Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

When No-one Agrees With Your Roadmap. When I arrived at Workbar, a growing co-working space headquartered in Boston, I had to wrap my arms around what the product was, how they did releases, and who decided what was going to be in the next sprint. What do you need as a product person looking to get a roadmap updated or in place?

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 4, 2018

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. A case study in the wrong product metrics and advice for product managers. One place to find the software tools product managers are using. That is failing fast.

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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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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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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 30, 2018

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. How to succeed when taking over an unfinished product. New Podcast Episode for Product Managers & Innovators: How to make product roadmaps not dangerous – with Bruce McCarthy.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 29, 2021

The managers want rigid roadmaps. Because the managers want to “know” the teams will deliver it all. However, the managers create a roadmap similar to the image above. That roadmap has large features and long “deadlines.” The managers created a Gantt Chart as a picture, not a roadmap.

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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. She was also in charge of managing the marketing budget and aligning communication of the marketing efforts across the organization.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Especially product management content. That’s why we’ve published hundreds of blog posts and product management resources over the past few years. This year alone we’ve published more than 100 new articles on product management, and there’s plenty more on the way in 2019.

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Revulytics

JANUARY 4, 2019

As we get under way with the new year, let ’s take a look at five trends from 2018 that product management professionals should be aware of going into 2019. Shutterstock’s 2018 Creative Trends Report analyzed billions of searches for its visual assets to name the top marketing and design trends for 2018.

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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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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. What’s right for my product?

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Product Management University

AUGUST 23, 2018

The B2B Product Manager Magazine August 2018 is now available. This month we explore the value of a product marketing roadmap to sales. It’s not a staple in most B2B organizations but it’s just as important to your near-term revenue as a product roadmap is to your longer-term growth.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 22, 2019

As 2019 gets underway, I’ve been enjoying taking stock of what we saw at Mind the Product Training over 2018. As a product manager I’m always looking for signals and patterns, and evaluating what early trends could mean for my products, and now for product practice. Understanding Systems Thinking.

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 28, 2018

Happy 2018! It’s been a few months but I’m back with some big news for 2018, including a (long-overdue) site redesign that, among other things, should look much better on mobile devices. Sales Is Trying to Change My Product Roadmap! Sales Is Trying to Change My Product Roadmap! , Upcoming Events.

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 28, 2018

Happy 2018! It’s been a few months but I’m back with some big news for 2018, including a (long-overdue) site redesign that, among other things, should look much better on mobile devices. Sales Is Trying to Change My Product Roadmap! Sales Is Trying to Change My Product Roadmap! , Upcoming Events.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 11, 2019

Let customer feedback drive your product roadmap. The insights you gather should inform your product roadmap and rally your development team around a single point: the customer. When you monitor sentiment, you try to measure the tone, context, and feeling from customer actions. 3 tips for Finance app success.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

As product managers, the product roadmap is at the core of everything we do. The product roadmap is a key point of reference to keep product strategy, business objectives, and execution aligned. Today we look at a few simple tips for product roadmap presentations. Tell a story.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Three Tips for Planning Next Year’s Product Roadmap. September brings about the return of kids to school, cooling temperatures, and, for product managers, an opportunity to review plans for the next year’s roadmap. SiriusDecisions 2018 Product Management Planning Assumptions.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Three Tips for Planning Next Year’s Product Roadmap. September brings about the return of kids to school, cooling temperatures, and, for product managers, an opportunity to review plans for the next year’s roadmap. SiriusDecisions 2018 Product Management Planning Assumptions.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Three Tips for Planning Next Year’s Product Roadmap. September brings about the return of kids to school, cooling temperatures, and, for product managers, an opportunity to review plans for the next year’s roadmap. SiriusDecisions 2018 Product Management Planning Assumptions.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 25, 2019

It could be the driving force in making data-driven product roadmap decisions and having a comprehensive view of customer sentiment. Note on methodology: This report includes data from over 800 unique Android and iOS apps across all app categories, from January 2018 to December 2018.

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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. It’s important that the product manager leads this conversation, but that they don’t have all the answers. Explain the why.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 1, 2019

This gives product teams an implied incentive to add more, regardless of whether those features are being used and adopted. Product Teams see Themselves as Task-Oriented Instead of Visionary. Product managers have a lot to do, so it makes sense that a majority view their responsibilities as more tactical and less visionary.

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DISQO

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Every year, we survey 150+ digital product managers to benchmark and highlight their activities, preferences, and perceptions. Today, there are more conferences, resources, and tools than ever to support product management. There’s a disconnect between aspirational product management and actual 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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DISQO

JANUARY 10, 2019

Alpha, the on-demand user insights platform, today announced the findings from its annual Product Management Insights Report , highlighting the powerful role product managers can play in driving digital innovation — if they are supported and freed up to experiment.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 30, 2020

As a product manager, you’re probably on the other end, watching the app user analytics roll in, wondering why shopping cart abandonment has suddenly spiked. In 2019, apps sent 44,849,700 consumer surveys , which is a 29 percent increase from 2018. Here are some key ways to collect more mobile customer feedback within your app.

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Alchemer Mobile

JANUARY 15, 2019

Collecting and making sense of mobile customer feedback isn’t a walk in the park for product managers and marketers. There’s a big analytics challenge in pulling in the right sources of information and prepare the right views for leaders and product owners to consume. But it doesn’t have to be this hard.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

We’re kicking our first 2018 research project with a very hot topic for SaaS product folks?—?prioritization. Join in right here: SaaS Prioritization Survey 2018 We’d love to hear how top SaaS companies decide what gets onto their product roadmap; how do they balance bug fixes, product improvements and feature requests?

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Pragmatic Marketing

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Even though it was frustrating, I understood why the software vendor was trying to gather customer feedback—to help with 2018 planning. This was also a one-off email request, which meant that gathering product feedback was seen as an isolated event as they headed into 2018 product planning.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 2, 2019

In 2018, Fender stated that its growth had outpaced the musical instrument market overall. Both have been affected by the peaks and valleys of the industry they inhabit, but their approaches to innovation in their products has been the determining factor for each company’s status today. The Fender Play learning platform.

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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 16, 2018

And marketers with personas, and I with my roadmap. And so begins my 2019 holiday-themed blog post: ’Twas the Night Before Product Launch: A SiriusDecisions Holiday Poem. If you enjoy the beginning, you’ll hopefully enjoy reading the rest of this holiday tale about a product launch that almost went off the rails.

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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. It will even write your roadmap for you as we shall shortly see.

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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

AUGUST 27, 2018

What product managers should keep tabs on however is how rapidly this shift is taking place in the world of engineering talent, and how those changes might impact product’s role in an organization’s operations. Product managers, in general, should prepare for this change.

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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 16, 2018

And marketers with personas, and I with my roadmap. And so begins my 2019 holiday-themed blog post: ’Twas the Night Before Product Launch: A SiriusDecisions Holiday Poem. If you enjoy the beginning, you’ll hopefully enjoy reading the rest of this holiday tale about a product launch that almost went off the rails.

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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. How do I prioritize the roadmap? How about we stop until the end of 2018 I do no more quarterlies.

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