The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Cosmetic product managers are going after millennials Image Credit: Albert Lugosi. I mean, customers try products, select the ones that they like, and that’s the end of the story, right? These brands have seen huge growth over the past few years, grabbing market share from the big, established names.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This is especially true for product managers who often do not have any real authority and must use their influence to gain support from others. [7:04] It is the name of my podcast as well as the brand of my work. It is the name of my podcast as well as the brand of my work. It is my coaching.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 27, 2021

While exact metrics and the prioritization of those KPIs differs from company to company, there are three key areas all product managers measure: Customer acquisition. Ultimately, measuring these different KPIs allows product managers to answer the question, “Why?” The post What Product Management Metrics Really Matter?

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2024

Product management insights from Molson Coors’s non-alcohol portfolio transformation I am interviewing speakers at my favorite annual conference for product managers, the PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference. Sometimes we have the temptation to build ten brands at the same time. Pace yourself. [15:31]

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 6, 2020

Instead of a normal weekly interview I’m sharing with you 24+ brand new video interviews with world-class experts. They will share their strategies, experience, and secrets to help you excel in product management. FREE Online Summit for Your Product Management Success. Bruce McCarthy, Product VP & Coach.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

How product managers can use visual storytelling to make their ideas stand out. As we move into 2021, the name of this podcast is changing to better reflect our objective here—product managers become product masters. That new name is Product Masters Now. That new name is Product Masters Now.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 4, 2022

How product managers can get customer insights from a community to create a competitive advantage. The leading brand cost about $150. I tried a brand that was new to me offering a wifi camera for $29. The highly rated and recognized brand was about $800. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [3:15]

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 11, 2022

While Kat hasn’t had a brand logo tattooed on her (yet), she has gone so far to name her dog after one of her favorite brands, Chaco. In this episode, Kat and Robi talk about why community and emotional connection are the keys to brand evangelists whether it’s a shoe brand, DJ, or football team.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 22, 2024

Five mindsets every product manager should cultivate I am interviewing speakers at my favorite annual conference for product managers, the PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [2:35] Help us be better innovators. Learn more about them at PDMA.org.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 10, 2023

The steps in ranking and valuing Jobs-to-be-Done—for product managers We have talked a few times about Jobs-to-be-Done in past episodes. His name is Doug Stone. He is an expert at leading human-centric innovation and product design projects. His We asked consumers, “Which brand do you want to solve this?”

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A digital customer experience coupled with rapid physical product creation – insights for product managers. Today we are talking about what Andrew Wolgemuth has learned creating a unique product business called Wove. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:16]

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 4, 2023

How product managers can navigate leadership challenges Today we are talking about four leadership motions that enable increased organizational effectiveness and productivity and alleviate organizational friction, waste, and indecision. The product piece has always been with me. These are things great leaders already do.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

Additionally, strengthen your ability to guide the stakeholders and dev teams : Increase your referent power and earn people’s trust, strengthen your product management expertise, and lobby for more management support. 59; Boost Your Product Leadership Power and How to Lead in Product Management , pp.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 1, 2024

How product managers can design their customer experience journey We all want to create products that customers find valuable and even delightful. How can using the customer experience journey help you make better products? .” Where we shine as product managers is in the experience people have with our product.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 20, 2025

If extended product teams own the product strategies, whats the role of the head of product , also called Chief Product Officer and Director/VP of Product Management, in making strategic decisions ? First, as a coach who offers strategy and leadership guidance to the person in charge of the product.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 3, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams.

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NextBigWhat

DECEMBER 28, 2020

As everything around us evolves, the product management role will get to play a crucial role in shaping up the new (digital) world. NoCode + API Product Management. It’s time to stitch them together and I believe, NoCode Product Management is going to be a crucial role in enabling businesses to go digital.

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Mind the Product

MAY 5, 2017

To craft a product from scratch brings a range of feelings; from joy and pleasure to frustration and despair. Whether a quickly drawn sketch, an MVP, physical product, iterative improvements or a brand new feature, all studiously validated with user research and customer development, you roll up your sleeves to make it happen.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes. No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. The best product managers are in a continuous state of discovery and know that?—? neither the product nor roadmap are ever static.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 24, 2018

What are some of the hottest, up-and-coming mobile apps not named Instagram, Snapchat, or Uber? App Name: Venmo. As a mobile product manager, one challenge I face is prioritization. App Name: Duolingo. App Name: DoorDash. App Name: PicsArt Photo Studio. Mobile brands and devices. in funding?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

2 Use Scrum for Products that Experience Uncertainty and Change Scrum is often seen as the standard way to create digital products, and I have met more than one company where the product managers were told to be agile and do Scrum. As I mentioned earlier, Scrum is not a product management framework.

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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Yet at the end of the day, many brands know little about their customers on an individual, human level. Even some of the most customer-centric brands are guilty of overemphasizing aggregate metrics, like star ratings, net promoter scores, and trends in retention and per-customer revenue. We’re all different.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 31, 2022

And consumers want to hear from the brands they use— 51% expect companies to ask them for feedback directly. . Surprisingly, many brands know little about their customers on an individual, human level. Even the most customer-centric brands are guilty of overemphasizing aggregate metrics, like star ratings and NPS.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

How established organizations can overcome barriers to digital transformation – for product managers Today we are exploring digital transformation in large organizations as well as other challenges leaders are facing in a digitally transforming business environment. There’s a tension between the external and the internal.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 11, 2021

The secret sauce product managers need for success. This podcast is getting a new name to better align with its purpose of helping product managers become product masters. That new name is Product Masters Now. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [3:12]

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

As its name suggests, the grid analyses the stakeholders by taking into account their power and interest; it assumes that people take a low or high interest in your product and have low or high power. Involve people in product decisions but don’t make the mistake of trying to please them. Form a Stakeholder Communi ty.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 29, 2022

How product managers can understand their customers better than anyone else. It’s those simple things that add friction to the customer experience and if we want to make products customers love, we need to improve the experience for customers. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [3:18]

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This article will help reduce such churn by refining your product management and UX analysis approach. UX analytics involves gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data about how users interact with your product or service. This shows how well your product addresses user needs. How to start your UX analysis.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 20, 2023

How product managers can give their products momentum to get across the finish line Identifying the strategies that accelerate innovation starts with the question: “What do the world’s best innovation teams do differently?” They found the time it took to set up a new account was pretty long.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Women are still underrepresented in the Product Profession – with only 33.3% of US Product Managers being female in 2021, according to a metastudy of 30 million profiles conducted by Zippia : Source: [link]. Melissa Perri – Speaker, consultant, and teacher in Product Management. CEO of Product Labs.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 21, 2019

Product management is notoriously difficult to define. We take responsibility for the lifecycle of our product. These statements apply to almost all product managers, but they paint an incomplete picture. It’s not enough to shepherd your product from cradle to grave. Give him a name.

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Product Talk

APRIL 21, 2021

Many tech companies that make voice assistants justify their use of female names and voices by saying that’s what people prefer. Another one that I see come up a lot is this idea of why all of our voice assistants—we’re talking about Siri , Alexa, Cortana —why they all have female names. But this isn’t the full story.

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Product Talk

MAY 14, 2025

Its one thing to iterate on an existing product. Its a whole other challenge to identify brand-new products to offer. The same is true for API products. Well hear from Chi Phan , the senior product manager who was brought in to oversee this process. Its more common for developers to decide what to build.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 19, 2021

Principles product managers can use to guide creativity and innovation. The name of this podcast is changing to Product Mastery Now, to better reflect our purpose of helping product managers becoming product masters, gaining practical knowledge, influence and confidence so you’ll create products customers love. .

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 2, 2024

For today’s Tools of the Trade , we caught up with Yury Oleynik , the VP of Product Management at HiveMQ , who has managed to make continuous interviewing a reality on his team. Like many of the stories we highlight here on Product Talk, Yury’s features a few false starts and frustrations. Yury’s next step?

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

An app referral program is essentially a tool that makes it easy for your existing customers to share your brand with friends directly from the app experience. Social media is a proven way to build communities and expand brand recognition, even though it’s been around for awhile. ASO drives the majority of all new app discoveries.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 16, 2020

The plan was to build a low-cost Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to validate the idea of social payments before adding any resources. However, I quickly discovered that there’s too much brand risk for a trusted bank to take this type of lean startup approach. PayMe surpassed 1 million users, just 17 months after launch. Conclusion.

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