The Basics of Product Management

MAY 24, 2020

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is the process of building software, using 6 phases – Analysis, Definition, Design, Coding, Testing and Deployment. The acronym also stands for system development life cycle. People use it interchangeably with software development life cycle. It is, of course, handled by developers.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

Problem : When you tie the vision to the product idea or a specific business objective, you lose the ability to pivot—to change the strategy but to stay grounded in the vision. A good vision exercises pull—it describes a future state that people want to bring about. Cause : A confusion about what an effective product vision is.

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Amplitude

JULY 1, 2020

Churn analysis can also reveal if you have product-market fit. Product-market fit is when your product is addressing a need that has demand in your market. Their flow had five steps: an intro page, a proceed page, a breath exercise page, a meditation start page, and a meditation end page.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2024

As a result, I’ve developed this template that to help founders and product managers define their niche for early-stage products. This has gone through (and will continue to go through) several iterations, but the notion is to start by thinking about your broad industry/market and then break it down. Niche Canvas.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The messier the code and the less modular the architecture is, the longer it takes and the more expensive it is to change your product. In the worst case, you have to go through a rewriting exercise where some parts or even the entire product are being redeveloped. Technical Debt and Your Product.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

When you’re deep in product development, it can be surprisingly easy to overlook who you’re making your product for. This sounds pretty obvious, but understanding your product’s users is often easier said than done, especially when you’re building for multiple different personas. Here are a few ways we do it.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

it is the same as a car manufacture ally with software startup working on AI tech to develop autonomous eclectic car AI-based apps. This brings sustainability when strategies or decisions need to be pivoted to respond to the market changes. The frameworks (image 1 &2) highlight the approach to take the product into the market.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2019

You should still follow the “ does this need to be a meeting ” exercise: Can this meeting be accomplished in an email? If you’ve gone through the exercise and decided it still merits a meeting, always set an agenda in advance so everyone comes prepared and knows what success looks like. Can this email be accomplished in a chat?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Product planning is the iterative process that prepares every stage of the product development life cycle, from the initial idea through launch and further development. Product planning focuses on the customer and business outcomes that the product should achieve. What is NOT product planning.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 16, 2022

A minimum delightful product (MDP) is a version of your product consisting of just enough to engage and delight your users. Both concepts are equally valuable and can serve an important role in your product development process. Continue to test the strength of your product-market fit.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

The course goes well beyond product management foundations to help you identify and execute high leverage work that generates disproportionate product returns. Take product roadmaps for example. And yet there is incredible divergence in the quality of product outcomes that result from those roadmaps.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 19, 2022

Alongside the many methods I adopted and developed for multitasking, I always made sure to leave time for deep work. As product managers who are constantly in meetings and get questions from all around, this is critical. One of my best tips for doing deep product work used to be to work from home.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Are we targeting the same ICP for new revenue or are we actually developing a new market segment? For example, marketing, finance, sales, customer success, and the CEO each have their own worldview based on what they see and what they can’t see from where they stand. Remember ChatGPT and the editing exercise?

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bpma ProductHub

JULY 5, 2016

By exercising boldness in the face of uncertainty you add to your overall charisma regardless if you are right or wrong in your position, it is the action that matters. This is also a way to develop respect for your expertise in a domain. Image from Flickr Commons.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 7, 2020

However, by continually circling back to them throughout the development cycle, teams can create top-notch products and minimize time-to-customer value. Below, I’ll explore pragmatic ways to test and validate product ideas, from conception through launch, while still mapping back to these three core questions.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

How to achieve product-market fit – for product managers This episode is sponsored by PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. PDMA is also the longest-running professional association for product managers, leaders, and innovators, having started in 1976. Underserved needs Product: 3.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2021

Product Discovery is an exercise in working out whether there are customers that want the product (or feature) you’re working on and that you can deliver a solution to them. Product Discovery comes in different shapes and sizes, depending on the situation. Why do a Product Discovery? Business development risk?—?does

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

According to PayScale , its product management certification is completed mostly by experienced and midcareer product professionals. The certification follows this six-step learning journey: Foundation : Explores the scope of activities necessary in product management and helps to define various PM roles (e.g.,

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Photo by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash When I joined Twiggle as their first VP Product I was the thirteenth employee. Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. Many founders tell me they are looking for someone to lead the product, but this could be very tricky.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

Unfortunately, there is no end to the amount of coordination work that is needed and ‘urgent’ often takes priority over ‘important’, which means the Product Manager can end up spending less and less time on actual Product work if they’re not careful. Originally published at [link].

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 21, 2020

Hi, I’m Mike and I’m a product manager. The product I manage? Product managers. As Director of Product Management at Mixpanel, an important part of my role is hiring and developing a world-class team of product managers and ensuring that we’re empowering those people to be the best product managers they can be.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Product service management is a marketing function whose objective is to keep track of customer and market need fluctuations and inform product development. In smaller companies, product service management responsibilities are covered by product managers. What is product service management?

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In product marketing speak, this was the headline, the overarching value theme. For all of us in product management, product marketing and sales roles, we have countless opportunities to do the same thing. In B2B, a killer product overview really isn’t a product overview, per se.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

For more on outcomes and how to develop outcome-oriented roadmaps, here is a post to reference —  Unlocking success when creating an outcome-oriented roadmap Prioritization —  Is there a clear set of priorities reflected in the roadmap? Prioritization is the most important exercise a product team can take when it comes to a roadmap.

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

AUGUST 21, 2018

Once you have identified your critical event, you can then design your product, marketing and promotion activities to drive users towards performing the desired action or chain of actions. A product usage interval is the frequency with which you expect users to use the product.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Aligning on a vision clearly demystifies the reason for creating the product in a manner which is easy to communicate, understand and repeat. Here are some tips to keep in mind as you go through the exercise: Every product vision derives from the the organization’s vision. Creating goals is collaborative exercise.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

When Teresa started working with the team at Airship, she led them through the “How to Make Toast” exercise to help clarify orchestration. Principal Engineer Todd Johnson walks the team through orchestration based on the results of the exercise. Widening the Scope from Solutions to Opportunities. Tweet This.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Sören describes trivago as a mature product that found product/market fit 15 years ago with its hotel metasearch. Sören says since this has been the focus, they’ve optimized the product a lot, iterated on all aspects of it, and run countless A/B tests. Users don’t usually express their needs directly.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 26, 2019

Marketing Driven Development is Bad. Product teams can tend to want to stay away from Marketing, and we don’t like it when marketing deadlines drive product development or they need a demo for a client. But this tension between Product and Marketing is unnecessary.

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SidsAvenue

JULY 24, 2020

What is the foundation of a successful Business The foundation of a successful business, a start-up or a product in an organization is laid on 2 pillars 1. A product/services for which there are buyers and they are willing to pay. The the focus of this exercise should be the need and not the product/service.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. .

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ProductPlan

MAY 25, 2021

When a group of people adopts a strategy, it transforms the product strategy from just a piece of paper to something that drives team success. An Alive Product Strategy. In fact, strategy is a muscle and an important one for teams to exercise. Has it gotten its exercise? But, remember, product strategy is a muscle.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2021

Intentional test kitchens are more strategic and provide a fast path to customer product fit (I write more about customer product fit over product market fit in my book, The Founder’s Manual ), because they are created for the very purpose of providing a representative working environment for a product to operate inside of.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product-Led Onboarding by Ramli John and Wes Bush is a new book about how to implement user onboarding for the ultimate customer retention. Staying informed about your product domain.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 4, 2018

I kept wondering why companies continue to struggle with pricing and packaging their products. Here are the top reasons why pricing/packaging exercise seems more complex than it needs to be: Underestimating the effort and time to create and to get buy-in across the organization. When in fact, that person is not acting alone.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 5, 2020

Before you spend precious time and resources building something, it’s absolutely key to find your product-market fit. Even if you’re absolutely convinced that your product fills a need, before you build your MVP, Product Discovery will help you to build it the right way. Then we’ve got just the book for you!

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Interpreter for conversations between marketing and development ? Consequently, if you’re having thoughts like that at work, there’s no question about it: You’re a product manager. You’re seriously thinking about conducting a prioritization exercise to find the best prioritization framework.

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