The Product Manager Coach Blog

MAY 7, 2024

Communication Excellence: Possessing the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly across various organizational levels to ensure alignment and execution of strategies. Advanced Analytical Abilities: Excelling at dissecting complex data, identifying patterns, and formulating strategies based on comprehensive market analysis.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 29, 2019

What are the pitfalls of focusing myopically on features while creating and communicating roadmaps? Feature-based roadmaps have long been the norm of product development, they put product managers in the hot seat to “deliver” the roadmap “to plan.” You can create a theme-based roadmap in several ways.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Welcome back to creating your strategy stack. In Part 2, we dive into establishing your organization's strategy and goals. If you missed Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on the Mission, North Star, and Vision. Subscribe now What’s in a Strategy?

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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. I created a spreadsheet that they needed to fill, that included the customer size (it’s a B2B company), industry, and primary use case for buying the product.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

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. Sanjana Murali – Product Marketing Manager @ Leadfeeder | YouTuber (All About B2B Marketing). How to create a scalable product organization.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Once seen as a support mechanism primarily for B2C enterprises, it’s now recognized as a pivotal strategy for fostering lasting success in B2B businesses and beyond. It unveils a roadmap, explaining how to seamlessly integrate a community into the heart of the Customer journey.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 10, 2019

The most popular frameworks, like agile, are more about the general approach your office takes. The Jobs To Be Done Framework (JTBD, for short) is different. Explaining the Jobs to Be Done Framework What is business? Let’s look at the theory behind the Jobs To Be Done framework. Anything else is just a hobby.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

What strategies can you implement to drive acquisition and retention faster? Get ready to dive into insightful discussions, practical strategies, and real-world examples that will empower you to create and manage products that meet user needs and leave them truly satisfied. But how do you do that? Product growth speakers.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

As you climb the ladder, primarily the focus changes from solution and execution to strategy. There are many frameworks available on building products and the approach varies individual to individual. Product Strategy. As a first step, PM needs to define the strategy for the product. Product Roadmap.

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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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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

At INDUSTRY, you can learn the latest methods, tools, and frameworks used to build, launch and scale world-class software products through webinars, interviews, and scheduled conferences throughout the year. QUESTION 1: Do you think that company strategy and product strategy are the same? About INDUSTRY's Fireside Chat.

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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! In my post on the SiriusDecisions blog Help!

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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! In my post on the SiriusDecisions blog Help!

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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. Accumulating demographic information forms the basis for executing effective market segmentation strategies.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 21, 2020

And what does it mean for the product leaders steering the ship and plotting out roadmaps ? To evaluate whether or not to shift to product-led growth, Bush recommends using the four-step MOAT Framework. Disruptive strategy. For a complex B2B product, the time-to-value might take weeks or months. Think Netflix or Spotify.

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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. A deep dive into the tools, frameworks and processes used by product managers from top companies.

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Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

Publishing a public roadmap enhances communication with your customers and shows you’re listening to them to make the product satisfy their needs. Continuous Product Discovery and Opportunity Solutions Trees help you stay true to your business strategy while iterating on the product. Radical innovation aka Blue Ocean Strategy.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Looking to become a B2B Product Manager? This career guide offers a detailed overview of the best B2B product management training options. There is no shortcut to becoming a B2B product manager. Business-to-business (B2B) or business-to-consumer (B2C) product managers (PMs) have mastered various hard skills.

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Arpit Rai

OCTOBER 29, 2019

What’s the difference between product management in B2B/SaaS and B2C? Following are some of the differences I can think of: Customer Research: B2B PMs tend to speak with customers a LOT more than B2C customers. In B2B, you’re not always the primary user of your product. B2B or B2C and why? B2B is more exciting to me.

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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. The Product Board blog deals not only with roadmaps but also other aspects of product management like product-led growth. 10 secrets to B2B product research. Product Manager HQ.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Product-led growth is a go-to-market strategy that relies on using your product as the primary vehicle to acquire, activate, and retain customers. It’s a strategy that puts the product at the forefront of your growth efforts, leveraging its value to acquire, activate, and retain customers.

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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. Daniel is an IoT product coach who helps Product teams develop an IoT product strategy. Last is standards and regulations.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Defining the ‘why’ behind your roadmap Product management is a discipline responsible for defining the ‘why’ behind your roadmap. Their time should be split between working on the creation and management of the product strategy, and they should devote their time and ability to repeating the strategy to team members and the CEO.

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Arpit Rai

OCTOBER 29, 2019

What’s the difference between product management in B2B/SaaS and B2C? Following are some of the differences I can think of: Customer Research: B2B PMs tend to speak with customers a LOT more than B2C customers. In B2B, you’re not always the primary user of your product. B2B or B2C and why? B2B is more exciting to me.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Lenka Brozmanova also claims companies in 2023 will have “an even stronger focus on listening to their customers’ needs and implementing their requests into their roadmap.”. Have a more cohesive strategy between product and marketing. Most companies focus on maximizing output, so you better focus on maximizing value.”.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Everyone wants something from PMs, and they are constantly juggling the roadmap for success. In the B2B space, product-driven companies have typically grown faster at scale versus sales or marketing-led organizations. Does the Bowling Alley Framework make sense for your product? Breakout Sessions. Revenue or Reach?

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Yes, we’re B2B but are we targeting small businesses or enterprise? When to consider re-evaluating your product principles Here’s some ideas on potential triggers for re-evaluating your product principles: Strategic triggers – a major product strategy decision has been made (i.e. What colour should our homepage CTA buttons be?

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NextBigWhat

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

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. Here are few excerpts from the AMA: How does Razorpay defines product roadmaps? Process is largely what I’m describing below.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Is your B2B Product Marketing strategy working for you? Brand positioning, demonstrating your value proposition to other businesses, and making channel decisions; B2B product marketing can become a complex process. A B2B marketing strategy is any marketing activity aimed at turning other companies into customers.

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Product Bookshelf

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

There’s a lot you won’t find in other product management books; for example, a comprehensive review of different types of roadmaps, how to get to the next level in your product management career, and a product management skills self-assessment. Product management as a topic is vast. The Whole Product.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. We know that often, innovation in the B2C world tends to translate a few years after into the B2B world.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 21, 2020

And what does it mean for the product leaders steering the ship and plotting out roadmaps ? To evaluate whether or not to shift to product-led growth, Bush recommends using the four-step MOAT Framework. Disruptive strategy. For a complex B2B product, the time-to-value might take weeks or months. Think Netflix or Spotify.

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Gainsight

APRIL 30, 2019

Product analytics provide the insight necessary to evaluate your last roadmap planning session and make informed decisions going forward. Read our post, “How to Make Your Product Scientifically Irresistible,” to learn how to use Nir Eyal’s framework for products that hook their users. READ THE GUIDE. READ THE ARTICLE.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

These frameworks are targeted at teams building new products, first and foremost. Let’s do the other stuff and get it on the roadmap, but let’s get this email out over the weekend. The network effect is something I’ve seen firsthand at Uber, and yet I lack the vocabulary and the frameworks to articulate the deep nuances.

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