The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

If this is the case, what you have done to make it easy for them to use your product? If the answer is “nothing”, then you are like many other product managers who have not taken the time to study their customers and customize their products for their unique needs.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Leading as the Person in Charge of the Product When you hear the term leadership , you might first and foremost think of a senior manager like the head of product, Director of Product Management, VP of Product, or Chief Product Officer.[

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UX Studio: Product Management

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Founder of a London and Budapest-based behavioural consulting startup. She specialises in behavioural and user research for digital products and physical services. Such a positive outlook didn’t happen overnight. To end on a positive note, the world of research has expanded incrementally. Luckily, I was wrong.

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BrainMates

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Adaptive Mindset 'Hats' Your Product Manager Wears By DAVID ALLSOPP No matter the product, industry or company size, successful Product Managers must wear various ‘hats’ on any given day to make all the pieces of the puzzle fit together. The Product Management profession itself is still relatively new.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Just like you, they know their own shortcomings and there’s a good chance they’ve been schooled on how to neutralize them with some clever positioning or avoidance tactics. All of this is not to say that you shouldn’t expose their glaring weaknesses if they have them, but hitting their strengths too gives you an even stronger position.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 29, 2024

How to become an emotionally fit product leader We are talking about mental health for product managers and leaders—specifically product managers moving into leadership roles and those who are already in leadership roles. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [2:55] What is emotional fitness?

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2020

Is something broken in your team’s product management? At Bain Public , we help build roadmaps and innovative products for early-stage companies. 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.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

This is a free sample story from my book The Making of Product Managers. It is unusual that Michael’s first brush with product management was during his master’s degree in systems design engineering. He didn’t realize this at the time, but he was actually exercising a product manager mindset for the first time.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

UX studio is one of the global innovation design consulting firms focusing on UX design, research, and strategic consulting. We researched the top design consulting firms’ competency level, experience, and portfolio to define the most reliable design thinking companies you can trust and partner with in 2021. UX studio .

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 24, 2017

When should a start-up hire its first product manager? These are common discussions, with many views, and no right answers – it depends on the founding team, current funding situation, industry focus, and product offering. Therein lies the opportunity for a product management consultant.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Strategies for switching into a product management role when you don’t fit the cookie cutter qualifications. Getting into product when you’ve already started your career Product management requires, above anything else, good judgment. It shouldn’t be a prerequisite for product management jobs either.

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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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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Peloton product managers were unable to predict the future Image Credit: Phillip Pessar How great would it be to be a product manager who was responsible for a very popular high priced exercise bike? This is the position that the Peloton product managers found themselves in just before the pandemic hit.

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Actuation Consulting

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

A strong positioning statement is an important ingredient for success. In this post we share some tips for developing a well thought out positioning statement. What is a Positioning Statement? A well-crafted positioning statement brings together your overall value proposition with your positioning for a product.

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The Accidental Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

For the past few years the product managers at the big drug store chains have been struggling. What these product managers need is a new way to get people to want to come to their stores. Drug-pricing pressure isn’t letting up on product managers. The need for this type of service urgent.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 17, 2020

B2B Product Manager December 2020 Issue. 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. View the magazine.

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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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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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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 30, 2017

It’s the expectation of a positive outcome”. These words couldn’t be more relevant to product management. But how do you develop the confidence required to lead a team of stakeholders to a positive outcome? Her consulting work, personal life events and her business partner emphasized that the lessons as “Ms.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Delivering products to customers in cars is becoming more popular Image Credit: Michael Steeber As product managers our job is to create products that our potential customers will want. We don’t often spend a lot of time thinking about how we are going to deliver our products to our customers.

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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. Download the PDF.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 21, 2022

Videogame product managers are starting extend their product development definition and bring more of their complex, graphics-intense hits for consoles and high-end computers to mobile devices. How can game product managers be successful doing this? However, that is now starting to change.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2021

As their managers, we always need to coach our product managers toward their next level. Photo by Jess Bailey on Unsplash I was a manager long before I was a product manager. In one of my roles as an R&D manager, I inherited an employee from one of the other teams on the day I joined.

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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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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 7, 2022

If you were a product manager who worked at Amazon you would be under a great deal of pressure to find ways for the company to make more money. One way that they would like to bring in more revenue is to start to sell high end products. One way that they would like to bring in more revenue is to start to sell high end products.

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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. Both positions involve being the keeper of a vision, and both also have to be decision makers by curating ideas from many different sources. As a Product Manager, you have very little authority.

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The Accidental Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

NASCAR product managers try to attract a new fan base Image Credit: roger blake So when I say “NASCAR” to you, what do you think of? NASCAR is in a difficult position. The problem that the NASCAR product managers are facing is that fans warmly nostalgic for Old Dixie are aging out.

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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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The Accidental Product Manager

JUNE 12, 2023

That’s why being a cruise line product manager can be a very good job. Now that they have once again been granted permission to sail, how are their product managers going to go about finding ways to get their customers to come back and travel the high seas with them? Clearly passengers are willing to climb aboard.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

How to achieve product-market fit – for product managers This episode is sponsored by PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. PDMA is also the longest-running professional association for product managers, leaders, and innovators, having started in 1976.

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The Product Bistro

AUGUST 30, 2016

I bought a copy of “ The Phenomenal Product Manager ” in 2009 or so on a lark. Written by Brian Lawley, the top man at the 280Group , a consultancy, and training organization with deep product management and product marketing skills and reputations, I was at first put off by how thin the book was.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 23, 2018

I’ve worked for more than a decade in product management with Fortune 500 companies and startups, and I realize I’m seeing a scary pattern. Product managers are only hired after the innovation or startup teams get concepts or funding approved. Short-term Thinking. Speed to Market.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MAY 8, 2023

As a product manager, how should you go about dealing with this delay? What product managers would like to be able to do is find a way to make this waiting not so hard. Product managers need to be careful because while transparency is appreciated, frequent, early alerts can set customer expectations unreasonably high.

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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.”. At the time of writing this post, there were 525 postings on LinkedIn for positions in the U.S.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 28, 2023

Sometimes good ideas just don’t make it to market Image Credit: Vaping360 As product managers, the one thing that we’d all like to do is to be in charge of a very popular product. However, something that we often don’t consider is that if a product is popular, it’s going to get a lot of scrutiny.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 31, 2022

However, there is one product manager who works at an independent bookstore that has found a way to not only survive, but also to thrive even as they sell to the same customers that Amazon does. It has not always been easy to be a product manager for an independent bookstore. So how did this product manager do it?

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