Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Tips for creating customer use cases – for product managers Today we are talking about how to create and use customer use cases to guide product design. Our guest is Dr. Lilac Muller, VP of Product Management at Kymeta Corporation. 18:41] How does the use case impact product vision and decision-making?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 23, 2020

Since releasing both a webinar and book on the impact of feature-less roadmaps on your product strategy recently, we’ve gotten a lot of questions about why we’re so hostile to including features on product roadmaps. Features have long been the basic unit of measurement that product development teams track. Of course not.

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Mind the Product

MAY 31, 2019

In between we held sessions on Product Strategy and Product Principles, on Managing Product Portfolios, and on Developing Product Managers. On Day 2 we ran five all-day workshops for Product Managers at two venues in central Hamburg. Day 3: Conference. Day 2: Workshops.

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Userpilot

JULY 31, 2023

TL;DR The product marketing manager role (PMM) is primarily responsible for a product’s positioning, messaging, and branding. PMMs need the right tools to help them do their job: project management, team collaboration, customer feedback , analytics, and digital marketing. Who is a product marketing manager?

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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. Foster mutual understanding by painting a shared vision of the future and the results achieved.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup In my previous article , I reflected on a few things that I would tell myself if I could travel back in time and the concept of “three waves of changes.” In this post, I want to talk about the three most important lessons I have learned so far as a Product Manager at a startup.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In order to answer the questions above, you may want to use techniques such as direct observation, user interviews, prototyping, creating a strategy canvas or E-R-R-C grid , and you may capture some of them using a tool like my product vision board.

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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. Our guest is Jill Soley, a Silicon Valley strategic product and marketing executive. Start with building relationships.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Product Strategy. It’s not that they don’t describe some or all of the activities of product strategy, but in my experience, they are misplaced across the lifecycle phases instead of a distinct first phase. As a bridge between business strategy and product development, product strategy has one primary goal?—?creating

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

How product managers can get market-driven data to make product decisions quickly This episode is sponsored by PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. PDMA is also the longest-running professional association for product managers, leaders, and innovators, having started in 1976.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 18, 2019

I’ve been curious about how product managers weigh various factors in selecting new jobs. The criteria I asked about in the survey were: Mission and vision of the new company or product: Do I believe in the mission of the company or product (why does the product exist?)

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

One signal I’ve been giving much thought too of late is the collision of two roles, Product Management and Product Ownership. A topic of hot debate in the agile and product circles but with very few answers. Credit: DataKitchen Since its inception, Scrum and the Product Owner role has become widely adopted.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 27, 2022

That includes product teams, who must determine how to maximize their return on their 2022 budgets. To get the most bang for your budgeted bucks, we can look at some of the trends revealed in our latest State of Product Management Report. Product teams are spending on things that make them work better, smarter, and faster.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 31, 2018

Todd Lombardo takes on a topic that is emotional to most of us as product managers – the product roadmap. In modern product management, we have multiple frameworks and tools designed to help us understand what to build. A roadmap also tells us how we will realize our product vision. Timeframes.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 19, 2023

How product managers can build trust and alignment on virtual teams Today we are talking about making virtual product teams more effective. Our guest is Anna Marie Clifton, Head of Product at Vowel. Before Vowel, she held senior product management roles at Asana, Coinbase, and Yammer. Trust builds product.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 14, 2019

This kind of serendipity is not a viable career strategy! 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. For our products, this might be “to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere” (AirBNB).

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2019

It is much better to think ahead and innovate to create products that fit into the bigger vision of the company. Over time, as more clients demand more, the product teams will most likely fall behind since there are now more products to manage and on a timeline. It takes all of the fun out of product management!

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The Forgotten art of Product Strategy. Almost 20 years ago, Ben Horowitz wrote that good product teams know “the market, the product, the product line, and the competition well”, and this is just as true today as it was then. Agile is not a Strategy. Visions are About the Future.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2022

That includes product teams, who must determine how to maximize their return on their 2022 budgets. To get the most bang for your budgeted bucks, we can look at some of the trends revealed in our latest State of Product Management Report. Product teams are spending on things that make them work better, smarter, and faster.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

In fact her post on “ mission-driven products ” suggested that Product Managers include “sustainable social benefits” in their Product Success Criteria. Brainmates shared our experience of holding our Product Talks digitally. Strong Product Leaders. Strong Product Leaders.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

In fact her post on “ mission-driven products ” suggested that Product Managers include “sustainable social benefits” in their Product Success Criteria. Brainmates shared our experience of holding our Product Talks digitally. Strong Product Leaders. Strong Product Leaders.

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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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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

For this reason, it’s the perfect time to align those with the product vision by conducting an annual planning session. While your product roadmap doesn’t need release dates on it, the upcoming year’s calendar should get surfaced during this process. In an ideal world, those dates wouldn’t impact when products ship.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2019

It’s something I’ve said in the past on conference stages, webinars, podcasts, Twitter, and elsewhere. I even wrote about it in my Mind the Product blog post, Lean Strategies for Maturing Products. A timeline on your product roadmap does just this, and that’s why you need to ditch them. I’ve been there!

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

The product manager career path is an exciting one with lots of possible on- and off-ramps. According to LinkedIn, interest in product management has doubled in the United States in the past 5 years. What is the Product Manager’s Career Path? Typical Product Management Roles. Product Manager.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

The product manager career path is an exciting one with lots of possible on- and off-ramps. According to LinkedIn, interest in product management has doubled in the United States in the past 5 years. What is the Product Manager’s Career Path? Typical Product Management Roles. Product Manager.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

We have five product managers, one UX researcher , five designers—one of them director of design, leading the design team. All product managers report to me, and we have five product teams up and running. It sounds like you are responsible for product, design, and research. You have this grand vision.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 9, 2019

I write a popular product blog. I get invited to speak at conferences. Most product managers get asked to do more than they could possibly do. Writing articles for Product Talk allows me to teach through writing. I also speak at industry conferences. I write for Product Talk. I teach at a university.

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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. A lot of people are scared of opening up their product & business to customer feedback for a variety of reason. Grab me around the conference or reach out to me if you have any questions.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2017

To do a great job as a product manager or product owner, you require two skills sets: product-specific and generic ones. As the name suggests, product-specific capabilities are limited to a single product or product portfolio. These skills are not specific to an individual product, but transferable.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Not only will this lead to more productive virtual coffees, Slack chats, conference calls, etc., Don’t try to guess, either, come right out and ask everyone you should be checking in with regularly what format they like best. but it also exhibits great humility on your part toward your colleagues.

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Tyner Blain

JULY 10, 2017

You know you’re a product manager when this image causes more than a chuckle. A few random thoughts inspired by this Rorschach test of product management concepts from sunk cost fallacy to intentionality. ’ Then several other product-management related concepts popped into my head.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Product management teams are overwhelmed. I can say this authoritatively because Modus has been providing product consulting to clients of all sizes for nearly a decade. The root cause: there is no universal definition of what product management is, and as generalists, product managers end up doing everything.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Becoming a director of product requires years of experience managing products and working with other product managers. That gives you the experience and expertise to get to the next level, where you start managing other product managers. Let’s get started.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2023

With that understanding, our focus shifts to the landscape for product-led organizations in 2023. Specifically, we’ll employ the help of the recently published 2023 State of Product Management Report. The data from that report has some interesting implications for companies that are on their own product-led journey.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 9, 2020

However, be assured that everything reported from our forums here comes from the most forward-thinking people in the world of product.). Your vision and its supporting culture should, therefore, be very specific about who you want to employ and how you want to work. Define What Product Management Means to Your Company.

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