The Product Manager Coach Blog

MAY 7, 2024

Advanced Analytical Abilities: Excelling at dissecting complex data, identifying patterns, and formulating strategies based on comprehensive market analysis. What is a Senior Product Manager? Staff Product Managers often view products holistically, considering how each fits into the broader business strategy.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 29, 2019

What are the pitfalls of focusing myopically on features while creating and communicating roadmaps? How do you avoid feature-fixation , and instead use themes and “ north stars ” as the guiding light for creating long-term value not only for customers but for product teams as well? Product Themes and North Stars.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

As is almost always the case, what seems to be execution gaps turn out to be product strategy gaps, and so we started with creating a clear product strategy. At some point I gave the CEO homework: to analyze all the recent deals of one of the products and try to find patterns. But you do need to choose.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

How to create a scalable product organization. How product strategy uses a company's vision to fuel profitability. An iterative product framework for identifying and pursuing the right opportunities to create value. Melissa broke silence over the excessive focus on delivery in product teams.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This playbook focuses on the essential elements for running a Product Development Health Check, including the key concepts, five key elements to check, what healthy product development looks like, and next steps. Why is a Product Development Health Check Necessary?

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The Cloud has Fundamentally Changed B2B Selling. B2B Metrics now are More Like B2C Metrics. Therefore, you need to address these concerns in your product. Without a Product Strategy, you Won’t Know When to Walk Away. You have more than one customer and both are equally important for different reasons.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I wanted to share what I believe are the top ten most important deliverables for product managers across each of the four dimensions of product management. All of this is why I find the best way to articulate a strategy is as a set of product/market fit hypotheses that you are constantly iterating on and refining.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

Each such level requires a different skill level and different frameworks, and moving from one to another (at least to doing it well) might take time and practice. Even when I created a strategic roadmap, it refined the already existing product and extended it, but it didn’t create a whole new thing.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

There are many frameworks available on building products and the approach varies individual to individual. This section sets out my philosophy on how to build products. It contains subsections with steps that one should go through while building products. Product Strategy. Product Roadmap.

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Product Collective’s INDUSTRY: The Product Conference was created in Ohio by product people Paul McAvinchey, Mike Belsito, and Rebecca Feliciano with the goal of bringing the best software product management professionals together. QUESTION 1: Do you think that company strategy and product strategy are the same?

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 28, 2018

On an almost daily basis, I’m talking to product management leaders who find that agile is causing their product managers to focus too much on short-term tactical activities that are isolated from the broader product strategy and lifecycle. Sales Is Trying to Change My Product Roadmap! Even in agile.).

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 28, 2018

On an almost daily basis, I’m talking to product management leaders who find that agile is causing their product managers to focus too much on short-term tactical activities that are isolated from the broader product strategy and lifecycle. Sales Is Trying to Change My Product Roadmap! Even in agile.).

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

That was my first introduction to the continuous discovery framework. ” I think especially in the B2B context, when you’re not the end user, you’re not building it for yourself, you really have to do a lot more getting into the customers and figuring out what they really need since it’s not you using it.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 26, 2022

At least in the B2B software product world, I haven't found that to be true. Things I frequently hear from B2B field/sales organizations: "Product doesn't understand how important this is.  They  Engineering/Product lack urgency."  Call it "roadmap amnesia."

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

She’s worked in both product-led and non-product-led companies, so she understands the intricacies. Aside from being a coach, Büşra is a Product Management guest lecturer and speaker. Roadmaps kill outcomes Fixating too much on roadmaps can get you trapped because it prevents you from exploring creative alternatives.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

The Reforge blog helps product managers with topics like analytics , team management and development, product leadership , or product strategy. Women in Product aims to empower female product managers and the blog is one of the channels they use. Product Talk is a valuable resource for product professionals.

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Department of Product

JANUARY 17, 2023

Product teams – and especially B2B SaaS product teams – are all too familiar with subscription pricing, but it’s still rare to see many businesses outside of the major entertainment companies opt for micro subscriptions. Are there specific features of your product you could package into a microsubscription?

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 29, 2019

An IoT Technology stack and framework for product managers. More and more product managers and innovators are bumping into IoT, the Internet of Things, as part of their current or future product roadmaps. I’m seeing a convergence of product forms. A Simple IoT Framework for Product Managers.

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Userpilot

APRIL 19, 2024

TL;DR Market research is vital for making informed business decisions, enabling companies to understand the market, target audience, and competitors, reducing risks, and optimizing marketing communications and product strategies. Consider a B2B SaaS company that develops project management software.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

You would almost think product managers have super powers if they can juggle all of these tasks at once while remaining confident under pressure. There are many more ways we could describe the all-encompassing role of a product manager. The key is using the right decision-making framework.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 14, 2020

However, the skills needed to ‘level up’ for product managers are a bit more elusive as PMs often receive varying feedback from customers, sales, customer success, engineering, etc. Everyone wants something from PMs, and they are constantly juggling the roadmap for success. Does the Bowling Alley Framework make sense for your product?

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NextBigWhat

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

In the week prior to this, we had Deepak Abbot, VP of Product @ Paytm share key insights on what makes the growth tick at Paytm & much more. And in this week’s AMA, we had the pleasure of hosting Shashank Mehta, Director of Product Strategy at Razorpay to talk about Product Management career and had an extremely lively conversation.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This is not a strategy and will likely not help you achieve your objectives. You need to create a growth strategy that aligns with your business goals and your customers’ needs. The product strategy must then outline how the product will deliver on the growth. What capabilities do you already have?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

In these cases, my observation is that the true failing was in the definition and communication of the strategy rather than than a cultural inability to execute. Through these failures, I’ve come up with a framework for defining, layering, and communicating an effective product strategy that can close the gap between strategy and execution.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

You might also be interested in: How I Created A B2B Customer Lead Prioritization Model 2. You might also be interested in: How to Use OKRs for Roadmap Prioritization and Planning 3. You might also be interested in: Product Strategy and Prioritization with ServiceNow Group PM Which Model Should I Use?

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Product Bookshelf

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Although the title makes is sound like a book for beginners, Product Management for Dummies has a lot to offer product managers at any level. Product management as a topic is vast. The breadth of knowledge you need to be an effective product manager is very complex. The Whole Product.

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Good Product Manager

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

These complimentary webcasts are focused on best practices for b-to-b product management leaders and product managers. Rather than a “one-size-fits-all” offering, we recommend tailoring the offering to the buyer needs through pricing and product strategies such as bundling and tiered pricing architectures.

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Good Product Manager

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

These complimentary webcasts are focused on best practices for b-to-b product management leaders and product managers. Rather than a “one-size-fits-all” offering, we recommend tailoring the offering to the buyer needs through pricing and product strategies such as bundling and tiered pricing architectures.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Since product development is often a blank canvas (particularly in startups) the sheer number of possible scenarios and opportunities you might want to explore can be overwhelming: Should we build a mobile app or not? Yes, we’re B2B but are we targeting small businesses or enterprise? What colour should our homepage CTA buttons be?

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Roadmunk

AUGUST 10, 2017

The data you focus on seems to be a key differentiator in SaaS product management. The AARRR framework is always a solid starting point: acquisition , activation , retention , referral and revenue. Also roadmap flexibility. The roadmap changes more often in SaaS, meaning more communication with stakeholders.

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Department of Product

AUGUST 22, 2022

With that, we had a little discussion about what the best places for a product leader to focus on might be in the early days after joining a company – and how a leader in product might be able to conduct a ‘Product Health Check’. Which leads us nicely onto our final product health check marker: strategic health.

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Department of Product

AUGUST 2, 2020

Align and engage with business strategy If you’re building a new set of APIs to expose to customers, you’ll need solid content documentation. If you’re aiming to launch a new product in the B2B space your vocabulary may need to alter slightly to cater to a different audience.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 30, 2019

The reason I wanted to write this article, is because too often, articles about product management focus on agile tradecraft which is so idealistic, it’s essentially impossible to implement, because most teams are just drowning in b t, and trying to slay dragons. What numbers do they watch? What mistakes did they make?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Product metrics are data measurements that businesses use to evaluate the success of a product and determine how customers are engaging with it. Popular metrics like churn rate and conversion rate inform product strategy and help various company stakeholders to understand a product’s value.

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Userpilot

JUNE 25, 2023

Whether you’re a seasoned product management pro or just starting out on this thrilling journey, we’re pretty sure you’ll discover a book or two that will help you boost your product management game. TL;DR Continuous Discovery Habits is a guide for Teresa Torres’ discovery framework.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Instead fund your roadmap. Will getting the app be dangerous for you? Try to understand how hard it would be to be able to extract the net price. Trick: never ever license and addition of your software. Do not sell them the enterprise edition at the lowest price point. What do you think about having or not having sales rep commissions?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A design tool that can help build mockups and wireframes in the early stages of product development and create quick prototypes. A flexible tool for sending in-app surveys, building product roadmaps , and implementing in-app bug reporting in order to involve customer feedback in your product development. Productboard.

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