Product Innovation Educators

MAY 1, 2023

Using product ops to standardize product management processes Today we are talking about product ops—what it is, if you need it, and how to get started. He is an author, speaker, and product coach. His market and technical savvy allowed his career to develop from Product Manager to Chief Marketing Officer. 

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 20, 2019

What is Product Leadership?—?really? Photo by rob walsh on Unsplash With so many Product Management articles out there, let’s talk ‘Product Leadership’ for a change. Product Leadership is NOT necessarily about having the best Product Manager skills. What is Product Leadership?—?really?

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Mind the Product

MAY 14, 2019

How should a Head of Product, a VP of Product, or a Product Team Lead behave? Many articles have been written on this subject, most of them either by product consultants or people holding one of the above titles. What does a product manager think about this? appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Product Culture

JANUARY 12, 2022

Product is the sort of leadership role that can pull the right team together and get them moving in the right direction. A Product Culture Manifesto ? I learned cross-functional leadership from my first boss in Product, John Wang, who went on to be CMO of HTC. How did you learn leadership? Is it mentorship?

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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. In his talk, Jason talked about how product managers can upskill to meet the challenges in their daily work and how to make sure that their organizations value their work.

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Mind the Product

JULY 23, 2019

As product management evolves, so do the challenges and questions facing product management leaders. At last week’s #mtpcon San Francisco Product Leadership Forum, senior product professionals got together to discuss the current hot topics of career paths, talent management, and psychological safety.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 30, 2017

These words couldn’t be more relevant to product management. Such a trait is crucial to Product Management roles if you want sales, marketing and engineering to trust and follow your direction. Here is a recap of some of her most useful lessons: PM Lesson #1: Successful communication is the bedrock of Product Management.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Product leader, author, and consultant Matt LeMay gave an enlightening presentation on developing your product team at the #mtpcon London 2023 Leadership Forum, which precedes the main London conference.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 15, 2019

The Product Management Awards (#TPMAS) are the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. The Best Product Person & The Best Product Leader. In this role, Gaudio drives the strategy behind roadmap management, agile product development, and cross-functional communication.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

Challenging situations are great opportunities to grow as a human being and by doing so, you increase your leadership power. To increase your expertise, strengthen your understanding of the market or domain and the product, as well as your product management savviness. Trust me.”. Strengthen Your Expertise.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 20, 2019

In addition to my formal coaching of product leaders (Directors, VPs and CPOs who directly manage teams of product managers), I talk with lots of senior individual contributors about the risks and challenges of moving “up the ladder” into product leadership roles. What should my focus be?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2019

Photo by Cytonn Photography on Unsplash Get on the same page early in the project to avoid unnecessary conflict Before I was a grad student in OD, it hadn't occurred to me that the PM disciplines (product, project, program) are like consulting. Because PMs, like consultants, get work done only through other people.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

A little background on Sam and her organization: Sam oversees the four product teams that manage two streaming services, ICI TOU.TV These were previously two completely separate sets of products managed by separate French and English arms of the organization. and CBC Gem. In April 2023, CBC finished a 3.5-year

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. out of 5 stars. 54 global ratings. Where to buy?

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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

My career started at Hewitt Associates which was a human capital and management consulting firm that operated 500 offices in 120 countries. We provided consulting, insurance brokerage, information technology and business process outsourcing services. More About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Background.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 13, 2021

When I work with leaders, I hear reasons like this: I was the original architect or product manager or developer, so I know the most about the system (or product). I'm the only one who can and does keep up with product context (or whatever context you have). This is a part of the series of leadership tips.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 5, 2023

  This is a seminar-style " Product Management Leadership Essentials " course, initially limited to 10 participants. Ideal attendees are currently running a product management organization (rather than aspiring product managers).  And

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Women are still underrepresented in the Product Profession – with only 33.3% of US Product Managers being female in 2021, according to a metastudy of 30 million profiles conducted by Zippia : Source: [link]. Melissa Perri – Speaker, consultant, and teacher in Product Management.

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Product Management University

MARCH 18, 2019

This product manager job description is written specifically for B2B. What makes the product manager role unique in B2B? There are two key differences between a traditional text book product manager and a B2B product manager. Product Manager Job Description. Account manager.

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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. Ideally, you will have directly assisted a product manager on one of your projects.

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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. Ideally, you will have directly assisted a product manager on one of your projects.

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Nulab

APRIL 3, 2019

This time, our meetup theme was “Product Management, Strategy & Leadership” and it was a great pleasure for us to host our invited speakers: Jay Fong, Product Strategy Lead ( honestbee Singapore ). Giom Duquesnay, Enterprise Agile Coach ( Giom Consulting ). Mike Dickinson, Chief Product Officer ( Xendit ).

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The first product manager in a startup is a critical role with immense impact on the startup’s success?—?both Photo by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash When I joined Twiggle as their first VP Product I was the thirteenth employee. Shortly after I started, the CEO surprised me by saying I should hire a product manager.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 2, 2021

How product managers can gain influence, solve problems, and propel their organizations to success. What would you do if you were the first product hire in a rapidly growing company? Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [1:34] I treated the position as a consultancy role.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

From high school to business school, and throughout my professional career, I was supremely comfortable with it , and reveled in solving problems, to the appreciation of my managers, colleagues, and teachers. Management guru, Peter Drucker had said, if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. 3) How should I go about solving it?

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Mind the Product

MAY 20, 2020

Now an executive and leadership coach, she’s devoted a lot of time over the last few years to working with teams on [.]. The post Making Decisions That Scale – Julia Whitney on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 10, 2020

What : “Moving Up Into Product Leadership” remote workshop. The workshop digs into the role of Product Leader ( aka VP of Product Management, Director of Products, Head of Product, Chief Product Officer) including breakouts, group exercises, some skills-building, and a safe format to tough personal/professional questions.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Cyrus Eslamian hosts the “ Product Manager Hub ” podcast. He invited me on to talk about product leadership, organizations, working across departmental silos. Key questions: What are the main sets of challenges for Product Leaders that are different from managing individual products and how to tackle each.

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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. What we’ve noticed instead in the startup world, is a lot of people become product managers by default rather than design.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 20, 2019

One of the reasons I’m so passionate about product management is because I believe good product practice significantly underpins happiness in organisations. This is, of course, a subjective observation which comes from interacting with many organisations as a product consultant.

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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. As a long-time product manager, I found the positive effects of saying no in a few situations.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

While some may say that a Product Manager is ‘the CEO of the product’, that’s not entirely true. As a Product Manager, you have very little authority. While the buck stops with you when it comes to product decision making, the overall health of the company doesn’t rest on your shoulders.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 26, 2021

You know how when you log into a SaaS product, you often notice the UI has changed or there are new options that weren't there before? That's SaaS product management hustling in the background to give you the best experience. And you had to own all the servers. Nightmare, right?

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Mixpanel

MARCH 30, 2020

Latest studies note that only 35% of product manager roles are filled by women, and most of those roles are entry-level positions, meaning they are often removed from influential decision making. Meanwhile, if you’re looking to start or advance your career in product management, check out AWIP’s job board. Let’s dive in.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

MAY 5, 2023

Becoming a successful product manager requires a unique set of skills and expertise. It involves being able to identify customer needs, understand market trends, and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to develop and launch successful products. As a coach and consultant, I, too, deal with lots of clients.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 15, 2018

Topic: Product Management Leadership Games. Sponsored by Product Tank Auckland and Pushpay. Rich Mironov coaches small groups of product leaders and product management teams worldwide. Where: Pushpay , 167 Victoria St W, Level 6, Auckland, 1010, NZ. When: Weds, 29 August, 6:00pm.

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NextBigWhat

AUGUST 6, 2021

Product Managers define the ‘What and Why’ of the product- in consultation with customers, business leadership, marketing, sales/support, engineering (and other teams). Project Managers define ‘ When and How’ in consultation with the product, engineering, QA and support teams. Via: FWD app.

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