The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). What systems/metrics/processes do we need to measure and track winning?

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Another doc app we came across that’s worth exploring this week is Reflect. Designed by a small, independent product team, Reflect is a rather beautiful new way to capture your notes, thoughts and ideas. In a press release , the two companies unveiled a partnership designed to address AWS’ perceived strategic weaknesses in AI.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

It defines, communicates, supports, and improves important operations which can be standardized, such as communication, planning processes, team gatherings, and training. How it’s become a critical function for scaling effective product teams. Developing and maintaining a continuing education program for product managers.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

With more digital and data-driven products, the demand for traditional product managers is now shifting from sales teams to data product managers. Learn the Baics of Data Science and Data Analysis The first step is learning the basics of data and data products. If you want to become a data product manager, this guide is for you.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Data science has traditionally been an analysis-only endeavor: using historical statistics, user interaction trends, or AI machine learning to predict the impact of deterministically coded software changes. Provide Much Deeper Context than Traditional Software Projects, Especially Use Cases and Business Goals. We versus They.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 1, 2023

Product Planning is researching, making decisions, and taking action to develop a successful product. Product management teams will have their cadence and frameworks for planning, but typically it consists of some version of annual combined with quarterly planning. Competitive Analysis By this stage, you have a product concept.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Here, to help you, are five product management tricks and tools for every product leader. You’ve generated interest in your software.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The good news is that SEO can help make that process much easier by giving you the insights your team needs to pick a profitable niche and scale your business. Don’t limit your research to just current and past customers. Conduct keyword research from the very beginning to avoid language problems. Keyword research volume.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Organizations create Customer Success teams to increase Net Revenue Retention, and we’ve recently published research showing that NRR drives valuation. But, then, organizations find that the baseline impact of simply having a CS team eventually plateaus–your NRR stagnates. What about systems administration?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 23, 2023

Product strategy helps with feeling overwhelmed because it Helps your product team see how your product contributes to your company’s goals. Given that product strategy provides product teams with so much guidance, why does it seem like your product strategy is more reactive, and is that ok? Guides your product decisions.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 26, 2022

How to Write a Data Scientist Resume That Gets You the Job Ready to write a data science resume that shows off your analysis skills, programming languages, and relevant experience to help you land your next data scientist role? What Skills do You Need for Data Science or Analysis?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

The Hard Thing About Hard Things) At Latin American travel technology company Almundo , we believe that leaders are responsible for the people, whether that is via one-on-one meetings, career opportunities, company culture, or employee satisfaction. So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 22, 2018

Here, replatforming is about replacing the computing platform on which a number of other products or systems are built. It’s the foundation that, for instance, powers a website and allows developers to add pages and features. This gives each platform a unique twist and makes each replatforming project unlike any other.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The goal is to help product teams “rise above the day-to-day slog and truly think through what makes a successful Product and how to make it happen.”. Software as a Service has become the predominant business model for B2B software. Agile Leadership Summit. The 2020 edition is a virtual, one-day event. SaaStr Annual.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The 10 Thorniest Problems In Product (And The Solutions That Successful Companies Are Using To Tackle Them) As research for my upcoming fourth book, I’ve been interviewing dozens of product leaders and creators. How do product teams that are spread across geographies, time-zones and functional areas of work find alignment?

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

Secondly, as great product managers are also great capacity builders for their teams, you should start looking for opportunities that AI can present for your product. But with machine learning the solution itself is so exciting and novel that it’s tempting to forget to ask yourself why you need it in the first place.

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Gainsight

JUNE 11, 2021

The Key to Customer Success: Leadership with Jay Nathan, Chief Customer Officer at Higher Logic and Co-founder of Gain Grow Retain at Higher Logic. The results are increased engagement, increased productivity, and better solutions. Team Up with Sales to Drive Revenue with Kristen Hayer, Founder & CEO at The Success League.

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Atlassian

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Creating a strong, cohesive team takes intention and planning. Researchers have been studying team dynamics for decades. There’s a significant body of knowledge about which organizational structures provide the best results given the circumstances, goals, and personalities involved in a team. 5-second summary.

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UX Studio

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

In this post we created a guide on the steps to take in developing your brand strategy. We’ve tested most as workshop methods on our clients in the last couple of years, and have included some research techniques as well. How to develop your brand strategy? They establish what you stand for as a team. Cost-consciousness.

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Userzoom

APRIL 6, 2018

When it comes to user research, you won’t get a more honest and unique insight then when observing and interviewing users in their own natural environment. It’s a cliché so overused that you be forgiven for not paying attention to it, but ‘expect the unexpected’ has to be at the forefront of any user researcher when they’re out in the field.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

Defining my label carefully, a “product leader” is someone who manages a team of product managers. There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. . 2] Driving Strategy, Tooling and Outcomes. [3]

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Through research on thousands of product managers, she pioneered the practical professional development approach that anchors product managers with the five skills most important for their professional success. It provides an anchor for the larger team: "is what we are doing adhering to and furthering our vision?" Listen here →.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

Scrum and the agile manifesto were created in a time where we used to still package and ship software physically. Scrum came about even earlier than the agile manifesto almost a whole decade to be exact (although you can traces origins earlier back to 1986 with the article The New New Product Development Game ).

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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.

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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.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 17, 2019

This is not the result of a large statistical analysis but based on contemporary product manager literacy and my experiences. The product artifacts : Once you have customers, you interact with them via some real-life product artifacts, processes and tools. The team tend to operate in weekly / bi-weekly cadence.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

The roadmap is much more than a directive document that tells teams what to do by when. It is ideally a galvanizing document to drive vision, bring teams into alignment and commitment, and lead them and your customers to your future, promised destination. You own it, but many other teams are gunning to influence it daily.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. That’s why we’ve listed 12 tools that the best product managers use to do their jobs better? and not the best product management tools. Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

Twenty five mini-research ideas for finding something meaningful to work on. In the perfect world, product managers have all the time, resources, and skills to do impeccable, in-depth market and user research. The real world has limited resources, unrealistic deadlines, and new teams that have not been able to do research at all.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

Technology launched before the market was ready, a funded company run into the grown, struggling to reach the heights of an American counterpart. Tom Adeyoola (Founder, Metail) – Why Your ‘Brilliant’ Technology Fails To Have Impact from Business of Software Conference. Tom Adeyoola, Founder/CEO, Metail.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

So they do all sorts of validations and deep analysis processes: market research, business plan, competitive analysis, and so on. They always need something you haven’t developed yet. Unlike what one might think, this is a really bad sign. They don’t want to start before what they have is crisp enough.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Community managers, sales teams, marketing managers, and more could provide much insight into a product's users. That means you have to download the app or sign up for the product! Without this first-hand knowledge and understanding of your product, you won't be able to develop or improve your product as much as possible.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

TL;DR A product manager leads the product management team and is responsible for overseeing all stages of the product development process. Typically, product managers are responsible for market and user research, product discovery , feature prioritization , and roadmapping. They earn around $201k/year.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 21, 2019

This can be in terms of the companies you want to target, the roles you want to get into or the kind of industry, products, or technologies you want to work on. I usually do a gap-analysis of my current skills and the skills demanded in the new role. Analyze your skill and experience gaps. Interview preparation.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 7, 2020

Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? I’m not going to talk about these two first books in the last couple of Business of Softwares I talked about the tools, business models, value propositions. Sketchnote. Upcoming Events. BoS USA Online 2020.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 13, 2019

All those things happen downstream from product management, and poor performance by the people handling those tasks can impact whether the product measures up to expectations, falls short or exceeds them. Sloppy programming could sink usage while an overachieving sales team could goose adoption. SWOT analysis. Thoughtfulness.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As usual, you really had to be there but here are the Sigmacorn notes… 9:00 Mark Littlewood: Opening remarks Welcome to BoS! How will we win?

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