The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ian Moulton, lead a conversation around “Conducting User Research”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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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. Let’s look at each of his books in detail.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2022

Bad Feedback Doesn’t Always Mean Your Product Is Bad Bad product feedback is a bummer. But contrary to what you might think, it doesn’t always mean your product is bad. Here is a quick guide to strategic thinking about product feedback. The feedback on all three talks was great.

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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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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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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2023

When VCs and customers aren’t throwing money at whatever you tell them, it becomes a critical tool. Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. So my recent pitch went something like “I help founders connect the product to the business and the go-to-market.”

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2020

As a product management consultant, he acts as a coach and a mentor to his clients, providing them with frameworks that guide them toward making the best product decisions. George plays an enthusiastic role in the maintenance and development of the roadmap output for Bain Public’s customers.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

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. Layer 1: Your Customers We always try to make things simple for our customers, while preserving the value. That’s the magic of a great user experience. But which one is more important?

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product-Led Onboarding by Ramli John and Wes Bush is a new book about how to implement user onboarding for the ultimate customer retention. The Making of Product Managers by Lena Sesardic gives you eight actionable insights from 20 stories of real product managers who broke into product management from different fields.

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Bain Public

JUNE 28, 2019

Salespeople listen to those unwilling to buy a product unless specific features get added. Prospects don’t always tell the whole truth and customers aren’t always honest about what they need. When sales return with this type of feedback, they set about managing the product. It’s not the market you want to go after.".

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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. How to create a scalable product organization.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 13, 2022

This might sound counterintuitive, especially with product-led growth (which I’m a big fan of) practically saying the opposite, but bear with me and I’ll explain everything. Your Customers Don’t Want Your Product Of course, eventually, they do. that you actually get to consider the product?—?the Here we go.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2023

Your product might be awesome, but if there is no significant need on the other side, it wouldn’t succeed. A need is more than a general desire, and you should trust your customers’ actions more than their words. His stats showed that over 60% of his customers only bought from him after having known him for two years or more.

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Bain Public

APRIL 28, 2020

It’s now more important than ever to scan the external environment for signals, look across the market for unmet customer needs, identify significant opportunities about to unfold as well as seize them, integrate them and make use of them commercially. Using Market Sensing and Knowledge Creation. Customers take life as it comes.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

My personal passion is to bring back this very important dimension into product management and leadership. Product Leadership Is a Business Role I make a distinction between product management and product leadership. Job titles generally reflect that distinction but not always.

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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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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2022

I realized that this is something that I do whenever I’m helping my consulting customers or the CPO Bootcamp participants to make strategic decisions. about the market, the customers, the product, the business, the plans ahead? But that’s where your leadership comes to a test. What are our goals?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 26, 2021

SaaS product management is different from product management for on-premise software because it's much easier for customers to switch products due to the subscription-based pricing model. A frightening number of product managers don't directly speak to customers despite it being a best practice.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2020

Here are five quick takeaways: In 2011, Forbes Magazine called RealtimeBoard (Miro’s previous iteration) “a virtual whiteboard on steroids” We chatted to Andrey about this description to see if the shoe still fits today. Miro has made the move from product to platform. Do you think that description still fits?

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Usersnap

JUNE 2, 2022

Customers want good products and services, of course, but do you know what else they want? Recognizing and improving upon this customer feedback is where a CES survey comes in handy! Recognizing and improving upon this customer feedback is where a CES survey comes in handy! What you can expect ????

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Sachin Rekhi

APRIL 12, 2020

In Silicon Valley, we've become well-versed in the importance of finding product/market fit as the most important early pursuit for any new product or startup. Beyond product/market fit, it turns out business strategy really does matter. Network economies. Switching costs.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 9, 2019

We have really enjoyed bringing you constructive and atypical Product Management research, practical work advice, and analysis. It is very rewarding to think about the different ways our content can fit into your lives and make your work better. I hope you will keep sending us feedback on the topics that excite you most.

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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. The ones who talk to customers for hours a day.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2023

However, provoking productive disagreements is a key leadership skill you want to master. Here is how fostering healthy debates is essential for effective leadership and better outcomes. If you see the connection between that skill and product leadership you are 100% right. Existing customers?

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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. Michael Sippey, VP Product at Medium.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2018

Ivy is currently the Vice President of Design for the Hardware Product Area at Google, which was officially formed in 2016. In 2017, she and her team launched a family of consumer hardware products ranging from smartphones to smart speakers, earning 26 different design awards. Joe Leech, Product Strategy Consultant.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 31, 2019

We were a new team and we didn’t know what product management should encompass at the bank. Designers reached out to domain experts from other teams to drive requirements without consulting the product team. As product lead you may think you know best, but the different functions in the organization exist for a reason.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 21, 2020

By partnering with Notman House, we set a lofty goal to undertake pro bono advisory work, bringing the ideas of product leadership, product strategy and product development processes to resident startups. We care about user problems and how products fit into their lives.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 18, 2021

They want to consult with me on whether or not product management is the right profession for them since they feel that they don’t know how to come up with these big ideas, and feel that it is needed in order to be able to lead. But a search engine wasn’t a suitable product for Twiggle’s target market.

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Bain Public

JUNE 19, 2019

(Montreal, Canada) - Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product, Data and Strategy of Bain Public, will be giving a 120 minute workshop at Agile Testing Days in Potsdam, Germany. Agile Testing Days is an annual European conference for and by international professionals involved in the agile world.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

February Product Conferences. Big names like the Product Marketing Alliance, Product World, and Product Con are still going through with virtual versions of their flagship conferences. Product Marketing Rendezvous. Source: Product Marketing Alliance.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 12, 2023

You are looking for a partner to join your team and take a significant leadership role. Here are a few things to consider when you seek your next product leader. Photo by Mark Rabe on Unsplash When I started Infinify five years ago, I announced that I am offering product consulting services.

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Bain Public

JUNE 11, 2019

(Montreal, Canada) - Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product, Data and Strategy of Bain Public , will be giving an expert talk webinar at the Institute of Product Leadership, a niche management school with 4 campuses in India. During his session, Paul Ortchanian will focus on the topic of Empathy building.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 30, 2020

When gender diversity at the executive level is brought to parity, organizations are 15 percent more likely to gain more profit , improve customer experience , and attract and retain expensive talent , according to McKinsey. Meanwhile, if you’re looking to start or advance your career in product management, check out AWIP’s job board.

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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

MAY 24, 2019

It is no secret that a product manager needs momentum in areas such as product development, product sales and customer adoption in order to succeed. Without support from stakeholders to access the resources you need, your product could fail. There can be no momentum without proper and solid leadership.

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