The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

Thousands of employers across all areas of product, from management to design, from digital to physical, are looking to fill positions from our community. Senior Product Manager @ Citrusbyte (New York City) Keywords: Consulting, Design, Product, Strategy, UX [link]. Check out this week’s newest, below….

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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? She summarized her frameworks through her first book, “Software Product Management Essentials”, first out in 2003.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Little did I know that creating a solid product strategy takes such a major chunk of the product leader’s time. Most companies hire a product manager (and other positions) too late. Once you decide you need to recruit a product manager, who should it be? But starting early is not enough. Why Are You Hiring?

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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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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2018

In 2017, she and her team launched a family of consumer hardware products ranging from smartphones to smart speakers, earning 26 different design awards. This collection established a design aesthetic for technology products that is tactile, bold, emotional and undeniably Google. Joe Leech, Product Strategy Consultant.

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Product Management University

MARCH 14, 2017

The Body Part: Product Strategy & Planning. Many organizations use the product manager as a one-size-fits-all pad. Future development projects will be disproportionately spent redesigning features from prior releases instead of building new ones, causing serious injury to your competitive position.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 4, 2020

They annually offer over 40,000 leadership positions and delivers over 500 power conferences. Paul’s unique experience brings together the necessity of great engineering and the beauty of product strategy. During his workshop, Paul Ortchanian will focus on learning how to create actionable, product-centered roadmaps.

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

Getting external support, such as product management consulting, can help establish the product leadership team responsible for nurturing and guiding the product team. What Is Product Management Consulting? Consulting doesn’t mean instructing a CEO and the product leadership team how to run the company.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

A pricing survey is a research method using surveys to obtain information that will drive your pricing and packaging decisions for your product or service. The outcome of the survey helps companies understand the perceived value from the market, the attributes impacting the purchase decision, the product-market fit, etc.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

At the time of writing this post, there were 525 postings on LinkedIn for positions in the U.S. When broadening the scope to include data scientists and data analysts, who often work closely with product managers to answer questions with data, the open positions swell to almost 7,000. Product Ops: hero or villain?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Therefore, she provides a great example of a stable product management career path: staying within the company, and evolving both vertically and horizontally. Josh Fetcher is an author and business consultant. He is very involved in content marketing discussions on his blog. April Underwood is Chief Product Officer at Slack.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 19, 2018

Steve has been working within the high-tech arena since 1979 with experience in technical, sales, and marketing positions at companies specializing in enterprise and desktop hardware and software. His market and technical savvy allowed him to rise through the ranks from Product Manager to Chief Marketing Officer.

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Innovatemap

JUNE 11, 2020

An internet search for user experience design (UX) in any given city brings up several different types of companies that list user experience and user interface (UI) design on their websites: development firms, consulting firms, innovation firms, marketing agencies, and freelance networks.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Your stakeholders are the people in and outside of your company who have a role in shaping your product and making it the best it can be. Stakeholders can include designers, engineers, analysts, product marketers, and the customers themselves. You can’t make that happen without consulting your customers themselves.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 18, 2021

Chris revealed that as CPO, he sees his role as having accountabilities for ALL the product strategy, product roadmap, and product execution. He believes his job entails everything outbound through product marketing into the field organization. From finance and investment banking to product?

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University’s Syms School of Business with a degree in Marketing.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University’s Syms School of Business with a degree in Marketing.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

While I was writing this article, one of my consulting clients called me to talk about this dilemma exactly: as their product is getting more mature and allows more functionality, their UX which was something they were super proud of up until now is getting slightly more complex. But do they really need this ?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 18, 2021

What was missing in my answers was solid product thinking. 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.

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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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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University’s Syms School of Business with a degree in Marketing.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

As an expert design agency, we offer product design, and user experience research services, UX consulting, and customized solutions to address our clients’ challenges. If you are looking for an experienced design studio in Berlin to help you with your product challenges, contact us. Is there anything we can help you with?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Work to schedule 1-on-1s or meetings with the following people in your first 90 days as a product manager Other product managers; Engineering teams; Sales representatives; Marketing managers; Community managers; Program managers; Many new PMs may neglect these meetings, thinking that they'll occur naturally.

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Actuation Consulting

JUNE 24, 2019

When you finally get to the point of crafting a solid launch strategy your document should have eight characteristics: 1 – It must identify the audience(s) and competitive targets. 3 – Your launch plans must align with the overall product strategy and development plan. 2 – Your messaging must be solidly developed.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2017

Jeff and Josh are experienced digital product design leaders, and co-authors of Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience and Sense & Respond, How Successful Organizations Listen to Customers and Create New Products Continuously. Nate Walkingshaw, Author and CXO Pluralsight.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University’s Syms School of Business with a degree in Marketing.

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Bain Public

APRIL 15, 2018

For some product managers, the thought of talking openly about the void left by a missing vision statement is paralyzing. And as a product leader gets more senior, the need to clearly define the product strategy intensifies. He seems busy. Feature executables are tangible and you’re all moving together as a team.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 17, 2023

All the work you’ve done upstream is now going to pay huge dividends downstream on the product marketing and sales enablement front. Sure, salespeople need some level of product knowledge, but in most cases, they just need to know which solutions are most applicable to each situation that’s critical to the buyer’s success and why.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University’s Syms School of Business with a degree in Marketing.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University’s Syms School of Business with a degree in Marketing.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University’s Syms School of Business with a degree in Marketing.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 10, 2017

The main reason products fail is because they don’t meet customer needs in a way that is better than other alternatives. This is the essence of product-market fit. Product-Market Fit. My definition of product-market fit…is that you have to build a product that creates significant customer value.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Many CEOs tell me that they (personally) are the best-informed people within their companies about what customers need , and they (personally) are best positioned to drive decisions on product priorities. And then to inspect for solid market learning. CEOs have my deep respect for doing the toughest job in their company.

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Roadmunk

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While product managers puppeteer a product journey end-to-end, product marketing managers tend to be the masterminds behind releasing said product to market. Despite this generally accepted understanding, coordinating product releases of any size can still get messy. Jeffrey Vocell. Company: HubSpot.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

At this point, it becomes vital to find the right advisors and consultants who will guide the team towards becoming a sustainable business. A business plan is a document written by a company or product executives to describe operational aspects of the business, such as product strategy, financial projections, and go-to-market strategy.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Senior product managers are executive-level professionals who fulfill an important role in large companies developing products and bringing them to market. Your job as someone vying for a position as a senior product manager is to discover the intent behind each question.

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