Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

How do product managers identify market gaps? A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Canva identified a market need for a user-friendly graphic design tool for non-designers and DocuSign for a secure solution to sign and manage digital documents and contracts. Let’s get into it!

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

How product management teams can make better innovation decisions I am interviewing speakers at my favorite annual conference for product managers, the PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference. David has more than two decades of portfolio and innovation management experience. Learn more about them at PDMA.org.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 2, 2018

Don’t let your calendar get in the way of doing what’s important as a product manager. Experienced product managers benefit from what they learned from previous successes and failures. However, they can also pick up some bad habits along the way. She is Alicia Dixon, senior product manager at Hilton.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 29, 2018

“We just pushed it live,” the release manager belts out, to a team fresh off the battlefield that is software product development. I was new to it all, a team whose mantra was to create, build and release. In particular, how to work with, understand, and successfully manage a distributed development team.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 14, 2019

There are thousands of articles, books , videos , and conferences that discuss the traits necessary for you to become the greatest Product Manager ever. However, information on what makes a disastrous Product Manager is much harder to come by. The “Yes PM” This type of poor Product Manager is difficult to identify.

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Mind the Product

MAY 10, 2019

Throughout his long career, Kenneth Chin, now the Chief Product Officer for Seek Asia, has worked with and led product teams around the world, including the US, UK, Australia, and across Asia. This is one of the core behaviours in many individuals and teams across Asia, and it can have interesting effects. It’s Not All Bad.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Why customer experience management is important Customer experience management?—?whose Today, we’re talking about customer experience management, and for that you won’t need any sinister tendencies at all. Why is customer experience management important? Customer experience management?—?whose Less words, more data.

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Userpilot

JUNE 27, 2022

What is developer marketing, and what is the point of it? As the name suggests, developer marketing is marketing to developers. In short, developer marketing is more than just capturing the attention of software developers and getting them to use your product. What is developer marketing?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As product managers, it’s our job to develop solutions that solve real problems for our customers and create value for the business. Chances are, it might have been because the team wasn’t using the hypothesis-driven approach correctly. But with so many potential ideas to pursue, how do you know which ones are worth pursuing?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

What customer discovery questions should product managers ask to accurately identify the unsatisfied needs of potential customers and validate ideas? TL;DR Customer discovery questions enable product teams to better understand customer needs and problems so that they can build products that the potential customer truly needs.

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svpg

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Recently I gave a keynote address to the Mind The Product Conference in London , and in that talk I wanted to illustrate, by example, the essential role that very strong product managers play for their team and their company. And ultimately, should more product teams work harder to actively bring in women product managers?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

It’s all too tempting to fall back onto less skilful habits and become impatient, tense and stressed, say something we regret afterwards, or pass on the pressure to the development team. To increase your expertise, strengthen your understanding of the market or domain and the product, as well as your product management savviness.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2019

A UK-based consultant, Joe Leech has built a reputation for managing change (for both users and stakeholders) and as the guy to call when a product launch has gone wrong. Troubleshooting a poor product launch. Managing change with users and stakeholders. and at conferences across the US and Europe. Just call him Mr Joe.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 26, 2020

What does it take for an engineer to become a product manager? If you’re considering changing from engineer to product manager , you’re not alone. Product management isn’t just for business and marketing people. Product management isn’t just for business and marketing people. Learning the Basics.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2020

Itamar has over 20 years of product management experience working with industry leaders such as Google and Microsoft. Part of the role of a product manager is to discover and help build products that have a high market impact. Negative – where launches are so bad they get rolled back. Three Types of Launch. Enter GIST.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 28, 2022

But we are discussing product consolidation from a product management standpoint: turning multiple products into one. There are several reasons for a product team to consolidate its products. Let’s say your phone only lets you make and receive calls, text, and join a video conference. Here are a few examples.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Here, to help you, are five product management tricks and tools for every product leader. As a product leader you must create a safe space for your team.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 10, 2023

When I saw the McKinsey report on “developer productivity,” I shuddered. First, that makes no sense in a collaborative team. Second, there's no way to measure such a thing as developer productivity, despite what McKinsey says. I'm not linking to the report, because the advice is so bad.)

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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ProductPlan

APRIL 9, 2019

For a product manager to be successful, they must be viewed as both credible and trustworthy. Without that confidence, product managers can get stuck in an ongoing cycle of attempting to quash doubts by revisiting topics over and over again because they haven’t secured buy in on various ideas, projects and initiatives.

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Good Product Manager

APRIL 28, 2019

Many product teams – especially those working on software-as-a-service offerings – spend most of their time and energy enhancing existing products. Unfortunately, randomly adding features to products without a plan for making sure users know about and get value from them is a common mistake I see product managers make.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Janna starts by looking at some of the roles she’s had and the lenses they required; as a product manager she would ask, “what problem are you trying to solve?”, While we might think of all debt as bad, Janna says this isn’t the case. A product manager can’t build a perfect product without debt.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

This exchange unfolded over weak, black coffee in your typical, bland white-walled corporate conference room. Instead, I respond, “How can your team function without one?” They certainly don’t serve to dictate every move a team should make. Contrary to popular belief, their primary purpose isn’t to guide the team.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

But many product leaders at the roundtable reported that their teams struggle to make decisions when they feel the data is either inconclusive or not available in sufficient quantities. We discussed a number of coaching and development opportunities associated with this difficulty. CEO vs Product Management.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Mind the Product is above all a community of product managers who strive to push our craft of product management forward by sharing our insights, lessons learned, and pitfalls to avoid. Prioritisation is a necessary evil of every product development lifecycle. Hiring a Product Manager: A Little Clarity Goes a Long way.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

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Atlassian

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Psychologically safe work environments allow team members to feel that they can safely take calculated risks without fear of repercussions. On the journey to success, how your team members feel about their work environment may be just as important as the skills they bring to the table. 5-Second summary. What is psychological safety?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2017

As another year draws to a close, it seems appropriate to look back at some of the highlights of 2017, assess the progress we’ve made as a community, and examine how we’ve pushed the craft of product management forward. As good product managers, we’re learning just as much as we’re teaching. Push for Change.

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Good Product Manager

APRIL 28, 2019

Many product teams – especially those working on software-as-a-service offerings – spend most of their time and energy enhancing existing products. Unfortunately, randomly adding features to products without a plan for making sure users know about and get value from them is a common mistake I see product managers make.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2019

A core skill of product management is prioritization. In fact, some methods are pretty poor. Unfortunately, it is these methods that product managers often use. Some product managers make poor decisions because they don’t have the right skills. But the product manager answer is: You don’t know!

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It’s a word that isn’t commonly favoured by the Product community because Transformation Programs rarely allow Product Teams to autonomously decide how they’ll achieve their mission. Organisations arbitrarily issue new role titles such as Product Owner, Agile coaches are bussed in, and teams are organised in “squads”.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Proceedings kicked off with workshops and leadership discussions on Thursday, followed by the conference itself at London’s famous Barbican Centre. The best way to tackle this issue, Kriti explained, is to ensure that our teams reflect the diversity of the users they serve. Expose Bad Ideas. Change up your decision making.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

How marketing and product management work together. That is what our guest did to investigate what people think about marketing and how it fits into the work product managers do. Also, we talk in the beginning about Jill’s experience developing the Adobe Creative Cloud; lots to learn just from that.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

Joe coaches and mentors product teams, supporting them to make good decisions and good user-centred design choices. I’ll be told ‘we’re not shipping stuff when we should, UX is poor, we’re struggling to keep staff’. Such challenges arise because the management structure has failed to keep pace with the speed at which tech has moved.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Many entrepreneurs and product managers write about the skills they brought to the table and those they learned along the way. 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.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

To truly excel in product management, you need to have a respect for design, an understanding of countless processes, a passion for problem-solving, excellent communication skills—the list goes on and on. Books for Product Managers. Blogs for Product Managers. Slack Groups for Product Managers. Books for Product Managers.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Mind the Product co-Founder and co-Author of Product Leadership Martin Eriksson opened the world’s largest conference for passionate product people. We work with developers, user researchers, data scientists and a host of other experts every day – so it’s only natural that we feel like the dumbest people in the room.

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