Product Management University

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Enjoy the B2B Product Manager December issue. Blog: High-Octane Product Management. Why Storytelling Skills For Product Management & Product Marketing Are Essential for Success. Product Management Playbook. Evolving to Product-Led Growth in 5 Steps. View the magazine. In This Issue.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 22, 2021

that’s not me, I always talk to leadership about my plans and their buy-in is crucial to anything I do as a product manager. Leadership are the ones who can make or break your initiatives internally, they have power. And so we inform them, consult them, involve them. Is this on the roadmap? So what can you do?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2022

When a company is first starting out, one of its main goals is to find the right product-market fit. In my last piece, I discussed many of the tools that product leaders have for building a customer-obsessed culture. These customers are then consulted, with the intent to validate the product strategy and long-term roadmap.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Marty Cagan is a well-known figure in the product management and technology industry. 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.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Product Drive talks categories This year’s edition comes with four talks categories to give you insights and inspirations into different aspects of Product. Product management and leadership speakers. Product marketing speaker.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Melissa Perri – Speaker, consultant, and teacher in Product Management. CEO of Product Labs. Melissa Perri is one of the most recognizable names in Product Management. She’s currently a consultant, speaker, and teacher in product management. Author of “The Build Trap”. Hana Mohan , CEO of Magic Bell.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

He held leadership roles at Bay Area startups and high growth organizations like WatchMojo -- helping establish product functions, as well as large strategic consulting companies such as Edelman where he organized product-led initiatives across national/regional offices.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Only among my consulting customers , two companies recently hired a new VP of Product. I decided to write this article to help you, product leaders, with your new position. and in product leadership positions there is so much of it! just as you would do with anything else related to product leadership.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 22, 2023

What is a company if not a vehicle for delivering products that meet customer needs? 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.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Here are the 3 roles Product Managers must perform to achieve roadmap leadership: The Diplomat It’s not our role to dictate through authority where the product should go. We hold quarterly high-level prioritization meetings to help the company’s leadership define the roadmap priorities.

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Bain Public

MARCH 30, 2020

A Day in the Life of a Product Management Consultant Bringing Product Management to the Next Level at Livescale The Top 6 Roles to Describe a Product Manager When Executives Tell You What to Build, They Approve the Development of Unnecessary Features Working Together, Product vs Sales: How to Collaboratively Reach your B2B Product-Market Fit.

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Bain Public

MARCH 21, 2020

Demand for Product Management thought leadership is still growing. Here’s a list of our product-centric articles that got syndicated across publishers judged to be the best representative of Product Management thinking. Originally published on ProductCoalition.com What Goes Into a Good Product Roadmap?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Everyone knows market feedback is a must so that’s where you are going —  working with your customers, listening to them , and implementing a lot of what they say. 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.

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Bain Public

MAY 24, 2019

There can be no momentum without proper and solid leadership. For more on the topic of empathy and how it is a key to building great products, check out one of our previous posts: Empathy is the Mother of all Product Roadmaps. Communicate your Roadmap, Vision and Product Strategy.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Who else can interpret strategy from Product, Marketing, and elsewhere into the CS team’s role? 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.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2018

Previously, Ivy has held executive positions spanning from head of product design and development to CMO and presidencies with several companies, including Calvin Klein, Swatch, Coach, Mattel, Art.com, Bausch & Lomb, and Gap. Joe Leech, Product Strategy Consultant. Kim Goodwin, VP Product & UX at Patients Like Me.

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Bain Public

JUNE 28, 2019

Existing clients, as well as sales prospects, become influencers on the product roadmap. Salespeople listen to those unwilling to buy a product unless specific features get added. When sales return with this type of feedback, they set about managing the product. Has the product achieved product-market fit in that segment?

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Bain Public

JANUARY 4, 2020

(Montreal, Canada) – Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product of Bain Public, is honoured to be leading an expert workshop in collaboration with AIESEC, the world's largest youth-run organization that provides young people with leadership development. A well understood product roadmap aligns behaviours within the business.

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Bain Public

JUNE 3, 2018

Despite the proliferation of tools designed for road mapping, prioritization remains the most difficult part of the product. Without a process for roadmap reinforcement, it just won’t stick. Over the years, as a Product Manager, I established an effective product management process. Week 6, Roadmap prioritization.

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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.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Mind the Product returns to San Francisco and the famous Davies Symphony Hall on July 15-16. 2019 promises to continue our run of amazing conferences, with a pre-conference Leadership Forum, even more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Kathy Pham, Fellow at Mozilla, Harvard, and MIT.

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Bain Public

JUNE 14, 2021

At its best, modern product management has become a holistic discipline that functions at the intersection of business, design, and technology to help teams drive towards product/market fit. He has helped establish product functions and has organized product-led initiatives across national/regional offices.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

Encourage them to talk about their product ideas. Talk in term of their interests, let them feel that the idea is theirs and use it to firm up your roadmap. The empathic component is what makes a product manager special. We help ambitious organizations create new value by establishing company-wide product-related processes.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

Even when I created a strategic roadmap, it refined the already existing product and extended it, but it didn’t create a whole new thing. Most product people start at this level. In your first product role, you are most likely to work on an existing product and on relatively small changes.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 21, 2020

They plan to offer smarter, better-informed decisions to everyone, starting with the financial, recruiting, executive decision-making and medical markets. We care about user problems and how products fit into their lives. To put it simply, we define and refine product roadmaps and their strategies. Why Pro Bono?

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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. The Product Manager’s Job Is to Think That’s what makes the role so great, and so hard. Tools alone cannot be the answer. Here are a few reasons why. Tools cannot change any of that.

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Bain Public

MARCH 21, 2020

Paul Ortchanian recognized this inconsistency, and it sparked the creation of what is now known as Bain Public: a company dedicated to helping local companies make smart product decisions through an organizing principle for allocation of resources: the roadmap. What Does it Mean to Adopt a Product Mindset? Building Roadmaps.

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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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Amplitude

APRIL 11, 2019

Great products emerge from empowered, fully Great products emerge from empowered, fully cross-functional teams. There’s no perfect, one-size-fits-all leadership model. It does not imply some sort of hierarchy between product and X (e.g. Finally, it is not about products “marketing and selling themselves.”

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Mind the Product

MARCH 23, 2017

Lea has deep passion for product and mentoring product teams regardless of where they are in their own transformation, and recently joined Marty Cagan as a Partner in the Silicon Valley Product Group. Scott is a bestselling author and popular speaker on creativity, philosophy, leadership and culture. Scott Berkun, Author.

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Under 10 Consulting

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

This is to make sure that the product gets pulled forward by a coordinated team of horses, rather than torn apart by horses running in different directions. . People in product management roles—product managers, product owners, product marketing managers, and consultants—often talk about job responsibilities, methods, tools, and templates.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Possible topics: Managing roadmap interrupts from founders and stakeholder executives. Hiring, training and mentoring strategies for new product managers. Selling the value of product management to peer organizations. Rich coaches product executives, product management teams and agile/lean development organizations.

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Bain Public

APRIL 13, 2020

Yet the time and rigor required to gather/validate consumer insights are often at odds with the agility required to maneuver internal politics, leaving a huge window of opportunity for improved collaboration between c-suite executives and product teams. For more information, visit bainpublic.com or call 514-442-8487.

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Bain Public

AUGUST 7, 2019

During his workshop, Paul Ortchanian will focus on learning how to create actionable, product-centered roadmaps. Paul will discuss the steps in creating great overarching product strategy by introducing his product blueprint. A well understood product roadmap aligns behaviours within the business.

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Bain Public

JUNE 19, 2019

Paul Ortchanian’s workshop will focus on the topic of generating a Product Roadmap with a focus on AI Products. Session information: Title: Generate Your Product Roadmap. We help ambitious organizations create new value by establishing company-wide product-related processes. Date: Thursday, Nov 7th.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 15, 2019

During his workshop, Paul Ortchanian will focus on learning how to create actionable, product-centered roadmaps. Paul will discuss the steps in creating great overarching product strategy for AI products by introducing Bain Public's Service Blueprint approach. Follow Bain Public: Linkedin , Twitter , Medium.

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