Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Tweet This And while you technically don’t need permission to get started, at some point, you will need buy-in and support from your leadership. He divides his time between working within a specific product team that needs extra support and taking on more of an umbrella function alongside the UX Director outside of the product teams.

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In Part 3 of our Product Leadership Forum recap, you can see an overview of the remaining insights from this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum (if you missed them, you can take a look back at Part 1 and Part 2). Product teams often attract people who are used to being the smartest people in the room.

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Gainsight

JUNE 11, 2019

Pulse 2019 is over, but I’m still basking in the afterglow. 20/20 Vision for the Next Decade of Customer Success. Go to the Pulse 2019 Recap Page. Product Experience Takes Center Stage. This was the first year we’ve invited Product Managers to Pulse, and to some extent, we weren’t sure what to expect.

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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2019

And we cannot help but thank the contributions of one man for the most awaited movie of 2019, Avengers Endgame, and saving the world?—?Colonel Under his leadership, the vision of collective strength of all super heroes to save earth and humanity is brought to life. A happy team is a productive team! What do I mean?

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 6, 2019

In order to prepare for a talk I delivered at Mind the Product’s 2019 Leadership Forum in San Francisco I’ve spent the last couple of weeks applying the lens of psychological safety to the things I’ve experienced and witnessed in my product career. Would he have been promoted? Because the truth is… we don’t know!

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. The results showed that they wanted better (and more frequent) feedback on how to further develop their product management skills.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 7, 2019

At this year’s MTP Engage conference in Hamburg I had the pleasure to introduce my personal product management idol Marty Cagan to our audience. Many companies still operate a top-down approach with product managers and their teams usually executing orders from the top. And that’s what Marty left us with.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Get ready to dive into insightful discussions, practical strategies, and real-world examples that will empower you to create and manage products that meet user needs and leave them truly satisfied. Product Drive is Userpilot’s FREE online event where experts from top companies come to share growth and marketing insights.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

A strong product strategy is often neglected because of the absence of any strategic thinking in product teams. What can product managers do to make sure they give their product strategy the attention it warrants? But today many, if not most, product teams fail this very first test. Your Product Vision.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 26, 2019

In this entertaining and insightful talk from Mind the Product Singapore 2019, Sherif Mansour, Distinguished Product Manager at Atlassian, shares some common misconceptions about the product management craft, how we need to think differently about those issues, and what we should be doing instead.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 22, 2019

Creating a product vision of the future that’s awesome for everyone. Product roadmaps are frequently used badly, almost as handcuffs for product managers. At the time, he had recently co-authored the book, Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty. Innovation Quote.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Here, taking advice from a number of product pros, we look at a selection of ways to build product teams and empower them to achieve success. Laurel suggested that product managers can help to cultivate psychological safety by first talking about it openly. Choose a Diverse Group of People. Create Conditions for Success.

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Bain Public

JULY 13, 2020

Since meeting at Techstars Montréal AI Accelerator in 2019, we’ve worked with Blaise Transit to provide them with the product leadership consulting, coaching, advice and support they need to bring their entire technical roadmap to the next level. Growth and Innovation During the COVID-19 Crisis.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 31, 2020

It is a genuinely worthy lesson about willingness to learn, the ability to adapt successfully, the power of motivating team leadership, the benefits of making data-driven decisions from product usage insights, and the results produced from commitment. None of her employment at that time was about product management.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

Most of those books are not targeted at designers , but at product owners and project managers. Books that give product managers a light about design or that give designers a light about business. Many books “about design” actually target product owners, project managers, or CEO’s.

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Mixpanel

APRIL 29, 2021

We sat down with Gokul, now on the executive team at DoorDash, for a frank discussion on building remarkable products, including: . The traits that the most successful product teams share. The role of the product manager as an “editor”. As product builders, we need data on what customers do versus what they say they do.

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Radical Product

MAY 5, 2021

According to a 2019 study by Betterup , high belonging was linked to a 56% increase in job performance, while being excluded caused individuals to give less effort to the team. Start with a clear vision for a culture that works for all Diversity is not a vision. You need a clear vision for the culture you want.

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Alchemer Mobile

JANUARY 28, 2020

Executive teams recognize the critical role product and road mapping can play in the overall customer experience. Therefore, product managers and product leaders have seen a large increase in responsibility and potential company-wide impact. The role of product manager is changing. What KPIs are core to CX?

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

Why disregarding product design books is a mistake. Books that give product managers a light about design or that give designers a light about business. The 4 most recent product design books you should be reading right now and why. ? Published in 2019, Ruined by Design is not a book about hard skills.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In Part 2 of our Product Leadership Forum recap, we take a look at yet more insights shared by a group of senior product leaders during #mtpcon 2019 (if you missed Part 1, take a look here). No Vision = no Intentional Culture. Your vision and its supporting culture shouldn’t be generic.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 9, 2019

Most product managers get asked to do more than they could possibly do. But as we start 2019, I’m going to take my best stab at what I plan to say yes to this year and what I plan to say no to. For example, I’ve already identified two conferences for 2019 and will be saying no to the rest. I’m sure you can relate.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Think about the connections between the people who need knowledge to do their jobs, let’s say a customer service agent, and the experts who have the answers, who could be their manager, product managers, product marketers, security teams, engineers, et cetera. That’s problem one. Rick : Yes, absolutely.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

In short, the CPO oversees all aspects of a product’s vision, design, and development. They are essential in creating a robust and helpful product that fills a void in the market while addressing customer feedback. However, their (and all product team members’) superpowers and role in SaaS growth is invaluable!

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BrainMates

OCTOBER 10, 2019

by Nick Coster, updated October, 2019. In the early days of a business, when it has very few employees, this is more of a constraint than a choice, but as the scope of each activity is generally small it can be manageable. OR, a project manager is expected to pick up Product Management activities.

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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. By 2019, it had grown to nearly 10,000. The Two-Pizza Rule: Team Structure and Product Management at Amazon. The role of Amazon product managers.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 24, 2020

Claire Lew is the CEO of Know Your Team – a company that helps companies like Airbnb and Kickstarter and also runs a online leadership community, The Watercooler, with 1,000+ leaders and thousands of conversations on hiring, firing, business growth and more. Claire’s mission in life is to help people become happier at work.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2019

The vision? And then start small and take the big idea, take that bigger vision, this longer term plan or dream and then start small, break it down into the smallest, smallest pieces. It’s the predictability of the leadership team, it’s the predictability of you, of me. What’s that big dream? What’s the concept design for this?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 17, 2019

I now lead Product UX and Design on the Brilliant Control and Mobile Apps, Product Management, and Product Analytics at Brilliant. If I think about the five years that I’ve been in Product, I’ve personally seen or heard of hundreds of Product Managers?—?both After all, it is your home?—?everything

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StubHub

AUGUST 8, 2019

By Adam Ware, Senior HR Business Partner StubHub’s 2019 summer interns I can say with full confidence that StubHub has the best summer interns in the industry. A majority of our interns work on teams within Product & Technology. and have the ability to define the direction of an entire product.

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Bain Public

AUGUST 13, 2019

The following article shows a break-down explaining this process and how product managers can strategically take the right decisions. The Role of the Product Manager The role of a product manager is becoming more and more strategic. Which competitors threaten your business?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2020

the State of Practice in 2019 ’ edition found that new converts to Scrum, for example, will recruit themselves mostly from the late majority and laggards. Copyright notice : InfoQ, 2019. For managers, it means moving: From WIIFM (what-is-in-for-me syndrome) to team playing?—?the Its recent ‘ Culture & Methods?—?the

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Roman Pichler

MAY 1, 2019

Last but not least, consider the environmental impact of your product. Even though your product may be digital, it still consumes energy to be developed and hosted. In a talk at QCon London 2019 , Jason Box and Paul Johnston shared the following estimates: IoT products will cause 3.5%

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Roman Pichler

MAY 1, 2019

Last but not least, consider the environmental impact of your product. Even though your product may be digital, it still consumes energy to be developed and hosted. In a talk at QCon London 2019 , Jason Box and Paul Johnston shared the following estimates: IoT products will cause 3.5%

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ProductPlan

MAY 7, 2019

How confident is the leadership team that they can identify a single metric truly representative of future success? The first potential negative side effect of a lone measurable target is tunnel vision. Common vision, differentiated objectives. But conflating a company’s vision statement with a metric is seldom a good move.

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ProductPlan

JULY 10, 2020

Thinking back, it’s surprising that it was only about five years ago that I had an important epiphany that would alter the trajectory of our company’s product strategy and my career. The endless stream of things a product team could do is why it’s vital for them to constantly develop their skill in the art of saying no.

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