PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. Partner with sales, business, and strategy leadership to set and attain targets that affect Uber’s bottom-line.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. Partner with sales, business, and strategy leadership to set and attain targets that affect Uber’s bottom-line.

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

As business advisors and executive coaches, we've worked with dozens of CEOs to help them build and grow their product leadership team as they scale their company. Getting external support, such as product management consulting, can help establish the product leadership team responsible for nurturing and guiding the product team.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The focus on profitability really fortifies the importance of collaborative decision-making between product managers and the leadership team. As the legendary statistician and management consultant, W. Some examples can include having a 15% conversion rate or having 40% of users return 3 times in one week. Final Thoughts.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Think of digital transformation strategies as your roadmap to success in the digital age. Examples: Highlight real-world examples of how companies benefited from digital transformation strategies. Create a detailed roadmap with defined phases, timelines, resource allocation, and budget estimates. boosted sales by 20%).

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

He is perhaps most recognized for his influential work as a consultant, writer, and speaker on product management, particularly within the realm of software and technology companies. Marty Cagan is the founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG), a consultancy firm that helps companies build successful products.

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Bain Public

APRIL 17, 2020

Career Development Program Details: Whether you are a Founder or part of the Product, Engineering or leadership team, you need actionable strategies and impactful techniques that drive results today. Deep dive into "What we do" with slides covering our methods with examples. Where do I manage the roadmap? Course Outline.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 20, 2019

The other path, the one I’ll focus on in this post, continues along the journey of individual contributor : to mastery of the craft of design, to leadership without the need to manage, to above all else shipping great work. Another dimension on which behaviors can be assessed is whether you are demonstrating leadership in your role.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Your customer success managers need to be in tune with each customer’s business and challenges and work together to create a roadmap to meet their goals. As part of that partnership, they’re going to demand more from you in terms of roadmap and key integrations. “Upmarket customers have different demands of you.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

So I did what every well-trained consultant knows to do — I asked a question. A purpose we could share with the company’s leadership team, customers, and those working on the product. Instead, think about a product roadmap like a GPS for your product’s journey. More than anything, I wanted to maintain the team’s motivation.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Get ready to dive into insightful discussions, practical strategies, and real-world examples that will empower you to create and manage products that meet user needs and leave them truly satisfied. Product management and leadership speakers. leadership to uphold your customer-centric focus. Connect with Else on Linkedin.

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ProductPlan

JULY 16, 2021

For example, let’s say you have a disgruntled customer bugging you to add a new feature. It puts the onus on them to consult with colleagues to see where they might need some extra help. Setting the Stage for Successful Context-Based Leadership. A theme-based roadmap articulates the initiatives that need prioritization.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Only among my consulting customers , two companies recently hired a new VP of Product. By the way, while the tips here address specific challenges that product leaders face, many of them would apply to any kind of leadership position, and even to non-leadership positions, so feel free to forward it to friends who are currently on the move.

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DISQO

JULY 18, 2019

There’s a fascinating discussion on Quora that highlights many widely agreed upon best practices for product leadership. Consulting our survey of more than 150 product managers and interviews with over 200 experts on our podcast, This is Product Management , we gained some surprising insights. The data confirmed our skepticism.

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DISQO

JULY 18, 2019

There’s a fascinating discussion on Quora that highlights many widely agreed upon best practices for product leadership. Consulting our survey of more than 150 product managers and interviews with over 200 experts on our podcast, This is Product Management , we gained some surprising insights. The data confirmed our skepticism.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Your roadmap is one of the most important things you’ll produce as a SaaS company. Who will you share the roadmap with: Just employees, or customers too? And then there’s perhaps the biggest question of all: “How do we decide what makes it on to our roadmap?” And your roadmap should change with them. They change a lot.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

There is so much work to do, you don’t even have time to create a roadmap. Slowly, both the product and the roadmap reflect only what the customers are asking for. For example, let’s say your goal is $1M in ARR, and today you have $180K. We all know it’s going to change anyway pretty soon. And nothing else.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 15, 2022

The Acme Corp senior leadership team is thrilled that they can bring people back to the office. Especially now that senior leadership wanted people to meet in person—during just those two days each week. Right now, the senior leadership all live in New York. That's why the leadership team didn't know about Monday.

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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. TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. Let’s dive in!

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 20, 2019

This is, of course, a subjective observation which comes from interacting with many organisations as a product consultant. Consider the name of a key artefact that product managers own: the roadmap. The roadmap literally explains “we are here” and “next we will be there, and then there”.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 8, 2019

The other path, the one I’ll focus on in this post, continues along the journey of individual contributor : to mastery of the craft of design, to leadership without the need to manage, to above all else shipping great work. Another dimension on which behaviors can be assessed is whether you are demonstrating leadership in your role.

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The Product Bistro

JANUARY 3, 2017

Digital Transformation, it’s all the rage, and doing a simple Google search yields a plethora of hits, from training to consultants, to the big market research companies, all weighing in. They will report to the customer’s leadership team, and provide concrete evidence of the efficacy of the solution.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 22, 2023

Whether that product is a software application, a physical doo-dad of some kind, or a service like consulting or transportation, or warehousing, every company provides some value to customers in exchange for compensation. The existing product leadership and team may or may not have the correct skill set.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

This is what I tell the founders that consult with me  — that to really solve the problem that they are looking to solve, a tool is not enough. Tools, for example, can highlight correlations, but not causations. For example, if your user stories are all in place and adhere to a certain structure, you might think you are done.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

For example, let’s say that you decide to improve retention through better onboarding. These other teams sometimes have the skills to be true thought partners and business consultants, taking that pressure off of CS leadership. Any great consultant needs to know the right questions to ask, though. Your VP of CS?

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2021

Let's start with a couple of examples. Example 1: Startup/Small Organization with Few Products. Example 2: Large Organization with a Related Suite of Products. Aside from the problems that the teams don't finish everything each quarter, the senior leadership likes the regular cadence of planning and seeing accomplishments.

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Product Management Unpacked

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

I sat in a meeting about business strategy recently and one of the pieces of advice I gave the leadership team was that strategy was a lot about deciding what we were not going to do – what we were going to say ‘no’ to. It was actually funny because I said it almost without thinking about it. The customer was upset. It wasn’t pretty.

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Bain Public

MAY 24, 2019

At Bain Public, we have learned a lot in the many hours and conversations spent mentoring, advising and consulting in product management. They fail to appreciate the necessity of having a simple, clear, succinct product roadmap that everyone can internalize and use as a guiding light for making difficult choices. Developing a Strategy.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

You should therefore help the team acquire the relevant market and domain knowledge—for instance, by involving the team in research and validation work, inviting them to join you when you visit customers— and ensure that they are aware of the product strategy and product roadmap as well as the business goals and KPIs. Learn More.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

It’s more important than ever to set a viable business model with roadmap strategies that contribute to decreasing the likelihood of future climate hazards while legitimizing immediate revenue. Our approach, product, expert advice and coaching helps entangle complex technology, people and roadmap dynamics. About Paul Ortchanian.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 25, 2023

 Last week, though, in my product leadership workshop , we had an extended discussion about the core people-and-organizational obligations we have toward those who work for us. (If Examples: A Fortune 50 financial company light-years away from our core manufacturing market expresses interest.  Sales

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 15, 2020

What the CEO needs to do is shift their focus toward building the product leadership team, empowering the product manager to think strategically and focus on features that map and complement a ‘high level’ strategic baseline they set for the product. Product Mission : Once you’ve determined your BHAG and UVP, how do you create a roadmap ?

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The Product Cafe

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Here are some examples of the types of questions that usually prove fruitful: When did you last encounter a problem with this technology? As leadership consultant Ashley Cox describes it, “I see outputs as the hard numbers, data, and metrics of doing business, while outcomes are the intangible results and human aspects.”

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

There were so many seniors to help us juniors learn how to be an employee and how to be a good consultant. I was a technical consultant back then, traveling to a lot of clients all over Europe. I actually started out consulting, doing discovery work for companies. That’s actually the thing. It’s all about empathy.

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

While most of your roadmap initiatives support one tactic or another, each functional group will call out for new initiatives that match other objectives and they’ll want the entire development effort in the upcoming release. Or should they offer transitory leadership support through coaching? So take their advice and execute on it!

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. For example, the marketer must be able to create the right marketing strategy for the product. Think of Google Search, which addresses the challenge of finding information online, and Flickr, which allows people to share photos.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2024

Asking short questions about a specific practice in a snapshot survey can guide team leadership to the most valuable places to improve. Leveraging the planning onion model to build release plans and roadmaps from the core of user stories will help buttress delivery estimates, and focus on more immediate needs. Be a servant leader.

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