Product Management University

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The role of Product Manager can be a catch-all for some organizations where it describes someone who works on a team with other PMs, takes lead on a product, or oversees an entire portfolio. Senior Product Manager A Senior Product Manager typically oversees a team of other PMs or supervises a major product within a portfolio.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The next big leap for the B2B product management profession will be a complete shift away from “market problems” to a focus on “customer goals.” This will be the turning point that finally takes B2B product management to the level of influence and leadership it has always aspired to in the organization.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The next big leap for the B2B product management profession will be a complete shift away from “market problems” to a focus on “customer goals.” This will be the turning point that finally takes B2B product management to the level of influence and leadership it has always aspired to in the organization.

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Bain Public

JUNE 28, 2019

In a B2B environment, the sales team often interfaces with buyers. Existing clients, as well as sales prospects, become influencers on the product roadmap. Salespeople listen to those unwilling to buy a product unless specific features get added. When sales return with this type of feedback, they set about managing the product.

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Good Product Manager

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Top Product Management Leadership Priorities For 2020. You may remember me posting last fall about some research we were working on at SiriusDecisions/Forrester to understand the biggest challenges and priorities of product management leaders. Your Input Needed: What Product Management Loves (and Hates!)

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Good Product Manager

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Top Product Management Leadership Priorities For 2020. You may remember me posting last fall about some research we were working on at SiriusDecisions/Forrester to understand the biggest challenges and priorities of product management leaders. Your Input Needed: What Product Management Loves (and Hates!)

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry. It is a well-established company, a leader in its domain, but it still needs to deliver new products to the market so product-market fit is a very relevant topic.

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Good Product Manager

MARCH 29, 2016

In this SiriusDecisions blog post , I share some insights from our research, including whether product managers and marketers felt they had a consistent process for understanding, prioritizing and applying needs, and what their roles and responsibilities were for uncovering needs. GToygEySYG #b2b. What’s Hot on Twitter.

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Product Management University

JUNE 21, 2021

Convince them you know the market better than everyone else and you’ll earn your way into the driver’s seat until someone else proves they know it better. Here’s the thing about product management though. Everyone (OK, most everyone) expects you to be the market experts and lead accordingly. Zero or very few.

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Product Management Unpacked

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

I’m excited to be named Product Executive in Residence (PXIR) at Carnegie Mellon University. This new PXIR role enables CMU to bring the voice of industry into classrooms and product leadership curricula. There is also the ubiquity of what’s often referred to as the “product problem.”

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. You blame the market, but often that’s just overlooking the real problem. You add features, you replace salespeople, but it doesn’t help.

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Product Talk

MAY 13, 2020

Grow market share. Product teams struggle to drive business outcomes because many companies haven’t taken the time to define their strategy. Here are a few questions to help you imagine different scenarios: Will you grow revenue because you will have more products to sell that capture more of the Total Addressable Market ?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 12, 2019

At a time when so much of today’s B2B ecosystem is built around software products, I believe it has become incumbent on the people responsible for designing, developing, and building these products to take back leadership of how our companies are run, and lead us all back to a culture of responsible growth.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

You blame the market, but often that’s just overlooking the real problem. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. Photo by Tomas Sobek on Unsplash Nobody likes tough market conditions, but it can also be an opportunity. It’s an opportunity for clarity.

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Good Product Manager

MARCH 29, 2016

In this SiriusDecisions blog post , I share some insights from our research, including whether product managers and marketers felt they had a consistent process for understanding, prioritizing and applying needs, and what their roles and responsibilities were for uncovering needs. Great insight from @danatherrien [link] #b2b.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2023

Do we need to escalate any critical issues to company leadership? How do product managers lead standups? The above mentioned sounds simple enough, yet, we still find many stories online and on social media about challenges product leaders face when it comes to leading daily standups successfully.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Andrea, who calls herself a “Product Thinker” and “a professional asker of many questions”, has amassed 1600 followers on her Medium account. Andrea has 15+ years of experience in Product Management and Marketing, from SMBs to large enterprises and educational organizations such as Product School.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2022

When a company is first starting out, one of its main goals is to find the right product-market fit. In my last piece, I discussed many of the tools that product leaders have for building a customer-obsessed culture. These customers are then consulted, with the intent to validate the product strategy and long-term roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

The market, however, understood it differently. It took me time to understand that I need to present myself as a product leadership coach and product strategy expert rather than a consultant. These terms are often confused because when your product is still young, you truly need to develop new features to win contracts.

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Innovatemap

DECEMBER 20, 2023

From insights keeping us informed on product trends to friendly competition around the Village Table, here’s a list of a few favorites from our team. Lenny Rachitsky Jake Trowbridge, Principal Product Manager Lenny Rachitsky is a goldmine for product management, UX design, product marketing and general business resources.

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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. This means that whatever they work on isn’t always aligned with customer or market needs.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

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. Product Drive is Userpilot’s FREE online event where experts from top companies come to share growth and marketing insights.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Step back for a minute and consider the expectations heaped on most product management organizations. Marketing, sales, engineering, client services and others expect product management to be more knowledgeable on the markets and customers than all other functions collectively.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

Once a month (and each week for paid subscribers), Lenny answers reader questions related to product, growth, and career advancement. Differentiating your product – Lenny shares 7 ways companies can differentiate their products, including focusing on affordability, product quality, niche markets , and more.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

I will also do away with the notion of a “Product.” Markets need solutions. This consideration is especially true in B2B and B2B2C environments. The worst product is the best innovation that your customer doesn’t comprehend or cannot access. The key is in building win-win strategies and identifying timing in the market.

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Start by talking to business stakeholders, like your leadership, customer success, marketing and more. This is particularly important when you’re product-led. As a VP of Product at Roam Digital, a full service consultancy, I’ve had the opportunity to work on a wide range of B2B and B2C products.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Alternatively, if for a specific profile none of the categories works well, it could mean that this profile isn’t fitting you or that you might be earlier in your product-market fit journey than you might have thought. If you have a product marketing manager, this is a good opportunity to involve them.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

I recently completed the process of hiring for a Head of Design role at my current company and was surprised when I couldn’t find much quality content anywhere (YouTube, Medium, even Google) on how to assess a designer’s portfolio, especially a designer for a senior leadership position. What I look for in a designer portfolio 1.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Product-led growth is one of the hottest topics in our industry. One way or the other, if you are in B2B SaaS, this is a discussion-worthy topic. Photo by R Khalil from Pexels Product-led growth (PLG) seems to be everywhere these days. If you are in B2B SaaS, it is almost impossible to avoid the discussion, and rightfully so.

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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. It also describes valuable skills you need to learn and career paths within product management, among other things. There is no shortcut to becoming a B2B product manager.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

If you are in B2B, the profile is most likely a market segment (company sizes, industries, etc.). Try including marketing, sales, customer success, and the CEO in the discussion. If you are in B2C it’s usually different personas. Ideally, this should be a group exercise. Next week I’ll talk about how to address them.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

Is your B2B product easy to sell and easy to renew? I realize not every product person has to navigate sales stakeholders. But if you’re working on a B2B product with a sales force, odds are you know what I mean. I’ve learned first-hand many of the product mistakes I highlight below. Doing it all yourself?

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bpma ProductHub

JUNE 12, 2017

Erin shared how she used customer focus and analytics every step of the way to optimize the cloud product offering and marketing strategy. Garima Painuly is a B2B SaaS Product Manager at PowerAdvocate in downtown Boston. She is also involved with user experience design and product marketing. Hub Recruiting.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

Product Coalition publishes the most popular one of the product manager blogs on our list. The Reforge blog helps product managers with topics like analytics , team management and development, product leadership , or product strategy. Product Collective. First Round’s The Review. Hacker Noon.

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Bain Public

MARCH 30, 2020

A Day in the Life of a Product Management Consultant Bringing Product Management to the Next Level at Livescale The Top 6 Roles to Describe a Product Manager When Executives Tell You What to Build, They Approve the Development of Unnecessary Features Working Together, Product vs Sales: How to Collaboratively Reach your B2B Product-Market Fit.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 15, 2020

It’s cheaper, reaches more people, and has proven results for SaaS, B2B, and B2C companies. In a nutshell, product-led growth is a strategy which focuses on the product itself being the primary driver of growth for a company, rather than investing in expensive and elaborate marketing campaigns. The secret? It’s cheaper.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

The product was still young but already well-defined and deployed on customers’ networks. I did a lot of work there on improving the product and making it more suitable for the market, easier to sell and deploy, and contributed directly to the product’s success and business growth throughout my time there.

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