bpma ProductHub

JULY 13, 2016

It is an important resource for the product management community. Each has advised me in different ways and on different aspects of what I can bring to an organization both personally and professionally. In addition to a technology focus, I often need to be more involved in the business or product side.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

An unconventional view of what it takes to be a Product Leader Photo by Porapak Apichodilok from Pexels *Note: this is a revised and updated version of a guest blog I did for Department of Product, titled: ‘Unconventional advice for transitioning to Head of Product’ ?—?check check it out! How do I build alignment?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

An inside look at product management at IBM and the interview process. Kevin Wei is an Offering Manager at IBM managing Watson Knowledge Catalog and DataStage. In this Path to PM blog post, Kevin shares his journey breaking into a product role as a new grad hire at IBM. What is an IBM offering manager?

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

The position of Product Manager has been one of the fastest-growing roles in tech in recent years, with a 30 percent growth in job openings year over year. The trouble is, candidates who possess the varied skill set needed for Product Management are elusive and highly sought-after. Do Some Soul-Searching.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

The position of Product Manager has been one of the fastest-growing roles in tech in recent years, with a 30 percent growth in job openings year over year. The trouble is, candidates who possess the varied skill set needed for Product Management are elusive and highly sought-after. Speak to a Learning Advisor.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

One signal I’ve been giving much thought too of late is the collision of two roles, Product Management and Product Ownership. A topic of hot debate in the agile and product circles but with very few answers. The origins of the Product Manager Product Management theoretically started back in 1931 after Neil H.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 1, 2021

You can think of onboarding as the ongoing process of educating your customers in how to get the most out of your SaaS product. Technically speaking, this is known as "primary onboarding." Your product managers will be able to build a basic onboarding system in a matter of minutes, without using any code at all.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We talk to Hemanth Kempanna, an Exponent alumnus, on his journey to breaking into product management and his experience building cloud-based products. For product management and UI/UX related skills, I have personally found LinkedIn Learning and Udemy to be helpful. Hemanth is currently a PM at Motorola.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

What is an ecosystem moat and how can product managers build one? These are the key questions that Austin Yang , the Lead Product Manager at Softr , discussed in his presentation at the Product Drive Summit this year. Are you intrigued? Well, why don’t we get to it then? So why not provide the service yourself?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We generally advise against linear, top-down product tours. Instead, you should opt for an interactive walkthrough type of product tour. Product tours generally include a welcome screen , a survey to segment users, a checklist , and experience flows for each of the key activation points. Get a demo today!

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

TalkTalk was fined £400,000 in 2016 for failing to have appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to secure its customers’ personal data, and for keeping their personal data for longer than necessary. Why Product Needs to Care. Why am I writing about this for the Mind the Product blog?

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

An interactive walkthrough is a step-by-step, interactive guide to your product that will ultimately lead your users to activation. Exactly what constitutes activation will vary for different use cases of your product. Your non-technical product managers and product marketing managers will certainly thank you!

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Building trust can be tough when you’re a new hire in a leadership position. A couple of years later, I got into a real leadership position. Managers and leaders are different. I got my first real leadership opportunity about five years into my career when one of the teams I was on was struggling with the product roadmap.

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers Decide when to care about trends and when to sit back and watch what happens next Trends and the product lifecycle Imagine your product strategy stayed exactly the same for the next 10 years. What would happen? Because everything’s always changing.

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Userpilot

MAY 26, 2021

If your product is extremely complex to use, or making a mistake while using it would have life-changing consequences for customers, then you will need to spend more time on the sign-up stage than other SaaS businesses. This is the generic “ product tour ” that we have written about on this blog many times before.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Building a powerful SaaS product takes way more than just an idea. Without a systematic approach to your product management process and clear roadmap, you’ll likely face several hurdles like lack of direction, unclear priorities, wasted resources, missed deadlines, difficulty in scaling, and more.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 7, 2021

Alex A may have little patience to deal with awkward technical queries, and may be willing to make unrealistic promises to get deals to cross the line. To keep them developing and improving they need to be at the heart of discussions around product development, market strategy and customer focus.

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UX Studio

JANUARY 24, 2024

But I also advise designers not to oversee the business side of the relationship. But I [00:16:00] also advise designers not to oversee the business side of the relationship. Pair with product managers, pair with engineers. Learn to understand limitations, technical limitations. Marilia: Yes.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In this blog, we’ll look at what you should expect from a platform, and give you our honest opinions on what the best customer success tools available right now are. Few customer success managers are also developers. A customer success platform designed for non-technical people will help your customer success teams be more efficient.

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Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

As we discussed in the blog post Yes, Product Managers are Superheroes , product management is a combination of both art and science. I have been in product management for about 15 years. While we don’t necessarily think of ourselves as sales people, the truth is Product Managers sell every day.

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UX Studio

OCTOBER 16, 2017

As a consequence, the functional and reliable features still have some technical hiccups which would need more work. However, doing everything by the rules results in a product that functions but won’t earn trust because it lacks personality. The product and the business impact can also come in here as a justification factor.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 10, 2016

So I’m going to scratch the surface in this blog post. I’ve been coaching product teams for three years on modern product discovery and this single change has had a bigger impact on how teams work than everything else I do with them combined. The Mental Representations of Expert Product Managers.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 5, 2022

It’s also advisable to ensure they contain a CTA and a X button, so that the user has the choice to either engage with the value the modal is offering, or go back to what they were doing previously. After connecting Userpilot to your product with a JS snippet, you can build a tooltip in 10-15 minutes of work.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

So what Dewey is advising us to do. Now I get that like there might be different technical architect implementations for fast forwarding commercials, but there’s one feature that’s going to solve this need. I blog at product talk dot org about continuous discovery. These are the essentials of thinking.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This will change the way that a lot of people think about product market fit, BS metrics, understanding the needs of the people that really matter. Video, Slides, Transcript and Rahul’s blog about this follow… Understanding Customers. These are things that a typical product management process wouldn’t find.

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Product Talk

APRIL 7, 2021

I am a former chief product officer and now coach and advise product leaders and teams. She is my blog editor and also helps out with a variety of content marketing activities for Product Talk. Is it technically feasible?” They already have a blog. I’m joined today by Hope Gurion.

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Roadmunk

DECEMBER 7, 2017

This is the latest episode of Product to Product —a product management podcast for / by product people. You may know her as the VP of Product at Lola , a former product manager at Kickstarter , or as a previous PM at Microsoft. I’ve spent most of my career in product management.

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