The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results.

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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. Product Management Books #1 – Continuous Discovery Habits [NEW! ].

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 27, 2018

Agile vs. Being Agile Agile became popular shortly after ‘The Agile Software Development Manifesto ’ was published in 2001. Organizations began looking to consultants to help them become more agile, and an entire Agile industry was born. This is why one-size-fits-all Agile solutions are a bad idea.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

It also requires product managers to engage much more directly with data scientists about models, predictability, how products work in production, how/why users interact with our products, and how our end users measure success. (Hint: most users don’t understand or care about F1-scores ; they just want to get the right answer.).

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 2, 2020

He is working in the capacity of a technical consultant in his current assignment in Bangalore, India. His entire career seems to be in the e-commerce domain right from his career commenced in Software development. He was curious to understand how I could manage to succeed as a Scrum Master without strong domain knowledge.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

Users can bounce because of multiple reasons such as poor design or poor content and/or product messaging. Rafayel Mkrtchyan is a product management consultant who helps companies improve their product discovery and delivery processes. If you enjoyed this article, please hit that clap button to help others find it.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

Organizations that have more recently recognized the importance of product management to the success of their business are those that are transitioning from being “sales-led” or “customer-led” to “product-led.”. They focus on the results that the team is looking for. Let’s look at some of the biggest trends we identified in 2022.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2022

Chris’s team worked for a logistics service that tracked the ocean containers coming in and out of the ports. Their team set up the infrastructure and prepared the environment waiting for prospective accounts, which never came. To improve his productivity, Chris decided to take over the software design to a digital agency.

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Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. Over the next few years my career evolved through people-management, pre-sales, and program management roles into product management. Getting Faster at Building the Wrong Thing.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2022

If you are looking for a web design agency in Vienna —Webdesign Wien Agentur in German — chances are you need help with product design, usability research, training, or consulting. Our experts analyzed services, portfolios, expertise, strengths, and weaknesses of dozens of Webdesign Wien companies to create this curated list.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Then, when you finally put together your user journey map and want to optimize your touchpoints and eliminate bad experiences, you can face two barriers: The Analytics Black Hole – Can’t see the forest before the trees. The Bottleneck -Your software developer who is too busy to take on every experiment you want to run.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2021

Joel Friedlaender is the founder of Cliniko , a practice management software for clinics and allied health practitioners to manage their scheduling and booking, patient records, invoicing, and more. My background is as a software developer, and I’ve been doing that for just over 20 years. Joel: Sure.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

I’m pretty sure that we all know and understand that product managers don’t work in sales. This is why when we become aware that sales are not where they should be, the sales part of every product manager has to spring into action…. They had a good product development definition. Problem solved! Opening New Markets.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2019

How to generate more innovation every day As I consider starting my own business doing what I would call “software innovation management consulting” I can’t help but notice that I’m far from alone. So why so much activity in the innovation management consulting space? Don’t believe me? Let’s talk more.”

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The Product Coalition

MAY 10, 2018

RACI matrix is dead because it doesn’t help in modern product development and doesn’t reflect the realities of how software is built nowadays. If you rely on a RACI matrix, this probably indicates some serious issues within organisation of your software product team. Well, the team does the work.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The secret to success in software development is an elusive concept. The best asset for a product manager, and the number one determining factor in the success of a strategy, is the people behind the product. software development is mostly about cultivating personal relationships. sales, development, marketing.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

Many worked from home on tasks ranging from organising team activities via Slack, analysing data and collaborating on documents via Google Docs, to discussing strategies via Microsoft Teams and coaching clients via Zoom. Motor: Weakness in how one can control their muscles, bones and joints. More on that later.

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Folding Burritos

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

How can this kind of stress be any good for our teams in the long run? The good and bad parts are, however, separated by a very fine line. Deadlines can easily become impossibly heavy burdens that demoralize otherwise great teams. Also, in order to produce this output, you have a team/budget. Can we do this?

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Guest Post by: David Parmelee, Digital Strategy Consultant. In other words, consider new features to be a bad idea until your organization has researched the need for them and validated that the users will need them. About David Parmelee David Parmelee is the owner of Thrill & Create, a user experience consultancy in Maryland.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. Parachute focuses on custom website development that includes UX design, conversion optimization, e-commerce website design and development, and branding. Architects can help in every phase of the product lifecycle.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. Parachute focuses on custom website development that includes UX design, conversion optimization, e-commerce website design and development, and branding. Architects can help in every phase of the product lifecycle.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Every year, hiring managers receive millions of applications for various roles. The BOLD (Build Opportunities for Leadership & Development) is meant for those business and marketing-related roles. Finally, the APM (Associate Product Manager) is for product management and product marketing management roles.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2022

As a solutions architect, you're the main technical resource for your company's sales team, and can provide a critical job function in a company's growth. Manager screen In this interview, you'll speak with the hiring manager about your technical skills and domain knowledge. How did you learn it?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Transformation Labs is an advisory and consulting firm that helps enterprise and technology companies accelerate their path to product success. In this Path to PM post, Saeed shares his advice if he were applying for product management careers all over again, and why great product leadership is about influence, service, and patience.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

Are you thinking of a career in product management and wondering what the product manager career path looks like? In particular, we look at: What the product manager’s role involves Their main responsibilities Common product management positions Tips on how to advance your PM career Let’s dive in.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. Only members of the Development Team create the Increment. Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2018

The Basics Put simply, a roadmap is a living document that shows how you plan to develop your product. Much like you wouldn’t attempt to trek through the Amazon without a map, you shouldn’t attempt to navigate through the rainforests of SaaS without consulting your roadmap. Who Should See the Roadmap?

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 9, 2019

Finding the right custom software development firm for your project is a tough job. Software projects are notorious for being late, over budget, and frustrating. Making useful, valuable software products takes a lot more than technical know-how. And works well with your management structure?

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2021

Half of the calls I get from CEOs include requests for Product Management to boost productivity in Engineering (aka Development aka Makers). This reflects confusion about what product managers do (and how we really add value), and often poor role definition where product managers are also project/program managers or engineering leads.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A healthy relationship between product management and engineering is critical to building successful products. It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to work. Except, we live in the real world where life is messy, responsibilities overlap, specifications change, and the way teams interact can introduce friction.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

So, this was focused on software developers, specifically, for dotnet software developers, this very small ad network, I ran those ad networks for a couple years, and realized that that was a terrible business. And I was a software developer before. The Good and the Bad of Taking Money.

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Revulytics sponsors a series of Product Management Today webinars featuring innovative ideas from top software product management thought leaders. I talk with product managers around the world, and it’s really common to spend most of our time talking about what’s sometimes called “vanity metrics.” So where do we start?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Why have Product Managers stopped speaking to customers? Very sadly, most product managers I meet today no longer talk directly to customers regularly. I ran a survey with industry insiders and at least 50% of all product managers who responded haven’t spoken to a customer recently. most invariably say zero.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2019

As product managers our job description is pretty simple: to make all of our software development projects succeed. In fact, I would go so far as to say any failures or successes of the team are failures or successes of product management. Define Success. This needs to happen at every level. What are your QA goals?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Transformation Labs is an advisory and consulting firm that helps enterprise and technology companies accelerate their path to product success. In this Path to PM post, Saeed shares his advice if he were applying for product management careers all over again, and why great product leadership is about influence, service, and patience.

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