Product Innovation Educators

MAY 27, 2024

How product managers can master product design & development Watch on YouTube TLDR This article explores the crucial role of product design in product management, focusing on ideation and concept design tools. Brainwriting is a variation of NGT that involves individual writing and idea sharing.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

Guest Post by: Candice Zhang (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Tauheed Ahmed]. When I first researched about product management, I asked seasoned product managers how they started and they gave me very different kinds of answers. Some of them are good, and some of them are bad.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Book a demo now to learn more. What is a product pilot? A pilot is a small-scale release of a product or feature to a select group of users, aimed at collecting valuable feedback. Product pilots vs. minimum viable products (MVP) It’s understandable if you confuse pilots with MVPs , but they’re not the same.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2016

Minimum Viable Product #1. Writing a book is a complex and at times challenging endeavour: it took me over two years to write and publish my latest book. At the same time, I wanted to test that the product would create enough value for its readers before writing the actual book. Minimum Viable Product #2.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 6, 2022

How can product managers use them to develop their products? A FAB analysis explores the interactions between features, advantages, and benefits of a product. The product’s benefits refer to what the user gains from using it as well as how it’s better than its competitors. Book the demo !

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

There is a ton of product management advice out there, but most of it is generic tips repeated over and over again. With a self-named newsletter and podcast, Lenny is a widely followed product expert. Lenny is a newsletter writer, podcast host, angel investor, and product consultant.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Does it have anything to do with the Minimum Viable Product? Why would you care about MVE as a product manager ? Minimum Viable Experience (MVE) describes how your users must feel when they interact with your product to stay with the company and keep using the product. Book the demo ! Got your seat belt on?

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The value of patents and trademarks for product managers. Today we are talking about what product managers and leaders should know about intellectual property (IP) protection. He also authored the American Bar Association’s book on IP titled The ABA Consumer Guide to Obtaining a Patent. Generally, U.S.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

Why do product managers need a new feature validation framework? TL;DR Product managers need a new feature validation framework to ensure that they meet user needs or drive organizational goals and avert product failure. Product teams should invest in validation when developing the MVP.

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Sequent Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2023

What is a Product Manager? The role of a product manager is the linchpin in product development, overseeing the entire lifecycle from inception to market launch. Tasked with strategizing, planning, and executing product initiatives, they’re the visionary behind the product’s success.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 7, 2019

Positioning, while classically considered part of the marketing world, is absolutely essential for every product manager to understand. Positioning refers to the place that a brand occupies in the minds of customers and its perceived differentiation from its competitors.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

How to achieve product-market fit – for product managers This episode is sponsored by PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. PDMA is also the longest-running professional association for product managers, leaders, and innovators, having started in 1976.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 21, 2022

What product management best practices can help you build valuable and delightful products for your customers? Whether you’re an aspiring product manager or an already established product professional, our list will help you reflect on your processes and hopefully improve them. Check out our list!

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Here are four product development “schools of thought” and the best books to read on each of them. The Waterfall Method Waterfall describes the traditional, linear product development method: idea, prototype, testing, launch. Product Design and Development ? —?Karl Revolutionizing Product Development ?—?Steven

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

Product management is certainly no exception. Product managers and leaders need to find ways to keep learning and growing in an ever-evolving product environment. There’s an abundance of books, podcasts, as well as events at your disposal that cover various product management topics.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

I’ve designed my business to allow plenty of time for reading books, articles, interviews, etc. Tweet This I was very intentional about including the word “habits” in my book title, Continuous Discovery Habits , because I wanted to emphasize the fact that anyone can make small changes in their behavior to get better at discovery.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 27, 2021

How to differentiate and build a competitive advantage that you can sustain and defend over time Photo by Pavel Danilyuk from Pexels Creating your product strategy is hard work. Furthermore, that differentiation needs to be defendable. But many times, we already have multiple existing assets that we can use to differentiate.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2023

This post is intended for corporate product managers in big companies, and the executives who fund them. Don’t put this guy in charge Years ago, a book called The Inmates are Running the Asylum described how engineers get in the way of good design. It comes with a few helpful rules for the latter.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

What’s product planning? How do you apply your product management skills and knowledge to build a robust product plan? Product planning is the iterative process that prepares every stage of the product development life cycle, from the initial idea through launch and further development. Book the demo

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

While Twitter is investigating its Neural Network to discover the truth , it gets us to an important point from a Product perspective. Commonly, 80% use cases of our brilliant Products are happy scenarios. What this means is, if you want to book a car, you select the from-to addresses, click book, and your cab is booked.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 7, 2024

He is the author of two foundational engineering career books, An Elegant Puzzle and Staff Engineer , and The Engineering Executive’s Primer , which will be released in February. Avoid generic or identity values (like “we build good software”) that lack differentiation and fail to provide useful guidance for employees.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 26, 2021

You know how when you log into a SaaS product, you often notice the UI has changed or there are new options that weren't there before? That's SaaS product management hustling in the background to give you the best experience. And you had to own all the servers. Nightmare, right?

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 18, 2023

Product management need to know the story so they can go back and talk to their customers and teams. As much as we like to talk about storytelling and storytelling structures, and there’s 9,000 books on storytelling out there, there’s very little out there about how to build stories for business and for sales.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2023

What is product success? What can product managers do to improve their chances of building successful products? How can they measure that their product is on a path to success? Successful SaaS products satisfy user needs and realize organizational business goals. Book the demo!

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NextBigWhat

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Why product management is hard (and why good product management matters) 1/15 1/ Sometimes, you should imitate competitors. 3/ Sometimes, you need to win on broad differentiation. 8/ Sometimes, you should persist until your product is successful. 9/ This is why product management is hard.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Photo by Barn Images on Unsplash Best 10+ Resources to awaken your strategic brain Books, articles, and strategy gurus As you climb the career ladder, you realize you need to allocate more time to strategic work and less to your well-known tactical tasks. Books My first go-to type of resource is books.

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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. The thing is, users don’t need the majority of features that product teams build.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

Instead of introducing feature-based strategies, consider unbundling one or more capabilities and creating product variants. This will result in more focused products with clearer value propositions, as I discuss in more detail in my book Strategize. Competition: Is your product still sufficiently differentiated ?

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BrainMates

MARCH 23, 2020

Product Management legend Marty Cagan shared his insights on ‘real’ Product Management in a Q&A session with Product Women Sydney at a March meetup. As Marty explained to the Product Women group, during their working week, a Product Manager will be found: Working with designers.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 1, 2020

You don’t need to be a data scientist to be a product manager. You don’t need to have any serious data analysis experience to start your product management path. But the best products are data-driven products, which means you need to get comfortable with handling data on a day-to-day basis. Don’t believe us?

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 19, 2020

In our model, product teams effectively own a piece of the product, and consist of a Product Manager, Designer, and a few Product Engineers. But, we all work together in unison to try and make this product.”. Laura Klein on improving chemistry in product teams. The product team should.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A robust UX strategy is also a valuable differentiator helping you stand out in competitive markets. Book the demo! A UX strategy is a plan that guides product design and development. Consequently, it can differentiate your product in the market and give you an edge over competitors. What is a UX strategy?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

What are the benefits of taking on such an initiative, and how does product management give you the best possible chance of success? In their book “ Digital Transformation. How Does Product Management Enable Digital Transformation? That’s where product management comes in. Discovery of problems.

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The Secret PM Handbook

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Co-opting product management into sales. My good friend Geoffrey Anderson ( @ganders2112 ) recently wrote about a situation we product managers sometimes find ourselves in. When sales are not going well, company leadership might ask product management come in to help hit the numbers. Often] not a great idea.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 13, 2022

What is product parity? How can product managers avoid building parity products? We talk about product parity or brand parity when a brand’s product offers exactly the same functionality as competing products. Product parity also limits your marketing and branding strategies.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. The results showed that they wanted better (and more frequent) feedback on how to further develop their product management skills.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

How product managers can move their customers to action using the StoryBrand Framework. Today we are talking about how to clearly communicate the value of a product to customers. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:51] If I’m a team manager, my team is the hero. Check out J.J.’s

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