The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Cosmetic product managers are going after millennials Image Credit: Albert Lugosi. Well, it turns out that in the cosmetics business product managers at some of the smaller firms are in the process of changing how things are done. Growth like that would look good on anyone’s product manager resume.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 10, 2022

Just exactly how are video game product managers going about pricing their products? Video games have become more and more expensive as the game product managers used their product development definition to come up with new ways to extract money from you. As their name implies, they are usually available for a limited time.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

To what extent should a product manager be concerned about the portfolio? Is there a portfolio product manager role? There are portfolio product manager roles, but all product managers share responsibilities for the portfolio. Your question * Name *. It will help you keep everything in big-picture perspective.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 4, 2021

The product managers at Ticketmaster are getting ready to face the first serious competition that they have had in decades. What could possibly cause their product managers to be concerned about yet another competitor? Ticketmaster knows that they are facing competition simply by the name of the new firm: Rival.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Identifying dormant users can help product managers re-engage them, boosting retention and lowering churn. You can then add these activities to your definition of dormancy. By analyzing customer analytics trends and comparing them to your benchmark definition of dormancy, you can identify these at-risk users early.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

So we are going to create a simple table (preferably in your favorite spreadsheet tool) with the following columns: Customer profile name Customer profile description Value definition Value delivery Value perception Now you can start filling the table, where each row represents a different customer profile.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 7, 2023

Clearly, for the product managers who promote musicians this was a major setback. However, product managers are never stopped for long and virtual concerts that were delivered online were then quickly created. That has helped artist product managers to zero in on their superfans. What is A “Superfan”?

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 25, 2021

How product managers can innovate throughout the entire product lifecycle. As we move into 2021, the name of this podcast is changing to better reflect our objective here—product managers becoming product masters. That new name is Product Masters Now. . Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:35]

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 10, 2023

Product managers have to get ready for what the future holds Image Credit: Roland Legrand As though you didn’t think that you already had enough to do, now you have to get ready for the metaverse. Product managers need to start to take the time getting use to what the metaverse is and how it is going to impact their customers.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 29, 2018

There are a lot of opinions on the definition of successful in product management. Is there one simple way to characterize the role of product management and what it takes to be successful? There are a thousand ways to characterize successful product management, but they all lead to one thing. Your question * Name *.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Managing customer accounts is a pretty tough job, but you know what’s even tougher? SaaS account management. With the emergence of software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies, the role of account managers has also evolved – and gotten harder. What is SaaS account management?

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NextBigWhat

DECEMBER 28, 2020

As everything around us evolves, the product management role will get to play a crucial role in shaping up the new (digital) world. NoCode + API Product Management. It’s time to stitch them together and I believe, NoCode Product Management is going to be a crucial role in enabling businesses to go digital. Community).

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 24, 2022

Image Credit: Person-with-No Name. Product managers who are responsible for selling alcohol are in a bit of a bind these days. This news is sad for alcohol product managers. Could these be the products that alcohol product managers need to save their market? How Product Managers Plan On Providing Sodas With A Buzz.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 18, 2021

How product managers can understand and solve their customers’ problems. This podcast is getting a new name to better align with its purpose of helping product managers become product masters. That new name is Product Masters Now. . Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [3:16]

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

By my personal definition of better. You test the new checkout flow of your eCommerce site and you get a definitive answer to whether it increases revenue. Why are we doing feature [feature name]?” So we wouldn’t be able to validate that definition of success. What’s the Definition of Success for a Success Metric?

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NextBigWhat

AUGUST 10, 2019

There has been an array of definitions for the product management role – mostly derived from the standard one (shown below), which I believe isn’t the most accurate definition of Product Management role as of today. Product Management Role Definition (courtesy Atlassian blog).

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The Product Coalition

JULY 25, 2021

Product management requires you to master so many different skills, that there always seems to be a gap between what you do well and what you need to do well to succeed. As a manager of product people, it is your job to help them with this continuous growth, but it’s not always easy. most of us didn’t start as product managers?—?so

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2020

What is each flavour of product manager responsible for? In my previous post, I introduced the four different flavours of product manager, depicted by the PM quadrants matrix. What are the four flavours of product manager? In this post, I’ll go into the responsibilities for each of the four ‘flavours’ of product manager.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. And, the managers? Not an even 50-50 split, but many more women managers than in the US. Not tools, not technology, and definitely not process.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 8, 2022

Gaana named after the Hindi word for “song,” has used a hyperlocal approach and cut-rate pricing to beat the competition and attract 152 million monthly users. Product managers at other streaming services need to realize that Indian consumers are flocking to Gaana, analysts say, because it has been built for them.

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People-First Product Leadership

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

A new product manager is joining my team in a few weeks. Around the same time a product management mentee I advise through the First Round Fast Track program asked how to best “onboard” their new manager. If you’re manager is the new hire, volunteer to be their buddy.

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Userpilot

MARCH 11, 2022

To help you in your first 90 days on the job, we’ve compiled a collection of some of the best product management resources. The collection includes our favorite conferences, podcasts, blogs, books, newsletters, courses, and Slack groups for product managers. What does product management include? That’s a lot, right?

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 20, 2019

One of the reasons I’m so passionate about product management is because I believe good product practice significantly underpins happiness in organisations. While I am the voice of the customer as a product manager, what really motivates me is how much impact I have in creating a healthy environment and culture for my coworkers.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 22, 2024

Five mindsets every product manager should cultivate I am interviewing speakers at my favorite annual conference for product managers, the PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference. This episode is sponsored by PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. Learn more about them at PDMA.org. Immediately the lawyers called.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

What does it mean for us as product managers? What does it mean for us as product managers? Secondly, as great product managers are also great capacity builders for their teams, you should start looking for opportunities that AI can present for your product. Imagine that you’re going to a coffee shop.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In theory, and I emphasize in theory, the impact of a product led growth model should be very minimal on product management. The Impact of Product Led Growth on Product Management. In theory, a product led growth model should change very little for product management. For product marketing, it pretty much changes everything.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 15, 2022

The big question for FitBit product managers is what comes next? When we think about what it would be like to be the product manager for a very successful product, we often think about something that everyone has. If that is the criteria that we use, then the product managers at FitBit would certainly meet the criteria.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

As a product manager (PM), even if engineering managers get the final say in allocating dev months (or any way of measuring developer resources), never fail to understand and question these decisions. But what is in your control is what capacity you can manage. About Me My name is Kasey, AKA J.X. Fu (pen name).

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 27, 2020

But getting to that point requires an investment in product data management. Strong data management ensures that data ported into an analytics system is clean, accurate and reliable. Weak data management, however, can take many forms. Weak data management, however, can take many forms. What Is Product Data Management?

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The Accidental Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

For the past few years the product managers at the big drug store chains have been struggling. What these product managers need is a new way to get people to want to come to their stores. The product manager’s goal is to make customers just as likely to stop in for medicine, consultations and lab tests as a candy bar.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

And we all know that internal customers take more work to manage. Yet, for many product managers, simplicity is challenging to achieve. A quick side note — If you are a product manager who works in a company where this is the norm — congrats! Often, product managers skip this step in favor of speed. We were at odds.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 9, 2020

For product managers, this is even more so the case since the feeling of “isolation” is more common. Bangkok is still a relatively immature city when it comes to product management, or at least what I call “modern” product management. The name of his talk was Product is Hard. No surprise there.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 15, 2021

The skills product managers need in a changing environment. This podcast will soon be changing its name to Product Mastery Now. The logo will look the same—just the name is changing. . The role of product manager is shifting, and you can position yourself for future success if you know how it is shifting.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

As a product manager, I either led or enabled some of that change. This has resulted in better A/B tests definitions and communication, a reduction in the overhead of running A/B tests, and also much happier stakeholders and teams. 2018) Managing the A/B test backlog Every week, we go through our A/B test backlog in a 30 mins meeting.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 27, 2022

In this episode of Inside Intercom, you’ll hear from: Nidhi Kamat , Product Manager. Nadine Mansour , Product Manager. Lu Borko , R&D Operations Manager. What’s in a name? Nidhi Kamat: Hi, my name’s Nidhi Kamat. I’m a product manager on the pricing and packaging team.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2022

Product management specializations have trended upwards in recent months. These “specializations” often place focus around a specific set of skills or needs a company has, somewhat creating a division within the product manager role. Are we breaking apart the product manager role a bit too much? Product Management Skills.

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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. Bad for the company.

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