Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Too many times people confuse agile and scrum. Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is a valid and very popular framework for agile development. The Agile Manifesto. Agile is just a means to an end.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Too many times people confuse agile and scrum. Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is a valid and very popular framework for agile development. The Agile Manifesto. Agile is just a means to an end.

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Ask Benny

JUNE 1, 2019

Too many times people confuse agile and scrum. Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is a valid and very popular framework for agile development. The Agile Manifesto. Agile is just a means to an end.

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Userpilot

JULY 6, 2021

How many people should there be in your SaaS product marketing team? When should you start building a product marketing team and what role should you hire first? Let's talk about how to build and structure product marketing teams for SaaS products. SaaS product marketing team structure.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 6, 2020

How product managers can boost innovation in companies large and small. In 2012 I read a book titled, Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company. Consequently, I think of Eric Ries as the create of Lean Startup and Steve Blank as its father. Successful startups ignored that advice.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 1, 2019

Too many times people confuse agile and scrum. Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is a valid and very popular framework for agile development. Agile is just a means to an end. This is not agile.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 22, 2019

Image by Paul Brennan from Pixabay “We are not agile enough”, she told me. If you work at a large company, or in a relatively traditional industry, you probably know the feeling: You are a big believer in agile and lean. You appreciate the insight you gain from moving fast and testing your product with real customers.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 8, 2019

An insight into Product Marketing roles, responsibilities and KPIs after interviewing dozens of Product Marketing Managers. Everyone is hiring Product Marketing Managers (“PMMs”) and there is a great demand for expertise in this space, so read on for a strategic and tactical definition of “What is Product Marketing?”.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

Fascinating discussion about what it’s like for a serial entrepreneur to raise money, operate a startup, lessons learned, etc. Why startups are hard – the math of venture capital tells the story. Why startups are hard – the math of venture capital tells the story. Is your startup idea already taken?

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The Product Bistro

JANUARY 25, 2021

In the way back time, before Agile, before OKRs and other fads, product managers wrote MRDs, or Market Requirement Documents. This was the artifact the began the process of developing a new product, or a variant of a product. That is the question. Oh, and the MRD I wrote for this?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

Startup funding was relatively easy to raise. Due to the growing tendency of backing technology businesses, a software startup could raise millions of dollars of funding in their earliest stages of development. Instead of implementing the entire product, teams started to engineer small increments and test them in the market.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

This explanation should not be as detailed as what would go in a product requirements document (PRD) Market Requirements Document (MRD) Example Let’s say you’re the product manager for a SaaS startup that produces marketing automation tools. Do agile product teams use MRDs?

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 3, 2017

In working at Seedcamp and helping over 100 startups understand product thinking, Taylor Wescoatt has learned some valuable lessons he’d like to share, together with some real-world examples to drive the point home! It takes a while to reach that fit to the point that you can optimize business and product strategy independently!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 14, 2019

In this Path to PM blog post, Sanaz and I discuss applying lean startup principles to media products. How did you break into product management? You’ve moved quite a bit in your PM journey, from Zynga to the first PM at a startup, and now you’re a PM at Disney. This is the reason most startups fail.

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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.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

I was attending a very small startup event where Gregory Culpin presented the company and its market vision. The product and engineering teams grew fast too. This provided the opportunity to build and lead a very talented product team and create the product marketing function. What I Learned From 3.5

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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”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The customer development framework helps teams validate product ideas and build products that solve customers’ problems. It was developed by Steve Blank and popularized by Eric Ries in The Lean Startup. Finally, it helps teams to achieve the product-market fit faster. It considerably delays the product launch.

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I Wonder The Value

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In August, I organized Lean Startup session with one of my mentors, Guita Gopalan. But, when you apply Lean Startup in real product development, there are a lot of following questions to make the method to reality. The first key question you must answer is; When we can say “we already validated our product/feature”?

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bpma ProductHub

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Reason #2: One of the highest concentrations of product managers anywhere. We’re talking about world-class universities, countless startups, VCs and more. And we’re talking about people – people such as product managers. Reason #4: Startup incubators and accelerators. Not ready to join a startup?

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

Fascinating discussion about what it’s like for a serial entrepreneur to raise money, operate a startup, lessons learned, etc. Why startups are hard – the math of venture capital tells the story. Why startups are hard – the math of venture capital tells the story. Is your startup idea already taken?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

While the product manager’s role may differ from one organization to the next, they will still work with dedicated product owners, engineering and design teams, data analysts, and product marketing managers. Drives product success. Which roles exist in product management teams?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

You had to walk a long way before you could enter product management, and when you did — it was a senior role already. As the product management profession matured, additional levels were naturally added to the career ladder, including junior ones.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Winning at New Products ? —?Roberto Stage-gate gets s**t on a lot in the world of lean and agile, but it does have merit in some industries. This book provides a solid foundation of knowledge for anyone working in product development. Revolutionizing Product Development ? The Lean Startup ?—?Eric Roberto Cooper.

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Miro

AUGUST 8, 2019

3Organizational agility & remote collaborationRead ?4Future What happens after a startup finds product-market fit, achieves some early success, and starts scaling? A period of hypergrowth can breed communication problems, slower decision-making, and a loss of the agility you had […].

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 10, 2024

Marty labels this inefficiency the “theater” of product management, where “fake” product managers engage in non-essential activities, often under titles like Agile coaches, product owners, product operations, or business analysts.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2022

Core Product Manager. This is likely the role we are all familiar with the most in the product management community. A product manager building a SaaS product of some sort, working in Agile software development practices. Innovation Product Manager.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 8, 2018

Web businesses searching for product market fit think they can follow this philosophy just by shipping code. But shipping code doesn’t mean that you’re making any significant product improvements. Similarly you can make undeniable improvements to parts of your product and get no response or appreciation for it.

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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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Userpilot

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Experiments help drive product success in many ways. They help you decide based on data and metrics rather than guesswork, ensure organizational agility, and give you a better chance of achieving product market fit with your target customers. An answer you’ll be familiar with in product management: it depends.

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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.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 31, 2021

After a decade of working with others to launch successful SaaS products, I took the plunge to launch a startup in 2013. As I continued to help launch products, I realized that I was prepared to dive into entrepreneurial life myself. I believe that product management is a great training ground for entrepreneurship.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Here is a new way to look at product management goals, and make them a useful tool for both you and your team. was the COO of a Series C startup. He was brought in as the startup entered hyper-growth and needed someone to help with all of that scaling. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Combining the two platforms enables app providers to move with the speed and agility to meet the needs of their customers, while still maintaining the security and control required for regulatory concerns. Mobile marketers and product managers can immediately take action on events in Apptentive by simply flipping a switch.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 31, 2021

After a decade of working with others to launch successful SaaS products, I took the plunge to launch a startup in 2013. As I continued to help launch products, I realized that I was prepared to dive into entrepreneurial life myself. I believe that product management is a great training ground for entrepreneurship.

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

To become a product manager, start building essential skills and experience by working in related roles like sales , marketing , or customer success. Finding your first gig may be easier in startups than in enterprise organizations. Book the demo to see how Userpilot helps PMs at every step of the product development process.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 20, 2018

The Product Lifecycle. We all know the product lifecycle chart. While many of us are familiar with the uphill battle and the grind involved in getting traction and any growth towards product/market fit, the launch and growth phases represent a small fraction of the overall life of a product. Product Lifecycle.

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