Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 27, 2023

Lessons for product managers from PDMA’s Outstanding Corporate Innovators Award Every year the Product Management and Development Association (PDMA) recognizes an organization with the Outstanding Corporate Innovators Award (OCI). One of their key tactics was to develop an innovation strategy.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 11, 2023

Design skills can be valuable for Product Managers (PMs) to allow them to understand, communicate with the design team, and effectively contribute to the design process. Photo by Balázs Kétyi on Unsplash I have been scrutinizing and reflecting for a long time, on what a product manager should do and need.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

I’ve been building digital products for nearly a decade now. A few weeks ago, a friend messaged me for advice on becoming a product manager. Truth be told, I’ve never done a product-specific one. Product Management HQ also has a well-established Slack community, though I’ve not tried it.

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The Secret PM Handbook

JULY 13, 2018

Well, an agile approach to development is often good for this. The post The Secret Truth About Your Methodology and Processes appeared first on The Secret Product Manager Handbook. If it's not helping you deliver on your goals, then you need to change it. prodmgmt Click To Tweet. What do I mean by “agile?”

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 1, 2024

Insights for product managers on fostering innovation in corporate environments Today we are talking about how established organizations can innovate, resulting in new products and ventures. Joining us is Andy Binns, a management advisor, award-winning author, and speaker on innovation and change.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

I’ve been building digital products for nearly a decade now. A few weeks ago, a friend messaged me for advice on becoming a product manager. Truth be told, I’ve never done a product-specific one. Product Management HQ also has a well-established Slack community, though I’ve not tried it.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2017

If you are visiting this page, there are chances you might be seeking an answer to one of the following questions – Having completed my formal education, how do I start my career in Product Management? Coming from a non-related industry, how do I break into Product Management? I am an accidental Product Manager.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 28, 2021

It’s not limited to software development either?—?I I credit overengineering for that really complex change management process or that 200 page employee handbook you may have been asked to read. we forget the problem and begin constructing a solution we can take pride in. I suspect it has something to do with creativity.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 11, 2017

That’s a question I actually got in a product management job interview a while ago. As product managers, we need to find market problems, create solutions, and take the solutions to market. This is the basics of the “ Secret Product Management Framework.”) Operating room or aspirin?

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The Product Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2024

Hello, all you product-loving folks! 💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, AI, and more. ☕ Thanks for reading Product Café Newsletter ☕️! Don’t miss it!

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 10, 2017

As a product manager it’s not uncommon to feel pulled in a million different directions as you work to meet the needs of your customers, developers and company stakeholders. But they are good examples of what my team and I have developed together over the last four years at Zalora. Write a Handbook. Retrospectives.

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The Secret PM Handbook

APRIL 19, 2017

I’ve started working on an online course on “writing for product managers.” These tips will help you make your product management writing more persuasive, easier to read, more engaging, and more effective overall. Let me know what would help you most in your product management writing. CC BY-SA 2.0

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 10, 2023

The steps in ranking and valuing Jobs-to-be-Done—for product managers We have talked a few times about Jobs-to-be-Done in past episodes. He has a Masters of Product Design and Development from Northwestern University and teaches Innovation Strategy internationally. 25:07] How are you using AI to enable a faster process?

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. It put all the activities I do as a product manager into perspective. You Might Be Surprised Which Product Management Activity Is Most Important. Breakthrough!

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The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

For example, let’s say your product is a project management tool. For example, you can specify that the project will take two DBAs, three Developers, a Project Manager, and a Business Analyst. For example, some Developers know Java, and some know.Net. That’s a very powerful capability.

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The Secret PM Handbook

OCTOBER 7, 2016

The future is hard to tease out, but here’s what will happen in product management’s future. (CC Earlier this year Janna Bastow of ProdPad put out a call for opinions on the future of product management. To understand the future of product management I started from the “present” of product management.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Product managers are forever students; they are constantly seeking to learn and grow their skillset and knowledge. As the technology industry continues to grow, so much product managers so they don't fall behind. What better way to do so than by reading! Have fun reading away! - - - - - - - - - - - - - -.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

How product managers can combine influence and storytelling to achieve success. The author of The Secret Product Manager Handbook , Nils Davis, joins us to discuss his tips for better presentations. The fundamental thing we do as product managers is influence. Training videos for product managers.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2018

In a product manager meeting at our organization recently, we were all handed the book Insipired: How To Create Tech Products Customers Love. Our leadership team had just started reading it and wanted all of the product managers to read it too. They asked if anyone had read it already, and I was the only one.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. It put all the activities I do as a product manager into perspective. You Might Be Surprised Which Product Management Activity Is Most Important. Breakthrough!

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 7, 2024

Claire’s AI chatbot, ChatPRD, is rapidly gaining traction in the product space.

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The Secret PM Handbook

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Developing Good Discovery Questions. As the product manager, you understand the types of problems your solution solves. For example, if the sales person just knows that you have a project management solution, then they are only going to be able to ask about projects at a generic level. Three things you can do today.

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The Secret PM Handbook

JANUARY 1, 2016

This post is about where I’ll be focusing in 2016 in terms of becoming a more skilled product manager, and in helping others achieve that. But there’s always room for improvement, and as I’ve mentioned lots of times, getting more effective at product management has a huge ROI. Deliberate practice.

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Sequent Learning

APRIL 22, 2019

Product Managers and product leaders continually search for engaging resources to contribute to their knowledge and effectiveness. To help you reach this level of success, we have recognized a mix of books from both our portfolio and many others that can help increase your product management acumen.

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The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Although focused toward product managers, the tips were general purpose ways to increase your creative output. ” At right around the same time I drafted this post with more tips that are especially applicable to product managers. Morning pages. Crappy first drafts. But I just found out I never posted it!

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The Secret PM Handbook

JUNE 16, 2017

This is a general problem for product managers. One of my product management rules of thumb is the “ Factor of 10 rule ” – people aren’t willing to make a change – to a new product, to a new process – unless they get a 10x benefit on a metric they care about. I need a 10x benefit.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

Lessons from the discoverer of Stage-Gate for product managers Today we are talking with a legend in product management. Besides his best-selling books Winning at New Products and Portfolio Management for New Products , he has published more than 130 articles on R&D and innovation management.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Intercom, the product, continued to develop at a fast pace with hundreds of new features big and small – from an entirely reimagined Messenger to a thriving Intercom App Store to next generation chatbots, Custom Bots and Answer Bot. Cindy Chang, Senior Product Designer and Ulaize Hernandez Troyas, Product Manager.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MARCH 28, 2018

These stories are a critical component of the knowledge that product management can provide to sales and marketing and sales engineers to help ensure sales success. The PSR technique is one of their fundamental building blocks for developing resumes and interview skills. How To Accelerate Sales With Great Storytelling.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MARCH 9, 2018

But if that skill is augmented with great product knowledge (provided by product managers) sales take off. Prospects may have all kinds of objections, and not all have to do with the product. Develop reasons and stories of why you chose not to provide those or why customers don’t really get value from them.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 5, 2022

In Gainsight’s book, The Customer Success Professional’s Handbook, the authors shared the essential skills that every CS professional should possess. Challenger mindset : Another great skill to develop is the “challenger mindset.” Advocacy Program Manager: If Sales is not for you, consider an advocacy role.

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Innovatemap

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Whether it’s education or affirmation, “LOVED” defines how product marketing shapes tech companies for the better. Kate Harrison and the Product Management team use it to build deliverables like information architectures and solution overviews. And marketers just starting their career should pick this up like it’s a handbook.”.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 30, 2019

Photo by rob walsh on Unsplash Becoming a great Product Manager You know how to build a roadmap and prioritize. I had the pleasure of speaking to a group of aspiring product managers recently and am teaching a dozen or so the basics of product management right now as well. Now it’s time to become great.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 26, 2019

As such, product portfolios become increasingly complex and bloated. Modularization can manage the complexity and customization in product development. It helps to create an organized product portfolio with consolidated value propositions. How does one do “modular productization”? Examples of modules: ??

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DISQO

JUNE 15, 2015

With the rise of ‘lean’ methodologies and literature, product managers today understand that continuously generating user feedback throughout the product lifecycle can help mitigate the risk of wasting resources to build something no one wants. While he likely never said that , the sentiment is not lost on product managers.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 11, 2017

That’s a question I actually got in a product management job interview a while ago. As product managers, we need to find market problems, create solutions, and take the solutions to market. This is the basics of the “ Secret Product Management Framework.”) appeared first on Hardcore Product Management.

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Product Bookshelf

AUGUST 22, 2016

The product management interview process is intimidating because it tests your expertise and domain knowledge in many different areas. Lin , the author of PM Interview Questions , about his favorite books for expanding a product manager’s skill set in the following areas: Product design. Product management process.

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