Mind the Product

DECEMBER 28, 2016

2016 has been a year when the craft of product management grew, evolved, and matured at a staggering rate! Brant touches on clear foundation such as focusing on customer problems rather than products, and also suggests some structures to help incentivise the kind of innovative behaviours you want. We asked C.

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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) 1) Know the company’s goals. (2)

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Melissa Perri

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Since publishing my second book, Product Operations, in October, I’ve been reflecting on what I learned writing two business books and wanted to share those insights that I wish someone had shared with me before I started. But my heart was set on Product Management. That was back in 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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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

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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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 15, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. Defining customer needs with jobs-to-be-done theory. New product development frequently begins by having keener insights into customers’ needs than competitors do.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 3, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. . Are you avoiding all 8 of these product management mistakes? 6 tips for getting buy-in on your product roadmap. (1) Get the Product Mastery Roadmap and….

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. How product managers creatively say NO without being confrontational. 4 tips for how product managers can build shared understanding among a team. (1)

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 19, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. Another reminder why new products need a workable business model. Products (wrongly) get created this way – product first, customer second, revenue third.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. How product managers can end team conflicts quickly. Uncommon path and practices for building richer products. Product managers depend on teams that perform well.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 26, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. Use these tips for building or improving a product innovation team… https://hbr.org/2016/08/leadership-may-not-be-the-problem-with-your-innovation-team.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. Using the “jobs-to-be-done” framework for better products. I’m a big fan of the jobs-to-be-done tool for deeply understanding customer problems and motivation.

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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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Product Club

DECEMBER 20, 2016

On the 4th November the Product Manager Club attended JAM 2016 in London. Yeah but what’s Jam 2016?! So in the words of the founders Mathilde Leo and Sebastian Powell , We often asked ourselves how other companies go about designing and building great products. This product manager is well read!

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 20, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. . This article explores simple and low-cost ways to use surveys to gain innovation insights: [link]. The six steps are: (1) Let product management take the lead. (2)

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. Leveraging marketing, customer service, and customer communities to build better products. As you might expect, they want to be close to the customer and market trends.

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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. Retail & Shopping.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 22, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. How wireframes can help product managers communicate with product teams. Wireframe drawings capture the key parts of a product story and functionality.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 10, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. . Yep, product management is hip and the world knows it! Product managers – learn how to create high performing cross-functional teams and avoid dysfunction!

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 24, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. . Which of the 3 types of product mangers are you? (1) 1) Builders – the classic product manager. (2) 3) Innovators – product/market fit creators.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 8, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. . Product manager as mini-CEO or coach? A lot of people get involved with product management because they want more influence over product and the organization.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. Use “why does it have to be that way” questions to improve products and services. Product pricing strategies using segmentation. Go from product manager to Product Master and….

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. Product management teams need to create something unique, not perfect. This article shares three tasks product management teams need to do. #3

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. Just for fun – Conan, the product manager, introduces the Apple “AirBag” – innovation no one needs. If you have to make a significant product update, read this… [link].

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. Product managers collaborate and build teams by being truth seekers. Some product managers are defensive when their ideas are challenged. Read how at [link].

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 1, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. . How “Oceans 11” heist team building applies to creating great product teams. The 4 key customer experience competencies B2B product managers should master. (1)

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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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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. What you need to do, know, and avoid in your first 30, 60, and 90 days as a product manager. Products are benefit delivery vehicles – how to build them.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 17, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. . Top 45 product management presentations. Check out this list of slide presentations https://userbrain.net/blog/product-management-slideshare-presentations.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

From The Best Product Person of 2016, Chris Butler, …. Get great at doing research and customer development. If you aren’t used to talk with people and doing research for your product you are more likely to just be a project manager. Take a moment and congratulate The Best Product Person of 2016: Chris Butler.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. Monetization + customer problem + jobs-to-be-done = product management. Considerations for embedding analytics into your product.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 29, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. Use Google’s “design sprints” in your product management work. Need to validate product-market fit assumptions and prototypes in just a few days?

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 27, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. . Video – The art of product management. How product managers can influence & build trust with internal stakeholders. Watch the video at [link].

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DISQO

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Product management is a relatively new discipline, and its practitioners continue to refine it every year. In 2016, we welcomed many new faces who contributed best practices and thought leadership to the industry. For the second straight year, we compiled the top 40 influencers in our Product Management Year in Review.

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DISQO

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Product management is a relatively new discipline, and its practitioners continue to refine it every year. In 2016, we welcomed many new faces who contributed best practices and thought leadership to the industry. For the second straight year, we compiled the top 40 influencers in our Product Management Year in Review.

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