Mind the Product

DECEMBER 12, 2019

At a time when so much of today’s B2B ecosystem is built around software products, I believe it has become incumbent on the people responsible for designing, developing, and building these products to take back leadership of how our companies are run, and lead us all back to a culture of responsible growth.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In many cases, an economic downturn simply reveals your already existing weaknesses since they now have more impact. When people (and VCs) aren’t spending money easily, you must be super sharp with your value proposition, positioning, product, marketing, and sales. Here is how it works.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

In my first official product role, which I got to after managing large dev teams and a business-related role, I managed alone a product with a development team of ~40 people. One of the first things I did, for example, was to work with the salespeople on how to sell the product.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Tough market conditions would cause your sales to dramatically drop or even cease. On one hand, that’s expected in a rough market, but is that really the root cause? In many cases, an economic downturn simply reveals your already existing weaknesses since they now have more impact. Here is how it works.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. For instance, you might show the individuals how they can make effective strategic product decisions, create an actionable product roadmap, and effectively use the right KPIs.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

It defines, communicates, supports, and improves important operations which can be standardized, such as communication, planning processes, team gatherings, and training. What product ops is. How it’s become a critical function for scaling effective product teams. What Product Managers do. Supporting onboarding.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 2, 2022

If you’re in product marketing or product management, you’re likely familiar with the concept of user personas and buyer personas. These terms might even be used interchangeably in your organization to describe a product’s customers. There are four main types of user personas used in the product development world.

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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!)

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The Product Coalition

JULY 25, 2021

Even people with a developed growth mindset?—?ones No one likes to see their gaps pointed to, and for people who don’t have a developed growth mindset, it’s twice as hard. If your product managers don’t have an intrinsic motivation to grow, and you still need them to, you must instill it in them. Really really want it.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Why do product managers need them? That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes. The thing is, users don’t need the majority of features that product teams build.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Sanj started working at Salesforce back in 2005, when the company had around 1,000 employees and a few hundred million in revenue, and he was a part of its growth for 14 years, holding several leadership positions in multiple markets in EMEA. It’s very transparent, very collaborative, and filled with really smart, amazing people.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 21, 2020

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. You already know this: To build a great product you have to have a good spec.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

It took me time to understand that I need to present myself as a product leadership coach and product strategy expert rather than a consultant. Being sales-led or product-led is a strategic decision of the company, that goes all the way up to the very basic business model you are betting your success on.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

It’s not rocket science that awesome products come from awesome teams, so what’s the key to creating and managing a team that’s designed for maximum impact? Here, taking advice from a number of product pros, we look at a selection of ways to build product teams and empower them to achieve success.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

I realize not every product person has to navigate sales stakeholders. But if you’re working on a B2B product with a sales force, odds are you know what I mean. I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” Where do your teams agree on low scores?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 31, 2018

As someone who has experienced the highs and lows that accompany life as a Product Manager, I am keenly aware of the challenges this important role plays in the technology industry [and so many others]. They are responsible for the technical implementation, and, thus, ‘own’ the product?—?for for the good or bad.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

I then break down the resources into the way I think about what a product manager does, which is drive the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Each section covers the best practices for each of these four dimensions of product management. Design is the third critical dimension of product management.

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People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Performance is considered at a team, scrum or project level. Introversion or extroversion are irrelevant as its the work of the team that does the talking. On our dream team, there are no brilliant jerks as they are detrimental to great teamwork. It’s ok to shift people around to create the optimal team.

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People-First Product Leadership

JANUARY 7, 2024

For me, I’m looking forward to applying what I learned in 2023 - which was in a large part due to People-First Product Leadership. For example, I’m a sharer of information and often try out the strategies I read about which resonate with people-first product leadership. The balanced leader is adaptive.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

By the way, while the tips here address specific challenges that product leaders face, many of them would apply to any kind of leadership position, and even to non-leadership positions, so feel free to forward it to friends who are currently on the move. and in product leadership positions there is so much of it!

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

Meanwhile, the slow, steady drumbeat of cautious experimentation and incremental enhancements always makes the product better. It’s not sexy and won’t land the leadership team any TED Talks. That means doing your homework regarding market intelligence, product-market fit, technical feasibility, and the like.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 18, 2021

On the on-site interview day, one of the interviewers asked me the following question: if you had all of Google’s resources and no other constraints, which product would you develop? My answer was: I would develop a voice interface for the computer (it was before the smartphone era). I was really afraid of this question.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 4, 2020

In my opinion, the definition of an MVP is often misunderstood, and I’ve seen entrepreneurs and product teams misinterpret it with unfortunate results. What is the Minimum Viable Product? First, a shout out to Frank Robinson , a fellow product development pro in Santa Barbara who coined the term “MVP” about 20 years ago.

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Under 10 Consulting

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Do you lead a new product management team? Make it easy to start a business, protect our persons and property from harm, provide ways to get products from point a to point b (ie., Make it easy to start a business, protect our persons and property from harm, provide ways to get products from point a to point b (ie.,

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively. As a result, the team struggled with how to prepare. Why was this prioritized?”

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 3, 2022

The product management career path can be incredibly fulfilling as you build and work on products used by millions of users around the world. The success of a product, or even an entire company, rests on the product team. Building impactful products is exciting! Are you cut out for product management?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

When planning the product managers’ goals, this challenge can translate into taking the wrong direction altogether. Here is a new way to look at product management goals, and make them a useful tool for both you and your team. Determined to be able to measure the performance of product managers just like any other department, L.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This means you can save time and money developing features customers really care for and reduce risks of undesirable effects on your customers. In addition, this person works closely with the experimentation teams to ensure that they are aligned with the overall business objectives, measure results objectively and follow best practices.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Product requirements are there to help the team understand what you want to build. Whether you write them in detailed documents or share them briefly and verbally with the team, it’s easy to go directly to the bottom line and give clear instructions. For the team to be successful, they always need to see the bigger picture.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 13, 2022

Because over time, the Structured Data group (that I was Head of Product at) developed smarter, AI-based systems, that were meant to replace the back-office work or make it more efficient and create a better product catalog at the same time using things only machines can do. The superpower became a weakness.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2021

Photo by Jess Bailey on Unsplash I was a manager long before I was a product manager. In one of my roles as an R&D manager, I inherited an employee from one of the other teams on the day I joined. This employee got me to crying (literally, not figuratively) multiple times, and had a negative impact on the entire team.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Arik’s translates into a more strict and result-oriented, and mine is more about empowering my employees and developing their skills so that they can eventually perform at a higher level. And regardless of how empowered your teams are, they still need guidance. Marty Cagan’s Empowered introduced the concept of empowered teams.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 6, 2019

In this #mtpcon London talk, Kate Leto examines the importance of emotional intelligence in individuals and teams and asks how it can be used to make better hiring decisions. If we want to build greater emotional intelligence into our product teams, then we need to design our hiring processes to look for it. Key Points.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

" and seek to better understand your: Leadership Problem solving Communicating Teamwork Cross-functional collaboration and more. Leadership. Google is always looking for leadership qualities in their employees. Specifically, they want "emergent leadership." What are your strengths and weaknesses?

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 10, 2022

She cofounded the Radical Product Thinking movement of leaders creating vision-driven change, along with authoring the book Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [1:56] 1:56] What put you on the path to being a product leader?

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