Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. Marty Cagan is a well-known figure in the product management and technology industry. Who is Marty Cagan?

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Under 10 Consulting

JANUARY 7, 2020

Qualitative research methods—such as interviews and observation—reveal what you don’t know. Quantitative research methods—such as surveys and experiments—reveal how many. Product and marketing teams seem to love surveys. Surveys grab a bunch of data quickly. Defines your product features).

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 25, 2023

Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model.  Last Product fit will probably be catastrophic.  This

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. Provide guidance on the product, including its market, value proposition, business goals, and key features. Treat the Team as an Equal Partner. Be honest and open.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 16, 2024

For startups and product owners, the stakes are high, and the path is treacherous. The last thing you need is to stumble into the abyss of bad branding, a place where countless others have lost their way. SELECT Branding Process by Shakuro Mistake #1: Neglecting market research Market research is the North Star of branding.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For years, managers have been trying to find ways to make software product development faster and easier. AI to take the place of humans in product development. And I don't want to return to the bad old days—I much prefer where we are now. That changes the questions teams often ask themselves.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Steve, a software development manager, thought John was a “10x” developer. Was I willing to support and coach the other people in Steve's group to all become “10x” developers? Was I willing to support and coach the other people in Steve's group to all become “10x” developers?

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

There is a ton of product management advice out there, but most of it is generic tips repeated over and over again. With a self-named newsletter and podcast, Lenny is a widely followed product expert. Try Userpilot and Take Your Product Management to the Next Level Get a Demo 14 Day Trial No Credit Card Required Who is Lenny Rachitsky?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The most likely answer is that not enough people bought or used the product. But many, many products are developed without knowing from the start that people want the solution, or even care about the problem. Jobs To Be Done has given us a better way to approach customer development. Why does this happen?

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

Guest Post by: Merziyah Poonawala (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Joni Hoadley]. 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? THE CAUSE.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2019

A UK-based consultant, Joe Leech has built a reputation for managing change (for both users and stakeholders) and as the guy to call when a product launch has gone wrong. A/B testing can often kill big, existing ideas because [it] expects results quickly – and you can’t get results quickly from big, important idea changes.

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UX Studio

JULY 4, 2018

As a consequence, they open up interesting new territories in UX research, too. VR in UX research can serve as an individual tool to explore user needs and test complex user experiences. We collected some best practices for those looking to learn more about or just getting started with VR user testing. VR in UX research.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Armed with the proper tools, guidance and methods of communication, you should be able to convince anyone within your organisation about the value of user research and the positive impact it will have on the bottom line – without resorting to cattle-prods, lies or locking yourself in the stationery cupboard and having a very loud cry.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We added another lever of looking for more feedback with iterating over the requirements in the iterative lifecycles in Part 2. Teams have another lever. Teams can get some feedback from one feature set to inform the next set—but that's not a primary lever. Then, the team (or whomever) creates an architecture.

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

When you look at your roadmap, how confident are you that the products and features on it will be successful? When we surveyed 140 product managers, 1 in 2 said that their C-suite has direct input for what goes on the roadmap. Unfortunately, this is the inverse of how product managers would seemingly like it to be.

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

When you look at your roadmap, how confident are you that the products and features on it will be successful? When we surveyed 140 product managers, 1 in 2 said that their C-suite has direct input for what goes on the roadmap. Unfortunately, this is the inverse of how product managers would seemingly like it to be.

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

When you look at your roadmap, how confident are you that the products and features on it will be successful? When we surveyed 140 product managers, 1 in 2 said that their C-suite has direct input for what goes on the roadmap. Unfortunately, this is the inverse of how product managers would seemingly like it to be.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

If only books on product management had labels that say “pre-PMF” or “post-PMF”. Here are 10 great product books on pre-product market fit (pre-PMF)! ?? Learn who to listen to: “The Mum test” (Rob Fitzpatrick) This book will teach you that they’re some people you should never listen to, like your mum.

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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. Product-Led Onboarding by Ramli John and Wes Bush is a new book about how to implement user onboarding for the ultimate customer retention.

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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.    Now.   The PdM equivalent of mansplaining.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 26, 2021

AI technology in education develops your learning method properly. Artificial intelligence-based education apps are fulfilling an essential role in developing the process of education and preparation methods. We have previously explained how automating organizational businesses can lower down the activity of the office team.

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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

In simple words, a digital transformation strategy is a thorough plan for utilizing digital technologies to enhance the physical components of your company, including engineering, production, and service. Perhaps a retailer leveraged AI to personalize product recommendations, leading to increased sales and customer satisfaction.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

After years of struggle, I’m advising all of my clients and product leader coachees to stop using the term “MVP”. Not to stop doing validation, discovery, prototyping or experiments they may associate that that acronym, but to remove the label from all of their docs and presentations and talks. Here’s why….

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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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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

“Product thought leaders talk about an ideal way of working. I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” product outcomes).

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

How one serial inventor brought a revolutionary approach to flossing from idea to launch Today we are talking about the journey from initial insight to launched product. The featured product is Instafloss, a revolutionary approach to flossing your teeth. 6:10] What is the form of the product? I looked at existing solutions.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In this keynote from #mtpengage Manchester 2020 , Janna Bastow , co-founder of ProdPad and Mind The Product, discusses how in tech, optimising debt is essential to building the perfect product. ” Janna still finds she asks, and is asked about, the same thing whether she’s consulting, training, mentoring, or as a CEO.

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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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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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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? Lesson 1: Understand the Problem You’re Trying to Solve with ML.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

But they don’t answer where the sources of friction are coming from as your users explore your product. 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.

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Mind the Product

JULY 24, 2019

In the fifth year of #mtpcon San Francisco, 1,700 product people came together to celebrate our craft and learn from each other. Here is a look at what we learned from this year’s line-up of speakers: Product Challenges are Universal. Banish Your Inner Critic. Before we can understand our customers, we have to understand ourselves.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 17, 2023

  The upside (for the sales team) is huge, and the cost (for product/engineering/support) is diffuse.    This is a fundamental but entirely wrong assumption of project-based software staffing : that once it’s tested and delivered and installed, we can wash our hands of this thing and move onto the next thing.

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Mixpanel

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Good product teams know their users inside and out. They understand how they use their product, how long they stay, why they drop off, which cohorts will monetize, and where they should place their big bets. Does this mean every product team should be packed with data science degrees? Not in the slightest.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Holly Hester-Reilly has a fascinating, experiment-driven meets systems-thinking perspective on product management. Prior to jumping into product roles at Shutterstock and Media Math, Holly studied chemical engineering, and practiced research science for several years. Holly: I think the best product managers are like scientists.

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