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How to Upskill as a Product Manager and Make Progress [Jason Knight]

Userpilot

If so, you should definitely watch the talk that Jason Knight , a product consultant and advisor, gave at this year’s Product Drive hosted by Userpilot. Without vision and looking ‘ahead’ it’s easy to get bogged down in ‘urgent’ low-impact tasks. Are you feeling stuck and not making any impact at your organization?

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How Product-Market Fit Really Works (Part 1)

The Product Coalition

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). If you are going for product-led growth, take into account that initially you wouldn’t be able to convert anyone.

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Spendesk’s Nicolas Marchais on evolving with your market

Intercom, Inc.

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. Short on time?

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Agile Died While You Were Doing Your Standup

Mind the Product

Huge consultancies and one-off consultants have been paid to implement a great manifesto as a repeatable process, not taking the size, stage, growth, culture, and capabilities into consideration. It’s time to change all that by aligning teams for direct connection to a shared mission/vision and the strategy it serves.

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How to Take Part in a Product Bootcamp and Revitalize a Product Department

The Product Coalition

This means, roughly, “I will fulfill my product vision, but I’m not talking to customers”. Likewise, dealing with B2C or B2B customers completely alters your approach to product development and improvement. My dad had a consultancy, so I started to get acquainted with Quality Assurance from a young age. That’s a funny story.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams. On the surface, B2B customer support issues might look quite different from those of B2C. My first job out of college was with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as an individual contributor as well. And I became an excellent individual contributor.

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Product Manager Role – Everything You Need to Know

Userpilot

They must rally a team around a product’s vision and make sure the solution is viable from a business perspective. Type of product (B2B, B2C). At the heart of it, a product manager is responsible for defining a product’s vision and the strategy for achieving that vision. Communicate product strategy and product vision.