The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

GM’s Product Managers Have Run Into A Battery Problem Image Credit: Frank Hebbert. So I’m willing to bet that you are pretty proud of your product. This is all fine and good as long as the product that you are delivering is truly high quality. The product managers still intend to launch 10 EVs in China.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 28, 2023

Sometimes good ideas just don’t make it to market Image Credit: Vaping360 As product managers, the one thing that we’d all like to do is to be in charge of a very popular product. However, something that we often don’t consider is that if a product is popular, it’s going to get a lot of scrutiny.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Guest post by Rebecca Monfries, Head of Delivery at Terem Technologies, and Nathan Bruce, Lead Business Analyst at Terem Technologies. Once you have completed enough discovery on your product or feature, the next stage is to prepare for the development process?—?to What is Definition?

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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.

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Amplitude

JANUARY 23, 2020

In the last decade, data governance has undergone a transformation. We’ve seen that self-service analytics platforms like Amplitude have fundamentally changed how teams interact with product data, their immediate teammates, and their organizations. Prediction 1: Data Governance will be the foundation of customer experience.

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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

My career started at Hewitt Associates which was a human capital and management consulting firm that operated 500 offices in 120 countries. We provided consulting, insurance brokerage, information technology and business process outsourcing services. First, I spoke with team members and my development team to assess the problem.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Hershey chocolate company’s InnovationOps story 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.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 7, 2019

Technology today has started to unfold around us to change our lives for good, and it’s vital for UX Designers to keep up-to-date with the latest digital trends in the industry. Fintech, Healthtech, Edtech – what sort of tech is used within them? Fintech, Healthtech, Edtech – what sort of tech is used within them?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 23, 2023

The push for features is especially prevalent around annual budgeting in most companies that have yet to move to product-based budgeting and even in some that have. And even when a product manager pushes for outcomes, finance pushes back. Does anyone experience a conversation like this as a product manager?

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 28, 2017

Jamie Parkins is a senior product manager at JustGiving, the online fundraising platform that enables people from all round the world to raise money for their cause of choice. He has been the product manager for this B2B audience. It has been running for 17 years and has raised in excess of £3 billion to date.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2019

technology! I saw the evolution of a phone, I saw the internet transform businesses and personal lives, and I saw how technology made problems simpler. I knew I wanted be in the world of tech creation. Product Managers are the Nick Fury of product management universe! See where I am going with this?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Source: [link] I would like to thank Tremis Skeete, Executive Editor of Product Coalition for his valuable contributions in the writing of this article. I also thank Product Coalition founder Jay Stansell, who has provided a trustworthy and collaborative product management education environment. They all loved SharePoint.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

so my investor said that I need a product manager to do our product roadmap?”. When I worked as a product management consultant clients would often talk about “needing a product roadmap ASAP”. Product roadmaps are overloaded with significance and are a source of uncertainty among product managers.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 20, 2020

The future back strategy for product managers. Innosight is an innovation management consultancy founded by Clayton Christensen and Mark Johnson. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [6:07] They also must have a disciplined approach to continue to sponsor and govern the teams.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

The Hard Thing About Hard Things) At Latin American travel technology company Almundo , we believe that leaders are responsible for the people, whether that is via one-on-one meetings, career opportunities, company culture, or employee satisfaction. So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2019

New offerings are being developed by young startups to address the lack of monitoring and alerts for everything data-science. However, they are mostly addressing data-scientists or -engineers, which are, of course, the first personas that feel the pain of managing multiple models. Binoculars Man, Pixabay.

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Mixpanel

APRIL 12, 2024

Today, AI tools have become a powerful aid in helping technical and non-technical builders with those aforementioned tasks of coding, illustrating, writing copy, and the like. But how far off are we from this technology no longer needing us humans to guide it in the building process? How does that actually work?

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Product operations is an increasingly important part of the product ecosystem. This supporting function enables the success of the product management team. As product operations staffing matures, so has the range of titles, responsibilities, and career pathways in this discipline.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 19, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. Another reminder why new products need a workable business model. Products (wrongly) get created this way – product first, customer second, revenue third.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We talk to Hemanth Kempanna, an Exponent alumnus, on his journey to breaking into product management and his experience building cloud-based products. This can be in terms of the companies you want to target, the roles you want to get into or the kind of industry, products, or technologies you want to work on.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 26, 2022

For CSMs to be growth enablers, it’s important to ensure that the product meets the current and future needs of customers. In other words, to consistently generate the outcomes you need, CS and Product have to develop a shared framework and strategy that are tied to process, people and technology.

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bpma ProductHub

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Currently at Pragmatic Marketing, Paul helps companies build product teams by teaching their managers and marketers how to become market-driven. On Innovation vs. Execution in Product Management. At a high level, can you describe the relationship between innovating new products and executing support for existing items?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Image credit: ProductPlan Roadmapping sits in the Product Strategy phase of a Product Management It’s very different to a Product Backlog. Here is what you should do next: Validate each of the product ideas using data and insights. Work with the tech lead on this. Software development is unpredictable.

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B2B Product Management

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Getting confused between what to do as a B2B Product vs B2C Product manager role? Let us start with understanding the difference in those two types of products. It is important to understand what B2B and B2C products are. Read further to understand the difference.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

When we founded BreezoMeter, many businesses and governments were not ready to answer the public demand for solutions that protected them from harmful air quality. As data scientists and environmental engineers with our own air quality technology and APIs, we realized we were equipped to answer this demand?—?and

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2018

When the current EU data protection laws were introduced in 1995, they were governing an industry that had just launched Internet Explorer 1 and DVDs. For platform companies such as Intercom, we plug into other products and platforms as needed. the best content on product management, marketing and customer support.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Rarely, do we hear of Product Teams given the space and time to conduct Problem and Solution discovery properly. Instead, Product Teams are normally given features to develop, not outcomes to achieve. Some of which are; Harvard Business Review states, $1.3 Some of which are; Harvard Business Review states, $1.3

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

I asked DALLE to ‘Give me an image of a tech CEO’. Then I tried regenerating the image to see on which try it would give me a tech CEO of a different gender (or colour). Check out this viral post by Andrew Gazdecki to learn more about what a ‘tech CEO’ is like US Census data from 2022 revealed that only 17% of tech CEOs are female.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 25, 2022

One of the best and first things you should do is review the most common product marketing interview questions and answers. Product marketing managers play a critical role in bringing new products to market. They also play a significant role in product development and growth after being launched.

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UX Studio: Product Management

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

With a decade-long experience, we have always been creating and adapting design systems to help companies along the way – including our own business and products. Thus, the design and development of a product can be effective. This is inevitable for creating a lucrative product. How have we been doing this?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 17, 2019

And while we all love a complex corporate challenge here at Red Badger, we’re also advocates of “tech for good” and using our skills to create social impact. It got us thinking; how fast could we go from an impactful idea to a live product? In the process, we’ve spoken to the UK government, to charities, and to corporates.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

He has global responsibility for developing cutting edge technology and competitive advantage for Ford by developing relationships and collaborative projects involving universities and partner companies. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:26]

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Mixpanel

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Every organization needs a sound data governance process or program to maintain and optimize the health (and trustworthiness) of their data. Select a data governance owner or team. If you belong to a smaller, more nimble organization, select a primary data governance owner , who may be the owner of the initial analytics implementation.

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Product Talk

APRIL 8, 2020

The members of our team are Mina Kasherova , Senior Product Manager, Raya Raycheva , Senior User Researcher, Rosie Kipling , Insight Analyst, Fernando Leite , Senior UX Designer, and Giulio Ambrogi , Front-End Developer & Tech Lead. We’ve also recently expanded our product proposition to the US.

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ProductPlan

JULY 9, 2019

I recently attended a presentation by Benjamin Evans, Inclusive Design Lead at Airbnb, on product accessibility and his experience with designing for inclusion. It really got me thinking about how we build products in tech and the inherent biases in product management. The Measurability Trap.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Donation platforms have the potential to enhance social development, especially in developing countries (Wash, 2013). The presence of charitable organizations that house donation platforms can also help those in need apart from government efforts (Zhang et al., Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 141, 138–148.

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