Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Jordan Bergtraum is a management consultant with over ten years of experience in the B2B SaaS industry, mostly as a head of product for various organizations in the legal, education, facilities management, and pharmaceutical spaces. He has been responsible for product strategy, UX, and teams consisting of product and project managers.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 26, 2021

One of the factors that drive the success of SaaS product management is how aligned the product team is with the customer success team. Data-driven growth is an important element of SaaS product management because it can inform your product strategy and also provides you with evidence to back up your decisions.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

The Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen is a practical guide on implementing the Lean Product methodology based on years of Olsen’s consulting work. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. Product Management Books #1 – Continuous Discovery Habits [NEW! ]. Key learnings. 566 global ratings.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

so my investor said that I need a product manager to do our product roadmap?”. When I worked as a product management consultant clients would often talk about “needing a product roadmap ASAP”. Product lifecycle context : During development and introduction you’ll likely be focused on prioritising core features.

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

Getting external support, such as product management consulting, can help establish the product leadership team responsible for nurturing and guiding the product team. What Is Product Management Consulting? Consulting doesn’t mean instructing a CEO and the product leadership team how to run the company.

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

The product manager role is responsible for understanding what customer problems to solve and what success looks like for a product. The different types of product managers include the traditional product manager, the product owner, the growth product manager, the technical product manager, and the platform product manager.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

Product strategy, discovery, and delivery: These are the three general dimensions for which product managers are responsible to optimize in a customer-centric organization. Product strategy exists outside the well defined guideposts of dual-track agile (a product discovery and delivery methodology).

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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. What does the product mean to you?” Product managers must articulate what success looks like for a product and rally a team to turn that vision into a reality. It’s a strategic document communicating the ‘why’ behind your product.

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BrainMates

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Some Problems Have Solutions, But Cannot
 Be Solved Even if we had access to unbiased data and could perform objective analysis, many of the problems product leaders face are analytically unsolvable. Let’s look at prioritisation as an example of a common task that might appear to be an opportunity for an analytical solution.

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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.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Proceed With Caution During the early days at Dropbox, Drew Houston, the co-founder, and CEO of Dropbox was tasked by his board to hire a product manager. For example, we didn’t have a data collection team so I worked with our deployment team to complete data collection tasks to unblock the machine learning team.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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BrainMates

OCTOBER 14, 2020

For Product Managers it’s particularly important. PMs need to constantly make decisions on what’s driving their company’s Product success and then prioritise the work to deliver Products customers love. For example, meet our fictional Product Manager Jane. A Product Managers’ tool for prioritisation.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Starting as a Product Designer, she then became Manager, Director and finally VP. Therefore, she provides a great example of a stable product management career path: staying within the company, and evolving both vertically and horizontally. Josh Fetcher is an author and business consultant. Check out her Medium profile !

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

But the discipline has matured, and more organizations value what dedicated product management has to offer. Product strategy has now become the primary focus of the job. Product strategy is a high-level plan for the product. It ties overall business objectives to the product. Metrics that Matter.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 18, 2021

Chris revealed that as CPO, he sees his role as having accountabilities for ALL the product strategy, product roadmap, and product execution. He believes his job entails everything outbound through product marketing into the field organization. It’s a classic story of what management consultants do,” Chris said. “I

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The Product Coalition

JULY 31, 2022

The first deals that you are going to secure are likely to be much more on relationship and vision than on a working product (or you shape the product together with your design partners as you go, in a later stage). If you are going for product-led growth, take into account that initially you wouldn’t be able to convert anyone.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

Spam engines are the most famous example here but there is much more. To identify these issues , you would need to do a very thorough risk analysis and understand the potential implications for your product. For example, if I need to write an email, there is an autocomplete feature that enables me to do it faster.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy. Far too many businesses rely on early-on hunches to inform their product strategies. To give you an example, this is the Inside Intercom podcast, right? There are support people, marketers, product managers, salespeople.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Many CEOs will tell you that they’re the best-informed people when it comes to knowing what customers need — and that they’re in the best position to drive decisions on product priorities. What happens here is that these expectations and this type of behaviour become the primary contributor to product strategy gridlock.

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Bain Public

APRIL 17, 2020

About Bain Public: Bain Public is a Product consultancy that helps companies make smart decisions, and ship top-notch products that innovate and achieve business objectives. Deep dive into "What we do" with slides covering our methods with examples. The 3 steps to product innovation. Course Outline.

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BrainMates

OCTOBER 14, 2020

For Product Managers it’s particularly important. PMs need to constantly make decisions on what’s driving their company’s Product success and then prioritise the work to deliver Products customers love. For example, meet our fictional Product Manager Jane. A Product Managers’ tool for prioritisation.

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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. Getting it wrong comes in two forms: building the wrong product and building the product wrong. In other words, a reason for the existence of a product initiative.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

At a recent Brainmates Product Talk, Strategyzer’s Product Strategy and Innovation expert Frederic Etiemble shared his insights on the best practices for designing a value proposition and explained the importance of understanding your customers’ pains, gains and jobs to be done as part of this process.

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UX Studio

JUNE 30, 2023

A website that reflects their brand and meets the expectations of their target audience is just an example. USA; Europe $70 – $90 / hr Website design, UI/UX design, Research, Website Audit, Mobile App Design, Consulting, Expert Review Studio 22 Design Studio 22 Design is a creative design firm located in the San Francisco Bay area.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Make a Good Impression Early On Abstract by Oleg Shcherba Making a good first impression in your PM role will help you more easily navigate your product management career path. New product managers also should set an example through their actions. Meeting with stakeholders isn't the only way to make a good impression early on.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Design and consulting constitute roughly 5% of the total service portfolio. As an example, our product team has closely worked with HBO to re-design the HBO-Go platform for web, mobile, and smart TV. Besides product design, we have successfully launched our own digital product: UX folio. Wandr Studio.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Strategic decisions provide direction and focus for your product, guide product development action, and ensure alignment within your product ecosystem. Strategic decisions include delineating the product vision, value proposition, product differentiators, and product roadmap.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

At a recent Brainmates Product Talk, Strategyzer’s Product Strategy and Innovation expert Frederic Etiemble shared his insights on the best practices for designing a value proposition and explained the importance of understanding your customers’ pains, gains and jobs to be done as part of this process.

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BrainMates

DECEMBER 12, 2019

As a social entrepreneur with Full Time Lives and in my Product Management consulting work for Brainmates. How does this affect the world of Product Management? I think that as business and society is changing, our Products need to change too. How do organisations benefit from having a mission-driven Product strategy?

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

They’re responsible for turning your product vision into a tangible product users appreciate and gravitate to. To nurture this relationship, Melissa Perri, a Product Strategy, UX Design, and Process consultant, suggests focusing on the skills each team brings to the table.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 29, 2024

Successful product innovation is challenging because it doesn’t just happen by accident. Your competency with these concepts in the Body of Knowledge helps equip you to turn this around and be more successful creating products customers love and that generate revenue for your organization.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 9, 2020

Communicating product strategy and vision. Some even contain hands-on coursework projects that will help you demonstrate your new-found product management skills. Here are some of our favorites… Product Management 101 by Todd Birzer. Todd Birzer has years of product management experience. Get it here.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

They have more responsibilities and independence in setting strategy and making product decisions. Senior Product Managers are in charge of strategic decisions – they set the long-term product vision and strategy. The average salary of a product director in the US is around $268k.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 9, 2019

Second, I hope this can serve as an example for how to think about what to say yes to and what to turn down. For example, I’ve already identified two conferences for 2019 and will be saying no to the rest. They want to pick my brain, see how they can help me, get advice on their product, their job search, their role, and so on.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2021

I see my consulting customers having to make the exact same decisions. Last month, for example, I met a startup, which had a good indication from the market that their initial product direction was viable. The people they talked to wanted to test their product, they loved what they saw, and were intrigued to hear and get more.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

What can product managers do to escape it? These are just a few of the questions that Melissa Perri, a product consultant and the author of Escaping the Build Trap , discusses in her presentation she delivered at the Product Drive Summit powered by Userpilot a few weeks ago. Product Strategy.

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