The Review by First Round

MARCH 18, 2021

After starting out in the Marine Corps, Russ made his way into the world of startups, joining Google in 2005 where he led teams for 7 years and was recognized as one of the company’s best managers. In today’s conversation, we dig into how startups can drive employee engagement and develop high-quality managers.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 3, 2023

“I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.” — Laurie Helgoe When I first started working as a Product Manager, the number of meetings on my calendar jumped from a few to a few hundred. It might seem like introverts aren’t suited for the life of product managers, but that’s not true.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

This is a free sample story from my book The Making of Product Managers. Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. Within two years, Negar was promoted to Marketing Manager. After graduating in 2013, she moved to London, U.K.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

In a time of unprecedented upheaval, the role of the traditional mobile product manager has evolved to cover an organisations entire digital strategy across multiple devices. The aforementioned challenges feed into this point and allow users to interact more seamlessly and successfully with your digital product.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

What does it mean for us as product managers? According to Crunchbase, in 2018 there were 5,000 startups relying on machine learning for their main and ancillary applications, products, and services. What does it mean for us as product managers? Lesson 1: Understand the Problem You’re Trying to Solve with ML.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 11, 2024

Before moving into venture capital, he played a crucial role as VP of Product and Design at Dropbox, guiding the company until its IPO in 2018. Prior to Dropbox, Todd led product management for Twitter’s Content and Discovery teams after selling his startup, Cover, to Twitter in 2014. Likely a pre-seed or seed-stage company.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 28, 2023

Sometimes good ideas just don’t make it to market Image Credit: Vaping360 As product managers, the one thing that we’d all like to do is to be in charge of a very popular product. This scrutiny can make the life a product manager much more difficult if not downright impossible. and Canada.

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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 19, 2018

I have worked in 14 startups, founded four, and have held executive positions for better than two-thirds of my career. In all of these roles I was a product manager or led product management. Today, I’m very proud to be the executive director of Carnegie Mellon University’s new Master’s in Product Management (MSPM) program.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 8, 2020

As an entrepreneur, CEO, or project manager, you might be interested in outsourcing software development to another country and getting still high-quality work done for fewer costs. Likely, we understand everything that may become your subject of concern when making a decision to hire an offshore software development company.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 3, 2020

We launched in 2013 and redesigned the app in early 2018. billion visually impaired or blind people (October 2018). There have been some positive moves in recent times, in part driven by legal requirements, and big tech companies now have accessibility officers and accessibility teams. The Approach. It was a big decision for us.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 11, 2019

Only Uber’s market value as of May 2018 increased to the impressive $72 billion. Back in 2018 automotive software developers made some further inroads in the industry, trough connected car servicer or usage-based insurance, for instance. As we mentioned AI is going to be the key element in managing the vast amounts of data.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

of US Product Managers being female in 2021, according to a metastudy of 30 million profiles conducted by Zippia : Source: [link]. Melissa Perri – Speaker, consultant, and teacher in Product Management. Melissa Perri is one of the most recognizable names in Product Management. CEO of Product Labs.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

James Clear’s 2018 book Atomic Habits explains that our atomic habits are created as a coping mechanism. As we get more comfortable, we keep doing it to get the same positive outcome. Clear’s advice proves useful for product managers to implement his philosophy into their own atomic roadmapping habits.

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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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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

We will examine concrete use cases as well as ethical considerations to ensure a positive future. Quantum Prediction of Consumer Reactions A car manufacturer wants to develop a new concept for a personalized autonomous vehicle. Solid governance, careful oversight, and intentional design will help ensure positive outcomes.

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Melissa Perri

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In late March of 2018, Shelley Perry of Insight Venture Partners reached out to me about an opportunity. When she asked me what I was passionate about, I said developing great product leaders. Tommi has previously held product leadership positions at Splice and Shutterstock. Little did I know that would soon become a reality.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Here, to help you, are five product management tricks and tools for every product leader. Develop new opportunities. Value Proposition. Prioritisation Quadrant.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MAY 23, 2022

Cigarette product managers see change coming and are trying to prepare Image Credit: Lacey Krusmark. Just imagine if you were a cigarette product manager. What is a product manager to do? So let’s take a look at what it means to be a product manager at the biggest U.S. Embracing Change In Cigarettes.

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bpma ProductHub

DECEMBER 28, 2017

As we gear up for 2018, here’s a look back at the past year with Boston Women in Product! Wistia, and of course, our parent organization the Boston Product Management Association. – and positioned our organizing crew for great success in the future. Boston Women in Product 2017 Year in Review: By Emera Trujillo.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

The Mind the Product training curriculum is written in collaboration with dozens of expert product managers from countries and companies around the world. In January 2018, we moved forward to create our third full-day workshop on the much-anticipated topic of Metrics and Analytics. Slice up the Product Into Testable Chunks.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 15, 2020

And does focusing on a product-led growth strategy make you a Growth Product Manager? Product-led growth strategy is a methodology that positions the product as the primary driver of growth for the company. For example Zoom, which was created in 2011, has managed to grow to 10 million users (200 million in 2020…and we all know why!)

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Product Management University

AUGUST 23, 2018

The B2B Product Manager Magazine August 2018 is now available. In This Issue: Blog: High-Octane Product Management. Agile Development: What’s Changed and What Hasn’t? In the Trenches FAQs: For Inquiring Product Management Minds. Product Management Playbook. View the August issue.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 26, 2018

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. Questions product managers should expect when interviewing for a job. User stories have become the accepted form of communicating product feature requests to development/engineering.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

According to The Product Management Body of Knowledge, Product Management is: “A discipline that provides managerial focus to products that in turn will generate measurable business benefits.”. Product Managers are often described as “the CEO of the product”. Wondering about moving into a new career in Product Management? ).

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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. Scrum came about even earlier than the agile manifesto almost a whole decade to be exact (although you can traces origins earlier back to 1986 with the article The New New Product Development Game ).

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Yet it preoccupies me as I commute to work, eat my lunch, or sit in the office… what if I am the only person who struggles with product management? Then you will be in a better position to put forward a meaningful response and head towards agreement. Not just in politics or mainstream media, but also in product management.

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BrainMates

AUGUST 7, 2018

Product Management has been around for as long as there have been companies selling products, but Product Management is on the rise. So why are Product Managers in short supply now? This is the domain of professional Product Management.”. Shortage of Product Managers.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

I went on to do management consultancy at ZS associates. Looked to new models for private jet aviation, managed a band, went and worked in film because I love film so much and found it intensely dull working for a blue chip company. And then I think I was in a position where again wondering what to do next. So more fail.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2019

If 2018 was the year of the Product Manager, then it looks like 2019 will be the year that the Customer Success Manager steals the limelight. No matter what your role involves, listening is an extremely important skill, and one you should think about developing if you haven’t already. In fact, their job relies on it.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 29, 2019

Then, the invention of technology and modern work required the development of management processes. The triumph of mass products like the car, the television or even the personal computer had a lot to do with the application of organizational doctrines like Project Management. Let’s fully understand how much they differ.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 23, 2018

Julia Whitney’s opening keynote told us that regardless of our level in an organization chart, the nature of our jobs means that product managers have to be leaders. Catch Julia’s stakeholder management workshop in London in October!). The key to this empowerment is aligning the team around customer-centric product development.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 8, 2018

Michael will be joining us and 500+ product management, UX design and engagement executives at this years Open Mobile Summit (November 27–28 SF) to discuss ways in which to interact with and engage the connected consumers across all devices. that has been scientifically proven effective to help people develop healthy habits.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

In 2018, McKinsey published their Business Value of Design report summarizing how organizations with higher Design Index scores saw a correlation with higher revenue growth and, for the top quartile, higher returns to shareholders. About 90% of companies in their 2018 research aren’t fully realizing the full potential of their design teams.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 30, 2020

As the practice of product management develops across AsiaPac, two experts in recruitment consider some commonly asked questions and discuss the future of hiring as the Coronavirus (COVID-19) impacts working life as we know it. Product managers with less experience can greatly benefit from mentoring (Photo: Pexels).

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

So we’re going to revisit the hottest topics of late 2018 and predict the UI design trends of 2019. What has happened in 2018 so far? So without further ado, these UI trends of 2018 will likely hang on in 2019 as well: UI Trends 2019 #1: Typography and storytelling. Now, the year is coming to an end AGAIN! Can you think back?

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. This blog is a transcript of part of that meetup, focusing on why we need Product Management. Rich Mironov presenting on why we need Product Management. I know that we’re growing it up.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Our framework and training programs give you a simple recipe for developing meaningful business content to drive the sales process in the proper context of the people you’re interacting with at all levels of the customer organization. Now is a great time to plan your sales development programs for 2018.

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