The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

If the answer is “nothing”, then you are like many other product managers who have not taken the time to study their customers and customize their products for their unique needs. Older Customers Product managers know that older customers have long complained that products designed for them are clunky and unattractive.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2024

Overlapping responsibilities and conflicting priorities are just a couple of the many friction points between product managers and product marketing managers – leading to inefficient workflows and potential product failures. What are the typical roles and responsibilities of product managers and product marketing managers?

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Product Management University

APRIL 14, 2021

B2B Product Manager April 2021 Issue. This month we show a little love to those in senior product management roles with a focus on strategy, title inflation, and newbies to the VP role. Of course, we can’t ignore the connection between sales and product management. Blog: High-Octane Product Management. March 2021.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 8, 2020

As COVID-19 continues to impact life, work and everything in between, we’re asking the product management community – how have you and your work been affected so far? Resilience represents the ability to manage stress and quickly bounce back after a crisis. However, resiliency is a skill that you can practice and develop.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 5, 2024

I'm launching a new course for product managers who are thinking about the next steps in their careers: Moving Up The Product Management Career Ladder.   Sessions will have lots of interaction, exercises, and no more than 20 people per session - so we can all safely ask tough questions and share personal experiences.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 23, 2023

It’s time to try some new strategies at Peloton Image Credit: Tony Webster The Peloton product managers have had it pretty good for the last few years. When Peloton first showed up on the market, their brand of expensive at home exercise bikes really took off. Now the Peloton product managers had a problem on their hands.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Finding counterfeits is half the battle Image Credit: cce Just imagine if you were a product manager who was responsible for a very popular product. As a product manager part of your job would be to put a stop to this kind of thievery. Companies are developing machine-learning tools to help protect shoppers.

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People-First Product Leadership

MAY 19, 2024

It’s a seemingly innocuous word which packs a big punch; it’s the word “nice” In the work environment, nice can imply easy to get along with or welcoming, which is beneficial for product managers who are constantly navigating cross functional dynamics. Let’s apply Scott’s approach to product development.

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Gainsight

MARCH 12, 2024

Go through this exercise—solo or with your team—for the customer segments you’re creating courses for right now. For example, he created a course on service management fundamentals geared toward new Hornbill customers, while a course on a more advanced topic is reserved for customers who’ve been around for years.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The articles: Defines the weighted scoring model Discusses its advantages and disadvantages Shows how product and project managers can create their own model Explains how to follow up on the results Let’s get right into it! In the weighted model, we have a 66/33 ratio between the development cost and the implementation cost.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 25, 2024

How product managers can empower their teams Today we are talking about how product leaders can create more effective teams by using a people-first leadership approach. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [2:09] What does people-first product leadership mean? Focus on developing people, not just products.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This is why developing your product sense remains so important. This might lead some product professionals to bypass their own spidey senses in favor of simply facilitating prioritization exercises. But before we dig into how to best develop that product sense, we should first define what it is. What is product sense?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 11, 2023

Silencing Doubts During Product Strategy As a seasoned product manager, I have experienced this struggle many times. That is until I got a chance to participate in a mindfulness exercise. I learned that with a quick mindfulness exercise, I could shift my perspective, silence the doubts and concentrate on the possibilities instead.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 15, 2020

You’re a product manager, and you need to run a collaborative roadmapping exercise with various teams across your company. What is a Collaborative Roadmapping Exercise? A collaborative roadmapping exercise is an ideation meeting. This environment can help you with every stage of the exercise: before, during, and after.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 12, 2020

The B2B Product Manager August 2020. The B2B Product Manager August 2020 looks at the blessing and the curse that goes with marketing and selling feature-rich products. There’s one key strategic part of product management that got lost in the agile shuffle. Enjoy the B2B Product Manager August 2020 issue.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

There’s still no real replacement for real-time, dynamic discussions and exercises to foster stakeholder alignment. According to Isabelle Berner, Director of Product Management at Def Method , the secret is intentionality. The role of facilitating a lot of remote collaboration conversations comes to the product manage r.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

There are many peer-reviewed studies compiled by the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) that illustrates about half of all product development projects fail; this failure rate is especially much higher in smaller and startup companies. The answer is simply: product roadmaps and product development !

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The power of scheduling, email introductions and meeting notes Generated by author via Stable Diffusion AI using NightCafe website Product Managers like myself can have big egos. But sometimes, the most important work of Product Managers?—?and Why must the Product Manager/Product Owner schedule meetings? and Product Owners?

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. Note that including stakeholders on the product team replaces a traditional stakeholder management approach with a much more collaborative one. All self-managing teams I have worked with greatly benefited from an experienced coach.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Product success is not something you can achieve on your own as a product manager or Scrum product owner. Instead, you rely on the contributions and the support of the key stakeholders , the development team members, and possibly other product people who help you manage a large product. Get to know people.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

A feature owner who manages a major capability with which end users interact like search and navigation on an online retailer’s website. A platform owner who manages a platform as a collection of shared software assets. A portfolio owner who manages a group of (related) products. None is per se better or worse.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Get ready for a fantastic new year with my quick goal setting and year-end retrospective exercise designed specifically for product managers looking to grow their careers. Setting goals and planning for the future is crucial for any product manager’s career. What product management skills do I need to improve the most?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

Every time I navigate the ocean of Product Management frameworks, we are not tackling one essential part of our role: People and Ourselves. There is a framework for almost every stage of our Product development lifecycle, but one of the only transversal things is that we need people to make things happen. Change is the only constant.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

For years now loyal readers have been asking me to package up my learnings on product management into a cohesive course on the subject. So in 2020, I took a survey of all the available product management courses out there. There were plenty of courses introducing product management to those new to the role.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. Only members of the Development Team create the Increment. Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 1, 2016

I'm a firm believer that the best product managers understand that mastering the discipline requires deeply excelling at both the art and science of product management. And while those are critically important to being a great product manager, they aren't sufficient. So what's going on here?

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 29, 2024

How to become an emotionally fit product leader We are talking about mental health for product managers and leaders—specifically product managers moving into leadership roles and those who are already in leadership roles. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [2:55] What is emotional fitness?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 20, 2022

Prioritizing based on impact: Cities Skylines (pc/console) You are the Mayor of a town and your job is to grow the amount of citizens and manage the finances. Managing this toy city is a playful adaptation of managing a product with all the real pulls and levers that you must operate in order to grow and achieve your objectives.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

When I first researched about product management, I asked seasoned product managers how they started and they gave me very different kinds of answers. A lot of them worked in other positions before moving to product management, like engineers, analysts, marketers and project managers, and learned by taking on extra responsibilities.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2022

If you’re looking to improve your team's work, a product management framework can be an excellent starting point. While frameworks don’t necessarily cover every aspect of being a good product manager, they provide guidance on how to approach problems and make decisions. In this article, we continue doing the same. DACI What is it?

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 3, 2022

How product managers can use the Modified Agile for Hardware Development Framework. Many teams have tried adopting Scrum for developing hardware products, not always successfully. Dorian has a deep background in product development, starting in engineering and then moving to business leadership roles.? Rapid prototyping.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 13, 2024

As the Head of Product at ProductPlan, I spend a lot of time talking to product teams and learning about their experiences throughout the product development process. I loved that stepping into ProductWorld’s Developer Week 2024 in San Francisco a few weeks ago reminded me of the other side of the product development experience.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

From Scrum Master to Development Team members, this set of questions addresses the foundations of a Scrum Team capability to build valuable products: technical excellence and what it takes to achieve this proficiency level. Therefore, as the new Scrum Master, you need to immediately determine the Development Team’s state of affairs.

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The Product Cafe

APRIL 14, 2024

💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, and more. You are managing products well and pushing out successful products, and your customers are happy, too. If top-tier PMs prioritize ongoing development, so should you. Life is good!

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Userpilot

JANUARY 20, 2024

How do you conduct root cause analysis in product management? We also explain why it’s important for product managers and share useful tips. What is root cause analysis in product management? It’s used to identify the underlying causes of issues or faults in a product or the product management process.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Want to become an AI product manager? This guide shows you how to prepare for a career in AI product management. Today, more and more businesses are looking for product managers specializing in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. That said, landing a job as an AI product manager is not easy.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

This is a free sample story from my book The Making of Product Managers. It is unusual that Michael’s first brush with product management was during his master’s degree in systems design engineering. He finally landed a job as Producer at a product agency, the equivalent of a product manager at a traditional product company.

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