The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

This includes the project management of all of the activities done in product conceptualization, design, development, and marketing. In the conceptualization phase, product managers must identify the vision, mission, and requirements that will condition how a team builds out a product.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

PDMA invited me to their conference, which was in Orlando, Florida, to interview some of their speakers. Ulrike Laubner-Kelleher is a sought-after mentor, educator, and presenter on the topics of product management, innovation and teams efficiency. Learn more about them at PDMA.org. We need the right questions to ask customers.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

.” — Howard Schultz Several years ago, I found myself in a heated discussion about product roadmaps with a client. This exchange unfolded over weak, black coffee in your typical, bland white-walled corporate conference room. Roadmaps serve as a critical tool in promoting transparency.

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Userpilot

JULY 31, 2023

Product managers should primarily be focused on the product itself – the roadmap, vision, and execution – while product marketing managers ’ main area of focus should be on product positioning and the go-to-market strategy. Who is a product marketing manager?

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

And as a product manager finding out how others made a strategy work, whether it was implementing a road-map software or avoiding other’s pitfalls can make or break your product’s success. As a successful product manager reading is a must. Product managers for the digital world. The data backs it up.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 27, 2022

Here are some areas to consider when making your 2022 requests: Product Stack Tools for 2022 Budgets. Investing in tools for the product team commanded the most significant share of product team budgets in our 2021 survey. Tools in the product stack increase productivity and efficiency.

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Gainsight

MAY 13, 2020

There are different paths towards product innovation. Interestingly, when you are a leader in a particular space, like Gainsight is in Customer Success technology, the right path consists of multiple important pillars, all connected and working together. Customer Experience Center.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

We had a product lifecycle, although… it wasn’t documented in a playbook. I thought we were in good shape, given that this was the next release of an existing software product. The strategy was complete, the build was in process, and we were ready to activate. Product Strategy. That said, in my mind?—?we

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Proceed With Caution During the early days at Dropbox, Drew Houston, the co-founder, and CEO of Dropbox was tasked by his board to hire a product manager. I do whatever needs to be done for the team to deliver successful products. I do whatever needs to be done for the team to deliver successful products. Think Ahead!

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Gainsight

JULY 7, 2021

I can pretty vividly remember the first Pulse conference I attended back in 2013. Back then, I was still six months away from launching my own SaaS company, but I was already encumbered with the industry and curious about this up-and-coming category called “Customer Success.”. Pulse 2020 – Back to Moscone (Or So We Thought).

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Mind the Product

JUNE 14, 2019

This kind of serendipity is not a viable career strategy! It’s like a chance bit of customer feedback that we end up devoting a two-year roadmap to. It wouldn’t happen, because we all realise that serendipity is not a viable product strategy. Just as with a product, you should start with a vision.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2022

Here are some areas to consider when making your 2022 requests: Product Stack Tools for 2022 Budgets. Investing in tools for the product team commanded the most significant share of product team budgets in our 2021 survey. Tools in the product stack increase productivity and efficiency.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

Our guest is Jill Soley, a Silicon Valley strategic product and marketing executive. She currently leads Product Management at Obo, where she is working on agile product management software that aims to reduce the high failure rates for new products. My primary job is setting the product strategy and vision.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

For this reason, your team should understand the difference between annual product planning and quarterly planning. Companies must react to changes in market dynamics, technology, and customer needs. Moreover, they must maintain a consistent overall business strategy and set goals.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

Scrum and the agile manifesto were created in a time where we used to still package and ship software physically. As time progressed many Product Managers wondered if they should be a Product Owner and similarly many Product Owners started to wonder where they fit in relation to their Product Manager counterparts.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It also makes them feel like their input and feedback are more valued while expediting the resolution of time-sensitive issues, such as product launches. Not only will this lead to more productive virtual coffees, Slack chats, conference calls, etc., but it also exhibits great humility on your part toward your colleagues.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

We’re a 14-year-old company that started off as an ads business, and we’re transitioning into a SaaS business. I felt like, okay, if we only use the same process we had at Contentful and we’re using the same thing at Doodle, by involving everyone, talking to people and trying to get them on board and get their feedback.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Why these questions should be asked Feedback, performance, and competitor relations Feelings (pride or jealousy) about own company and others Relevance of important values and aspirations Exact choices: Extract the choices that your company makes as attributes What does the company do? What are people doing right now?

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

That gives you the experience and expertise to get to the next level, where you start managing other product managers. Over time, potential product directors need to show an ability to lead the entire product team. On top of that, they need to show success in every product strategy they own.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

Associate Product Manager. In terms of day-to-day work, associate product managers do everything a product manager does, but on a smaller scale. In other words, you may not set the product strategy or own the product roadmap , but you will set priorities for your projects.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

Associate Product Manager. In terms of day-to-day work, associate product managers do everything a product manager does, but on a smaller scale. In other words, you may not set the product strategy or own the product roadmap , but you will set priorities for your projects.

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Arpit Rai

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The motivation behind writing this post is that I have never done a detailed exercise like this in the past for a product that I’m not involved with professionally. I’ve chosen Slack as the product I want to focus on. I love the product and I’ve often thought about how Slack can evolve its product to add more value to its users.

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Arpit Rai

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The motivation behind writing this post is that I have never done a detailed exercise like this in the past for a product that I’m not involved with professionally. I’ve chosen Slack as the product I want to focus on. I love the product and I’ve often thought about how Slack can evolve its product to add more value to its users.

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Arpit Rai

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The motivation behind writing this post is that I have never done a detailed exercise like this in the past for a product that I’m not involved with professionally. I’ve chosen Slack as the product I want to focus on. I love the product and I’ve often thought about how Slack can evolve its product to add more value to its users.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2019

As your team grows, invest in operations and design systems that will help you scale efficiently. Don’t ignore the voice of your unmet customer — the prospective customer who didn’t become a user because of a product shortcoming. Investing in operations and design systems. Hiring in the new year?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2017

In addition to deep product skills, you require generic, transferable product management capabilities, such as, effectively capturing the product’s value proposition , segmenting the market , validating product strategy assumptions , selecting the right KPIs , prioritising the product backlog , and analysing user feedback and data.

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Tyner Blain

JULY 10, 2017

For a large IT organization, making a decision to implement by building on top of the legacy mainframe, vs. building out a modern solution is a common example. If that makes the most sense, given the objectives of the investment, strategy of the firm, and architectural vision, great. Context of Design vs. Requirements.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Instead, product teams are experimenting their way to viable solutions. We are putting our customers first, taking the time to discover unmet needs, and developing solutions that address those needs. Last fall, I spoke at Productized, a product conference in Lisbon, Portugal, on this very topic. Windows ME.

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