The Product Guy

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In the first part of this series, we explored the importance of personal branding for product managers and discussed practical strategies to build and strengthen your PM brand. However, the journey to developing a robust personal brand is not without its challenges. Suggested Solution : Be authentic in your branding.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Product management is one of the hottest careers in high-tech right now with tremendous career growth. If you’re considering a career in this industry, you’ll need to know exactly what will be expected of you as a product manager. What Does a Product Management Career Path Look Like?

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

a time for reflection, community, and gratitude—values that resonate deeply with the dynamics of product management. As product managers, we often focus on metrics, deadlines, and deliverables. Strengthening Relationships Through Gratitude Product managers work closely with engineers, designers, and various other stakeholders.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Fear not, product managers. It’s going to make you a better product manager than you ever imagined. Taking You Out of Your Comfort Zone Get ready, product managers because AI is definitely going to change your job if it hasn’t already, but you’re going to love it! Imagine directing your product more than managing it.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

When I first researched about product management, I asked seasoned product managers how they started and they gave me very different kinds of answers. A lot of them worked in other positions before moving to product management, like engineers, analysts, marketers and project managers, and learned by taking on extra responsibilities.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Goals in Product Management. As I explain in my book How to Lead in Product Management , setting the right goals is crucial to align stakeholders and development teams and to achieve product success. Does this mean that there is a natural fit between goals in product management and OKRs?

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before my first year of product management, I had lots of preconceived notions about product management. These came from watching other product managers, reading books, attending meetups, and talking to other people in the tech industry about what product managers did. Plus, the development itself will be much smoother!

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 17, 2025

In the latest TPG Live session, Driving Impact Through Influence and Experimentation , we dived into strategies product managers can use to expand their influence, foster innovation, and navigate the evolving landscape of product management. Navigating Pushback Resistance to experimentation is a common challenge for product managers.

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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. This article explores multiple aspects of product management. This article explores multiple aspects of product management. Definition of PM role.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 15, 2019

The Product Management Awards (#TPMAS) are the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Jenna Gaudio is the Vice President of Product Management at Vydia, the award-winning tech company empowering content creators and their teams. Join me in congratulating this year’s winners! Jenna Gaudio. ?Jenna

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The product manager’s path to influence Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Francesca Cortesi, CPO, we explored why the popular phrase “CEO of the product” can be misleading for product managers.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The importance of an organizational game plan for product managers. I started a new series to explore the Product Development and Management Body of Knowledge. While it has since been updated many times, this is the body of knowledge I discovered in 2007 that led to many ah-ha moments for me as a product manager.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1] It’s the first step to bring about positive change.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 11, 2024

For this edition of Product in Practice, were not talking with a product manager, a designer, a UX researcher, or even an engineer. They came up with the outcome Passioneers are engaged and positive and clear on their role and responsibilities based on the feedback survey and quiz related to Continuous Discovery Habits. But not today.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

ML products also require us to manage relatively large technology risks – this is an area where, unlike in most other product development, technical limitations might render the entire design impossible. What was the cost of a false positive going to be? Balancing risks in machine learning development.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

From high school to business school, and throughout my professional career, I was supremely comfortable with it , and reveled in solving problems, to the appreciation of my managers, colleagues, and teachers. Management guru, Peter Drucker had said, if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. 2) What should I solve?

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2020

For product managers, it’s even more important because we intersect with different people in different scenarios every day with the ultimate goal of aligning the product to the customer and the business. . Using existing behavioral and habit formation research, I developed and employed a simple and effective framework. Existing model.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 3, 2022

How product managers can use the Modified Agile for Hardware Development Framework. Many teams have tried adopting Scrum for developing hardware products, not always successfully. Dorian has a deep background in product development, starting in engineering and then moving to business leadership roles.? Rapid prototyping.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

For me, it was never just a job; as a product person and project manager, it’s the life I’ve chosen. I began to ponder how I could manage my work so that my evaluation of work-life balance felt like “La Dolce Vita.” For me, as a project manager, every new assignment presented unique challenges, new people, and fresh knowledge.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 8, 2024

Essential strategy tools and frameworks for product managers Watch on YouTube TLDR Want to level up your product management game? Whether you’re new to product management or looking to sharpen your skills, this article will help you think more strategically and create products your customers will love.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 20, 2025

How product managers can make OKRs drive real results Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Ben Lamorte, the world’s most experienced OKR coach and founder of OKRs.com, we explored how product managers and leaders can transform their approach to Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2024

How product managers should use the five-step model for creating team culture Watch on YouTube TLDR Product managers often face the challenge of significant responsibilities without formal authority. Mentoring is crucial for developing future leaders and sustaining a strong organizational culture.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

Effective stakeholder management starts by embracing the right attitude: See the stakeholders as equal partners; take an interest in their perspective, ideas, concerns, and underlying needs; build trustful connections with the individuals; and encourage the stakeholders to work together. The following tips will help you with this.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

How product managers can use visual storytelling to make their ideas stand out. As we move into 2021, the name of this podcast is changing to better reflect our objective here—product managers become product masters. Product managers must communicate their ideas to others in ways that are clear and solicit feedback.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 29, 2020

Learn the qualities of a successful product manager and leader. Part of the path to becoming a product master is developing as a leader. Leaders of product management need agility, influence, trust, empathy, and motivating vision. Roman is a product management expert specializing in digital products.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. A big shout out to Marc Abraham who, according to my knowledge, was the first person to bring attention to challenging feelings like frustration in product management.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. A big shout out to Marc Abraham who, according to my knowledge, was the first person to bring attention to challenging feelings like frustration in product management.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

One method that Product Managers are turning too is the Customer Advisory Board. The CAB offers benefits during all phases of the product development life cycle. Customer success managers are often the best source of great candidates. Align your vision and product strategy with the strategic direction of your customers business.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 16, 2020

Train your brain for success in product management. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [4:00] The fourth step is the positive emotion that’s generated from this system. But we can choose to speak positively to ourselves. Train your brain for success in product management. You can choose.

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Product Management Unpacked

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

CMU Master of Science in Product Management program student Erick Valencia landed a PM experience of a lifetime as part of a student team developing a driverless race car system to race in the Indy Autonomous Challenge. Product Managers often face a race to the finish, so to speak. But it’s in my DNA to take on such challenges.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

At JCDecaux, I led the development of an information kiosk for airport passengers. In addition, choosing the wrong product management framework added to the failure of the launch. A risk is an uncertain event that may have both a positive or negative impact on a product. All most all of the metrics showed a positive increase.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 15, 2023

The biggest difference between product management and portfolio management is product management focuses specifically on the success of each product whereas portfolio management focuses on the success of the company (the portfolio) in chosen market segments. Traditional Product Management Here’s the other problem.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 2, 2021

How product managers can gain influence, solve problems, and propel their organizations to success. Our guest, Kenton Hansen, was in that position at Roll20 three years ago. Kenton is now the Product Director at Roll20, and over the last three years, he has built the product management and UX processes and teams the company uses.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 24, 2023

How product managers can create a portfolio and manage innovation Today we are talking about portfolio management—creating a portfolio, adjusting it, selecting projects for it, and managing innovation. Our guest is Gareth Bradley, Director of Product Management at Planview. The development cycle is long.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Since this entire series of articles is about the ripple effect of product management, there’s a good chance the content for your product positioning (post 7 of 10), sales enablement tools (post 8 of 10) and marketing launch activities was created in a silo in product management long before the product or feature set was ever built (posts 4-6).

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