The Product Guy

APRIL 26, 2018

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2017, Melissa Perri. > What are some items that great product managers do every day? To me, the difference between a good Product Manager and a great Product Manager is a shift from an output to an outcome mindset. More to Come.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 15, 2017

When Ben Horowitz wrote his groundbreaking memo good product manager, bad product manager nearly 20 years ago he described a product manager as the CEO of the product. A product manager ultimately has a CEO behind them somewhere, and can always pass the buck. Not just Semantics.

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

What exactly is the product manager role? And the role of a product manager can vary drastically depending on the type of product manager. That’s why we’ve put together a comprehensive post on everything you need to know about the product manager role, including: Responsibilities of a product manager.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 11, 2017

Mind the Product London 2017 on September 8 will be better than ever, with more workshops, more networking, and more fun than ever. But most importantly #mtpcon will, as usual, bring you the best minds in product from around the world for a day full of thought-provoking insight, inspiration, and learning.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2020

Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash Enterprise Product Managers are a bit different compared to the others. One particular issue that I often see is, whether to scale up a product quickly or not. Product Manager usually have pretty limited knowledge about engineering stuffs.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 14, 2016

We need to switch from thinking about Product Strategy as something that is dictated from top to bottom, and instead something that is uncovered as we learn what will help us achieve our objectives. Product Strategy emerges from experimentation towards a goal. Initiatives around features, products, and platforms are proven this way.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Circle In is an employee benefits platform that inspires parents, caregivers, HR professionals, and managers to take real action. Since its start in 2017, Circle In has been growing quickly, with over 60 companies now using their platform to support parents in the workplace. An interview with Kate Pollard, Co-Founder of Circle In.

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ProductBoard

DECEMBER 20, 2017

At productboard we aim to bake best practices of product management straight into the interface, so you can improve the way you manage your products right out of the box. In the meantime, we’ll continue publishing thoughts and ideas we’ve learned from great product managers here. Read more… ??

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Guest Post by: Alex Hsu (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Addi Regev]. A research conducted by Alpha UX found that 25% of Product Manager surveyed wished for a clearer product roadmap and strategy. Without a clear roadmap and strategy, a Product Manager won’t be able to make impactful decisions.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

One signal I’ve been giving much thought too of late is the collision of two roles, Product Management and Product Ownership. A topic of hot debate in the agile and product circles but with very few answers. Credit: DataKitchen Since its inception, Scrum and the Product Owner role has become widely adopted.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

There is probably one part of the product management job we can all agree is the hardest – people. We all come to product management from different backgrounds, but one thing that has long been true and is only just starting to change, is that when we start this job our training generally consists of Googling.

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Ken Norton

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

In an essay entitled Ants & Aliens, I encouraged product managers to develop a thirty-year plan. It’s so far out it forces us to detach our vision from practicality. Mother of all markets or a pipe dream driven by greed? -. Although it can seem preposterous, that time horizon can be liberating.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 22, 2019

Anyone who stood in Manchester’s Albert Square on the afternoon of 23 May 2017 for the public vigil after the Manchester Arena bomb attack will remember hearing poet Tony Walsh read his poem “This is the place”. As product managers we are uniquely placed to embrace these other ways of thinking.

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Mind the Product

JULY 28, 2017

Like most of us, when Melissa Perri started as a product manager she started with giant requirements documents, dutifully recording every little detail from stakeholders and turning them into shiny docs for the developers. It starts the misconception that develop products is a linear process. It’s a value exchange.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 4, 2022

How product managers can get customer insights from a community to create a competitive advantage. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [3:15] We’re pushing the boundaries of computer vision and machine learning. The leading brand cost about $150. 3:15] How does Wyze compete?

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Mind the Product

JULY 21, 2017

Nate Walkingshaw is the Chief Experience Officer for Pluralsight, where he is responsible for Product, User Experience, Engineering, and Content, and the co-author of Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams. Vision and Strategy. Outputs and Outcomes.

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BrainMates

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

If you’re energised by complex problems of product, AI, machine learning, privacy and data, then the next decade of product management is going to be the most interesting yet. I’ve left Pausefest 2019 inspired about the next wave of products and how we Product people can keep our minds open and our tool-belts relevant.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

But what about in product management? Should there be a code of ethics for Product Managers? Being a Product Manager isn’t like being a therapist, doctor, or lawyer. So maybe now is the perfect time to collectively create a Product Management Moral Code. Why should companies care about ethics?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Calm was featured as the #1 meditation app in the world and Apple’s app of the year in 2017. Michael Acton Smith strives visions Calm to become a lifestyle brand and “Nike of the mind” by focusing on the biggest lifestyle challenges: sleep and stress. How does the app motivate me to become a regular user from a new user?

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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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Ken Norton

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

In an essay entitled Ants & Aliens, I encouraged product managers to develop a thirty-year plan. It’s so far out it forces us to detach our vision from practicality. Mother of all markets or a pipe dream driven by greed? -. Although it can seem preposterous, that time horizon can be liberating.

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Ken Norton

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

In an essay entitled Ants & Aliens, I encouraged product managers to develop a thirty-year plan. It’s so far out it forces us to detach our vision from practicality. Mother of all markets or a pipe dream driven by greed? -. Although it can seem preposterous, that time horizon can be liberating.

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NextBigWhat

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The original vision: “With Poly, our mission is to organize the world’s 3D information and make it universally accessible and useful” – @claybavor. When it launched in 2017, Poly was a straightforward service – get your 3D models ready for VR & AR. “What if Google builds your idea?”

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ProductBoard

MAY 10, 2017

Reading the Sirius Decisions 2017 Product Management Tools and Technology Study this morning , I was struck by their finding that we are on the cusp of a major shift in how product leaders manage their products. Here at productboard , we’ve witnessed the shift ourselves.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 10, 2017

By Garima Painuly- One of the constant challenges a product manager faces is creating a focused product roadmap that is aligned with expectations of all stakeholders, and defending that roadmap against distractions. Boston Women in Product (BWP) hosted “Product Roadmaps: A Roundtable Discussion” on March 28th, 2017.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

Initially JustGiving supported only registered charities on its website, but the founders’ vision was to support all good causes. In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 17, 2016

In the interview we discuss: The purpose of a product roadmap, Various ways roadmaps look, How roadmaps help product teams and organizations, and. The best practices for constructing product roadmaps. Practices and Ideas for Product Managers and Innovators. Begin thinking first about the product vision.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2019

We catch hypermetricemia when we focus on popular metrics to determine success, without giving sufficient thought to whether metrics indicate progress towards the vision. Profit should help sustain your vision, not lead it. You need to be able to see the end state in your vision so that you can create that world.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2020

I’d like to share a few product management insights from Synch, a company I co-founded in 2017, to help entrepreneurs who are launching new marketplaces. Even though the article is intended for entrepreneurs, it could also provide fundamental insights to product managers who are tasked to improve metrics in a marketplace.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 12, 2023

We’ve run dozens of customer interviews, analyzed our competitors, tracked our customer lifecycle, and aligned with the company vision: now we’re finally ready to write copy. Product people like to quote Henry Ford saying “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” Plaid’s homepage today.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 23, 2017

Mind the Product London 2017 on September 8 will be better than ever, with more workshops, more networking, and more fun than ever. But most importantly #mtpcon will, as usual, bring you the best minds in product from around the world for a day full of thought-provoking insight, inspiration, and learning. Get those tickets now!

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Source : Scrum Guide 2017. As Scrum Masters, we better make sure to support our Product Owners the best we can to serve our Scrum Team to become successful. As Scrum Masters, we better make sure to support our Product Owners the best we can to serve our Scrum Team to become successful. What suitable questions are I missing?

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 4, 2018

Create your vision statement and communicate that in every touchpoint. According to Enso’s 2017 Brand World Value Index research report, Toms Shoes ranks higher than Nike among millennials, which is significantly different from other generations. If you have a vision statement, communicate it actively.

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NextBigWhat

JULY 23, 2021

Powerful search algorithms provide users with unique experiences to capture as much of their attention as possible 3) Making their product not a one size fits all led to increasing engagement rates. The average number of daily minutes spent by US adults has grown 58% since 2017. Personalization 2. Original content 3.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2017

It’s time to change all that by aligning teams for direct connection to a shared mission/vision and the strategy it serves. We built “Scrumfall” We still get a list of requirements and have project managers and scrum masters drive shipping outputs in a process we call “sprints,” mostly in two-week intervals.

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Izenda

JANUARY 18, 2019

Ranked among the top four by the 2017 Consumer Report, LastPass is a comprehensive password manager that saves users’ passwords and logins on behalf of the user on password-protected websites, providing secure access virtually anywhere. The all-in-one HR management service expands on the standard benefits administration capabilities.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 11, 2017

In turn, the product management role has expanded. The product manager of today is wearing many hats, using a broad knowledge base to define the problem-solution-fit, make trade-off decisions, bringing together cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment between diverse functions, while still commanding the respect of engineering.

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