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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Mind the Product

MAY 5, 2020

Ahead of the ninth Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) on May 21st and, at a time where digital products are very much in the spotlight, we’re digging deep into accessibility to better understand how we, as product managers, can improve our digital products. Introduction. What should you tackle first?

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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 4, 2024

This vision led to the creation of WhatsApp , which quickly gained popularity for its ease of use and ad-free environment. On February 24, 2009, Koum completed the development of the iOS application and established “WhatsApp Inc.” The company saw its revenue go from ~$443 million in 2018 to ~$1.3 in California. billion in 2023.

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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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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2018

The context switching between coding and project+team management can be demanding, and finding individuals who can traverse these two plains is difficult. Having product vision paired with development expertise is a rare combo, and product managers should make it their job to work as closely as possible with these individuals.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. We need more product people, not product managers. The job announcements for product managers are trending towards the unreasonable and absurd.

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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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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 7, 2018

Confusion Matrix of Human/ AI Interaction For all of you out there that have wondered why it’s difficult to implement AI, Chris makes it very clear that it’s not implementation that holds most product teams back. Purpose-Driven Product Development Jesse E. Director of Product @ MasterCard. Owens II ?—?Director

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The Product Coalition

MAY 31, 2018

As someone who has experienced the highs and lows that accompany life as a Product Manager, I am keenly aware of the challenges this important role plays in the technology industry [and so many others]. They are responsible for the technical implementation, and, thus, ‘own’ the product?—?for whether large or small?—?may

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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. Clear’s advice proves useful for product managers to implement his philosophy into their own atomic roadmapping habits.

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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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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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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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Product Management University

APRIL 12, 2018

GREENVILLE, SC – April 12, 2018 — Proficientz announced today its 2018 Product Management University training curriculum, a series of training courses that teach best practices in product management, product marketing and sales enablement for B2B and B2B2C organizations. Incentive Pricing.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

In 2018, Balsamiq celebrated its 10th Birthday – an impressive achievement for any SaaS company. In this talk from BoS USA 2018 he shared another honest update about his worries in Balsamiq’s milestone 10th year. But if I’m the only manager, who’s flying the plane? Peldi Guilizzoni, Founder/CEO, Balsamiq.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In 2014, data predicted that less than 0.01% of mobile apps would be considered a financial success by 2018. For those working with an outside development agency–especially for the first time– it begins with finding the right partner. The actual development of an app is no longer the most important stage of creating one.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 2, 2019

Creating a successful product requires a clear vision. Equally important, it requires confidence that the vision is aligned with the needs of the customers the company exists to serve. Organizations must develop a deep understanding of their customers to gain this level of confidence. A Tale of two Brands.

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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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Mind the Product

AUGUST 1, 2019

Yet, industry data shows quite the opposite – a whopping 80% of product features are rarely or never used. Of course, product teams need to develop and ship new features. Product Teams see Themselves as Task-Oriented Instead of Visionary. Otherwise, product teams are wasting resources and frustrating customers.

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Mind the Product

MAY 13, 2019

I’m a product manager at Monzo. We recently reached 1,800,000 current account customers – after launching in January 2018 – and are focusing on growing our user base and revenue. Firstly we e xplain the “why” by defining an inspiring vision with the team, and having a clear goal. Explain the why.

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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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Agile Velocity

JUNE 6, 2018

Organizations are already fully staffed to their current way of developing software, and it stands to reason that most of the folks who will be working in the new paradigm will be transitioning from an old role to a new one. The “Development Team” groups really keyed in on the need to become more self-directed. Negotiating trades.

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Amplitude

MAY 15, 2018

Like almost all product managers, Sam Goertler did not study product management in school. Her path turned from product marketing to product management. We’re thrilled that Sam is a keynote speaker at ROADMAP | NYC Product Summit on May 31, 2018. How did you get to where you are today?

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

By unpacking Amazon’s product strategy, we endeavored to see whether or not the company stayed true to its core vision and mission when put to the ultimate test. About half of Amazon’s operating income in 2018 came from AWS, which has more than 1,000,000 active users. billion and nearly $233 billion in 2018. Wikipedia ).

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 15, 2021

In the 2021 State of Product Management Report , our annual collection of data designed to bring to life the trends driving product management, we found gender diversity, or lack thereof, a prime opportunity for product management teams to create more intentional inclusivity. . 7% more for 0-2 years.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Mind the Product is above all a community of product managers who strive to push our craft of product management forward by sharing our insights, lessons learned, and pitfalls to avoid. Prioritisation is a necessary evil of every product development lifecycle. Enter the Matrix – Lean Prioritisation.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Develop empathy – learn what’s it’s like to walk in your customers’ shoes so that you can build the products they really need and want. Laurel suggested that product managers can help to cultivate psychological safety by first talking about it openly.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Because there is still the very simple principle that most people actually don’t run one flavor of any type of software development process. So there’s teams who are technical teams so those people might be the product manager, program manager, the developers are working on it, the designers, the QA.

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Bain Public

MAY 21, 2018

Tomorrow’s Product Managers Will Need Solid Data, Model, and Problem Understanding. When people talk about Product Management of the future, the first theme that comes to mind is artificial intelligence (AI). Product Managers can start implementing AI by adopting a bottom-up approach. Absolutely!

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 29, 2018

And so, uh, it’s 2018, uh, whether it’s preferred or not, many of us are starting to think about how can we be good at remote teams because of the advantages that affords because of access to talent because of all the nice things, productivity benefits and things like that. How do you do that remotely?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

Prototypes and Minimum Viable Products (MVP) are a critical part of product development. Sure, you could dive right in, spend months developing an expensive product with all the bells and whistles. A prototype is also a lightweight early-version of your product. As of 2018, they have sold 1.5

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The Product Leadership Forum is a chance for senior product professionals to discuss the challenges they face in a safe environment. The product manager role is evolving at pace and this means that there are a range of conversations that are hard to have in public. From Individual Contributor to Product Leader.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Some of the most common are: Blockchain Developer Cybersecurity Analysts Financial Analysts Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Deep Learning Scientists Product Manager Quantitative Analysts & Data Scientist Risk & Compliance Managers In many ways, these two companies are very similar.

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Bain Public

JULY 13, 2020

Founded in 2018 with a mission to make public buses the most convenient transportation solution, Blaise Transit uses an AI-based software platform enabling transit agencies to run on-demand bus services using existing vehicle fleets and bus stops. This also included streamlining operations and optimizing the turn-by-turn navigation.

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