The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Some of the challenges from my personal experience has been. We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. Simple task, right? Pillars to a Proto-Strategy. First Attempt.

Feedback Software 148

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bpma ProductHub

JULY 13, 2016

Being paired with my mentor Mark Haseltine, CTO at Edx, was a unique and valuable experience. Each has advised me in different ways and on different aspects of what I can bring to an organization both personally and professionally. I tend to seek out people who can advise me best in my current circumstances.

CTO Coach 150

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2021

The ability to test and iterate based on real usage with real users is invaluable to getting to the root of a problem, understanding a user’s existence, and removing friction. Even the smallest and tightest group of beta users still takes coordination effort and time that is crucial when you have an early product.

Research Software 109

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

So I decided to join Microsoft full time in a PM role upon leaving UPenn. First off, product management is very communication and leadership oriented. In terms of demonstrating leadership, look to your extracurricular activities. It ended up being a great way to practice debate and leadership in many ways.

Technical Advisors 98

Technical Advisors Feedback Software Product Management Product Manager 98

Userpilot

MARCH 3, 2022

What skills and experience should you highlight? This includes market research (potential employers), understanding product strengths (your value to the customer), iterative development (subsequent drafts), or refining the UI (formatting). There are a few possible career paths for aspiring product managers with no experience.

Data Visualization 86

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Bain Public

AUGUST 22, 2022

Teams Work with leadership, and Product Analysts on day-to-day growth and performance of the team Play a supportive role in the thought leadership process; contribute to workshop documents and articles Proactively share creative ideas to extend existing mandates. Measure the impact of the released features output through data.

Research Software 52

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Teams Work with leadership, and Product Analysts on day-to-day growth and performance of the team Play a supportive role in the thought leadership process; contribute to workshop documents and articles Proactively share creative ideas to extend existing mandates. Measure the impact of the released features output through data.

Research Software 52

Research Software Technical Advisors Artificial Inteligence Product Research 52

Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Teams Work with leadership, and Product Analysts on day-to-day growth and performance of the team Play a supportive role in the thought leadership process; contribute to workshop documents and articles Proactively share creative ideas to extend existing mandates. Measure the impact of the released features output through data.

Research Software 52

Research Software Technical Advisors Artificial Inteligence Product Research 52

Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Teams Work with leadership, and Product Analysts on day-to-day growth and performance of the team Play a supportive role in the thought leadership process; contribute to workshop documents and articles Proactively share creative ideas to extend existing mandates. Measure the impact of the released features output through data.

Research Software 52

Research Software Technical Advisors Artificial Inteligence Product Research 52

Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product-Led Onboarding by Ramli John and Wes Bush is a new book about how to implement user onboarding for the ultimate customer retention. The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick is the ultimate guide to talking to customers as a product manager and includes sample scripts and questions you can directly use in your customer interviews.

Books 98

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

In BrainStation’s survey, Product Managers ranked communication (71 percent), leadership (65 percent), and empathy (58 percent) as the most important skills for a Product Manager, ahead of research and project management, and far ahead of design (selected by only 20 percent of respondents). Technical Skills for Product Management.

Technical Advisors 70

Technical Advisors Reporting Tools Analytic Tools Product Research 70

BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Speak to a Learning Advisor. In BrainStation’s survey, Product Managers ranked communication (71 percent), leadership (65 percent), and empathy (58 percent) as the most important skills for a Product Manager, ahead of research and project management, and far ahead of design (selected by only 20 percent of respondents).

Technical Advisors 40

Technical Advisors Reporting Tools Analytic Tools Product Research 40

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

This is what you should frame your resume around as this is likely the closest experience you have to being a product manager. It is important to note that most PM job postings ask for prior PM experience. Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles.

Consulting 52

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

This is what you should frame your resume around as this is likely the closest experience you have to being a product manager. It is important to note that most PM job postings ask for prior PM experience. Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles.

Consulting 52

Consulting Technical Advisors Technical Review Analytic Tools 52

Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

That is where I spend much of my time helping product managers and teams. The other sphere is competency in what is often called the soft skills and aligned with leadership. It is this sphere that many people find more difficult to master, especially those of us from technical backgrounds. 17:15] What is a lifter leader?

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Gainsight

JUNE 18, 2020

Today I’m speaking with Janine Snead , IBM’s Chief Digital Officer, Vice President of Customer Success IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software. IBM has one of the largest product portfolios in the world, and I’m proud of how they’ve found a way to drive customer success across so many business units and products.

Data Visualization 52

Data Visualization Technical Review Technical Advisors Customer Experience 52

Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Mind the Product returns to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on July 16-17 and promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with a leadership forum, more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Brant Cooper, Co-Founder of Moves the Needle. Christina Wodtke, Author and Lecturer.

Technical Cofounder 76

Technical Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO Coach User Testing 76

Gainsight

AUGUST 31, 2020

It is a stationary bike system built with a large screen at the front, enabling users to live stream or follow on-demand workouts at home. None of her employment at that time was about product management. I liked being that interface between what the company was building and what the customer needs.”

Data Visualization 52

Data Visualization Analytic Tools Reporting Tools Feedback Software 52

Gainsight

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Its progress is in parallel to the beginnings of customer success itself. Over time, CS evolved when more CSMs and CS leadership looked to improve and standardize its practices, processes, and procedures. . Others were consultative, or they advised about technical needs. CS Ops Leadership. Where Does it Fit?

Reporting Tools 52

Reporting Tools Technical Advisors User Testing Construction 52

Gainsight

APRIL 18, 2022

For years now, Gainsight has been leading the campaign regarding the value of customer success and its return on investment. . Entire fields of industry are catching on, investing in the ideology and practice as a means of retaining and growing their customer base and capitalizing on the results. Tell the Story With Words and Data.

Data Visualization 52

Data Visualization Technical Advisors Analytic Tools Customer Experience 52

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

So I decided to join Microsoft full time in a PM role upon leaving UPenn. First off, product management is very communication and leadership oriented. In terms of demonstrating leadership, look to your extracurricular activities. It ended up being a great way to practice debate and leadership in many ways.

Technical Advisors 40

Technical Advisors Feedback Software Product Management Product Manager 40

The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

have they stood the test of time? Scrum and the agile manifesto were created in a time where we used to still package and ship software physically. Ahead of his time he also described that the best “Brand Men” would do this though experimentation and customer interactions?—?obviously names look familiar, anyone?

Product Management 92

Product Management Product Manager User Testing Product Research 92

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We talk to Hemanth Kempanna, an Exponent alumnus, on his journey to breaking into product management and his experience building cloud-based products. Here are some of the key things that I would like to share based on my experience so far: Know what you want. Analyze your skill and experience gaps. During the interview.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Customer Experience Technical Advisors Research Software 40

BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

Speak to a Learning Advisor. Product Management is fundamentally a white space role, so the skills you need will depend on what skills you already have and what your company does,” advised Jackie Bavaro, Head of Product Management at Asana. I’ve been in interviews where someone says ‘I’ 50 times – ‘I did this, I did that.’

Technical Advisors 40

Technical Advisors Product Management Product Manager Product Research 40

BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

“Product Management is fundamentally a white space role, so the skills you need will depend on what skills you already have and what your company does,” advised Jackie Bavaro, Head of Product Management at Asana. Perhaps you need someone with an uncanny design eye, or razor-sharp technical skills, or deep experience in analytics?

Technical Advisors 67

Technical Advisors Product Management Product Manager Product Research 67

Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

This means deciding what features to develop, when to improve them and how to get users involved. A great CEO has the confidence and humility to ask for help, to rely on outside experts and to surround herself or himself with people that excel in other fields, such as product leadership. Startup founder? Did you know 16.2%

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 8, 2017

We’ve seen this happen countless times and it’s never one person’s fault, rather a lack of understanding of the full product design process and a lack of the experience necessary to avoid these cost surprises. Find a team with comparable production quantity experience.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? I run the Customer Success team at Apptentive, and I’m gonna be here today just as a moderator for this panel. I guarantee my dog will bark at least once during this because she barks all the time. Christy: All right.

Technical Review 246

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The GDPR will also apply to countries outside the EU who have customers within the EU. TalkTalk was fined £400,000 in 2016 for failing to have appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to secure its customers’ personal data, and for keeping their personal data for longer than necessary. The right of access.

Data Visualization 84

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Let’s establish this right upfront: nothing beats a well-managed full-time in-house team of local developers. If you want your local and remote teams to work together closely on the same parts of the system, then you should put some more effort into structuring your development process. Who was on time?

Weak Development Team 106

Weak Development Team User Testing Technical Advisors Product Research 106

Mironov Consulting

MAY 18, 2024

Something that comes up periodically in my product leadership coaching sessions: “As a Director or VP of Product, how do I get folks outside my immediate span of control to make improvements or do their jobs better or take my advice?”  I try to frame this as either in scope or out of scope for their particular role. 

Technical Advisors 65

Technical Advisors Technical Review Weak Development Team Product Research 65

Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

He is initially overwhelmed but quickly falls back on his product and customer knowledge along with building relationships with his new peers in Engineering and Project Management. ” He highlights the role of product manager as knowledge repository about the product, customer, and market.

Technical Advisors 48

Technical Advisors Product Management Product Manager Technical Review 48

The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Ben and Blair state, “the main goal is to know enough to empathize with your users/customers and to help create solutions to their problems”. Industry knowledge means having a deep understanding of your customers and your market’s unsolved problems. Product Management is about solving customer problems.”

Enterprise 113

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Atlassian

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

We also got loads of other timely answers, which we’ve collected here. You may feel like your work will crumble without you steering every single piece, and often end up doing too much with no time left over for yourself.” Instead of staying chained to your job, Velázquez recommends taking time out to recharge and let new ideas emerge.

Customer Experience 105

Customer Experience Technical Advisors Leadership Article 105

Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Teams are praised whenever they release a new feature (or product) to their customers. He was the Growth Advisor in Residence at Greylock Partners, Growth Lead at Pinterest, and first marketer at Grubhub. He advised companies like Tinder, Hipcamp, Reddit, Canva, and Pocket. Why should you NOT keep this feature?

Technical Review 144

Technical Review Analytic Tools Customer Experience Software Review 144

The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

They are derived from my fourteen years of practical experience with XP and Scrum, serving both as Product Owner and Scrum Master and interviewing dozens of Product Owner candidates on behalf of my clients. So far, this Product Owner interview guide has been downloaded more than 7,500 times. ??

Product Research 97

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UX Studio

JANUARY 24, 2024

She has an extensive background in Customer Experience and Telecommunications fields, with more than 15 years of experience working both as a designer and researcher, while also leading large teams. But I also advise designers not to oversee the business side of the relationship. That’s amazing. Marilia: Yes.

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