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3 Empowerment Levels in Product Management

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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Product Management Outcomes – The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Product Management University

It’s refreshing to see so many discussions and articles themed around product management outcomes. After all, it’s the reason we product managers do what we do, right? Here’s a look at the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to product management outcomes. But not all outcomes are created equal.

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Product Management University Launches The Customer Outcome Framework for Product Management, Product Marketing, Sales and Customer Success

Product Management University

One View of the Customer. Measurable Customer Value. Today, Product Management University announced the availability of its Customer Outcome Framework for B2B. It’s a simpler approach for bringing quantifiable strategic value to the customer versus the typical approach of focusing solely on customer problems.

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Why Market Leadership Starts With Product Management

Product Management University

But products are the nucleus, and that means market leadership starts with product management. There are the obvious things product management does. I want to focus on the responsibilities of B2B product management that don’t get much airtime. To some product managers, market is synonymous with users.

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How to Optimize the Developer Experience for Monumental Impact

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

As an innovative concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry, and emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. Attendance of this webinar will earn one PDH toward your NPDP certification for the Product Development and Management Association.

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Product Managers Discover Older Customers

The Accidental Product Manager

Products made for older customers are getting a makeover Image Credit: Katie Mims Who do you sell your product to? Is there a possibility that your product is being used by older customers? If this is the case, what you have done to make it easy for them to use your product?

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How Customer Success Can Grow User Adoption on New Releases

Product Management University

If you’re looking to grow user adoption on your products, a few more tools in your arsenal beyond traditional release announcements and in-product reminders will help your cause. Put yourself in the shoes of your users. If you’re a customer success manager, this is a great opportunity for a win-win scenario.

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Driving Business Impact for PMs

Speaker: Jon Harmer, Product Manager for Google Cloud

Move from feature factory to customer outcomes and drive impact in your business! This session will provide you with a comprehensive set of tools to help you develop impactful products by shifting from output-based thinking to outcome-based thinking.

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Leading the Development of Profitable and Sustainable Products

Speaker: Jason Tanner

A sustainable business model contains a system of interrelated choices made not once but over time. We’ll explore how to shift from ambiguous descriptions of value to economic modeling of customer benefits to identify value exchange choices that enable a profitable pricing model.

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How Product Managers Can Shape Inclusive Futures with UX

Speaker: Bronwen Rees, Author and Lead Product Designer at Xero

We all want a world where everyone has equal access to digital information, just as we want all online experiences to be equitable. Many in the UX space reiterate that “knowing your audience” is paramount to developing great user experience, and that empathy is the cornerstone of UX.

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How Can We Stop Under Utilizing a Key User Experience Champion?

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

Customer representation has always been a key reason for success in product development. It’s a truth universally acknowledged by the best product managers. Despite this, those building the product itself are often detached from their customers, leading to a gap between vision and execution on the most practical metrics.

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Improve Retention & Recruitment Efforts Amidst Economic Uncertainty

280 Group went above and beyond to help us transform our product management teams, and we look forward to continuing to partner with them as we evolve our business for the 21st century.” “We found a real partnership – not just a vendor coming in and giving us a training class.

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How Product Managers Can Define a Product Vision to Guide Their Team

Speaker: Christian Bonilla, VP of Product Management at UserTesting

Every product team wants to build things users love. It’s why breakthrough products rarely happen by accident. Rather, they start with a strong product vision. Getting that vision right is one of the most important responsibilities of the product team. The goal may sound simple, but it’s hard to do.

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Iterate Your Way to a Top Analytics Product Experience

Speaker: Richard Cheng, Associate Product Manager, Mark43

Mark43 is on a mission to bring public safety data management into the 21st century. To fix traditionally paper-heavy and error-prone processes, they needed a secure and easy-to-use product experience that simplified and unified crime data collection and management. August 7, 2018 11:00 AM PDT, 2:00 PM EST, 6:00 PM GMT

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Building Product to Enhance Customer Support: The Key to Customer Retention in an E-commerce Business

Speaker: Bhavana Angadi, Senior Product Manager at Hopscotch (Demand & Growth) | Former Product Manager at Bigbasket

If you were to ask an E-commerce Product Manager what they would do to increase retention, they might suggest improving engagement by personalization/gamification, or by introducing loyalty programs. This begs the question: what’s the best way to increase customer retention? The best times to collect customer feedback.