Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Why should product managers involve themselves with prioritizing technical debt? When it comes to technical debt many product managers do not like to get involved. While it is definitely a feasible and reasonable solution it is far from perfect and has some disadvantages, as I will try to depict below.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

, Why should product managers involve themselves with prioritizing technical debt? When it comes to technical debt many product managers do not like to get involved. While it is definitely a feasible and reasonable solution it is far from perfect and has some disadvantages, as I will try to depict below.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Why should product managers involve themselves with prioritizing technical debt? When it comes to technical debt many product managers do not like to get involved. While it is definitely a feasible and reasonable solution it is far from perfect and has some disadvantages, as I will try to depict below.

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Product Management Product Manager Weak Development Team Management 78

Ask Benny

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Why should product managers involve themselves with prioritizing technical debt? When it comes to technical debt many product managers do not like to get involved. While it is definitely a feasible and reasonable solution it is far from perfect and has some disadvantages, as I will try to depict below.

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Product Management Unpacked

AUGUST 8, 2018

Recently a CEO asked me if the marketing department should include product management and marketing communications. His concern was that internet/digital marketing had become so complex and such a huge task that having the responsibility of both marketing communications and product management would be difficult.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 6, 2020

Product marketing is one of the newest and most impactful roles within an organization. As a product marketing manager (PMM), you influence most areas of the organization including product, design, sales, support, and, of course, marketing. What skills do I need as a product marketing manager?

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

How marketing and product management work together. Turns out if you ask 50 different people what marketing is, you’ll hear 50 different answers. That is what our guest did to investigate what people think about marketing and how it fits into the work product managers do.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 26, 2021

You know how when you log into a SaaS product, you often notice the UI has changed or there are new options that weren't there before? That's SaaS product management hustling in the background to give you the best experience. And you had to own all the servers. Nightmare, right?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 13, 2022

What is product parity? How can product managers avoid building parity products? We talk about product parity or brand parity when a brand’s product offers exactly the same functionality as competing products. Product parity also limits your marketing and branding strategies.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

Let’s get right to it: what are those things you can educate the market on, and where are you setting yourself to failure? The answer to this question is based on the “Product Circuit” model that I use to help companies get to product-market fit and presented here a while ago.

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Pragmatic Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

When awash with data and metrics, it’s easy for a product marketer to overlook precision in using the language of messaging. It originally appeared on Sharebird — the place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. See below.). ” Start with themes to help formulate the messaging hierarchy.

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Pragmatic Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

When awash with data and metrics, it’s easy for a product marketer to overlook precision in using the language of messaging. It originally appeared on Sharebird — the place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. See below.). ” Start with themes to help formulate the messaging hierarchy.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

The skill of running effective user interviews is key to defining your target users, finding product-market fit , growing your product, figuring out what to build next — or just simply understanding how users perceive your product. It can be super refreshing and fun to talk to real people who use your product.

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BrainMates

MAY 28, 2019

After hearing Rich Mironov talk about the slippery slope of sales-led companies , they decided to learn about Product Management. Immediately after the course, the company invested in six months of organisational product coaching with myself, Brainmates’ New Zealand Product Coach , to help embed the new product mindset.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

The key to understanding which level you are at lies in understanding where your differentiation is?—?at at the product level, the solution level, or the problem level (that is, you are tackling a problem almost no-one else does). Each level requires a different marketing strategy. What about Facebook?

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Mixpanel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Kevin Xu is an engineer-turned-product manager with experience at big tech companies like Google and Stripe. Read on for our conversation with Xu about finding product-market fit when you’re the ideal user, growing a following vs. growing an app, and what the future of social media looks like.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 4, 2020

If you’re a product manager or part of a startup, you’ve likely heard about the Minimum Viable Product concept for getting products to market faster. In my opinion, the definition of an MVP is often misunderstood, and I’ve seen entrepreneurs and product teams misinterpret it with unfortunate results.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Throughout my career as both a product manager and startup founder, there’s been one severely underrated skill I credit for much of my success—and that’s reading. I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

How do you develop an understanding of what will set a product up for success throughout your organization? This blog looks at what actions product managers can take to ensure their teams are investing their time wisely. “If Your job as a product manager is to help your squad to answer these questions, fast.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 10, 2024

Scenarios where a need for product sense is sought include having the skills and insight to tackle the following: How can you enhance an existing product to better meet customer needs and preferences? What features should be prioritized in a new product to effectively solve key user pain points? None of these questions are easy.

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Userpilot

APRIL 7, 2024

SaaS product management is about understanding user pain points, crafting features that solve real problems, and constantly improving the user experience. The approach to managing SaaS products is entirely different from traditional on-premise software. Specify product vision and create the product strategy.

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BrainMates

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

As a Product Manager I love the words “market-driven” They have purpose and connotations of real market intelligence (“customer-centric” sits in the same bucket). These words describe not only the end-product but also how we got there. What is a “market-driven” Product?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

The authors relied on their intuition or professionalism, and didn’t account for the most important factor in product creation?—?the the product/market fit. Everpix and Google Wave didn’t satisfy the market. The product enters the existing niche market, which has rather high competition.

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Mind the Product

JULY 24, 2018

In this third post in his series on product management for manufactured products, Dustin Levy looks at how you prepare for launch. Often, these prototypes will demonstrate selected features or subsystems of the final product you intend to launch. You can read his earlier posts here and here. Setting the Launch Date.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2019

As our Design Lead Gustavs Cirulis shared recently, the development of the product did not come without its own challenges. So I hosted our Director of Product Management Brian Donohue and Senior Product Manager Patrick Andrews on the podcast today to get the behind-the-scenes look at how this product came to life.

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Dear Strategy

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Dear Strategy: “What are the strategies that a Tech Product Manager can use to predict competitive movements, innovations, and/or changes in business strategy?”. . So, I would definitely recommend that you go back and refer to that episode if you have a chance. That is: What products and services do they offer?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

I’ve been talking with product managers lately about how the concepts of “essentialism” can help them focus their efforts on what matters. I distilled the advice a few months ago in my book The Essentialist Product Manager and have recently been giving talks and workshops on the topic.

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Actuation Consulting

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

FOR <target market> A concise definition of the market segment. WHO HAVE <this problem> The problem statement indicating the underserved need or market gap. OUR PRODUCT IS <solution category> A generic name to help categorize the solution to the market.

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

Product managers and product leaders should have an inherent sense of what’s valuable to customers. If a product person isn’t equipped with the ability to sense what might be valuable to others, product management might not be the best career choice in the first place.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 20, 2020

He definitely could continue. My free e-book “Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit”? —?an an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.ganotnoa.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on January 16, 2020. Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean that you need to.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 18, 2021

If you’re a SaaS company that wants to grow faster, you should definitely be thinking about Product Activation Rate Optimization: raising the percentage of users who stick around long enough to experience the value of your product. The time tracking feature doesn’t differentiate between billable and non-billable time.

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Dear Strategy

MAY 26, 2020

Many companies that I work with have digital products that support one or more tangible products. Because these product categories are so different in their design, development, and overall construct, they are often managed by two different product managers and supported by two entirely different teams.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Mastering the craft of product management is no easy task. I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Data Science, Product Design, and/or UX can help with the evidence analysis. Product Marketing and/or Marketing can contribute real world changes. Together with Product Operations, Product Management and Engineering reflects on the progress. Then divide and conquer the preparation. That’s fine.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 13, 2023

For most people, the term roadmap conjures up a visual presentation of product features and delivery dates published by product management. While that definition doesn’t coincide with the purist view, let’s run with it since feature-date roadmaps are the rule these days rather than the exception.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 2, 2019

Every product has a lifecycle which consists of various phases. And the demands placed upon a product manager often vary depending on the lifecycle stage their product is in. Product managers are required to use different mental muscles and skills for ushering their ward along to the next step in its lifecycle.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In today’s episode, we discuss the six key elements to an effective product strategy and how to execute it, which we have evolved and adapted from Michael Porter’s famous paper “What Is Strategy?” ” Unique activities : Find the differentiators that make sense for you. Paul: So think about product-market fit.

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