Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

This article explores both hard and soft skills that product managers need in their everyday work, so if you’re curious to learn more, dive right in. TL;DR Hard skills, like technical knowledge, are job-specific and enable product managers to perform their core responsibilities. Product manager skills: user path analysis.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

The product management process starts with building an understanding of your users and the market, defining a vision and strategy , generating and prioritizing ideas that could solve user problems, articulating them in a clear roadmap, launching an MVP, and then gathering feedback to evolve it over time. Drives product success.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

A story of love, hate, oppression and triumph I’ll admit, I’ve started to fall out of love with agile over the past year or so?—?don’t I wholeheartedly believe that you need to be adaptable to survive today but the further I travel on my own journey the more I wonder if we as an industry are moving past agile. Enter agile.

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

As business advisors and executive coaches, we've worked with dozens of CEOs to help them build and grow their product leadership team as they scale their company. Getting external support, such as product management consulting, can help establish the product leadership team responsible for nurturing and guiding the product team.

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ProductPlan

JULY 16, 2021

Product Manager’s Control of Employee Expectations. As a product manager, implementing an effective product strategy should remain a priority. Setting the Stage for Successful Context-Based Leadership. As any veteran product leader knows, there’s no better tool to facilitate that than the product roadmap.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

Examples of different prioritization frameworks. TL;DR A feature prioritization matrix helps product teams decide which features to develop next, focusing on high-impact features and resource optimization. There are a number of different prioritization frameworks , like RICE, Story Mapping, Opportunity Scoring, ICE, and the Kano Model.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

A great roadmap helps PM’s achieve the following: 1, It ensures the product team understand what they are working towards, by aligning the product to the company’s short term and long term goals. Image credit: ProductPlan Roadmapping sits in the Product Strategy phase of a Product Management It’s very different to a Product Backlog.

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Recently, Dave Gipp partnered with Adam Mattis of Scaled Agile to discuss strategic planning. Titled, “Mastering the Art of Integration: Strategic Planning with SAFe ® for Agile Organizations”, the webinar explored the challenges many companies face when bridging the gap between strategy and execution.

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Product Club

JUNE 10, 2017

Across the globe, companies are investing in Agile transformations primarily for two reasons — to increase speed, and improve the quality of their technical product delivery. We’ve all been sold “Agile” for over 10 years, told to treat “waterfall” as a curse word to be uttered with disgust in boardrooms.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 11, 2024

Goal-Question-Metrics (GQMs) is a strategic framework used to define goals, ask relevant questions, and improve metrics. The GQM framework was originally created while evaluating project defects in NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Define specific goals : Set specific and achievable goals in alignment with your product strategy.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Impact mapping is a collaborative strategic planning technique used by product managers, product owners , and senior technical leadership, who work mostly in Agile software delivery. Impact mapping is a technique for collaborative strategy planning and product management. What is impact mapping in agile?

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Inspired by Marty Cagan contains a little about everything in product management and is based on how the most successful tech companies in the world build products.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Sustainable pace is an important agile principle. The Agile Manifesto defines it in the following way: “The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.” But sustainable pace is equally important for you, the person in charge of the product. What is Sustainable Pace? Share the Work.

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bpma ProductHub

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

During their presentation, Pragmatic Instructor and Product Coach Kirsten Butzow along with Pendo Chief Evangelist Eric Boduch emphasized the need to distinguish the PM role from the PO role. Since the Agile Manifesto first distinguished the roles in 2001, the same person has often been expected to serve as both PM and PO.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

They work closely not only with the development team but also with the marketing and sales teams, and champion the product within the organization. The Objectives and Key Results (OKR) framework helps organizations select goals (Objectives), milestones measuring progress (Key Results), and specific tasks (Initiatives). SMART goals.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The product manager career path at XO and the “levels framework” from the book “Org Design for Design Orgs” (by far the best book I’ve read on UX management) were amazing and helpful resources. Processes (M): Strategy : Translation of the mission and vision into a coherent product strategy.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

Product Coalition publishes the most popular one of the product manager blogs on our list. The Reforge blog helps product managers with topics like analytics , team management and development, product leadership , or product strategy. Product Talk is a valuable resource for product professionals.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

To effectively staff the product team, I recommend including the people shown in Figure 1. [1] 1] Figure 1: The Product Team Members Let’s look at the product team members in Figure 1 in more detail starting with the person in charge of the product. To help you with this, I’ve created the framework shown in Figure 2.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The Product Manager Podcast is a space to share and talk about the latest tips, tricks and tools to build great products and also make the world a better place. Michael explores how to do product management the best in terms of product strategy and vision, product development frameworks, customer research, and startups.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The OKR methodology can be a powerful motivator for high performance and product excellence within teams and companies. Implementing a goal-setting framework that sets the bar high sounds like a no-brainer, right? The objectives and key results framework establish direction and creates an opportunity for growth.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The Product Management Podcast The Product Manager Podcast is a space to share and talk about the latest tips, tricks and tools to build great products and also make the world a better place. As an agile coach and technologist, Michael enjoys helping teams improve their collaboration to analyze and solve complex problems.

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BrainMates

JUNE 24, 2021

The Product Team Plays No Part in Development of the Product Strategy. A business strategy exists to describe how a company will achieve overall success. The Product strategy exists to show how a Product will achieve success. This will also guarantee the Product roadmap is customer-centric.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 13, 2020

Scaled Agile POPM If you’re familiar with Lean and/or Agile frameworks, you’re probably familiar with Scaled Agile. Their Product Owner/Product Manager certification (POPM) is something of a two-for-one: you’ll learn basic product management skills as well as the latest principles for Lean enterprises.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 31, 2019

And when you are leading not just product development, but also a product team, this can feel more than a little unnerving. Product leaders need real feedback to set priorities and create a product strategy. At some point, product management has to work with just about every department across the organization.

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 29, 2017

The Product Marketing and Management track will have a number of great sessions, including my session on “Product Strategy on a Page: Possible, and Practical.” ” I’ll also be presenting on Next Generation B-to-B E-Commerce and participating in our Executive Leadership Exchange.

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 29, 2017

The Product Marketing and Management track will have a number of great sessions, including my session on “Product Strategy on a Page: Possible, and Practical.” ” I’ll also be presenting on Next Generation B-to-B E-Commerce and participating in our Executive Leadership Exchange. SFCQu1kJTD.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Regardless, the following articles are a must-read for anyone concerned with rolling out the best product in each iteration. Here are the top 33 most amazing product management articles in no specific order. Agile Died While You Were Doing Your Standup. 17 42 Rules to Lead by from the Man Who Defined Google’s Product Strategy.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

Is the PM someone with great responsibility but no formal authority as stated by Dan Olsen or is the CEO of the product? Product manager motto?—?Dan Dan Olsen Welcome to the Cynefin Framework We choose to use the Cynefin Framework to decide which path to take. Data-driven : Decisions based on objective criteria.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 21, 2021

So what we choose to do with them—along with what we choose not to do—determines whether we will be happy, successful, productive or frustrated, struggling, and miserable. Too many frameworks, too little direction. Do I try to move into a leadership role at a stealth-mode startup? That’s where IMPACT comes in. What is IMPACT?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

What: 1,500 tech product managers and product developers gather online at one of the world’s largest product management & development conferences. Product Con. What: The largest online product management conference in the world with years of digital experience. Product Drive. Source: Productschool.com.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Product (and company) strategy is the backbone that guides product goal-setting and roadmap definition, although it’s sometimes overlooked or confused with having a vision. Without it, product teams become feature teams focused on outputs and not outcomes. The Approach (the Frameworks). Playing to win by Alan G.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

Three Types of Leadership. Scrum is a simple framework with three roles: product owner, development team, and Scrum Master. Each role provides a distinct type of leadership. As the product owner, you lead the product and are responsible for its overall success. Lead the Product.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

In the meantime, another thing happens and is the next one I want to point out: Metrics means different things for designers and product teams One who has already been in an agile environment is aware of agile team metrics, such as the burndown chart, user stories lead time, story points delivered per sprint, the CFD diagram and so one.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Knowing when to pull the trigger on a product release is a necessary, albeit tricky, skill for PMs to develop. So Shopify’s Director of Product, Brandon Chu, developed a framework to streamline that decision-making process. 9. , so this post allows PMs to put on their product design hats and get thinking like a designer.

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Product Bookshelf

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

The breadth of knowledge you need to be an effective product manager is very complex. ” The book contains a lot of product strategy, positioning, and go to market content which is often missing in books that focus primarily on execution. The Whole Product.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 17, 2020

Choosing the right product strategy framework is very important for every product manager. Remember, choosing the right product strategy will go a long way in making sure that the entire product life cycle proceeds flawlessly. And not the project manager or even the product owner. Kano Model.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Even among experienced product professionals, a common misconception in business holds that product strategy and business strategy mean the same thing. Product professionals need to understand the distinction between business strategy vs. product strategy. A Closer Look at Each Strategy.

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