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. In his talk, Jason talked about how product managers can upskill to meet the challenges in their daily work and how to make sure that their organizations value their work.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

While sales teams stereotypically rally around contests, talk sports and drink coffee (which is for closers)… development teams may sit silently side-by-side-side most of the day engaging in multiple Slack conversations, taking breaks for air hockey or exchanging giphys , and critiquing each other’s code indents.

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Mixpanel

MAY 20, 2020

Having worked with many product leaders over the past 20 years, I’ve repeatedly heard that balancing the needs of users, engineering teams and the business—all while building a successful product function that drives innovation—is tough. Lifting & shifting: the common pitfall of product teams.

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Product Management University

MARCH 14, 2017

If product management is a contact sport, what’s your organization’s risk of injury? Delivering, marketing and selling products in B2B is a contact sport in many ways. The Body Part: Product Strategy & Planning. Many organizations use the product manager as a one-size-fits-all pad.

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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. You can read her writing on ProductTalk.org.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels When I started Infinify, I told the world I am shifting to product consulting. I knew what I really wanted to do, and the way I understood the term ‘product consulting’ described it quite well. I talk about it a lot when I speak about product strategy and in the CPO Bootcamp.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    “ How hard could it be? 

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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. Trends (still) impacting the newly converted.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2020

In this talk from #MTP Engage Manchester consultant Itamar Gilad takes us through his GIST (goals, ideas, steps, tasks) framework. Itamar has over 20 years of product management experience working with industry leaders such as Google and Microsoft. He’s now a consultant, speaker and writer. Three Types of Launch.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

It’s all too tempting to fall back onto less skilful habits and become impatient, tense and stressed, say something we regret afterwards, or pass on the pressure to the development team. To increase your expertise, strengthen your understanding of the market or domain and the product, as well as your product management savviness.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

What does it mean for us as product managers? We all use AI or machine learning (ML)-driven products almost every day, and the number of these products will be growing exponentially over the next couple of years. What does it mean for us as product managers? Source: Todd Wickersty, [link].

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

By the look on the face of the product manager asking me, she didn’t want a canned answer; she was looking for a reason to believe, to rekindle her energy. I knew why the company existed, but I never thought about the purpose behind the product other than the problem it solved for the customer and the value it delivered.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

However, having a high bounce rate doesn’t always necessarily mean that your product is not solving an important problem. Users can bounce because of multiple reasons such as poor design or poor content and/or product messaging. If you enjoyed this article, please hit that clap button to help others find it.

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Under 10 Consulting

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Do you lead a new product management team? Make it easy to start a business, protect our persons and property from harm, provide ways to get products from point a to point b (ie., What is the role of senior leadership, particularly the head of product management? And how do new products get to the market?

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In our 2021 State of Product Management report , 97% of senior leaders said being strategic is the most important thing for their organization’s success. Time Management. Time management remains an essential theme for product teams because there aren’t enough hours in the day.

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BrainMates

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The gap between rich and poor is widening, and this is causing an increasing disenchantment with the model which has been so successful. As a social entrepreneur with Full Time Lives and in my Product Management consulting work for Brainmates. How does this affect the world of Product Management?

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

If you work alongside Bristol-based product strategy and UX consultant Joe Leech then chances are you’ll also work alongside his dog Little Dude. Joe coaches and mentors product teams, supporting them to make good decisions and good user-centred design choices. That’s fairly typical for me.”.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Your first 90 days as a product manager can feel overwhelming. But what should you do in your first 30, 60, or 90 days as a product manager to set you up for success? But what should you do in your first 30, 60, or 90 days as a product manager to set you up for success? Talk to Users & Customers ??

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With everything you have to do every day, it is so easy to neglect strategy. But much like code, your product strategy also requires maintenance. So your product serves the existing customers (who keep wanting more stuff), but perhaps new customers are not coming as smoothly. Because your customers aren’t product leaders.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Martin argued that we product people suffer from this more than most as we’re generalists in a world of specialists. We work with developers, user researchers, data scientists and a host of other experts every day – so it’s only natural that we feel like the dumbest people in the room. Keep Your Strategy in Balance.

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Under 10 Consulting

JUNE 6, 2019

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Drucker, American management consultant. In my first job in product management, I was based in DC and my developers were based in California. Product management in Marketing.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Product managers can make better decisions if they’ve built transparency and trust with their team. Product Decisions. Product decisions are either tactical or strategic. Strategic decisions include delineating the product vision, value proposition, product differentiators, and product roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

As such, it cannot be limited to include only the product-related parts like features and product KPIs. As a product leader who is creating this roadmap, you need to treat it as a compass and plan not only for your team and the technology team but rather as the direction that the entire company needs to go in.

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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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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. Do Your Customers Really Want to Pay Less?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 18, 2021

Photo by John Tekeridis from Pexels When I decided to move into product management I interviewed, among other companies, for a product management role at Google. My answer was: I would develop a voice interface for the computer (it was before the smartphone era). I was really afraid of this question.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

MAIN: Developing Entrepreneurship in Quebec. MAIN , also known as Mouvement des accélérateurs d’innovation du Québec, states that their mission is "to improve the cohesion and efficiency of the business incubator and accelerator ecosystem and to increase its impact on the development of entrepreneurship and innovation in Quebec.".

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

As a design studio that often works with international companies, we’ve developed a remote collaboration process that lets us work effectively with our clients. As an expert design agency, we offer product design, and user experience research services, UX consulting, and customized solutions to address our clients’ challenges.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The developers will handle it. Product managers don’t want to spend time worrying about security. Yes, you, the product manager, you have to worry about cybersecurity, too. Why is such a seemingly non-essential topic critical to your product’s success? 5 Things About Product Security You Should Be Aware Of.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

Defining my label carefully, a “product leader” is someone who manages a team of product managers. That maps to titles like Director of Product Management, Group Product Manager, VP of Products, or Chief Product Officer. 2] Driving Strategy, Tooling and Outcomes. [3]

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

Making a choice does not always have to be hard How Product Managers and Leaders Can Reduce Complexity The principles of j?d? Frederick Taylor is by no means the best source of wisdom for modern product or innovation managers. Across these three dimensions, however, product strategy is by far the hardest to master.

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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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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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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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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy. Far too many businesses rely on early-on hunches to inform their product strategies. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams. Webflow’s Maggie Hott on building a scalable sales team from the ground up.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 8, 2020

Tim has worked for HP, Apple, Sybase, Siebel, Oracle, and Citrix before starting his own consulting company. Tim has recruited, mentored, and managed product managers in each of these positions, so you could say he knows a thing or two about interviewing for product managers.

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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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