Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 15, 2023

The biggest difference between product management and portfolio management is product management focuses specifically on the success of each product whereas portfolio management focuses on the success of the company (the portfolio) in chosen market segments. Traditional Product Management Here’s the other problem.

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Userpilot

JUNE 9, 2021

Are you thinking about a career in product, but you’re not sure whether you should pursue Product Marketing or Product Management? To explain the difference in the simplest of terms: Product Managers build product features and Product Marketers promote them to their audience and users.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

Everyone knows educating the market is hard to nearly impossible, but people always bring up examples like Facebook or the iPhone whenever I discuss it in my lectures. So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market? Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2021

Defining your product strategy is the most important aspect of deciding to build something new. It helps your entire team rally around a vision and a set of outcomes, making sure everyone is aligned in reaching those product growth goals. What is a product strategy? How do you set a product vision?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels When I started Infinify, I told the world I am shifting to product consulting. I knew what I really wanted to do, and the way I understood the term ‘product consulting’ described it quite well. The market, however, understood it differently. That’s the whole reason VCs invest in startups.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 11, 2023

With that as the backdrop, the integration of those products on to the platform would have been done with a completely different purpose – to support the operational integration of specific customer business processes. Product management has set everyone else up for success.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

You followed the textbook process for uncovering an unmet market need, justified the financial investment and successfully released product version 1 to market with great success. The Product Version 1 and Done Dilemma – Root Causes! The backgrounds and experiences of your stakeholders definitely come into play.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2022

One seasonality that definitely happens but I don’t have a clear explanation why, is with accelerator programs. For some reason, most of them want my product strategy and product-market fit lectures during May and June, every year. Something definitely didn’t work.

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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. 7:06] How do you describe marketing?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The value assessment framework allows you to identify gaps in any of the value layers — definition, delivery, and perception. Photo by Iain Kennedy on Unsplash When I was a product lead at Imperva, there was a feature that engineering kept telling me required a rewrite. Some even need to be left untouched.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

Strategic product thinking is hard. Especially when done as an afterthought - when the product is already in the market?—?it I created a model called “The Product Circuit”, which I have since used in product strategy processes with dozens of companies and in my lectures when I explain the journey to product-market fit.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 16, 2020

SplitShire-London-Collection-210062 When I work with companies on sharpening the value proposition and refining the product strategy, one of our information sources for the process is their existing customers. Who they are, why they chose to work with the company, what value they are getting out of the product, etc.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Thinking and talking about the product definitely falls under this category. When it comes to the actual work products that product managers deliver: wireframes and user stories. Product Definition Itself Is Not Strategy So why do the CEOs say it is an important, strategic role?

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Bain Public’s SOAP™ methodology and tool offers a full picture of your product strategy, tactics, metrics and roadmap all in one place. SOAP™ is a methodology that Bain Public created for product planning and roadmap prioritization based on principles of Product Strategy, Lean Startup, User-centered design, Data Science and more.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Primarily there are 3 major aspects to understanding and performing well as a Product Manager, which are as listed below: Understanding the Role Definition Hard Skills required for the Role Soft Skills required for the Role. Understanding the Role Definition. Definition of PM role. Product Strategy.

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Dear Strategy

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Dear Strategy: “What is the difference between a product-based organization and a market-based organization, and how does that translate into product and marketing strategies?”. For smaller businesses with one type of product sold into one or more markets, this discussion is a moot point.

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Dear Strategy

AUGUST 25, 2019

Dear Strategy: “How do you make sure there is an effective inter-working between different levels in a dynamic strategy evolution?”. Dynamic Strategy Evolution” – that could be the name of a band! Most large companies have global product management functions and regional product management functions.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

But as a product executive, you must take it to the next level — and this time use it with the entire management team. Image by Denis Doukhan from Pixabay In the CPO Bootcamp we talk a lot about product strategy. One of the things I say about it is that strategy starts with the goals. I’ll start with the former.

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BrainMates

MAY 28, 2019

SnapComms is a medium-sized New Zealand software company who wanted to evolve its sales-led culture into a market-led culture. After hearing Rich Mironov talk about the slippery slope of sales-led companies , they decided to learn about Product Management. Facilitating a market-driven way of thinking.

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Userpilot

JUNE 25, 2021

And that’s because of the Product Adoption Curve. The Product Adoption Curve shows how a product is adopted through multiple segments of the market. Understanding this lets you craft a product marketing strategy for every stage of product adoption. The five stages of the Product Adoption Curve.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 3, 2017

Being the first product manager at a startup typically means being the 10th or 15th employee, and recognizing that – although product management has both tactical and strategic components – you’ll initially be more focused on tactics.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 14, 2016

It might be tempting to say, something we can market or sell. But when it comes to digital products, this definition has only limited applicability. Is that a product? Or is the entire website the product? And how would others, including people from development, marketing, and sales, answer this question?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In this article, we've got a comprehensive review of the entire product development process. We'll take you through idea generation, market research, defining a minimum viable product, building new features, managing the launch, and beyond. The final step is to launch your product. What is product development?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

A product manager is a strategic role focused on ‘building the right product’ and ‘building the product right’ Product management is a multi-faceted discipline. Userpilot is a helpful tool for both product and project managers. Product vs. project We need to start with the fundamentals.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

We talked about my blog (I had an anonymous blog where I wrote about my life), my volunteering experience as a medical clown and working in hospitals with kids, and also about mathematics, computer science, and marketing. Things are definitive. Working in the startup nation, many of the product leaders I coach?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Switching your point of view on strategy can go a long way in helping you become more strategic , so here is a quick guide. The Definition of Strategy According to Wikipedia, Strategy is “a high-level plan to achieve one or more goals under conditions of uncertainty”. In some ways, it only starts there.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Five years ago I wrote about how product strategy means saying no – you must ruthlessly protect your product from feature creep. . Saying no, however, is just one part of a successful product strategy. The meeting point of company and product strategy. Des: Welcome to Intercom on Product.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2021

Photo by Ono Kosuki from Pexels OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) are a useful tool for goal setting and team alignment, and in recent years they have gone from being used primarily in quantitative parts of the organization (namely sales and marketing) to being very popular in product and technology as well. That’s easy.

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

The product manager role is responsible for understanding what customer problems to solve and what success looks like for a product. The different types of product managers include the traditional product manager, the product owner, the growth product manager, the technical product manager, and the platform product manager.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2022

These include: Knowing how to carve and clearly communicate a product strategy, and apply strategic thinking when making decisions. Run continuous market research, discovery, and/or user research to better understand how to solve problems. Which Product Management Specialization is Right for you? Growth Product Manager.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Note that the qualitative here is much more important than the quantitative definition. It’s much more important to say that we are trying to establish initial signals of product-market fit than to say that we need a certain ARR value. Product development is such an uncertain world, both from the outside and from within.

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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 12, 2023

We help them with their product strategy as well as building a strong product organization. That, of course, includes helping them hire the right people, and specifically the right product leader. This is definitely an important aspect to consider, and if you can’t work well with someone you can’t have them on your team.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 6, 2022

So if you are looking to launch a new product or feature, you are prepared with some tips to reduce that blank page anxiety. Start with your company and product mission and vision. To fully realize this and empower product teams to change the world through their products and the people they serve, ProductPlan is more than roadmapping.

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Innovatemap

AUGUST 17, 2022

With this strategy, we consider how great product design, product management, product marketing and brand can reach the best possible outcomes. Our entire team is working towards the same goal for our clients: a better product. At its core, a better product is marketable, valuable and usable.

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