The Accidental Product Manager

JUNE 22, 2020

Product managers have to overcome hurdles to create AI products Image Credit: Photo by Hitesh Choudhary on Unsplash. If you are a product manager and you really want to make your life complicated, then what you should do is decide to develop a health care product. The Data Problem.

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People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Performance is considered at a team, scrum or project level. Introversion or extroversion are irrelevant as its the work of the team that does the talking. On our dream team, there are no brilliant jerks as they are detrimental to great teamwork. While one or more functions are learning, others are stepping up.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

Organizations that have more recently recognized the importance of product management to the success of their business are those that are transitioning from being “sales-led” or “customer-led” to “product-led.”. They focus on the results that the team is looking for. Trends (still) impacting the newly converted.

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Roadmunk

OCTOBER 12, 2017

They’re open to sharing their own experiences of working in product (both the good and the bad) in very honest ways—and they’re very generous with advice. The candid conversations that are happening in product communities online make for excellent podcast material. Inga: AI is the umbrella over machine learning.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Startup Product managers are in charge of setting up the foundation for product management at a new company. Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. According to Airfocus , an optimized product manager boosts profitability and sales, by 34.2

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. This is how we did it.

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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. Increasing, though, companies are building statistical or AI/Machine Learning features directly into their products.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Sometimes you feel like you hate being a product manager. Your product? A few months ago, I saw a post in a Product Manager group on Facebook from a new product manager (PM) that went something like this: “New PM here. Photo by Shamia Casiano It’s common among new Product Managers.

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UX Studio

APRIL 17, 2018

One thing we can learn from the latest fatal Tesla accident: AI and machine learning products need very careful designing. In this article, I will go through the seven basic AI UX principles products should follow. With the arrival of AI products, we enter a new era where machines start to behave differently.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 17, 2023

  The upside (for the sales team) is huge, and the cost (for product/engineering/support) is diffuse.    Closing this $480k/year license deal is highly visible to the exec team and Board.  Their market strategy team realizes they need one more field mapped.    Far away. 

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 25, 2018

Many infrastructure development teams don’t have a product manager, or have a fractional product owner/analyst working primarily on detailed technical requirements. Said another way, great development teams want to work on great technical problems. Let’s keep them focused on what they do best.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It was another bad start to what seemed like Groundhog Day. “I This was the third conversation we were having about the product, an app that served our own company along with external customers. Yet, for many product managers, simplicity is challenging to achieve. Often, product managers skip this step in favor of speed.

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Userpilot

MARCH 26, 2024

The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product. Userpilot's artificial intelligence empowers teams and product managers who don't have a formal background in data science or statistics.

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Userpilot

MARCH 26, 2024

The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product. Userpilot's artificial intelligence empowers teams and product managers who don't have a formal background in data science or statistics.

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Userpilot

MARCH 26, 2024

The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product. Userpilot's artificial intelligence empowers teams and product managers who don't have a formal background in data science or statistics.

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Userpilot

MARCH 26, 2024

The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product. Userpilot's artificial intelligence empowers teams and product managers who don't have a formal background in data science or statistics.

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Userpilot

MARCH 26, 2024

The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product. Userpilot's artificial intelligence empowers teams and product managers who don't have a formal background in data science or statistics.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

How do product managers identify market gaps? A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Canva identified a market need for a user-friendly graphic design tool for non-designers and DocuSign for a secure solution to sign and manage digital documents and contracts. Let’s get into it!

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Userpilot

JANUARY 12, 2023

Gain a better understanding of how customers interact with your product or service and make data-driven decisions about product development. Other ways include artificial intelligence and machine learning. Other ways include artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. Product manager motto?—?Dan

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People-First Product Leadership

JANUARY 7, 2024

Technological Advancements: The consumerization of artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) can bring innovation to industries ranging from education to healthcare to newsletter writing. When I veered off track, I learned (good) while losing a bit of confidence in myself (bad).

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

If you do things that are purposeful, you’ll eventually be successful.” — Howard Schultz Several years ago, I found myself in a heated discussion about product roadmaps with a client. This exchange unfolded over weak, black coffee in your typical, bland white-walled corporate conference room. That’s simply a byproduct.

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Bain Public

JUNE 17, 2020

We’ve been able to bring the ideas of product leadership, product strategy, and product management to products developed by local startup entrepreneurs. Next AI , Next AI is a world class program for artificial intelligence based ventures and technology commercialization.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

How to prepare for a user interview, all the way to sharing the results with your team. The skill of running effective user interviews is key to defining your target users, finding product-market fit , growing your product, figuring out what to build next — or just simply understanding how users perceive your product.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

How can you develop the technology while making sure it really gets to the people who need it the most and has an actual impact on their lives? Because we’re running a full telemedicine service and we have a fully remote team, because we’ve set it up to be remote-first, it’s been great to build a team that way.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Here, I’ll explain how applying the hierarchy of value certainty, shown below, can help you to answer these questions and make your product profitable. A core skill of product management is prioritization. In fact, some methods are pretty poor. Unfortunately, it is these methods that product managers often use.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 4, 2022

So, if you’re a product manager looking to significantly improve your UX efforts and provide actionable insights to your UX team, read on! User experience (UX) involves all aspects of user interactions with your product. A KPI is any metric used to measure the success of your product’s objectives.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

An inside look at product management at IBM and the interview process. Kevin Wei is an Offering Manager at IBM managing Watson Knowledge Catalog and DataStage. In this Path to PM blog post, Kevin shares his journey breaking into a product role as a new grad hire at IBM. What is an IBM offering manager?

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 17, 2018

To the ancient Greeks, mere mortals were prone to distraction due to our weakness of will. Try new norms in small group around how team members interact with each other and technology. As we all know from product development there’s no use trying to plan our output – we’re just not good at estimating work.

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bpma ProductHub

JULY 13, 2016

I recently had a chance to sit down with Mark and discuss the product ecosystem and Boston tech scene as a whole. Being born and raised in New England, I’ve been a part of the Boston area development community for decades now — making a point to foster and support local professional organizations whenever I am able.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 29, 2023

 But along the way, we need to do all of the things that other companies do: run HR; handle payroll and payables; secure our app against cloud hackers; track support issues; model system scalability; etc. This also plays to our egos: how hard could it be to build a weather prediction tool or a password manager ?  After

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Tyner Blain

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Using problem statements is an operational approach to shaping and expressing a product strategy which makes it actionable. I had a client who would refer to the “red thread” connecting her intent with the ideation, decomposition, and execution of work by the teams in her organization. Most teams lack this.

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The Product Cafe

DECEMBER 8, 2022

🥰 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, and more. ☕ Thank you for reading Product Café’s newsletter ☕️ Subscribe for free to receive new posts every week! Hive @TheHIVE_Social Hi everyone!🐝

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

But what makes product management so interesting is that, unlike most professions, technical skills often take a back seat. Look no further than these 4 essential product management skills we wrote about in a previous post. How did you get into product management? Not convinced?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 14, 2019

However, in time, this procedure has become a widespread methodology in technology product development too. Code and Fix (often known as Cowboy coding ) is considered the simplest product development process and is the default method for prototyping software-oriented technology solutions.

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Mixpanel

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Paolo has been at Immobiliare for just over a year, having previously worked in product roles across sectors. . If you are a growing business, it’s common to add more people–more developers, more designers, more product managers. The ratio between engineers and product managers or designers in our company is very high.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 26, 2022

Interested in getting help acing your data science or machine learning interview? Data science will only continue to expand as well as more teams begin to use data to make decisions, not just engineering. There will likely be data science professionals working on most marketing and cross-functional teams in the very near future.

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