The Product Manager Coach Blog

MAY 7, 2024

Senior Product Managers focus on the tactical aspects of product management, directly influencing the product’s roadmap and strategic execution. Vision Setting and Execution: Developing and maintaining a clear vision for the product, translating strategic goals into actionable plans that drive success.

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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

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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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Roadmaps kill outcomes Fixating too much on roadmaps can get you trapped because it prevents you from exploring creative alternatives. Shape your product vision into foreseeable goals, each one a step towards fulfilling that big vision. Aside from being a coach, Büşra is a Product Management guest lecturer and speaker.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2023

If you missed Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on the Mission, North Star, and Vision. The Vision evolves over time, and is an inspirational guide for the company's future. Looking ahead, Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals.

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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. The path and the steps to reach the destination is defined through a product roadmap. Hence roadmapping is a crucial exercise which can make or break your product. Product Roadmap. Traditional vs Theme Based Roadmap.

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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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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

They use unconventional ways to spread the vision and have the ability to keep cool under pressure with tight deadlines. Defining the ‘why’ behind your roadmap Product management is a discipline responsible for defining the ‘why’ behind your roadmap. The key is using the right decision-making framework.

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Ronke PM

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Product teams and their multidisciplinary partners embody customer centricity by using a first principles framework to deconstruct problems into smaller fragments and utilize them to create creative, innovative solutions. If the product or organization does not have a client advisory board, they create one with power users of their products.

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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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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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Product Solving

MAY 27, 2020

Between urgent requests from stakeholders, customer bugs, and an overly-optimistic roadmap, most of us are barely keeping our heads above water, let alone spend enough time with our team to ensure they are never wasting any effort. You look at your roadmap and realize you are halfway through implementing another big feature.

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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. Lawley and Schure provide ten roadmap types and describe the pros and cons of each.

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NextBigWhat

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Here are few excerpts from the AMA: How does Razorpay defines product roadmaps? As head of product strategy, what framework do you use to decide on the roadmap? We follow annual targets in the form of OKRs and quarterly roadmap. Things like vision, customers, features etc. Then look at things from this lens.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Yes, we’re B2B but are we targeting small businesses or enterprise? Similarly, your vision and strategy help with this too. Re-engage with your vision and strategy Strong product principles will align nicely with a company’s vision and strategy. What colour should our homepage CTA buttons be?

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Product Management University

APRIL 12, 2018

GREENVILLE, SC – April 12, 2018 — Proficientz announced today its 2018 Product Management University training curriculum, a series of training courses that teach best practices in product management, product marketing and sales enablement for B2B and B2B2C organizations. Incentive Pricing. About Proficientz.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. In doing so I hope to help demystify what you actually do in the role, provide a framework for assessing what dimensions of the role you are already good at delivering against, and opportunities for improvement on each.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2021

What difference does it make if your product is B2B or B2C? We take a look at the North Star Metrics used by Miro, Amplitude, Airtable, Dropbox, and Jira on the B2B side, and Facebook, YouTube, Netflix, Spotify, and Instagram for B2C – and consider the differences between them. And should you, as a product manager care about it?

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Then, armed with these insights, you can create an empathetic, data-driven customer journey that helps your customers achieve their vision of success. A different approach is the Jobs-to-be-Done framework. Marketing and sales must be closely aligned because B2B customers have become harder to win. It’s done as a partnership.”.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 12, 2023

I want to hone my product skills Fundamentals Mission → Vision → Strategy → Goals → Roadmap → Task 🎖️ How to develop product sense How to get better at product strategy (plus this and this podcast episode) How to get better at influence How to get better at communication: The Minto Pyramid Principle and (..)

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Userpilot

JUNE 25, 2023

TL;DR Continuous Discovery Habits is a guide for Teresa Torres’ discovery framework. The Jobs To Be Done Playbook and When Coffee & Kale Compete are guides to the JTBD framework. The North Star Playbook introduces the North Star framework. Let’s get right to it! Let’s check them out!

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The Product Coalition

JULY 3, 2018

A solid Product Roadmap will help you efficiently and systematically achieve the necessary steps to a successful Product Launch. If you had to use 1 word to sum up what PMs do, most PMs I know would likely pick “Product Roadmap”. This is the big ‘vision’ question, aka boiled down to “Why are we doing this?”

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 22, 2019

It’s all part of a customer-centric philosophy that emphasizes empathy and self-awareness over a staid corporate vision. So what started as an in-app Net Promoter Score (NPS) service is now a framework around very rigorous customer experience metrics, customer effort scores and customer satisfaction (CSAT). Short on time?

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Product Management University

MARCH 9, 2017

Applying that concept in a B2B environment however, requires a broader definition of “the customer.” B2B Product Management & Marketing start and end with a common view of the customer organization, from top to bottom and left to right. More importantly, it’s not even necessary in B2B. Think of it this way.

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Mixpanel

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Depending on your budget, the size of your technical team, and the vision for the future of your data, you can choose the solution that feels the best for you. This is where product thinkers go to understand their users, and identify ways in which they can prioritize their roadmap. All you need.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

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. It should also be noted that Strategy in and of itself is not the end-all be all defining framework of a company. Is the team delivering value every sprint?

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Roadmunk

AUGUST 10, 2017

The AARRR framework is always a solid starting point: acquisition , activation , retention , referral and revenue. Cast the vision, build the version. Also roadmap flexibility. The roadmap changes more often in SaaS, meaning more communication with stakeholders. Curiosity and defined overall vision. Company: Zuora.

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Department of Product

AUGUST 22, 2022

It could mean 3 different CPOs had drastically different views of what the value proposition should be and as a result, the team ended up building half-baked versions of each of these 3 standalone visions. The vision is clear, decisions are made which align with the vision and the company isn’t chasing every single opportunity.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Note: When uploading a mix, artists should also be able to add other DJs to handle B2B cases so that the mix appears on both DJ pages. It’s also an opportunity to generate B2B revenues from promoters and venues by providing a ticketing service which will release the pressure from monetizing from users. Time to sum it up!

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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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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2018

So you start on the left side with a vision that results in a strategy, and you come up with hypotheses, you run experiments to validate or falsify your hypothesis. And based on those results, you start to have a midterm planning, maybe two to six months, so something that looks like a product roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2018

There are plenty of roadmap models that limit these type of situations, eschewing uni-linear progressions for an alternative, more networked frameworks. One general principle, whether you are working on a B2B or a B2C product, is that your customers are “out there”. So the same technological solutions (email, CRM systems, etc.)

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Above: When you just look at the cross-section of companies in the industry, many of the newest and best B2B and consumer companies have all built growth teams. You have someone with a vision, who builds some features and does a launch. You need to collect these efforts within the larger framework of the company.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It is essential you consider and assess against great frameworks, use more than one as each may highlight different issues or areas for growth. A team failing to deliver successful outcomes in time could have flaws in the delivery process, or lack of product vision, or a need to improve the efficiency of the technology stack.

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