Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2020

Part of the role of a product manager is to discover and help build products that have a high market impact. But how many of us can say that we launched a product or service that created a step-change in our industry? This in turn feeds project plans and feature roadmaps, and the micro-planning of an agile product team.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 25, 2022

UXDX is a global product-focused conference that hosts various conferences throughout the year, as well as community events for designers (UX), developers (DX), and other product-specific roles. Often people will become product managers by default rather than through decision. About UXDX. About Paul Ortchanian.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Competitor analysis enables PMs to find areas where rivals fail customers and develop sound positioning and differentiation strategies. Study successful products from international markets to see if you can replicate their success in your local market. What are examples of market gaps? Such insights are invaluable.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Five years ago I wrote about how product strategy means saying no – you must ruthlessly protect your product from feature creep. . Saying no, however, is just one part of a successful product strategy. The meeting point of company and product strategy. Des: Welcome to Intercom on Product.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 24, 2020

Strategy, Optionality and Managing Two Products at Basecamp. Part 2 of 3 – here we discuss how Jason and David think about strategy and manage risk at Basecamp, and find out how they plan to manage two products following the launch of their new email service Hey.com. Or pick your topic… Part 1.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Now, prospective product managers are looking for ways to enter into this niche and meet the demand from potential recruiters. How to Become SaaS Product Manager? This guide shares key advice, tips, and strategies to help you become a SaaS product manager. Conduct your market research and determine the product strategy.

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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. The product manager needs to get the answers that are used for setting up the product strategy and for marketing and development, so we have clarity. The context surrounds the company and products.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 19, 2023

I’m in a position to be trusted because you have power. For product managers joining a new team or organization, one of the best things to do to build a foundation of trust is to build early commitment. Our product team will share a product update, and most product updates will include a high level reminder of product strategy.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 16, 2019

At #mtpcon San Francisco, Brandon Chu, VP of Product at Shopify, provides some insight into what he considers the most interesting challenge in his career: managing platforms. In this talk he shares what platforms can mean for our product strategies, and what his team learned as they discovered how to build a platform at Shopify.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

If you work alongside Bristol-based product strategy and UX consultant Joe Leech then chances are you’ll also work alongside his dog Little Dude. At the moment he coaches the teams doing the work, but he’s starting to coach business leaders about product strategy. These senior people are increasingly of interest to Joe.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2018

In 2017, she and her team launched a family of consumer hardware products ranging from smartphones to smart speakers, earning 26 different design awards. This collection established a design aesthetic for technology products that is tactile, bold, emotional and undeniably Google. Joe Leech, Product Strategy Consultant.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 10, 2024

Subscribe now What is product sense At a high level, product sense is understanding what makes for a high-quality product for your customers (empathy) and having strong, validated opinions about what solutions will be successful (creativity). Right from the start, you get whiffs of product sense.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 27, 2022

Whether it’s staying on the same page as the development team during a sprint or creating buy-in on the product strategy and roadmap, these solutions streamline communication, minimize confusion, and provide centralized repositories for crucial information. Product management is no exception. Customer Surveys.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2021

Here’s a few that stand out in different ways but this is by no means a ranked list… Product, marketing, strategy, operations and company growth. Kathy Sierra, Serious Pony: Building a minimum badass user A completely different way of thinking about your product and your users. This will make you reconsider.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

Product Coalition publishes the most popular one of the product manager blogs on our list. The Reforge blog helps product managers with topics like analytics , team management and development, product leadership , or product strategy. Mind the Product. Easy ways to avoid the product graveyard.

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Userpilot

MARCH 11, 2022

To help you in your first 90 days on the job, we’ve compiled a collection of some of the best product management resources. The collection includes our favorite conferences, podcasts, blogs, books, newsletters, courses, and Slack groups for product managers. Best reports, statistics, and product benchmarks.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The Business of Software conference team is bringing me back to Boston for a 2020 talk on how to hire a Head of Product. Title: “Hiring a Head of Product” Register here. product strategy. Where: Seaport Hotel, Boston MA. When: 21st-23rd September 2020. No candidate survives our interview process.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 4, 2020

They annually offer over 40,000 leadership positions and delivers over 500 power conferences. Paul’s unique experience brings together the necessity of great engineering and the beauty of product strategy. During his workshop, Paul Ortchanian will focus on learning how to create actionable, product-centered roadmaps.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 20, 2019

What skills are required to develop a great team of Product Managers?”. Growing others, strategy, air cover? What is it that you would actually do, now that you won’t be responsible for one product, but a portfolio of them?”. A role without our own products can sound unfulfilling. What should my focus be?

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 16, 2022

Product management seldom requests big-ticket items from the management team. Sure, there’s the one-off request for a new addition to the product stack or travel for a product management conference. Eventually, the product management team may realize it needs to level up and add product operations to its organization.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

A value proposition helps us to focus on users and to check that our product solves a real problem. It helps us to avoid falling in love with our product, requires research and promotes honesty. It’s the foundation of our product strategy. And a product leader can help to make this happen. Product Lifecycle.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 24, 2020

Also, some nice things to say about your favorite conference. Strategy, optionality and managing two products at Basecamp. The conference industry must be completely decimated – the people, hotels – crushed. The hourly workers are in a terrible position. ” Conferences in the time of Covid.

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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. If you’ve spent time on your product strategy, this should come from the user-centered value story.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

How to Drive Product-Led Growth By KATHRYN SHEPHERD-KING If you’ve been in the product management world for any length of time, you’ll have probably heard about product-led growth. Product-led growth is a go-to-market strategy that relies on using your product as the primary vehicle to acquire, activate, and retain customers.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

There’s no better conference to attend if you’re working in product management, digital, or marketing in or near Manchester. This puts him in a unique position to bridge the gap between corporations and startups, fostering open innovation. Sophie Manton – Independent Consultant.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In this chartpack: Product strategy and mobile apps: 3 ways product teams build apps Top apps and categories Industry benchmarks on retention, engagement, monetization High growth opportunities: what are the fastest growing app categories? They’re selling different products, but 80% of what they do is pretty much the same.”

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2022

Whether it’s staying on the same page as the development team during a sprint or creating buy-in on the product strategy and roadmap, these solutions streamline communication, minimize confusion, and provide centralized repositories for crucial information. Product management is no exception. Customer Surveys.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 8, 2022

Very few product managers have that much control. Rather than a CEO, I’d argue a great product manager is a mason. Imagine sitting in a conference room or on a zoom call. Why aren’t we calling out the need to bring the compliance team into the product development process? Reflecting Strategy In Roadmaps?—?Features

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Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2017

UPDATED Mind the Product San Francisco 2017 promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with double the number of workshops , more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Jeff has worked in various roles and leadership positions at iXL, Fidelity, AOL, WebTrends, and TheLadders.

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Userpilot

MAY 20, 2021

This can include your company’s branding, the cover of a book, or a picture of you at a conference, for example. Hard skills include things like being able to develop a product strategy, technical skills , and research skills. Instead of saying: “Junior Product Manager at company XYZ between 2015 and 2017”. Hard Skills.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 3, 2020

Entry level PMs will often work alongside a mid level PM to extract the right insights from the data and to learn about the strategy of the product. After roughly two years of working in an entry level product position, they can expect to be promoted to a mid level product role.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Having spoken at conferences twice this year on the subject of design and emotion, I was spurred into writing this post by the number of people who gave me positive feedback. We tend to remember the peak of the experience (whether positive or negative) rather than the end-to-end experience. Emotion Does not Equal Delight.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

We’d spent weeks perfecting the roadmap presentation for our annual customer conference. Sam publishes a four-quarter roadmap: he updates it monthly, summarizes the reasons for changes in an email, and holds a quarterly Q&A for the whole company on how the roadmap is evolving and how it supports the company strategy. Details here.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

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. this was the creation of the Product Owner role. Confused and loss of a sense of identity, many?—?including

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 22, 2018

My talk from this year’s SaaStock conference in Dublin We had a great time as Silver sponsors at SaaStock 18 over in Dublin this year. Think about where your product feedback comes from. Who comes up with the strategy? Building a SaaS product is not a democracy! Here’s the write up & slides from it. Thank you! —?—?

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 10, 2017

Product-market fit is a result of matching unmet or underserved needs with the right product (benefits, features, and user experience). A Playbook for Achieving Product-Market Fit by Dan Olsen at Lean Startup Conference from Dan Olsen. This is the essence of product strategy. Value Proposition Design.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 31, 2019

So does Des Traynor in his talk on “ Product strategy in a growing company.” A purpose brand is positioned on the mechanism that causes people to purchase a product: they nail the job. One of the most magical interviews I have seen in my life has been from Bob Moesta at Business of Software Conference.

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