Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Without thoughtful leadership around them, it may not be in product manager’s gift to achieve a “good” roadmap. This is because product leadership is genuinely hard and quite distinct from the job of product manager – something that is often misunderstood. Purpose, Vision, Mission and Strategy. What is your role?

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

Analytic Tools 60

Analytic Tools Research Software Enterprise Startups 60

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. The teams she coaches are from both early-stage startups and multinational enterprises in different industries. How product strategy uses a company’s vision to feed the bottom line.

Books 98

Books Research Software Feedback Software Analytic Tools 98

Mixpanel

APRIL 27, 2020

Leading a product team in a startup—where it’s basically you, or maybe you and one other person—is far different from leading a large product management team for a well-established company. Startup: Set ruthless priorities. When you’re a startup and you’re looking for product-market fit, you need to be ruthless.

User Testing 89

User Testing Customer Feedback Differentiation Startups 89

Oren Steinberg

JULY 13, 2018

The biggest asset any startup has is the time of its entrepreneurs and key talents. The success or failure of the startup often hinges on their ability to focus their efforts on the critical path at any given time. As the startup grows and faces scalability and growth challenges the issue of focus becomes even more challenging.

Startups 40

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

You are constantly using your roadmap to influence other departments and align their efforts to your product vision. Here is what you should do: Set up time with your leadership teams to prioritise the goals for the next few months Share the goals and initiatives that are required to be prioritised before the meeting.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 21, 2021

The Pipeline allows leadership to communicate a ranked list of priorities. One is using Agile with Scrum, taking the best of both practices. Teams meet frequently and communicate, and the vision and work are visualized using Scrum. Eric Reis’ Lean Startup. Process—the lean product development process itself.

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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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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 14, 2020

The Steps and Exercises of the Product Mindset Workshop The product mindset workshop comprises of seven steps, starting with the product vision to the business model to personas to ideation: 1. Product Vision We start the workshop with a recap of the product vision?—?why our product vision?—?is Show Me the Money?—?the

Product Research 79

Product Research Workshop Customer Experience Vision 79

Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Michael explores how to do product management the best in terms of product strategy and vision, product development frameworks, customer research, and startups. As an agile coach and technologist, Michael enjoys helping teams improve their collaboration to analyze and solve complex problems. About the Episode.

Research Software 52

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Mixpanel

APRIL 27, 2020

Leading a product team in a startup—where it’s basically you, or maybe you and one other person—is far different from leading a large product management team for a well-established company. Startup: Set ruthless priorities. When you’re a startup and you’re looking for product-market fit, you need to be ruthless.

User Testing 59

User Testing Customer Feedback Differentiation Startups 59

The Product Coalition

JANUARY 19, 2021

Mission and Vision Are your company’s mission and vision well defined? In many organisations, the mission and vision are not clearly defined. And even though the mission and vision are well defined, if your organisation isn’t designed appropriately, your key people won’t be able to embrace them or share them with their team.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Building short-term gains, like revenue, stability, etc are often necessary steps to take before being able to tackle that long-term vision. 10) Protect the team vs Challenging the team Whether you like it or not as a Product Manager you are in a leadership position. This is leadership and the role of Product Management.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 2, 2022

According to Agile and Scrum best practices, product owners and product managers should be two different people. In an idealized vision of product development in an Agile setting, product owners handle the tactical execution of product strategy while product managers concentrate on managing that strategy.

Product Research 52

Product Research Product Management Product Manager Customer Experience 52

Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

Enterprise companies with multiple or complex products tend to have larger product teams made up of specialists, while startups often have to cope with smaller structures where members perform numerous roles. Navigating the corporate landscape to secure the leadership’s buy-in and resources is a big part of their job.

Analytic Tools 83

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Izenda

JUNE 28, 2020

Startups are more likely to comprise of long-term horizontal thinking that could be six months where a larger company may be thinking in terms of years. The software product manager takes responsibility for a product line’s vision and profitability. This role requires a vision to deliver value based on customer demands.

Analytic Tools 56

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos. Paul: No comments.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos. Paul: No comments.

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Roadmap Feedback Software User Testing Reporting Tools 165

Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

She currently leads Product Management at Obo, where she is working on agile product management software that aims to reduce the high failure rates for new products. It was transformational for me because I had been working on smaller seed products, and for the first time I was in a leadership role on a major transformational project. [3:07]

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User Testing Product Research Marketing Research Software 85

Bain Public

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Its host, Michael Luchen, explores how to do product management the best in terms of product strategy and vision, product development frameworks, customer research, and startups. As an agile coach and technologist, Michael enjoys helping teams improve their collaboration to analyze and solve complex problems.

Research Software 52

Research Software Product Management Product Manager Data Visualization 52

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Based on my most recent role as a Product Lead, my primary quadrant is the Strategic Product Manager, because the main responsibilities of my role were to conduct research, determine the vision and strategy, set up a product function and create, and support, a realistic roadmap. If that doesn’t quite make sense, think about it this way.

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Weak Development Team Development Product Research Technical Review 99

The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

Research Software 148

Research Software User Testing Analytic Tools Product Research 148

The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

Analytic Tools 142

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 21, 2020

The product roadmap is the foundational guiding document that defines the vision for the product. Have an agile mindset when working on the roadmap. A smaller startup with not enough planning capacity may just rush through their roadmap. It does not need to be very verbose. It should be straight forward and easy to understand.

Definition 59

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I decided to join a smaller startup, which was a company called XING. It was an 80-person startup back then. I don’t have the big SAP company experience, but I did spend most of my career at early-stage startups. I definitely heard in your story the why behind going from SAP to the startup. That’s so great.

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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. “I had to think about leadership differently,” Amy stated.

Data Visualization 52

Data Visualization Analytic Tools Reporting Tools Feedback Software 52

Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Like many other startups, Soundrop had its fair share of challenges trying to support an accelerated growth with limited resources. Inge shares how, with all the hype and activity, there was a dilution of focus, lack of clear communication and the emergence of disagreements within the leadership team.

Research Software 76

Research Software Events Startups Vision 76

Under 10 Consulting

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

In a world of agile methods and lean startup and business pivot, aren’t the activities of product management already being done by someone? Some by development, some by sales and marketing, some by the leadership, some by the customers themselves. But what are the benefits of product management?

Product Management 58

Product Management Product Manager Research Software User Testing 58

Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

Initially JustGiving supported only registered charities on its website, but the founders’ vision was to support all good causes. The initial vision was to. This vision gave us something to aim for. Support from the senior leadership team also shot up. It’s not that different from the current design. Build a community.

User Testing 111

User Testing Weak Development Team Onboarding KPIs Customer Experience 111

The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

Analytic Tools 108

Analytic Tools Research Software CTO Coach Fractional CTO 108

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

In this Path to PM post, Saeed shares his advice if he were applying for product management careers all over again, and why great product leadership is about influence, service, and patience. I then worked at a startup as Manager of Customer Education, which oversaw Customer Training, Documentation and Support. Yes, a LONG time ago.

Research Software 40

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

UX studio is a young European product design company with an established thought leadership in the design communities. With expertise in product management, strategic thinking, and agile transformation, we strive to be more than a design agency. Based in Ottawa, the company works with startups and enterprises from all over the world.

Product Research 115

Product Research Research Software Software Review Technical Review 115

The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

Analytic Tools 96

Analytic Tools Research Software CTO Coach Fractional CTO 96

The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

Analytic Tools 107

Analytic Tools Research Software CTO Coach Development 107

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Core Competencies All product managers must be good at communication, analysis, prioritization, breaking down complexity, vision, and managing a roadmap. They also need sufficient technical knowledge for the product they are building and, generally, should be at least familiar with Lean methodology and Agile development. It depends.

Product Research 40

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Core Competencies All product managers must be good at communication, analysis, prioritization, breaking down complexity, vision, and managing a roadmap. They also need sufficient technical knowledge for the product they are building and, generally, should be at least familiar with Lean methodology and Agile development. It depends.

Product Research 40

Product Research User Testing Weak Development Team Product Management 40

The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

Analytic Tools 90

Analytic Tools Research Software Product Strategy CTO Coach 90