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. However, something that we often don’t consider is that if a product is popular, it’s going to get a lot of scrutiny.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2018

Mind the Product London 2018 on October 18-19 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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Mind the Product

JANUARY 19, 2018

Accessibility has long been a consideration for our industry, but 2018 will see a new wave of users who demand truly inclusive and ethical services. Many of these initiatives stem from the requirements of vulnerable groups, people with physical or mental disabilities, but everyone can benefit from these developments. Recommendations.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

What does it mean for us as product managers? We all use AI or machine learning (ML)-driven products almost every day, and the number of these products will be growing exponentially over the next couple of years. What does it mean for us as product managers?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2020

Lagos was faithful to me after my compulsory service year (NYSC) in 2018, I was hired by a new marketing agency as a Digital Marketing Executive. To cut the long story short, we decided to build an Ad-Tech product that will aggregate all the Ad channels, DSPs we use to make the entire process much easier for the team and the client-side.

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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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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 4, 2024

On February 24, 2009, Koum completed the development of the iOS application and established “WhatsApp Inc.” He quickly realized that the status app needed to be upgraded to an internet-based instant messaging tool leading to the development of WhatsApp Version 2.0. The company saw its revenue go from ~$443 million in 2018 to ~$1.3

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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. I have served as a CEO several times and have been involved or responsible for the launch of more than 100 products. In all of these roles I was a product manager or led product management.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Women are still underrepresented in the Product Profession – with only 33.3% 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. CEO of Product Labs.

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2019

When I started my first business 6 years ago (which has miraculously survived until this day) I didn’t even have a clue what “market or product positioning or product positioning strategies” were. Not because of the product itself – but how it was positioned on the market.

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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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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. You are responsible for a product that is both addictive and reviled. Young people seem to getting the message and are less likely to start to use your products.

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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. A mature product has a lot going on at once.

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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.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 24, 2021

Becoming a Product Leader?—?Introduction Introduction This is an article series on moving from individual contributor Product Manager to people manager and Product Leader. As an individual contributor Product Manager, you can spend years honing your craft and focusing on doing your job better.

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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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Good Product Manager

AUGUST 2, 2018

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy writing and doing other things related to product management, of course — here’s an update! August 8 in Denver: Product Strategy on a Page. October 2 in Cleveland: Product Management Leadership.

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Good Product Manager

AUGUST 2, 2018

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy writing and doing other things related to product management, of course — here’s an update! August 8 in Denver: Product Strategy on a Page. October 2 in Cleveland: Product Management Leadership.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Martin Eriksson opened #mtpcon London 2018 – the world’s largest conference for passionate product people – by telling us that despite all he’s achieved, he feels like a fraud. This Imposter Syndrome is a deep fear of being exposed as someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing, despite their position in the world.

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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. Coping mechanisms that we use for the product systems we operate in. As we get more comfortable, we keep doing it to get the same positive outcome. But while breaking a habit isn’t easy, sometimes it’s definitely worth it.

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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? But what exactly does this mean? Chances are, you’re familiar with Slack! (If

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2018

This meeting is an exercise in strategy, an opportunity to take stock of where your product is, where it fits within the wider market, and where it should go. It also stretches product managers to consider their impact on the wider business, by asking them to review their products margins and revenue generating impact.

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Melissa Perri

OCTOBER 4, 2018

I’m very excited to announce a new division of Produx Labs , specifically focused on growing future Chief Product Officers for growth stage companies. In late March of 2018, Shelley Perry of Insight Venture Partners reached out to me about an opportunity. To do that, we need the best product leaders who really get the field.

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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? Building the best products, working with the best people, utilising the best processes… I wish I was like YOU! I have a secret, not one I talk about often, if at all. Don’t you?!

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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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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”. Accepting new products or features.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

2019 was a great year to be in product management. LinkedIn listed Product Designer and Product Owner in the 10 most promising careers of 2019 , with 80 percent more job openings year-over-year and a career advancement score of 9 out of 10. Industry, The Product Conference, Cleveland, OH. Audience size: 1,500.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 11, 2019

But despite these hurdles, Finance apps are uniquely positioned for incredible engagement opportunities, and app publishers are capitalizing on the opportunities that arise. The insights you gather should inform your product roadmap and rally your development team around a single point: the customer. Be proactive.

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bpma ProductHub

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Boston Women in Product 2017 Year in Review: By Emera Trujillo. 2017 has been an exciting year for Boston Women in Product. 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.

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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. I didn’t have to.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

BoS2018. — (@MarkLittlewood) October 3, 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. Michael Trafton (@mikeytrafton) October 3, 2018. These are things that a typical product management process wouldn’t find.

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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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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 30, 2020

The program was developed as part of academic study into computer vision. 2018: In response to amateur popularity (and infamy), commercial development gives us apps like FakeApp, and social media platforms start to experiment with introducing Deepfake features. Alan Zucconi explains it in his 2018 Deepfake series.

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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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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. Could you tell us a bit about your role as Chief Product Officer at Weight Watchers?

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ProductBoard

JANUARY 29, 2019

Find the product management conferences you can’t afford to miss in 2019 with this complete list of every product management conference by region and date. Product management conferences and events are an excellent way to learn product management best practices and network with your fellow product managers.

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