Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Our continuous discovery champion is Sören Weber, a Senior Product Manager on the Search & Flow team at trivago. The product trio collaborating on the opportunity solution tree using Mural. Sören describes trivago as a mature product that found product/market fit 15 years ago with its hotel metasearch.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 1, 2020

Learn a framework for quickly pitching a new product idea, and enhance your career! When I interview a product manager to work in my team, I want to know that they understand the whole of the product cycle - how to make it happen, from concept to rollout and beyond, and most importantly what will make it successful.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 18, 2021

This article will cover the ins and outs of product discovery. What is Product Discovery? Product discovery is often defined in comparison to product delivery. We typically define product discovery in contrast with product delivery. You can learn more about the evolution of product discovery here.

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Userpilot

JUNE 26, 2023

TL;DR Product metrics are measurable indicators of product management efforts and how users interact with your product. You can also use a product metrics framework, ie. Google HEART, Pirate Metrics , or North Star Metric framework to choose the right product metrics. What are product metrics?

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Tyner Blain

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

**Three issues you introduce when you focus on proxy variables instead of economic value when describing problems: You constrain the product strategy shaping activities to be purely based on intuition, in a situation where this approach is expected to be ineffective. You hamper collaboration on achieving outcomes.

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Good Product Manager

JUNE 7, 2017

.” This SiriusView covers seven vendors whose offerings are designed to assist product managers with developing product plans, prioritizing features and enhancements, and maintaining and communicating product roadmaps. Podcast: B2B Product Management with The Everyday Innovator.

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Good Product Manager

JUNE 7, 2017

.” This SiriusView covers seven vendors whose offerings are designed to assist product managers with developing product plans, prioritizing features and enhancements, and maintaining and communicating product roadmaps. Podcast: B2B Product Management with The Everyday Innovator.

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Good Product Manager

JUNE 7, 2017

.” This SiriusView covers seven vendors whose offerings are designed to assist product managers with developing product plans, prioritizing features and enhancements, and maintaining and communicating product roadmaps. Podcast: B2B Product Management with The Everyday Innovator.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 10, 2021

Have you heard this before as a product manager? I didn’t count roles like Product managers, scrum masters or operations staff, I just counted engineering and design roles and found that everyone I called about 25%?—?35% Comparisons, of course, are always unfair. Why does everything take so long to build?

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Trevor Acy, Balancing Time for Learning and Bias for Action Meet Trevor Acy, the Associate Director of Product Management at Ramsey Solutions. Trevor Acy is the Associate Director of Product Management at Ramsey Solutions , where he started working in 2015 and moved into his current role in June 2022.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 9, 2024

  In my experience, gross comparisons let us ignore 85% of incomings – so that we can put strategic thought and discovery into the top 15%.    To be useful, Count The Digits and similar heuristics fit into a larger framework where we have strong customer insights and thoughtful goals/strategies/OKRs.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

TL; DR: Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product efficiently as its Achilles heel has always been the product discovery part. just to name a few. Think of “MVP.”)

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Department of Product

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

SaaS Pricing Models for Product Managers 6 ways to price your SaaS product using leading SaaS businesses as inspiration Pricing a product is a critical part of product management; it’s rarely something product teams will or should do themselves and will typically involve a blend of product, marketing and sales.

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Good Product Manager

AUGUST 17, 2015

Product Manager and Product Owner: One Person or Two? As more organizations adopt and look to optimize agile development approaches, one of the questions that is most pressing relates to roles and responsibilities — specifically, about how the role of product owner compares to the role of product manager.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The Downsides of Prioritization Frameworks. Because a prioritization strategy is of crucial importance to any product’s success, many different methods exist. Dozens upon dozens of frameworks stand ready for product teams looking for a new way to figure out the best ideas to pursue first, from buy-a-feature to MoSCoW analysis.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. What you need to do, know, and avoid in your first 30, 60, and 90 days as a product manager. Products are benefit delivery vehicles – how to build them.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

If there’s one underappreciated – yet vital – task that product managers must get right, it’s user segmentation. You can gather data via product usage (i.e., Next, you can dive into the analysis and comparison stage. Goal setting framework. feature and event tagging) or surveys.

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Good Product Manager

AUGUST 17, 2015

Product Manager and Product Owner: One Person or Two? As more organizations adopt and look to optimize agile development approaches, one of the questions that is most pressing relates to roles and responsibilities — specifically, about how the role of product owner compares to the role of product manager.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Hiring product managers is one of the most challenging and important tasks for product team leaders. The diversity of backgrounds in product manager applicants increases the level of difficulty in making a good hire. The combination of both of those elements makes an effective product manager a hard role to fill.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 22, 2019

Here’s a closer comparison of traditional programming versus machine learning that would be useful for a product manager: Traditional Programming Traditional programming is a manual process?—?meaning This is what you as a product manager can figure out ways to treat your business data as a financial asset.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 11, 2019

Associate Product Manager (APM) programs are well known in Silicon Valley as rotational, mentorship-focused programs designed to accelerate the careers of young aspiring product managers. Finally, try to gauge the willingness of product managers at the company to spend time with and coach APMs.

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The Basics of Product Management

MAY 4, 2020

Understanding these is necessary for any Product Manager, irrespective of the method you follow. So, whether you are a Product Manager, Product Owner, Scrum Master, etc., So, whether you are a Product Manager, Product Owner, Scrum Master, etc., Do you know what it means to be Product Agnostic

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Userpilot

JANUARY 23, 2024

Want to streamline and automate product management tasks to focus on important positioning strategies? Book a Userpilot demo to see how you can improve your product success. What is product positioning? Effective positioning ensures your product aligns with the needs and preferences of your target audience.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 15, 2022

Misconceptions about Jobs to be Done – for product managers. Today we are talking about a popular and often misunderstood product management tool—Jobs to be Done (JTBD). I first discovered Tony through his book What Customers Want: Using Outcome-Driven Innovation to Create Breakthrough Products and Services.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 5, 2019

One of the key ingredients to success for any project is how much business value it offers in comparison to the cost. When the value is clear, it’s easy to align people and resources A Simple Framework to identify Business Value Business Value for a predictive project could be monetary in nature or could also be non-monetary as well.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2021

Dispatcher mode : Why not assign a task directly to an engineer bypassing the Product Backlog altogether? Labeling feature requests as bugs : By comparison to the other maneuvers sneaking features via bug reports is almost a thoughtful approach?—?someone A note of caution : Do not outflank yourself during Product Backlog defense.

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2024

We also explain: How product funnel differs from marketing and sales funnels. Why it is important for your product management efforts. TL;DR The product funnel is a framework outlining the stages of the customer journey , starting from its discovery and ideally leading to customer loyalty and advocacy.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 11, 2019

Associate Product Manager (APM) programs are well known in Silicon Valley as rotational, mentorship-focused programs designed to accelerate the careers of young aspiring product managers. Finally, try to gauge the willingness of product managers at the company to spend time with and coach APMs.

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Tyner Blain

OCTOBER 11, 2023

There’s a bit of an issue here, but I’ve only seen this affect decision-making at two companies – revenue is not a good comparison, because profit is what really matters, and different revenue streams come with different profit margins. The economic framework also improves decision making in a more subtle way.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Equally challenging but less talked about is how much this same challenge exists when transitioning from a product manager to a manager of product managers, ie. a product leader. They also are a great way to ensure a high quality bar on work without micro-managing the details.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 20, 2018

Post-launch, the product manager will be responsible for managing the product lifecycle through its growth, maturity and decline phases. From a lifecycle management perspective, the product manager should monitor the following aspects of that exchange: Alignment of sales forecast and business case.

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ProductPlan

JULY 23, 2019

Product managers wear many hats, but one of the most uncomfortable ones they’re forced to occasionally don is that of the product vision “Gatekeeper.” This particular aspect of product management requires PMs to do what most people find uncomfortable… say “no.”. The importance of maintaining a product vision.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Roadmapping software has emerged as a core need for the modern product manager. While some software may try to cover the entire gamut of what a product manager might do on any given day, there are those tools that focus solely on roadmapping. Now on to the comparison. . Product Introduction.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Roadmapping software has emerged as a core need for the modern product manager. While some software may try to cover the entire gamut of what a product manager might do on any given day, there are those tools that focus solely on roadmapping. Now on to the comparison. . Product Introduction.

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Gainsight

JULY 16, 2019

The daily life of a product manager is busy—you don’t have time to waste on software that doesn’t fit your needs. Especially when you consider how much time and resources get put into evaluating, implementing, onboarding, and navigating change management. So, what can you do to save yourself all that effort?

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ProductPlan

APRIL 29, 2020

Product management turns chaos into order. This quote has taken on a life of its own, but this truth certainly applies to product management. Product management sits at the nexus of many information streams. Product management must hold the line and prioritize quality over quantity.

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

Product managers and product leaders should have an inherent sense of what’s valuable to customers. If a product person isn’t equipped with the ability to sense what might be valuable to others, product management might not be the best career choice in the first place.

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