UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 29, 2020

What does leadership entail in the context of design? How does an organization benefit from strong design leadership? In most cases, however, we are only expected to deliver proven and tested design assets to developers in the form of a design system and sophisticated user flows. Listen first. Find purpose.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. business models, your product/business, finance, sales, marketing, scaling) 4. At best, if you are properly equipped, being a PM is like being on an epic quest with a group of adventurers. Market Competence ????? Business Competence ? ??(business

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

For some companies, this means introducing a new department or group , creating new roles, and career plans. The changes required to establish a product management group are far from trivial, and they require executive management support, as I discuss in more detail below. Determine the Right Learning and Development Measures.

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People-First Product Leadership

MAY 6, 2024

I bring this up given a reference Brene Brown and Amy Webb made to Harvard leadership and innovation expert, Linda Hill — the “biggest challenge to digital transformation is not technology, it's people.” Thanks for reading People-First Product Leadership! That’s the topic we’re exploring today.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

As much as we talk about company-level alignment, every functional group sees a different subset of shortcomings in our products and processes.    Each group will naturally put its own list of technical improvements ahead of the other groups.    Learn a bit about what other groups do.

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Ronke PM

AUGUST 16, 2023

Table of Contents Technical Support Customer Success/Relationship Managers Marketing Sales Team Data Scientist Finance UX Researcher UX Designer Content Designers and Conversational Designers Engineering Legal Security (IT) PMO (Product Management Office) (Bonus!) Finance One of my favorite teams to partner up with is finance.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Using the ‘Kernel’ from Richard Rumelt’s ‘Good Strategy/Bad Strategy’, specifically insights and developing a guiding policy allows you to enable your team and avoid micro-managing. After some simple thoughts we can see: Possible Action 1: Idea: Join an evening running group Why? strategy needs to be cross-departmental.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. 3 Have the Right Input Available.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Customer segmentation is the practice of dividing your customers into addressable groups on the basis of different needs. For example, our leadership team might decide to focus our company strategy on targeting the segments with the best revenue retention. Informing our approach to the market. Assessing progress on our strategy.

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DISQO

JULY 18, 2019

There’s a fascinating discussion on Quora that highlights many widely agreed upon best practices for product leadership. To conduct the analysis, we split survey respondents into two roughly equally-sized groups of product managers and senior product leaders within the product department. Do product leaders need a graduate degree?

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DISQO

JULY 18, 2019

There’s a fascinating discussion on Quora that highlights many widely agreed upon best practices for product leadership. To conduct the analysis, we split survey respondents into two roughly equally-sized groups of product managers and senior product leaders within the product department. Do product leaders need a graduate degree?

Leadership 40

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

Then when I heard his backstory in technology leadership roles at Xerox and Experian and the challenges he encountered with product roadmaps, I was eager to invite him to be a guest on this podcast. An executive or someone in sales or finance cannot understand much from these tools about what product is coming out next month or next year.

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Atlassian

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In Leadership. Example from finance team member working cross functionally: “I’ve learned a lot about marketing a product — about how and why we make decisions.”. It’s a more flavorful sauce, a more complex group of ingredients, but the end result is simpler. How does leadership style affect psychological safety?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

She also spent three years as VP Product at HotelTonight and has held product leadership roles at Prezi, Snagajob, and Eclipsys. Ken developed his product management career over nine years at eBay in both Sydney and London, where he became Head of Product Management for the European Product Development Group.

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Product Management Unpacked

APRIL 25, 2019

This is where you need to establish yourself, your leadership style and your presence. In my experience, start with core constituents – your immediate team, leaders of development/engineering, sales, followed by top customers. Each target group needs to be considered differently. Who should you start with?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

Now, we’ve evaluated top picks based on course content, reviews, communities/groups around the certifications, and industry recognition. The Product Executive Certificate is geared toward senior-level professionals with experience in a product leadership role. AIPMM Certified Product Manager Credential through 280 Group.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet  (And ramping development staff up/down/up/down on a project basis is almost always a failed approach.)   Hard currency.  I

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

Be Clear on When to Involve the Stakeholders and Development Teams. Complex and high-impact decisions, however, are best made together with the stakeholders and development teams. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 17, 2021

Product managers have a myriad of relationships to manage, and this is a primary reason they need to be great at developing and cultivating these relationships to be successful. User relationships aren’t the same as another stakeholder group around a product, and not every user relationship is the same either.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

That's not product development—and that's the first place we get stuck with Economies of Scale thinking. Product development requires teams who can learn together. Since the organization started with one coherent product line, it made sense to have a centralized group to make the project portfolio decisions.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

  And possibly helpful to Finance, responding to investors’ demands for a hypothetical 2-year cash flow forecast.  ”  “Once Finance tells us how many developers we can hire next year, Engineering can assign teams to possible roadmap items.”

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Excellent leadership skills, a fundamental understanding of product management, and a strong portfolio of success are the recipe for success. At times, it also shows your potential for a product leadership role. Take part in developing key marketing campaigns that help promote products and services to the target audiences.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

At JCDecaux, I led the development of an information kiosk for airport passengers. Throughout the mentorship with the Product Group, I learned from my mentor the various aspects of product risks and how to address and adapt to various product risks. . The Aviation Authority and leadership were appalled by our product.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 5, 2018

Successful project management requires a close working relationship with leadership to ensure each project is aligned with business strategy , even as companies undergo enterprise-wide change. The top 10 project managers to follow: Elizabeth Harrin Elizabeth is the Program Manager at Spire Healthcare Group, a private hospital group in the UK.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2019

For those of us who’ve stepped into the Head of Product role a dozen times or more, these are clear indications that senior product leadership is missing. product strategy. We write wildly aspirational job descriptions for candidates who will instantly solve all of the company’s problems. The product stuff is easy after that.”).

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

Contributing to problem and solution discovery efforts by conducting internal stakeholder and customer interviews and research, and developing and running experiments to validate concepts. Supporting Customer Support, Sales Enablement, and Product Marketing in the development of feature descriptions and new release content.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Services companies (aka custom development, agencies, outsourcing/nearshoring, contract engineering, consultancies, any work-for-hire) primarily market/sell the time and expertise of their people.  Work  Work is quantified in hours, days, or projects.  Clients own the IP and provide much of the technical direction.  

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

Which led him to create a virtual workshop Leadership in Product, Connect & Explore Workshop for Teams that provides actionable strategies, tools, processes, and skills product leaders need to create innovations, adapt to market shifts, and anticipate what’s next. About EcoFuel. Session Information. Date: March 30th, 2021.

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eG Innovations

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Today’s guest blog is from Ainsley Brooks, Business Development Director at eG Innovations distributor partner UX Distribution Ltd who cover both the UK and Ireland, providing the IT reseller community easy access to a larger number of vendors and a single source for a broad range of solutions.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 23, 2023

Stepping out of leadership challenges for a moment, here’s a practical topic that some product managers struggle with: is the next thing we’re working on a feature or a whole product ?  IMO,  That's a bit backward: we should have thought about why this work is important before we start full development.  That

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 22, 2021

Today there is a new school of leadership emerging to remove this frustration. It’s called empowering leadership. This leadership style encourages leaders to give freedom and responsibility to people and stop controlling and micromanaging them. If done right, empowering leadership can free up a lot of time for managers.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Mind the Product returns to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on July 16-17 and promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with a leadership forum, more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Leadership Forum. Christina Wodtke, Author and Lecturer.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 26, 2022

" At the leadership level, I see a fundamental disconnect between the folks defining/building software products and the folks marketing/selling them: The "maker" side of the house defines prioritization as committing to fewer things in order to finish the most important ones.  They aren't listening!"

Analytic Tools 145

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2022

I have since moved to the Core Technologies team , a group of specialists with expertise in the core technologies that Intercom uses – MySQL, Ruby, Rails, and Elasticsearch, to name a few. The leadership team spends time thinking about processes , making sure they listen to the talented folks they have hired, and setting them up for success.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

That maps to titles like Director of Product Management, Group Product Manager, VP of Products, or Chief Product Officer. There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. . We learn by doing.

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ProductPlan

MAY 26, 2022

A product council is a group of company stakeholders that meets regularly. They review the strategy and progress of a product in development. The primary purposes of this group are to make decisions and clear obstacles to keep the product moving forward. A product council is a diverse group. Vice president of development.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 4, 2022

And you’ll get a sense of their revenues, financial stability, leadership team, board members, and any future acquisition activity. Map the product development lifecycle to implement competitive intelligence. Look across the product development lifecycle and determine what’s needed in each phase.

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