Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Twas the Night Before Product Launch. Twas the night before product launch, when all through the team. Not a developer was coding, nor crafting a meme. And so begins my 2019 holiday-themed blog post: ’Twas the Night Before Product Launch: A SiriusDecisions Holiday Poem. Product Management Planning for 2019.

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Userpilot

MAY 29, 2024

Since 2003, he has co-founded and successfully sold two technology companies , Sunshine Business Development, LLC and AdNectar, Inc. By introducing the Hook Model , a four-step process employed by successful companies, Nir explains how these products subtly encourage customer behavior through repeated “hook cycles.”

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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Twas the Night Before Product Launch. Twas the night before product launch, when all through the team. Not a developer was coding, nor crafting a meme. And so begins my 2019 holiday-themed blog post: ’Twas the Night Before Product Launch: A SiriusDecisions Holiday Poem. Product Management Planning for 2019.

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Mind the Product

JULY 24, 2019

Whether you’re working on a consumer app in Singapore, a SaaS product in San Francisco, or a challenger bank in London, we all struggle with the same challenges – and we can learn how to deal with them by coming together as a community. Brandon Chu on the challenges of managing platforms. Clarity and Focus are Very Important.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. 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. Product manager motto?—?Dan

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 16, 2019

Happy 2019! and are ready to rock in 2019. While I did get some rest and relaxation, I’ve also been busy over the past few weeks with lots of exciting news and resources for product management leaders and product management teams. The Four Key Factors That Drive Product Management Excellence.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 9, 2019

Product managers today should feel grateful for the legion of product leaders willing to share their thoughts and ideas. If you have a product question or problem, chances are someone notable has written about it. Unplanned work is inevitable, even for the product manager who has everything in order.

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 16, 2019

Happy 2019! and are ready to rock in 2019. While I did get some rest and relaxation, I’ve also been busy over the past few weeks with lots of exciting news and resources for product management leaders and product management teams. The Four Key Factors That Drive Product Management Excellence.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. Teresa Torres, Author of Continuous Discovery Habits.

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Good Product Manager

APRIL 28, 2019

Three Tips for Getting More Value From Product Enhancements. Many product teams – especially those working on software-as-a-service offerings – spend most of their time and energy enhancing existing products. Minimum Viable Products: I Do Not Think They Mean What You Think They Mean. What’s Hot on Twitter.

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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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Good Product Manager

APRIL 28, 2019

Three Tips for Getting More Value From Product Enhancements. Many product teams – especially those working on software-as-a-service offerings – spend most of their time and energy enhancing existing products. Minimum Viable Products: I Do Not Think They Mean What You Think They Mean. What’s Hot on Twitter.

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BrainStation Product Management

OCTOBER 1, 2019

As the name suggests, a Product Manager (PM) is responsible for overseeing product development from conception to completion. They help figure out what products should get made, ensure that they do get made, and report back on how users are responding to those products. What is Product Management?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership. How do I build alignment?

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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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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 17, 2023

  The upside (for the sales team) is huge, and the cost (for product/engineering/support) is diffuse.    Closing this $480k/year license deal is highly visible to the exec team and Board.  Their market strategy team realizes they need one more field mapped.    Far away. 

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BrainStation Product Management

AUGUST 28, 2019

Product Managers are increasingly important to the product development process and have been called the “unsung heroes of the tech world,” the “ glue that binds user experience with technical and business requirements, ” and the new dream job for MBA students. Product management is the opposite.

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 9, 2020

And over the next 10 to 12 minutes, I’m going to talk about how you in the mobile teams around the world can really fix a big problem around what we think of is the feedback funnel. Like when we talk about leads, we’re ultimately talking about another person or a team on the other end.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

This blog was originally written in 2011 and updated in September 2019. Pretty much every Product job description these days says that ‘stakeholder management’ is a key priority. But what exactly is stakeholder management? What are the best tools to manage stakeholders? What is stakeholder management?

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In 2019, industry-leading Business Intelligence (BI) tools, Looker and Tableau, were acquired by Google and Salesforce for over $18 billion combined. However, they don’t meet everyone’s data needs—particularly product teams’ BI tools are great at visualizing any data that can be queried from a data warehouse.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 7, 2020

Source: Animated Times During my career, I have worked extensively as both a project manager and a product manager; within consulting and in multiple industries. I’ve worked in companies that have both roles, companies that only have project managers and companies that only have product managers.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

little about product design. It is not that those books are bad. In a time when there was very little acknowledgment about the importance and the role of design, when design was mainly done by developers and with very little user awareness. Summing it up: Sprint describes how to include design in your product development.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. Lots of people had bad answers and failed answers about how to do it.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It can drive enormous sustained growth (quickly) and often takes very little product work, yet is rarely prioritized or even discussed within product teams. Why are so few product teams testing their pricing? Their analysis builds on a compelling 2019 WTP field study and an in-depth comparison from 2011.

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Usersnap

JUNE 17, 2019

72% of customers blame poor customer service as the reason for having to explain their issue multiple times. Top 4 Struggles for Customer Service Teams. You have to understand the customer’s problem and forward it to the developers or marketing team. They have over 15 million users globally as of 2019.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Intercom, the product, continued to develop at a fast pace with hundreds of new features big and small – from an entirely reimagined Messenger to a thriving Intercom App Store to next generation chatbots, Custom Bots and Answer Bot. Lessons learned from scaling a team. ” On Product Management.

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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. Who the roadmap is for.

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

Product managers and product leaders should have an inherent sense of what’s valuable to customers. Product managers and product leaders should have an inherent sense of what’s valuable to customers. In November 2019, Adobe shipped the iPad version of Photoshop. They’re addictive. And stimulating.

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Mind the Product

JULY 23, 2019

As product management evolves, so do the challenges and questions facing product management leaders. At last week’s #mtpcon San Francisco Product Leadership Forum, senior product professionals got together to discuss the current hot topics of career paths, talent management, and psychological safety.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Businesses also win if, as a result of AI, teams are able to create more white-glove moments that turn users into customers for life. Rick started Guru in 2013, after successfully founding Boomi (a cloud integration and data management company) and selling it to Dell. For us, that first fit was with growing sales teams.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Product leaders worry themselves by thinking about things such as: “I should know all the answers”. The team won’t respect me if I’m not technical”. Product teams often attract people who are used to being the smartest people in the room. Julia Harrison – Head of Product at Government Digital Service.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Holly Hester-Reilly has a fascinating, experiment-driven meets systems-thinking perspective on product management. Prior to jumping into product roles at Shutterstock and Media Math, Holly studied chemical engineering, and practiced research science for several years. Holly: I think the best product managers are like scientists.

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Product Solving

JULY 22, 2020

And, for those of you who don’t spend all your time on Twitter, GPT-3 made waves with examples of how it could create websites from natural language , write product requirements based on a problem statement , and create novel tweets. GPT-3 is an AI model developed by OpenAI. How does it work? It depends on the task.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 19, 2019

H2R Product Science ‘s Holly Hester-Reilly produces a Product Science Podcast which covers a range of topics around product experiments, teams and scalable organizations. She invited me to join for this episode called The Rich Mironov Hypothesis: Great Product Leadership is Both Subtle and Slow to Pay Off .

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 7, 2019

Like many teams I measured my productivity by output (number of tasks completed) rather than by outcomes (goals accomplished, impact achieved). Like some Agile dev systems, my productivity system was steering me to focus on the here-and-now, and was ill-equipped to help me achieve long-term goals. Idea Set dentist appointment ?

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

little about product design. It is not that those books are bad. In a time when there was very little acknowledgment about the importance and the role of design, when design was mainly done by developers and with very little user awareness. Why disregarding product design books is a mistake. Why is that?

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UX Studio: Product Management

APRIL 27, 2020

Our client creates digital products to help football fans follow matches, favorite teams, news or even play web or mobile games. Some years ago their team decided to put a new app in football-lovers’ pockets. Before design, the team already had. Design and development were going smoothly and genuinely fast.

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