Product Management University

AUGUST 21, 2023

The product CEO analogy for product managers has been around forever, but when you think about it, does it really make sense for B2B software? Every product manager wants to have a reputation for being strategic. product managers, will do the same for their products. Let’s have a look see! Feeling good?

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

But, it’s usually challenging to assess what’s the right way to go about it – how much of iteration should be that from user feedback versus founder’s vision for the product? We asked some of the industry experts about how do they merge both the aspects and finalize the features of the product.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Themes are critical building blocks for your product’s strategy, each Theme is usually a statement describing an idea that is critical to the vision of your product. Each of these items are also useful when communicating your product’s strategy to various stakeholders within your organization.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

Expanding on a recent post ( Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies ), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product, engineering, design) struggling to form product strategies without a company strategy to hang them on.    We can’t build a sensible product strategy in a vacuum. 

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Throughout the program, each mentor leads a conversation in an area of their expertise that is live streamed and available to both mentee and the broader product community. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel. Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

It contains subsections with steps that one should go through while building products. Product Strategy. As a first step, PM needs to define the strategy for the product. A well defined product strategy provides insights into the deep customer problems that your product is trying to address.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Here’s the thing I’ve noticed and it’s a problem in B2B SaaS companies. There’s still a lot of consumer product mindset in the B2B space, especially among investors or even executives with consumer product backgrounds. They’re of the opinion that a string of home run products is the only way to drive growth.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Throughout the program, each mentor leads a conversation in an area of their expertise that is live streamed and available to both mentee and the broader product community. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel. Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 5, 2019

The Portfolio vs. Every Product! Here are five B2B product management best practices that’ll give product management teams the coveted “strategic” moniker among executives, marketing, sales, engineering and customer success teams. Vision & Strategy. ” Product 3 Goal: etc.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I recently led a workshop for an organic tech farm startup that wanted to set its foot online for selling organic food to B2B customers. I have some takeaways and learnings to share that I covered as a coach for their onboarding strategy. The frameworks (image 1 &2) highlight the approach to take the product into the market.

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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. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables. Vision: Vision Narrative. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Employees who have been with the company for a long time may find it difficult to adapt to new directions, especially if they’ve been successful with the original product. He has served on numerous boards, both profit and nonprofit.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Throughout the program, each mentor leads a conversation in an area of their expertise that is live streamed and available to both mentee and the broader product community. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel. Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Throughout the program, each mentor leads a conversation in an area of their expertise that is live streamed and available to both mentee and the broader product community. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel. Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

That clarity is one of the main reasons I was so excited to join Intercom earlier this year – the company entered an industry dominated by impersonal and disconnected tools like ticketing systems and email with a vision to “make internet business personal.”. This move contributed to AdRoll’s return to double digit growth.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Jordan Bergtraum is a management consultant with over ten years of experience in the B2B SaaS industry, mostly as a head of product for various organizations in the legal, education, facilities management, and pharmaceutical spaces. He has been responsible for product strategy, UX, and teams consisting of product and project managers.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Throughout the program, each mentor leads a conversation in an area of their expertise that is live streamed and available to both mentee and the broader product community. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel. Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 2, 2024

As the VP of Product Management at HiveMQ, Yury oversees HiveMQ product discovery and delivery by the Product & Engineering team. In his role on the leadership team, he is responsible for shaping and executing their product strategy.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Furthermore, it dilutes the strategic value of your portfolio to the three common markets that use all products together the way you intended. In B2B, you’re usually better off to build your growth strategy on the three common markets until you reach critical mass in terms of market share, wallet share and customer success.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2025

They are seeking a Mobile Product Manager to lead the innovation and expansion of their field service mobile application across iOS, Android, and various third-party integrations. A person with no background in AI, ML, or LLM-powered products. A professional with no experience building consumer products (e.g.,

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

A risk-averse Product Manager. A PM who did B2B work most of his/her career. Requirements Top-notch product management: 10+ years of Product Management experience, including impactful leadership roles on major products. Some mostly focused on the users rather than the technical side of things.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 10, 2024

Are you looking to break into an exciting career in B2B product management? Then ensure you have the right skills before commencing a B2B product manager job. B2B Product management guides the activities of the entire product life cycle from product indentation to its final launch.

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Emerge Insights

JUNE 14, 2023

Wednesday, June 2111am PDT / 2pm EDT Join our webinar for product-focused B2B leaders and product teams.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In most B2B organizations, it’s more the exception than the rule that customer success managers inherit accounts where they’re in a position to play offense because the customer is thrilled with your products. Let’s dream for just a minute.

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

In this role, you will leverage your extensive experience turning ambiguous problems into clear and actionable deliverables, aligning internal and external leaders on a shared, ambitious vision. Professional interests Prarthana is passionate about building intuitive, data-driven SaaS products and communication platforms.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Strong product moves start with strong visions. Form a vision by first asking: “What could be?” When everyone is pulling in the same direction, it doesn’t guarantee success, but it does give you a chance. Everyone needs to be aligned on where you’re going, how you’re getting there, and why.

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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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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes. They lack vision and lead nowhere. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. Strategic value is about aligning features with the company’s vision and long-term goals. Product vision.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

This high-consideration, high-intent signup funnel is similar to the problems FinTech companies might face, or a B2B company facing a long, complicated API integration. Andrew Chen: I think this is one of the reasons why B2B SaaS companies have a recurring revenue model. The vision? I should take it when I’m out and about.”.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2018

In many companies, improving engagement is a reactive process: as a product manager you wake up to a barrage of support requests after launching a new feature, or your in-app analytics reveal that new users are skipping over key functionality and never reaching their “aha!” ” – Martin Eriksson , Mind the Product.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 12, 2023

. 🎖️ The Best of Lenny’s Newsletter 1.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 16, 2020

And when I started in product management back in 2000, it was that sense of excitement and possibility that attracted me to the job—the promise of AOL Instant Messenger and the blank slate. B2B product management has always been strategic. But it’s becoming even more so in this new world of Product-led Growth.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 9, 2023

Product personas are fictional characters that represent real users. Both product personas (B2B) and user personas (B2C) describe somebody who users the product while buyer personas describe those who decide to buy products. Product personas help product managers keep alignment between the product and its vision.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 31, 2022

The first deals that you are going to secure are likely to be much more on relationship and vision than on a working product (or you shape the product together with your design partners as you go, in a later stage). What is it about these companies that make them ideal for you?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

B2B Product Managers with no B2C experience. Requirements 6+ years of Product Management experience with a proven record of successfully launching and scaling platforms. Candidates short profile Spencer has over 7 years of experience driving product vision , strategy, and execution in AI-powered and enterprise SaaS platforms.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

You want your team to focus first on product strategy , not deadlines. For a B2B software maker, those themes might look like these: Enable a self-serving buying experience online. Where’s the vision, strategic thinking? Your product roadmap should be a strategic guide, not a calendar. Release March 17.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 7, 2022

Example: App maker wants to transition its client-side product to SaaS. Imagine a B2B software company selling a downloadable app that enterprises install on their machines. Add these and other strategic priorities to the product roadmap (or create a standalone digital transformation roadmap ).

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