280 Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

You need to have solid data and excellent information so that when the team or management is discussing your product or your market you are able to step in with timely and highly relevant information. Study your competitors and analyze their marketing and product strategies. Be the Kind of Employee You Want to Manage.

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280 Group

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Read Part 2 of this 3 part series: Top Strategies to Advance Your Product Management Career Rapidly – Part 2. Back when I was with Apple years ago, there was a Product Manager who had done just a phenomenal job. Join Product Management associations. Truly Care About People. The Last Thing You Do. REGISTER NOW.

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Mind the Product

JULY 18, 2019

In relation to product management, teams could focus on a vision of the future and dedicate time to co-creating it. The post Product Management Strategies for Supporting Collaboration by Gretchen Anderson appeared first on Mind the Product. Gretchen talks about ER doctors during an emergency. Enable Trust.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2019

One of the biggest challenges product leaders face is convincing leadership of changes in product strategy. In addition, setting the proper expectations with leadership is a key element for managing your stakeholders. With clear expectations, managing stakeholders becomes easier. This is one of the most challenging questions.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 18, 2019

As product managers, we need to be skilled in a variety of areas from defining features and requirements to understanding customers, analyzing usage metrics, prioritizing features, managing releases, and the list goes on. This context and focus helps to drive everything from technical decisions to design to prioritizing features.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2019

This is not to say that bottom-up adoption is bad strategy; quite the opposite. If you can raise a ton of capital, it’s one strategy for winning and crushing the competition. Tomasz Tunguz, Managing Director, Redpoint Ventures. Many great products see exciting initial revenue traction. it all “works”. Buying sales isn’t bad.

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Dear Strategy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Dear Strategy: “How do we best handle having the Engineering and Innovation groups working in different locations than the Manufacturing groups? How do we manage the long-term strategy for Manufacturing and Engineering in two different locations?)”. Dear Strategy: Episode 095. ###. So, that’s it in a nutshell.

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Dear Strategy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

This week’s question is… Dear Strategy: “How do we best handle having the Engineering and Innovation groups working in different locations than the Manufacturing groups? How do we manage the long-term strategy for Manufacturing and Engineering in two different locations?)”. Read The Full Blog Post.

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Dear Strategy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Dear Strategy: “How do we best handle having the Engineering and Innovation groups working in different locations than the Manufacturing groups? How do we manage the long-term strategy for Manufacturing and Engineering in two different locations?)”. Dear Strategy: Episode 095. ###. So, that’s it in a nutshell.

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Melissa Perri

OCTOBER 31, 2019

When you need to hire an executive Product Manager, a CPO or a VP of Product, you are at a moment in your company where you have a ton of choices. You need this person to not just prioritize, but make a product strategy. Instead of this candidate telling us how they were going to create that strategy and framework?—?using

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Product Takeoff

MARCH 19, 2019

To achieve that level of confidence and to build products in that space we as product managers have to focus on a few key principals before we plan on getting the next thing in the marketplace.The four major principals we generally go by are Vision, Strategy, Team and Rapid learning.

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280 Group

JULY 8, 2019

However, when it comes to a career in Product Management, just focusing on strengths is not going to cut it. Product managers must think strategically about their skill sets and address their weakest areas to give their products the best chance of success. Requirement for Career Progression.

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280 Group

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Unfortunately, when it comes to the competition, product managers often postpone this important work to be a “sometime thing.” Most product management exercises are little more than creating feature matrices—using columns and rows to compare products to that of their competitors. Great Process Leads to Even Greater Output.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

In order to grow your product management team, start by reviewing your product portfolio. Once you’ve identified the products, determine the skills required to manage each asset. Once you have identified your products together with the skills required to manage them, find out how many product people you need. And are they fair?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

In order to grow your product management team, start by reviewing your product portfolio. Once you’ve identified the products, determine the skills required to manage each asset. Once you have identified your products together with the skills required to manage them, find out how many product people you need. And are they fair?

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280 Group

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

For our next installment of the Women in Product Management Series, I interviewed Irina Farooq, Chief Product Officer at Kinetica. To read the entire series on Women in Product Management make sure to? How did you get into Product Management? I switched into product management by a stroke of luck four months out of college.

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280 Group

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Read Part 1 of this article where we discuss Strategy One: Credibility and Part 2 where we discuss Strategy Two: Building Rapport. Strategy Three: Assessing Your Team and Adjusting. Your job as a Product Manager is the most fun when you are in the upper right quadrant. Read The Phenomenal Product Manager Book.

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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? It’s about 20 years since Ben Horowitz wrote his now-famous piece “Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager”.

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280 Group

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The article is a synopsis of The Phenomenal Product Manager: Chapter Two , written by Brian Lawley. You’ve probably come across a few Product Managers who seem to stand out form the crowd – the ones that seem to be really good at what they do, whereas other Product Managers seem to have little or no clue. Leadership.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Increasingly product managers are expected to think and operate “strategically”, but, as this post will reveal, it’s a requirement that can lead to misaligned expectations and be full of traps for the unwary. Surely we’ve all noticed the increased emphasis on “strategy” as a core competency for product managers?

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280 Group

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

During the plan phase, product managers conduct more detailed and specific market research, along with competitive analysis to determine whether the opportunity is large and profitable enough to be viable. Document planned changes for product strategy, directions and features in a product roadmap. CLICK HERE. Key Deliverables.

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The Product Bistro

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Without giving too much of the story away (trust me, this is a page turner) the main protagonist is Allie, a product manager of a studio at a game company. But early in the tale, you see some of the challenges of product management – regardless of where and what technology you are in – festering.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 19, 2019

It may be obvious, but defining your strategy, goals, and mission is something we all need to have rooted at the heart of everything we do – but it’s very easy to get pulled in countless different directions while we try to deliver against these. A lack of alignment with the overall business can be catastrophic.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Customer centricity and customer experience management are the hot topics of this year’s business conversations. Asking the right question, at the right time, in the right format, combined with a deep understanding of engagement gives companies a more complete picture of the the health of their customer communication strategy.

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Mind the Product

MAY 8, 2019

Melissa Perri is the product manager’s product manager – she’s able to do the job, explain it, and teach you how to do it better. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Quotes of the Episode.

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280 Group

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Campbell Soup recently used agile strategies to launch a new Epic Crunch Goldfish cracker in nine months, much more quickly than usual.” You can read about it here: Are You Agile Enough for Agile Management? I always receive this question ‘what’s your go-to-market strategy’? Great Question!

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280 Group

JULY 2, 2019

For our next installment of the Women in Product Management Series I interviewed Linda Andries, SVP Product Management at Measured Progress | AdvancED. To read the entire series on Women in Product Management make sure to? How did you get into product management? What do you like the most about product management?

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280 Group

DECEMBER 17, 2019

One of the questions I frequently get asked when training our Optimal Product Management and Product Marketing Training (OPM) course is, “What’s the difference between a Product Manager and a Project Manager?” What is a Product Manager? What is a Project Manager? Simply put, a Project Manager must “get it done.”

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

No matter the specifics of how your company adapts and grows, it’s crucial to be aware of how your pricing strategy relates to other aspects of your business. It’s all too easy to make the mistake of adopting a pricing model that is ill-suited to other aspects of your company, such as the go-to-market strategy or sales strategy.

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280 Group

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

For our next installment of the Women in Product Management Series I interviewed Rachel Schiff, VP Product Management at Virgin Pulse. To read the entire series on Women in Product Management make sure to? How did you get into Product Management? My first job out of college was as a software project manager.

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