The Product Manager Coach Blog

MAY 7, 2024

Navigating the world of product management can be overwhelming, especially when trying to understand the different roles and responsibilities. Two positions that often cause confusion are Staff Product Manager and Senior Product Manager. Which one is right for you? Which Role Is Right For You?

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Userpilot

APRIL 25, 2022

What is product leadership and how is it different from product management ? In the article, we’ll be discussing what the product leadership role entails and how it is different from the product management role. Product leaders are responsible for building the right teams and organizational cultures.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

Listen to this article: [link]. 1 No Product KPIs. The value the product should create is not clearly understood : A validated product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are missing. Do this at least once per quarter, as a rule of thumb, ideally as part of the product strategy reviews.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Listen to this article: [link]. Be Prepared to Look after People, Not Products. When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

A Brief Guide to this Article. This article assumes that you are familiar with the product vision board or the key elements of a product strategy : market, value proposition, standout features, and business goals. Cause : A confusion about what an effective product vision is. No Clear Business Goals.

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2022

Product-led cultures elevate products to the highest levels of the company’s mission. But unfortunately, in many companies, the product leadership team can perpetuate a negative culture — setting up product managers to fail. In essence, the product leadership team are those with influence on the product roadmap.

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Bain Public

JUNE 16, 2021

Paul’s unique experience brings together the necessity of great engineering and the beauty of product strategy. With this, he has identified an actionable process that enables him to offer concrete messages about product management and operations. About NEXT AI.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

Guest Post by: Lamia Benhaddou (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Amanda Ralph]. Amanda had 18 years of product management experience and was able to clearly foresee the obstacles I might encounter in my new role. The product manager is the link between the internal/external stakeholders and the team.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

A stakeholder is anyone who has a stake in your product, who is affected by it, or who shows an interest in the offering. While this definition includes users and customers, I use the term in this article to refer to the internal business stakeholders. Involve the Stakeholders in Important Product Decisions. Build Trust.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

Do you follow any product manager blogs? Would you like to discover new ones that will give you valuable insights into product management ? In our article, we introduce 20 of our favorite product manager blogs that every product pro should follow, regardless of their experience. If yes, you are in the right place!

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Figure 2 contains a set of cascading goals: vision, user and business goals, product goals, and sprint goals. The vision guides the user and business goals, which are contained in the product strategy. The user and business goals help select the right product goals, which I capture on the product roadmap.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Why do product managers need them? That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes. Build a product that users love by delivering value and a good product experience.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

After countless conversations, articles, webinars and conference sessions, I started to feel like the profession of product management had been reduced to…. Convincing stakeholders the above supports company goals (product strategy). After hearing this, my gut reaction was OMG, the product gods are alive and well!

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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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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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2019

(Un)fortunately, Product Management is not really an entry-level job. Sure, there are some junior positions out there that can be reached with a few months’ experience and a prestigious certification. Here is a quick summary of these mistakes and why they could be red flags for product team recruiters across the world.

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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. It’s the foundation of our product strategy.

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Userpilot

JULY 31, 2023

In this article, we will cover the key responsibilities of PMMs, as well as discuss the skills needed to succeed in this role. TL;DR The product marketing manager role (PMM) is primarily responsible for a product’s positioning, messaging, and branding. Who is a product marketing manager?

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 10, 2024

I was recently asked, how do you grow product sense? While many articles highlight its importance, the journey to developing it often seems shrouded in mystery. To answer this question, I’ll take a step back and begin with what is product sense? And close with, does product sense go stale over time?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

Product management is equal parts art and science – and it’s vital to the success of your SaaS. Product teams need to have a combination of hard and soft skills to succeed: technical knowledge , communication, leadership, strategic thinking, and empathy. But what’s the difference?

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Product managers are responsible for establishing a product’s vision and long-term business strategy while ensuring that all stakeholders are aware of said strategy. While it is a senior position, there are numerous career paths, such as Group Product Manager (GPM) and Principal Product Manager (PPM).

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Listen to this article: [link]. Figure 2 contains a set of cascading goals: vision, user and business goals, product goals, and sprint goals. The vision guides the user and business goals, which are contained in the product strategy. A product goal, finally, helps determine the right sprint goals.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 30, 2017

It’s the expectation of a positive outcome”. These words couldn’t be more relevant to product management. But how do you develop the confidence required to lead a team of stakeholders to a positive outcome? Today, he is focused on growing revenue and building web products that have a positive impact on this world.

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Tyner Blain

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Product strategy manifests as a collection of bets, investment decisions to do something or not, to do things now or later. This article is the second in a three-part deeper-dive on the importance of using economic measures when writing the problem statements which are the key unit of shaping and operationalizing a product strategy.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

At Bain Public, we’re proud to offer free one-on-one sessions, discounted rates and lead pro-bono partnership efforts, donating company time to provide product-driven startups with expert advice and coaching about product management. In giving back, we’ve established a way to positively impact the Canadian startup ecosystem.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

What product managers need to know about positioning products to create value. Today we are talking about how market segmentation is done and how it impacts product pricing. To help us with the details, a product strategy and pricing expert is joining us, Dan Balcauski. 2:05] What is product strategy?

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Up until now, Product Leaders have had to rely on the approaches and frameworks designed specifically for Product Managers or use generic leadership practices which don’t necessarily cover the unique leadership challenges Product Leaders experience. This is a mistake, particularly if you are new to leadership.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Not only that: giving back requires active involvement and implementing solutions in response to product leadership challenges and Canadian startup ecosystem expectations. How else does Bain Public have a positive effect on the Canadian startup ecosystem? 2021 has been a year full of growth and prosperity for Bain Public.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Many CEOs will tell you that they’re the best-informed people when it comes to knowing what customers need — and that they’re in the best position to drive decisions on product priorities. What happens here is that these expectations and this type of behaviour become the primary contributor to product strategy gridlock.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 22, 2021

Today there is a new school of leadership emerging to remove this frustration. It’s called empowering leadership. This leadership style encourages leaders to give freedom and responsibility to people and stop controlling and micromanaging them. If done right, empowering leadership can free up a lot of time for managers.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

How can you take responsibility for the vision and shape the future of your product when you don’t control strategy at the corporate level?”. Developing a Product Strategy. Product Vision. But product vision alone is not enough. Product Strategy. Read five steps to a winning product strategy.

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Product Management University

MARCH 18, 2019

Performs scenario-based competitive analysis (not a competitive feature matrix) that identifies customer circumstances in which your product is superior/inferior to the competition and the subsequent value narrative that should accompany marketing/sales positioning and future product plans. Excellent at multi-tasking.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

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 ). this was the creation of the Product Owner role. As we know it today it has very much become a leadership role?—?servant

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

What does the product launch manager do? Does your organization really need such a role if you already have a product manager ? These are just a couple of questions we’re exploring in the articles so if that’s what you’re after, you’re in the right place. Go-To-Market strategy. Ready to dive in?

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Organise the Team around a Product As the name suggests, a product team is focused on a product. This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. This sounds simple enough. Let’s take a look at them.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This month, we’re focusing on all things Product Leadership. Before we start diving into the ins and outs of leadership in Product Management, it’s important to ask and to understand what we mean by Product Leadership. they’re in a Product leadership role. they’re a thought leader.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 26, 2021

That's why we wrote this article; to help candidates work through their process of writing an engineering manager's resume to impress all the hiring managers who see it. Definitely, other skills exist—things like product vision, or product strategy, or engineering strategy, or communication, or managing up.

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