Ask Benny

MAY 1, 2019

Love your Product. In a recent lecture I gave, I compared product management to parenting. While I was still preparing the lecture, I heard a similar comparison in a Product X conference I attended. It was a lecture given by Paz Davidovich named “Product managers? Congratulation! Focus on Impact.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 12, 2019

At a time when so much of today’s B2B ecosystem is built around software products, I believe it has become incumbent on the people responsible for designing, developing, and building these products to take back leadership of how our companies are run, and lead us all back to a culture of responsible growth.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

It also requires product managers to engage much more directly with data scientists about models, predictability, how products work in production, how/why users interact with our products, and how our end users measure success. (Hint: most users don’t understand or care about F1-scores ; they just want to get the right answer.).

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Userpilot

MAY 5, 2022

What does the product management process involve? Why is it important for product managers to follow them? Product managers lead interdisciplinary product teams to deliver products that bring value to customers. Product Development is when most of the code is written and tested.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2020

A pattern I’ve seen 4 or 5 times seems worth describing, since other folks may be experiencing it: a very early-stage B2B/enterprise company brings on a full sales team before finding product/market fit. First, let’s recapping the basics of why we hire enterprise sales teams and what they do. Here’s my gross simplification.

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Ask Benny

MAY 1, 2019

In a recent lecture I gave, I compared product management to parenting. While I was still preparing the lecture, I heard a similar comparison in a. Newborn products have their own tantrums, which require a lot of compassion to them and to the development team that takes care of them. The Big Difference.

Product Management 60

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Ask Benny

MAY 1, 2019

Love your Product. In a recent lecture I gave, I compared product management to parenting. While I was still preparing the lecture, I heard a similar comparison in a Product X conference I attended. It was a lecture given by Paz Davidovich named “Product managers? Congratulation! Focus on Impact.

Product Management 60

Product Management Product Manager Weak Development Team Management 60

Ask Benny

MAY 1, 2019

Love your Product. In a recent lecture I gave, I compared product management to parenting. While I was still preparing the lecture, I heard a similar comparison in a Product X conference I attended. It was a lecture given by Paz Davidovich named “Product managers? Congratulation!

Product Management 60

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Ask Benny

MAY 1, 2019

Love your Product. In a recent lecture I gave, I compared product management to parenting. While I was still preparing the lecture, I heard a similar comparison in a Product X conference I attended. It was a lecture given by Paz Davidovich named “Product managers? Congratulation!

Product Management 60

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

She is a strategy execution specialist, scaleup mentor, and co-founder of FutureBuilders Group, a network of Organisational Development specialists.  Not bad Lisa. Not bad Lisa. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [2:31] Why do organizations need to transform and what are some examples of transformation?

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Usersnap

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The scaling SaaS company often have to find out through practice what the difference is between a product owner vs product manager. Both roles are big players within an agile team (or scrum team) of a business. But there is a general consensus on the definitions for product owner and product manager.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 4, 2020

A pattern I’ve seen 4 or 5 times seems worth describing, since other folks may be experiencing it: a very early-stage B2B/enterprise company brings on a full sales team before finding product/market fit. First, let’s recapping the basics of why we hire enterprise sales teams and what they do.

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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. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Why do product teams become feature factories?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Take, for instance, a food scientist who believes that a new flavour enhancer could improve consumer demand, or a pharmaceutical company that have developed a medication which they believe could relieve high-blood pressure. The control group is used as the standard or benchmark to which comparisons are made. The reason is simple.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. Here are some patterns I’ve seen in picking successful Heads of Product.

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Tyner Blain

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

These mistakes can make a product strategy incoherent, excessively expensive, and ineffective. How we talk about what we choose to do sets our teams up for success. When developing a product strategy, we are not only activating our teams to go “in that direction” but also establishing “how far to go.”

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Product Management Planning for 2019. As we look ahead to 2019, we see increased recognition of product management as a key function, and growth in the discipline, though there are still challenges, and there is certainly room for improvement. Product Management Podcasts.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 16, 2023

At Mixpanel, we live this in our cross-functional product-led growth (PLG) strategy , where we use data and self-serve analysis to better understand the full customer journey from discovering and trying the product to finding value and success with it. This included the data analysis team. Mixpanel is a gold mine.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 17, 2020

Machine learning (ML) based products have particular characteristics and challenges, from data quality to counterfactual problems and explainability. What then are the implications of ML products for team structure, focus, and hiring? Whether the data is good or bad, once interventions are made a counterfactual problem arises.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

In the perfect world, product managers have all the time, resources, and skills to do impeccable, in-depth market and user research. The real world has limited resources, unrealistic deadlines, and new teams that have not been able to do research at all. The perfect world does not exist, though. There is only the real world.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Influence is probably one of the most valuable currencies as a product manager. You also have to gain the confidence of your product team, since they are relying heavily on you for the success of the overall product. And as a product manager, you are expected to get there. But you can get there.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 14, 2016

“What is your Product Strategy? When I replay this scene in my head, I can hear the CTO very audibly yelling (slash pleading) with our product team. We often say our Product Strategy are things like: “To create a platform that allows music producers to upload and share their music.” “To YOU NEED A STRATEGY.”

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Product Management Planning for 2019. As we look ahead to 2019, we see increased recognition of product management as a key function, and growth in the discipline, though there are still challenges, and there is certainly room for improvement. Product Management Podcasts.

Events 60

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Product Management Unpacked

APRIL 25, 2019

In my experience, start with core constituents – your immediate team, leaders of development/engineering, sales, followed by top customers. A gap analysis is the comparison of actual performance with potential or desired performance – the current state vs. the desired future state. Strengths/Weaknesses). Gap analysis.

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Userpilot

JULY 4, 2022

User experience is one of the factors contributing to the success of a SaaS product. As UX is a crucial element, it’s important for you to know what results in a poor user experience. Here are some of the most common mistakes that designers and product managers make and how to avoid them. Let’s get started!

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2021

TL; DR: Product Backlog Defense Make no mistake: Your Product Backlog is the last line of defense preventing your Scrum Team from becoming a feature factory; hence Product Backlog defense is vital: Figure out a process that creates value for your customers. Often, it is a sign of a lack of trust in the team’s capability.

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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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Tyner Blain

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Using problem statements is an operational approach to shaping and expressing a product strategy which makes it actionable. I had a client who would refer to the “red thread” connecting her intent with the ideation, decomposition, and execution of work by the teams in her organization. Most teams lack this.

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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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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. Doing this right means a lot more than simply supporting your team. Create a strong system of accountability.

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Tyner Blain

OCTOBER 11, 2023

When you first start to describe a problem, you may skip the notion of quantifying entirely, and instead describe an abstract scenario like “repeat customers abandon the new product registration process.” With the curse of knowledge, you know this is bad because you know why it is bad. Yes, this is a problem.

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 17, 2023

There are several different formats which have been developed for problem statements, and you could use free-form narrative as well. After hundreds of hours helping write and utilize problem statements with dozens of teams over the years, I’ve evolved the template I use and recommend; because it works better in theory and in practice.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 14, 2019

However, in time, this procedure has become a widespread methodology in technology product development too. Code and Fix (often known as Cowboy coding ) is considered the simplest product development process and is the default method for prototyping software-oriented technology solutions.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2018

The comparison has been around for a long time?—?the the product manager is the CEO of their product. It’s become ingrained in our thinking and the way we talk about product management. Is the product manager the CEO? Is the product manager the CEO? ? Make decisions. What gives?

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Userpilot

MARCH 15, 2024

It enables product teams to create, implement, and test personalized in-app onboarding experiences. The platform also helps you announce new product features and collect customer feedback. UserGuiding is a no-code product adoption tool that lets users create in-app walkthroughs, guides, and checklists.

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Userpilot

JUNE 30, 2023

This data allows product managers to make more informed product development and roadmap planning decisions. Send competitor questions at different points in the user journey to identify and fix weak points and double down on strengths. How easy was it to interact with our support team?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Some think that a discipline based on close contacts with products and stakeholders demands that you remain in the office. They’re wrong: it’s possible to be a remote product manager. Even though product managers are supposed to engage various teams during the day, chances are you are not moving that much.

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