Bain Public

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Here are our top 11 best books to read as a product manager: The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo This handbook is about the perfect book for those new to the job and want to learn how to become the manager you’ve always wanted. What better way to do so than by reading!

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Here are 2 actions you can take to develop your Craft Competence: Craft Competence ?? and others feel that.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. If you ever had to face a Manager, Director or Exec as they make bad product decisions and you’re struggling to persuade them otherwise, this post will help you. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

As the Lead Designer at Imaginary Cloud , I conduct most of the interviews for design positions. While interviewing a design candidate, I frequently ask about their preferred books on the subject of UI/UX or product design. It is not that those books are bad. Those books were an important step forward. Why is that?

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Userpilot

JUNE 30, 2022

Without it, you’d find yourself implementing features for the wrong customers, distorting your value proposition, and leading your customer support (CS) team to burnout from dealing with bad-fit users. 75% of companies will break up with poor-fit customers, according to Gartner. Let’s go over the concepts.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Tracking user behavior in-app enables product teams to find ways to improve product experience. Competitor analysis enables PMs to find areas where rivals fail customers and develop sound positioning and differentiation strategies. Book the demo!

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Grow Your Leadership Skills. Ensure that Your Core Product Management Skills are Strong.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

TL;DR Customer discovery questions enable product teams to better understand customer needs and problems so that they can build products that the potential customer truly needs. Other data sources include product analytics, asking customer-facing teams, competitor analysis, and industry events. What are customer discovery questions?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

The first one carries the risk of being a feature broker and offering a product that has a weak value proposition, gives rise to a poor user experience, and consists of a loose collection of features. But do not accept inappropriate behaviour and do not allow people to treat you like a project manager, team lead, or personal assistant.

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Mind the Product

MAY 10, 2019

Throughout his long career, Kenneth Chin, now the Chief Product Officer for Seek Asia, has worked with and led product teams around the world, including the US, UK, Australia, and across Asia. This is one of the core behaviours in many individuals and teams across Asia, and it can have interesting effects. Conflict Avoidance.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 2, 2024

In the past five years, Sean’s team has grown Duolingo’s daily active users from 5 million to nearly 30 million today (over 6x!), Including development time, experiment rollout, and running the experiment for two weeks to get data, they ended up launching the port of Feature A 82 days later.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

Transcendent leaders rise above self-interest and ego and focus on uplifting others and positively impacting the world. In his book “Man’s Search for Meaning,” Victor Frankl imparts deep wisdom as he reflects on his experiences in the Nazi concentration camps. Am I effectively communicating and building trust within my team?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 25, 2021

Even people with a developed growth mindset?—?ones No one likes to see their gaps pointed to, and for people who don’t have a developed growth mindset, it’s twice as hard. There are two ways to do that: Positive motivation : explain to them why growing is good for them. To make such a continuous effort, one has to want it.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

As it turns out, he’s also quite the writer – since the last time we spoke , he has published not one but two books on engineering. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? With his latest book, Staff Engineer , Will is hoping to answer all of these questions.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

James Clear’s 2018 book Atomic Habits explains that our atomic habits are created as a coping mechanism. As we get more comfortable, we keep doing it to get the same positive outcome. And for product managers, it’s important to develop your own atomic roadmapping habits. . This is hard, uncomfortable work.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

Perform a SWOT analysis, identify the strengths and weaknesses of your top competing products, etc. Book a demo today to begin! You may want to learn who your top competitors are, their value proposition , and their weaknesses. create content, and more. You can also ask it for suggestions to get you started.

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Userpilot

APRIL 29, 2021

The Build Trap leads to spending more and more of your development resources on building and maintaining new features, rather than improving UX and feature adoption. This can make your product and team slower, make your UX more complicated, and overall – add little value for your customers. This can obviously backfire badly.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It may be reading articles on your blog, engaging with ads, leaving reviews, contacting the support team, and so on. Consumer touchpoints help to evaluate the degree of customer satisfaction and timely spot friction points (product bugs, lousy customer experience, poor UX, etc.). Booking a demo or signing up for a trial.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results.

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 12, 2024

The role is a combination of design and research team lead. years is eligible for the position. I raised my hand towards the end of 2020 and started in this position early in 2021. The biggest part of a manager or team leader’s job is building a great team. Building trust with your team members is key.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Case Study: How Pets.com Failed Product Development. Many of these are cases where products were developed with little or no understanding of the actual market demand for them. Many of these are cases where products were developed with little or no understanding of the actual market demand for them. By NICK COSTER. million.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 8, 2024

Book a demo now to begin. Host product webinars to reach your target audience Develop webinar content that educates your audience on industry trends, common challenges, and how your product addresses these issues. The more upvotes and positive comments your tool has, the higher you’ll be on the Top Products list.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 22, 2024

TL;DR A product marketing framework is a structured but flexible approach to positioning and promoting your product. To create a go-to-market strategy, you’ll need to identify your target market, craft your value proposition , master your product’s strategic positioning and messaging , and decide on your marketing channels.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In many cases, an economic downturn simply reveals your already existing weaknesses since they now have more impact. When people (and VCs) aren’t spending money easily, you must be super sharp with your value proposition, positioning, product, marketing, and sales. A great salesperson cannot develop that positioning by themselves.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2021

In one of my roles as an R&D manager, I inherited an employee from one of the other teams on the day I joined. Little did I know that “not always easy to manage” is an understatement, and that this developer actually didn’t want to be managed at all. I’ve seen and successfully handled tough cases before. How big is the gap?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. Clarity enables the team to translate the choices into a functional product that creates value. So as you make choices, package the strategy into a document, and share it with the product team, keep four words in mind?—?a A yes with a weak how or a no receives a zero.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 14, 2019

There are thousands of articles, books , videos , and conferences that discuss the traits necessary for you to become the greatest Product Manager ever. This is exceptionally strange because a bad PM can theoretically cause more damage than a great PM can produce success. saying no is critical for ensuring productivity.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Customer intent helps product teams understand customer needs and build solutions that delight users. Book a demo now to get started. By setting up systems to regularly track user behavior, you’d be well-positioned to leverage user intent. Book a demo now to get started. Five key steps to interpreting customer intent.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In many cases, an economic downturn simply reveals your already existing weaknesses since they now have more impact. The unique value proposition, the positioning of the product in the market, understanding exactly who would buy this product and why are all part of this core, without which any GTM playbook would be too generic.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. Users don’t always have the same wants and needs as customers, and the ideas of the stakeholders and dev team may diverge.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. Users don’t always have the same wants and needs as customers, and the ideas of the stakeholders and dev team may diverge.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

The main factors contributing to at-risk customers include poor onboarding process , lack of product value perception, lousy customer support, unfixed bugs, and no learning materials, resource center, and FAQs. When your customers are happy and satisfied, you can see a noticeable positive impact on overall customer success.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 4, 2020

In my opinion, the definition of an MVP is often misunderstood, and I’ve seen entrepreneurs and product teams misinterpret it with unfortunate results. First, a shout out to Frank Robinson , a fellow product development pro in Santa Barbara who coined the term “MVP” about 20 years ago. And what it’s not. The Minimum Sellable Product.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Grow Your Leadership Skills. Ensure that Your Core Product Management Skills are Strong.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. Book the demo!

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As product managers, it’s our job to develop solutions that solve real problems for our customers and create value for the business. Chances are, it might have been because the team wasn’t using the hypothesis-driven approach correctly. But with so many potential ideas to pursue, how do you know which ones are worth pursuing?

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