UX Planet

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Those years had transformed me — honing new skills, cultivating leadership prowess, and nurturing a deep dedication to enhancing user experiences. Should I endure the position I’d fallen out of love with while seeking new horizons? Was it wise to remain in a position where my expertise often felt overlooked?

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Product Management Unpacked

APRIL 3, 2020

The job of a product manager has many elements, but at its core is a responsibility to build relationships, especially with development, engineering, sales and sales leadership, as well as executive management. If you are relatively new in your position and now find yourself working remotely, you have to go first and make deposits.

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UX Studio

DECEMBER 14, 2023

We moved to a new office and introduced the Studio Lead position as a full-time professional support for the researchers and designers on the team. 2021: Designing for positive impact The year I rejoined the team was pretty intense. Our Culture quilt concept work in 2023 celebrates that diversity.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 15, 2022

However, the positions are very similar. But each position has its own unique focus and function while also retaining responsibilities distinct to each role. Salary comparison Can I Transition from Business Analyst to Product Manager? Regular, focused communication with users is a big part of a PM position.

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Product Management Unpacked

APRIL 25, 2019

This is where you need to establish yourself, your leadership style and your presence. A gap analysis is the comparison of actual performance with potential or desired performance – the current state vs. the desired future state. Your first 100 days in your new product leadership position sets the tone. Gap analysis.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

While it is a senior position, there are numerous career paths, such as Group Product Manager (GPM) and Principal Product Manager (PPM). One of the main differences between the group product manager position and the principal product manager role, is the capacity in which they contribute to the product management team.

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Mind the Product

JULY 5, 2018

We easily fall for the notion that we as product managers are the hub in the big wheel and all other disciplines such as sales and support are just the spokes which we gladly connect and glue together from our supposedly central position. We are not the centre of the world (and we are also not the CEO of the product).

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The Product Coalition

JULY 13, 2020

in organizations that lack strong leadership. In these situations, the impediments need to be addressed, and typically this requires the support of the leadership. Conflict Is Inevitable In my experience, speaking truth to power is required in organizations that lack strong leadership. Framing the Situation?—?Conflict

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

It’s no wonder that folks are confused, frustrated, and fail to get the product leadership they need. IMHO, Product Leadership Experience Is Essential for Heads of Product. <rant> When considering VP Marketing hires, they push on positioning, messaging, MQL funnels, social media engagement, and broad marketing strategy.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Tracking a product’s position within its macro-environment can help teams keep their eyes on bigger opportunities and long-term planning. Industry rank: A comparison to competitors based on factors such as estimated market value, number of customers, customer reviews, potential for growth and other factors. Ecosystem metrics.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Strategic alignment While this shared scaffolding makes it easy to optimize staffing, it also simplifies things for executive leadership and other stakeholders, getting them strategically aligned instead of critiquing the roadmap’s format or presentation. Yet this exercise shouldn’t be in vain.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 17, 2020

In comparison to the growth of the larger job market, the demand for PM roles in the US surpasses the increase in demand for all other roles combined by 5x. By supporting your product through proving ROI ahead of time, you have a stronger business case for scaling your scope, team, budget, and product positioning within the company.

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Gainsight

JUNE 9, 2021

By leveraging Gainsight’s technology, library of best practices and thought leadership to enable their Customer Success teams, our customers delivered even more brilliant performance than their peers on the Cloud Index. Figure 1: Performance Comparison: Gainsight Customers vs Non-Gainsight Customers on the Cloud Index.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 16, 2022

This input diversity makes comparisons much more difficult. Or your executive team is probably unfamiliar with the term or the function of the position. It’s essential that even though product operations reports to the product management leadership, it’s seen as a distinct discipline requiring staff with a different set of skills.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Equally futile by comparison to the lack of C-level support is a bottom-up approach by hacking the existing culture. And just relabeling the positions of the old middle management rarely works. Train everybody–without regard to her future position– hands-on in all value-creating activities of the organization.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 11, 2022

So whether you’re hiring for a customer success (CS) position or applying for a role in this department, this guide will give you clarity on what CS managers do and how to make the most out of your time. In comparison, customer success is more proactive in preventing problems and solving them before they happen.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 5, 2020

Listen First, Talk Later Develop Leadership Skills Influence Without Authority KISS Principle We Before Me Use Management Tools Stay Agile Guide Your Team To Replace You Empathize Always Firmly Support Your Team Communication Skills. Develop Leadership Skills. Here is the full list of necessary leadership skills. Over Excel?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

When the research is narrow-scoped, there is a higher risk of missed opportunities, blind spots, and false positives. Choose the few top metrics where positive movement could have the most impact. Focus on pinpointing opportunities where your product could do better and stand out in comparison, and brainstorm ways to get there.

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Agile Velocity

JUNE 4, 2020

According to Denning, Amazon has been successful, in part, because of Jeff Bezos’ understanding of market position, combined with a focus on customer value. We have certainly begun to see a shift in recent years and one key lagging indicator of that shift is executive leadership embracing Agile as a business imperative.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Include high-level thought leadership and/or industry trends to frame the conversation. This section should be presented by your CS leadership with the goal of conveying the message that you’re in touch with market needs. Companies treasure the ability to see how well they’re doing in comparison to their competitors.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

All those new features might look good on a product comparison matrix and give salespeople a new angle when pitching reluctant prospects, but none of it matters if those features aren’t solving real customer problems. This puts product managers in the awkward position of having to say “no” to stakeholders and customers.

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Gainsight

APRIL 18, 2022

But the real impetus for buy-in and justification by leadership is with numbers and data that describe value. Knowing what precisely the CS org “owns” in comparison to other teams, like Sales, enables your CS leadership to put actions in place so that the team can adequately measure their success. . Begin with a Charter.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 10, 2021

When I go to leadership meetings to talk about the product, I’m occasionally asked how long things are taking, or what is stopping us shipping X by Y date, or what is preventing us from reaching a key OKR by the end of the year? Comparisons, of course, are always unfair. days a week. This is more than it should be. Imagine that?—?for

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Modus Create

APRIL 27, 2021

In comparison, only 13% plan to give up the office space entirely. For certain positions, being remote might not be feasible. All job openings in a hybrid workspace should mention explicitly whether the position is on-site, remote, or flexible. Only 17% of executives will get back to the office as soon as feasible. hybrid work.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

It involves improving the product or positioning it better to get more people to use and buy it. Some SaaS companies have found it helpful to use comparison tables to help visitors compare plans. They’re also both strategies designed to improve the product value. But there are differences.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 29, 2022

It’s a balance between standing out and fitting in, getting enough potential buyers interested without alienating too much of the total addressable market with bold claims or disparaging comparisons to established brands. Breaking ground. and AltaVista pioneered search and Internet indexing, but Google’s worn the crown for decades.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 4, 2020

The goal of a productive sales call is to anticipate shortcomings or problems, have positioned responses ready, and move that specific opportunity through the sales funnel. And there’s no guarantee that we ever find a positive answer. Where’s our detailed feature comparison to two pharma-specific recruiting packages?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2018

The comparison has been around for a long time?—?the Ownership, leadership, drive, ambition, etc. Evangelizing typically connotes positivity and bringing people to our side because of the benefits of something. That doesn’t mean we have to lose our positivity, but be realistic about the positives and negatives.

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Usersnap

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Product Manager VS Product Owner: A Side-By-Side Role and Responsibility Comparison The Scrum Framework and How It Is Associated With Product Owners and Product Managers Can a Product Owner Also Be a Product Manager? Product Manager VS Product Owner: A Side-By-Side Role and Responsibility Comparison. Some of what you can expect ??

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 17, 2019

And that nothing will be changed until the project is shipped… That’s a silly comparison, many will say, and pull out the obvious examples: Google, Facebook, Instagram and even the the iPhone. 4 time CEO, numerous product lead positions, lecturer, writer and mentor. To make sure everything fits exactly in the right place.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2020

This will be factored into your job search with the position level you applied for. Your role is still valuable, but you’re not the CPO of a public company with broad management responsibility, overall product direction leadership, P&L, etc. What’s your starting position and seniority level? Are you a Support Engineer?

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. This is a talk about positioning, but a little bit more about how you communicate your positioning or share your positioning. So your buyer, Google’s they, so they end up on one of these comparison sites.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 20, 2018

A forced-choice paired comparison matrix is a great way to do this, and allows you to build a model that says “function A contributes 20% of the overall product value, function B contributes 15% of the overall product value” and so on. Rank each function according to its importance to the customer.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

But the challenges you may experience pale in comparison to what you get to be in return. Associate Product Manager (APM) is an entry-level position, usually reporting to a more senior Product Manager. This is often a mentorship position and the start of a product manager’s career.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2019

You have a massive pool of candidates proactively applying for an open position or recruited by headhunters, human resources, or the hiring manager themselves. Some candidates will leave the funnel because they’re not interested as they learn more about the position, while others exit because they aren’t a great fit.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2020

The strength of Scrum is building on the strong position of the Product Owner. Lack of leadership : Senior management is not participating in agile processes, for example, the Sprint Reviews, despite being a role model. For managers, it means moving: From WIIFM (what-is-in-for-me syndrome) to team playing?—?the

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2018

This concept is not new to leaders but might be new to the realm product leadership.” The Third “P” of Prioritization: A Practical PROCESS Let’s look at some ways in which you can involve people with prioritization in a really positive way. Leadership want the company to grow. This is where a little bit of process is key.

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