Mind the Product

AUGUST 29, 2019

What’s a partial product manager? We’ve all met one, and many of us have been one – a partial product manager is someone who holds the product manager title, but isn’t doing the full job. It can happen really easily, because great product management encompasses a great deal and is constantly evolving.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2022

‘Feature factory’ is not exactly a positive term, especially if you’re aspiring to be a product-led SaaS product management team. We also look at what product managers can do to avoid falling into the trap. Ready to dive in? Let’s get to it. What is a feature factory?

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Books are not as risky as other products, but the whole point of blurbs and reviews is to reduce the risk of people ignoring the book. (I I was angry the day I wrote Tech Managers: Time to Grow Up and Manage Like Humans , but it's still all too true.) Second, I know that Risky Projects Require Diverse Teams. I was thrilled.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Restaurants don’t put an Apprentice Chef in charge of the kitchen overnight, so why do we do this with Product Managers? Photo by Sebastian Herrmann on Unsplash Whilst it has been around for decades, product management has grown rapidly over the last few years. Companies are getting creative.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 8, 2023

Let’s talk about how CS teams drive value in logging customer feedback, product roadmapping, and closing the loop. Your Customer Success team is critical to an effective feedback management process. Building a customer feedback management system? Don’t forget to include your customer success team — they’re critical.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It’s a lesson that all product people need to learn; you can have all the ingredients for a successful product and still fall flat on your face. While there’s no joy in watching a well-intentioned product fail, it’s important to examine why a seemingly sure-fire recipe for success still managed to be dead on arrival.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

One of the primary benefits of working in a product trio is we reduce the hand-offs between functional roles. When a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer work together to decide what to build and they engage directly with customers themselves, we avoid this game of telephone. Products aren’t built by trios.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

How do teams fall into it? What can product managers do to escape it? These are just a few of the questions that Melissa Perri, a product consultant and the author of Escaping the Build Trap , discusses in her presentation she delivered at the Product Drive Summit powered by Userpilot a few weeks ago.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

What Is Your Product? “So, So, what is your product?” In my product coaching work, I have come to realize that many organizations don’t have a clear and consistent answer to this fundamental question. A poorly defined product impacts your ability to respond to changing customer and market needs. Take the long view.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In previous posts in this series, we’ve looked across the tech stacks of individual product teams to get an overview of how they use tools to support all of their continuous discovery habits. Or your goal might be to connect with people who fit a particular demographic or behave in a specific way when using your product.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 15, 2021

I caught up with several product professionals to learn how they approached the job search process. Meet the Product People. For this post, I spoke with the following people: Abdeljalil (Abdel) Karam, Product Manager. Andrew Skotzko, Product Director. Andrew is currently a product director and podcaster.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 10, 2023

How product management teams can better make decisions Today we are talking about disruptions that impact our product work. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [2:13] What does an organization designer do? ” Why do we use that as a way to talk to companies and product teams?

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 30, 2024

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. The “representativeness” falls on a spectrum, from doing an in-depth project at home (e.g. Just like work, interviews can be ‘performed’ without real productivity. Why do work trials?

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Userpilot

MAY 19, 2022

Have you ever wondered what makes a successful product and how a product manager can build one? If yes, you’re in the right place as we’re just about to explore the 12 must-have characteristics of successful digital products. To be successful, your SaaS product needs to provide the right mix of features.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 6, 2020

Product managers are rapidly advancing their skills, and as a result, the industry as a whole has had to level-up to compete as the world’s biggest brands continue to adopt a mobile-first approach. We’ve written a lot—and I mean A LOT—of content focused around mobile product management. What Is Mobile Product Management?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 14, 2018

Prior to joining Intercom as a Product Manager, I had never run a structured beta. I’ve run a lot of successful betas now but I learned my craft through tribal Intercom knowledge, built up by other Product Managers over the years. Start with why and everything else will fall into place. Short on time?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Working at Mind the Product, I put forward a topic I know well, and decided to offer it on Twitter as well. Are you a #product person (founders – this is you!) Over the past few years (and multiple times in the past week), I have had many conversations with great product managers, encouraging them to write or speak.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2021

But before I get into the nitty-gritty of why I wrote the book, how I wrote it, the mistakes I made and why that darn chicken crossed the road… I’ll share the stack I used to self-publish my book, The Making of Product Managers. Hello product manager #28, how did YOU break into product? said no one.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2024

Starting a blog, writing a movie script, launching a podcast, opening a restaurant — you name it, he’s planned it. In the 15 years I’ve been creating digital products, I’ve yet to see a roadmap that develops exactly as planned. Extend it to a day, still manageable. A product vision is all you need to start moving.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 8, 2018

In this context, solutions aren’t product solutions, but rather internal programs and processes that effect change within the organization. In the product world, that means our customers and our end-users. For example, with my coaching business, I don’t want to define my target customer as a head of product. That’s too broad.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

How should product managers handle customer requests to improve customer satisfaction and drive value for users and the business? Customer requests are queries about your product. A customer request management system consists of tools and processes that allow the relevant teams to deal with requests efficiently.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

I began organizing this Product Management Executive Roundtable couple of years ago at the request of a few clients. They brought to my attention the fact that there aren’t any networking forums specifically for product management VPs, SVPs and CPOs. Creating business cases for products that are already in development.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 16, 2022

You’ll almost certainly have heard of a minimum viable product. But a minimum delightful product might be new to you and exactly what you need to focus on as a product manager. A minimum delightful product (MDP) is a version of your product consisting of just enough to engage and delight your users.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. Overengineered products are difficult to use, filled with bugs, and instead of improving your users’ lives, they make them unnecessarily complicated. But worry not! Book the demo! What is overengineering?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Anyone familiar with Product Management will recognize the immortal phrase ‘influence without authority.’ As a Product Manager, you’re a team player who guides product development along its chartered course, but you have to do that without being the literal captain of the ship. What Does ‘Influence’ Mean?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

In the perfect world, product managers have all the time, resources, and skills to do impeccable, in-depth market and user research. In the real world, product managers may have to start from scratch and quickly find something meaningful to work on. There is only the real world.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 10, 2022

Just exactly how are video game product managers going about pricing their products? Video games have become more and more expensive as the game product managers used their product development definition to come up with new ways to extract money from you. How Much Should A Video Game Cost?

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Mind the Product

MAY 8, 2020

In this MTP Engage Manchester talk, Thor Mitchell, a product management coach and former CPO of Crowdcube, explains the importance of humility for product managers. To be a great product manager, recognise what you know what you have yet to learn. What Makes a Great Product Manager Great?

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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 22, 2020

If you’re in digital product management, 2020 has been a roller coaster. Going back to basics to find inspiration has been one way expert product managers adjusted their strategies to meet rapidly-shifting consumer needs. Best Product Management Books. How to Build Habit-Forming Products. by Nir Eyal.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 12, 2023

It’s a product unto itself. And just like a product process, you need data to create something great. It’s a scientific study in human psychology and empathy, the science of knowing what words will help people understand and connect with your brand and product. Start with customer research. That goal is the “a-ha” moment.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 3, 2023

Product Feedback Step-by-step guide with examples How do you handle product ideas from customers? You’re a SaaS business serious about building a product your customers love. And that means you need a system for managing feature requests and customer feedback. Here’s your complete guide.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2022

Chia on Unsplash One of the most common questions that Product Managers have to deal with is how they would improve the product they are managing. In this blog, I will talk about the steps that I, as a Product Manager at Google would take to improve it. Photo by T.H.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Product-market fit (PMF) is a tricky thing for startups. It’s that sweet spot where the needs of your target market perfectly align with what your product is offering, and if you’re a product manager at an early startup, it’s your job to help your product find that fit. but nothing around how to measure it.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

GM’s Product Managers Have Run Into A Battery Problem Image Credit: Frank Hebbert. So I’m willing to bet that you are pretty proud of your product. This is all fine and good as long as the product that you are delivering is truly high quality. The product managers still intend to launch 10 EVs in China.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Product Marketing is a fairly new domain and the role of ‘Product Marketing Manager’ differs greatly from organization to organization. You may want to jump to a relevant section: Who’s a Product Marketing Manager? Product Marketing Manager’s Role and Responsibilities (depending on the company).

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

What is an MLP product? The idea of minimum viable products started out with good intentions – but its main focus was (unfortunately) putting stuff out quickly and with little to no cost to the team, which then resulted in crappy products. Enter the MLP product. How to build an MLP product.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 12, 2023

So let’s jump straight to the article to uncover product growth insights with the help of behavioral analytics. You can also use UBA data to recommend content and products contextually. Likewise, product marketers use the data to target the right audiences with marketing campaigns. Why is user behavior analytics important?

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