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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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 Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick is the ultimate guide to talking to customers as a product manager and includes sample scripts and questions you can directly use in your customer interviews.

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Bain Public

APRIL 15, 2018

But this is an article about your CEO’s duty to set a vision, to define why your company exists. For some product managers, the thought of talking openly about the void left by a missing vision statement is paralyzing. Without it you can't be vision-driven. You assumed there was a vision. He seems busy.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Being on the inside of a company as it takes off is a special kind of experience – and being in a product leadership position while that’s going on gives a unique viewpoint. and consumer science (how do you experiment in order to learn, and learn fast?), Gibson on Product Strategy, Consumer Science and Culture.

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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. I sat with an entrepreneur who was helping me with market research for the work I do with startup founders and explained to him what I do. Many people confuse strategy with a general direction or vision. You are not alone.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

She creates front-end libraries, a role that perfectly suits her given her life-long passion for user experience, design, and building things. Despite not having a formal education in engineering, Sarah landed a job as a developer in the French consultant Grand Manitou. It was love at first click. How are you going to get there?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 31, 2019

But I’ve found that by building relationships, setting the future vision, and having faith in your capabilities as a product manager you can carve out a place for yourself. Designers reached out to domain experts from other teams to drive requirements without consulting the product team. And it meant the team could start trusting me.

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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. On-premise software management tends to involve more client-specific customization because each client installs their own version of the software.

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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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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Melissa Perri – Speaker, consultant, and teacher in Product Management. She’s currently a consultant, speaker, and teacher in product management. The book described the common tendency for organizations to focus on features instead of delivering true value for the users, and discussed: How not to turn into a feature factory.

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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. What’s the difference between market sensing and market research, you ask?

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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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UX Studio

JUNE 30, 2023

With the increasing competition in the online space, businesses need to ensure their website not only looks visually appealing but also provides a user-friendly experience. We deliver impactful, user-friend, and unique solutions for ambitious ideas. They blend strategy and creativity in their user-friendly designs.

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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. It must fulfill a need or solve a problem users have.

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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 upsides of product management include the fact that every day is different, you get to work with technology, it sets you up to be an empathetic leader and you get to see customers use what you created.

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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. Embracing a growth mindset, communicating a product vision and strategy and striving for early-market success are all steps toward growth and prosperity. Build Momentum: Getting Started.

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Mind the Product

MAY 14, 2019

Many articles have been written on this subject, most of them either by product consultants or people holding one of the above titles. Continuing this metaphor, product managers are a user group of this product. I began with some user research and created a 10-question survey on this topic. Detailed Results.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Mind the Product returns to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on July 16-17 and promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with a leadership forum, more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. At Benchmark, Sarah invests in consumer businesses and the consumerization of IT.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

And then I just followed down this rabbit hole of how I could do more of the talking, more of the concept work, inventing more on behalf of the user. I decided to join SAP , which was great, but there was a lot of user pain to observe. I was a technical consultant back then, traveling to a lot of clients all over Europe.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

They are measurable outcomes – goal posts – that provide feedback on HOW your initiatives are doing. Agile is an iterative approach that focuses on collaboration, customer feedback, and small, rapid releases in order to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of value. Customer Satisfaction.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Organizations create Customer Success teams to increase Net Revenue Retention, and we’ve recently published research showing that NRR drives valuation. Organizations create dedicated roles to continuously improve CS functions to improve NRR or reduce costs by scaling up your customer base with the same CS headcount.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2017

Huge consultancies and one-off consultants have been paid to implement a great manifesto as a repeatable process, not taking the size, stage, growth, culture, and capabilities into consideration. It’s time to change all that by aligning teams for direct connection to a shared mission/vision and the strategy it serves.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

But let the ScrumMaster or coach tackle people, process, and organisational issues; let the development team figure out what needs to be done to implement the user stories and other product backlog items. Provide constructive feedback and share your concerns. Be aware that collaboration requires leadership. Be honest and open.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

12 months) that choices are meaningful and actionable Lends itself to OKRs or metrics Not just an airy 5-year vision with all things for all people.    Because we can’t generically prioritize work, validate potential improvements with all audiences, or assume that every customer segments will value benefits similarly. 

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Livescale is a software company in Montreal bringing brands an innovative live video shopping solution to create authentic and engaging relationships with customers. As part of her role at Livescale, she defines product vision, roadmaps and growth opportunities as well as researches and analyzes the market.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The role of a product manager could never fit into a box. They use unconventional ways to spread the vision and have the ability to keep cool under pressure with tight deadlines. Doing the research and identifying the market Product opportunity is all about timing. If there’s no customer need, everything else falls apart?.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

However, this is a naïve analysis that overlooks lost market share due to poor strategic thinking, or the demoralizing effect on engineers having to repeatedly rewrite code because of poor product-market fit. Don’t hesitate to show your strategy documents to your most trusted customers for early feedback. Where do we play?

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Gainsight

AUGUST 2, 2021

If you have ever waited in line for a COVID test or vaccine, you understand how successful operational leadership can hinder or accelerate a positive customer experience. In Customer Success, operations leaders also play a pivotal role in driving efficiencies by combining technology and data. for senior leadership.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 20, 2020

Innosight is an innovation management consultancy founded by Clayton Christensen and Mark Johnson. You frequently revisit the vision and initiatives and adjust along the way. Study trends to answer, “Where is the customer going?” The future back strategy for product managers. 16:15] How do we define the time horizon?

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Not only that: giving back requires active involvement and implementing solutions in response to product leadership challenges and Canadian startup ecosystem expectations. As a business, we want to achieve success in ways that honour our ethical values as well as respect startups and accelerator communities.

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Bain Public

MARCH 21, 2020

Demand for Product Management thought leadership is still growing. Why the Product Manager Should also Play Dumb Product Managers, Make your CEO provide a clear vision Tomorrow’s Product Managers Will Need Solid Data, Model and Problem Understanding You accomplish everything through others Factors that Damage Your Integrity.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In the world of product management, where technical acumen, strategic vision, and people skills intersect, there’s an often underutilized asset that many PMs overlook: the power of networking. It includes tech enthusiasts, market researchers, and even end-users. Discovering freelance or consultation gigs.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 23, 2017

Lea was responsible for the product vision and strategy of the Creative Cloud, transforming Adobe from boxed software to one of the most successful SaaS services in the industry. After her work on the Creative Cloud, Lea went on to manage the consumer business at Adobe where she had responsibility for all marketing, product, and engineering.

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BrainStation Product Management

MAY 7, 2019

Our panelists confirmed this – as all are working for different organizations, occupying different industries, and creating products for different users. Belmont went on to highlight that not all products are aimed at consumers. “My At Oscar Health, they focus on the user to drive their product development.

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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. Stakeholders need to buy into the vision, whether they are product leaders, engineers, the sales team, or the support team.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Vanity metrics (from analytics packages) won’t help you know if your feature is working for your users. Start calculating common metrics like Monthly Active Users, Retention and Churn. This means that owning the future best performers will not provide you with a sense of product solidarity with leadership. A spreadsheet will do.

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