something solid I could share far and wide.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. 5 ways to kick-start your product management career. (1) 2) Talk to (at least) five customers. (3) 3) Use the product daily. (4) 5) Sit on 10 customer support calls.

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Good Product Manager

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Three Tips for Aligning Product Management and Product Marketing. In this post on the SiriusDecisions blog — Three Tips for Aligning Product Management and Product Marketing — I share three practical tips for aligning product management and product marketing that came up in these sessions.

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Good Product Manager

MARCH 6, 2016

Survey: Understanding and Prioritizing Customer Needs for Innovation. One of the most important things that product managers need to do is understand customer needs in order to drive new products and enhance existing offerings. SiriusDecisions 2016 Summit. Recent Product Management Interviews.

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