The Accidental Product Manager

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Waste Management product managers are dealing with a lot of change Image Credit: eltpics. The product managers over at Waste Management have always had a lot to deal with. Just exactly how is a recycling product manager supposed to run a successful business when all of this change is going on?

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 29, 2024

How product managers can master product innovation management Today we’re talking about product innovation management, one of the seven knowledge areas for product mastery. These are the knowledge areas that make us successful as product masters who know how to create new value for our customers.

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The Accidental Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Getting customers is hard, keeping them is even harder Image Credit: Stock Catalog There’s no question that streaming services are very hot right now. Sure would be good to be a product manager for one of them. Sure would be good to be a product manager for one of them. What’s going on here?

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The Accidental Product Manager

MAY 8, 2023

With deliveries, sometimes later is better Image Credit: Javi The good news is that your customer has ordered your product. It’s going to take some time for you to get it from where you store it to their location. This means that your customer is going to have to put up with a delivery delay.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Crafting an actionable definition for modern product management One of the questions that founders and CEOs often ask in VP / Head of Product interviews is, “What is product management to you?” Are these four things reflecting well what modern product management is? Something felt wrong.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 11, 2022

Chinese product managers are trying to win over millions of Indian users Image Credit: Neha Singh. If you were the product manager for a new social media app, what would your #1 goal be every day when you went to work? There is only one answer to that question: to sign up more users for you app.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

If so, you should definitely watch the talk that Jason Knight , a product consultant and advisor, gave at this year’s Product Drive hosted by Userpilot. How to upskill as a product manager. Measuring the value of product management is difficult too. Book the demo!

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2023

was the first product manager I ever hired. A brilliant guy, with many years of tech leadership experience, but none in product management. Still, he was one of the best hires I made in this area and he turned out to be a product star. When I hired him I already had a lot of experience in people management.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JUNE 13, 2022

Ad product managers think that they have found a new market Image Credit: United Nations Development Programme. Advertising product managers are always looking for the next “big thing” The advertising market has its ups and downs as customer’s needs, wants, and moods change seemingly overnight.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 21, 2022

Videogame product managers are starting extend their product development definition and bring more of their complex, graphics-intense hits for consoles and high-end computers to mobile devices. How can game product managers be successful doing this? However, that is now starting to change.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We all want maximum value for minimum effort or cost. In times of an economic downturn, it is very tempting to offer less for lower prices. But is it really what your customers want? Here’s how to look at it in order to make the right decision for your customers. But which one is more important? I decided to meet B.,

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Mind the Product

JUNE 25, 2019

Egyptian-born Abdelrahman (Abdo) Wahba co-founded popular Arabic audiobook site Iqraaly – but it wouldn’t have seen its current success unless Abdo had taken the time to analyse deeply what made customers stay loyal. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Quote of the Episode.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Cosmetic product managers are going after millennials Image Credit: Albert Lugosi. I mean, customers try products, select the ones that they like, and that’s the end of the story, right? Niche, independent brands, meanwhile, grew to more than 25% from 20% in the same time period.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 5, 2020

These days, we’re doing all of our meetups and events remotely, so Andy Budd joined us on the podcast to talk about the difference between product managers and service [.]. The post Service Design and Product – Andy Budd on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. Twitter user?

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The Accidental Product Manager

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The chase is on for customers who will order repeatedly. The product managers at these food delivery services are working hard to try to establish their new market while fending off all of the other companies that are doing the same thing that they are. The Problem With Food Delivery Customers. Image Credit: Eric Vondy.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2019

Product Management Journey?—?Developer Developer to Consultant to Product Manager If you asked me 5 years ago, I didn’t even know what Product Management was. I received a lot of questions recently on how to transition into a Product Manager role. in Computer Science) in 2008.

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The Accidental Product Manager

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Product shortfalls are forcing product managers to use magic Image Credit: Andy Oakley. Every product manager wants their customers to be able to buy their product when they decide to make a purchase. Grocery store product managers are facing a situation like this. Over in the U.K.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Tools for planning and executing product projects Today we are talking about the skills product managers need to grow their careers. She is the Head of Merchant Growth and Monetization for Google’s B2B ecommerce business, where she is leading efforts to build the next $1B+ B2B business for the company.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 7, 2022

If you were a product manager who worked at Amazon you would be under a great deal of pressure to find ways for the company to make more money. One way that they would like to bring in more revenue is to start to sell high end products. One way that they would like to bring in more revenue is to start to sell high end products.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2022

It’s hard to truly understand your customers when you’re chasing that point increase in NPS or to empathize with their problems when you’re spending all day looking at charts on a computer screen. To see the world through their eyes, to get a feel for their experience, pains, and needs, you need actual human connection.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Can product managers successfully promote e-cigarettes using social media? When you think about all of the products that product managers are responsible for, there are a number of them that come to mind as being “difficult” products to successfully manage. Image Credit: Lindsay Fox.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Image Credit: Gayla Baer-Taylor In this digital age in which we are living, we create our product using our product development definition and then our customers can purchase our products and then go home and write a review of it. As a result of this, they were more likely to buy the product. Why was this?

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 11, 2021

It all about the experience Image Credit: Praveen. So product manager, what does your product look like? No, I mean when your customer first has a chance to get their hands on their version of your product, what does it look like? So what do you want the appearance of your product to say to your customer?

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

What does it mean for us as product managers? We all use AI or machine learning (ML)-driven products almost every day, and the number of these products will be growing exponentially over the next couple of years. What does it mean for us as product managers? Could we make the user experience safer?

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2019

After leaving the Navy and working on nuclear submarines, Dan Olsen embarked on a career that has spanned enterprises and start-ups, consulting, speaking, writing, and running the Lean Product & Lean UX meetup. He joined us to talk about product/market fit: what it is, how to know when you have it, and how to achieve it.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 3, 2022

Despite how crucial user onboarding is to increasing customer conversion and retention , it’s still somewhat overlooked or brushed off in many organizations that see it as an item to cross off the checklist as soon as the user becomes a paying customer. Short on time? Then, I started consulting.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 16, 2019

And, there’s always an opportunity to ship code that is far from a “finished” product. That’s why agreeing on what we call the “Definition of Done” is of critical importance to achieving a consensus on when projects, initiatives, and features are actually complete. Defining the definition of done. Code is checked in.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 27, 2016

I believe the same synthesis of skill sets is occurring between marketers and product managers, but all too often, they’re treated organisationally as separate disciplines, broken up into siloed teams. To quote Adaptive Path co-founder Peter Merholz from this blog: “The experience is the product.”.

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The Accidental Product Manager

DECEMBER 18, 2023

However, doing many of these things can be a challenge for older computer users. As the number of senior computer users continues to grow, this is opening a brand-new market that product managers are trying to determine how best to fill. People are moving into retirement communities with five to seven devices.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

UX studio is one of the global innovation design consulting firms focusing on UX design, research, and strategic consulting. We researched the top design consulting firms’ competency level, experience, and portfolio to define the most reliable design thinking companies you can trust and partner with in 2021. UX studio .

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The post The Invisible Leader: Facilitation Secrets – Elena Astilleros on The Product Experience [Rebroadcast] appeared first on Mind the Product. One of the things we’ve learned in 2020 is just how important it is to have great facilitation skills as product people. Getting the most out of meetings.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 28, 2023

Sometimes good ideas just don’t make it to market Image Credit: Vaping360 As product managers, the one thing that we’d all like to do is to be in charge of a very popular product. However, something that we often don’t consider is that if a product is popular, it’s going to get a lot of scrutiny.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? How do you promote gender diversity in the product management field? I run the Customer Success team at Apptentive, and I’m gonna be here today just as a moderator for this panel. I’m a product manager at Stripe.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 23, 2018

I got a lot of good responses from this recent post about the need to frequently talk directly with real customers , especially at B2B/enterprise companies. More than a few folks raised an important concern: with so much to do as product managers, how do we consistently make time for customer interviews?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

That’s exactly how I discovered the world of Product Management. My first job I was working in the Group health actuarial team to analyze customer health claims data and developing pricing for current-year policies. I was about to click back when I noticed the term “Product Manager” on the headline.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

How to achieve product-market fit – for product managers This episode is sponsored by PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. PDMA is a global community of professional members whose skills, expertise and experience power the most recognized and respected innovative companies in the world.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 10, 2022

Just exactly how are video game product managers going about pricing their products? Video games have become more and more expensive as the game product managers used their product development definition to come up with new ways to extract money from you. How Much Should A Video Game Cost?

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