The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

For example, my first iteration focused on the problem statements, targeted customer, technical strategies, pricing strategies, and competitiveness evaluation, which was all excellent content that offered important product context but just not the right place. First Attempt. As expected, I ran into a lot of issues at the start of the process.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. is to either be more strategic or to develop more as a leader. interpersonal, emotional intelligence, etc?—?that

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Ask Benny

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

As a product manager, you need to get fast into all aspects: vision, strategy, business, marketing, sales, product, user experience, technical, development process, etc. You might be wrong, because you don’t know yet the market enough, or don’t know the product enough. I would advise differently.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Building a successful ecosystem requires a long-term strategy and vision. While it gives them endless opportunities for account expansion , it is virtually impossible to address the needs of all user segments in those markets. Finally, a well-developed ecosystem gives companies a competitive edge because of the ecosystem moat.

Customer Experience 92

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. Looking at how the best companies operate, Hubert and his team boiled down product excellence to three key areas of action: vision, strategy, and execution.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

The right mentoring and coaching support facilitates a startup’s transformation and enables roadmap planning and execution, without straying from the ultimate vision and goal. MAIN: Developing Entrepreneurship in Quebec. They determine the vision and build a roadmap that will lead their team on a path to achieving goals.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. John also hosts another podcast called Growth Marketing Today where he’s interviewed product and marketing leaders like Sean Ellis, April Dunford, and Hiten Shah. Plot summary.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

As a product design consulting firm , we often get questions from our clients who look for reliable design, development, or marketing partners. As a design thinking consulting firm , we advise on product strategy, lead workshops, and offer customized training to equip your business with the best UX practices.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

As a product manager, you need to become fast in all aspects: vision, strategy, business, marketing, sales, product, user experience, technical, development process, etc. You may be wrong because you don’t know the market or product well enough yet. I would advise you differently. Trust your team.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

Your company will rely on you to be the most knowledgeable about your product so never take your eye off the market and establish an objective framework to guide your decisions. ” He highlights the role of product manager as knowledge repository about the product, customer, and market.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Others were consultative, or they advised about technical needs. These questions are grouped together because they center on a particular quality: the vision to see the bigger picture. The caveat is that it requires purposeful coordination with other operational teams, such as Sales and Marketing.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Prior to Benchmark, Sarah was a Partner at Greylock Partners, and a Product Lead for search, recommendations, machine vision, and pin quality at Pinterest. He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Entrepreneur and has over 20 years experience helping companies bring high-growth products to market.

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Let’s establish this right upfront: nothing beats a well-managed full-time in-house team of local developers. Are there enough skilled developers at your location? Can you afford local market rates? I would recommend this model if you have no technical or product management background. Outsourcing: Why and When?

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 27, 2013

Product management boils down to owning the vision, design, and execution of your product. Owning the vision for a product involves clearly formulating and then evangelizing the audience you are targeting, the distinct problem you are solving, and your unique solution by which you will win the market.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We generally advise against linear, top-down product tours. The best product tour software on the market is Userpilot. Product marketers often find that a good product tour ensures that more new users activate. Instead, you should opt for an interactive walkthrough type of product tour. What are product tours?

Analytic Tools 88

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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. Retrospectives.

Research Software 84

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

Scrum came about even earlier than the agile manifesto almost a whole decade to be exact (although you can traces origins earlier back to 1986 with the article The New New Product Development Game ). Later whilst being an adviser at Stanford university Neil H. obviously most people skipped that part! names look familiar, anyone?

Product Management 92

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Gainsight

AUGUST 31, 2020

” At Autodesk, Amy found the ability to develop as a professional product manager and expanded her skill set. . So I went from running product to running product and development.” This issue is not uncommon as more and more companies face digital transformation and a subscription services market.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

As argued in the intro of the book, even though enterprise software makes up a big share of the total software market, most Product Management books still focus on consumer products only as well as ignore that enterprise software products are built and distributed very differently. Product Management is about solving customer problems.”

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Managers oversee their team members’ work and career development. Leaders are people who provide a compelling vision for people to follow and believe in, and take responsibility for what happens next. At that early point in my career, I was frustrated and had to step up because no one was providing that vision.

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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Barbara Nelson said in The Politics of Agile , “When product managers weren’t looking, the developers went agile.” Agile was borne from frustrated development teams who were constantly blamed for non-delivery and missed business goals. Background.

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Userzoom

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Technically there are an infinite number of ways you could attempt to recruit participants for your user research. However, it is advised to proceed with caution because sometimes response quality can be a tad questionable when you’re blasting out emails to relative strangers (remember – screeners are your friends).

User Testing 85

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. Only members of the Development Team create the Increment. Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

But in our experience, everything can be done if the development team and project manager have deep expertise and, along with the product owner, carefully listen to each other and keep themselves open to cooperation. To be clear, we will not discuss how to start a software development project or which steps you should take to kick it off.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

For instance, in large companies like Google and Facebook, product managers collaborate with dedicated researchers, analysts, and marketers who assist them in different stages of the product lifecycle. Nevertheless, some core roles and responsibilities of a product manager are: Develop product strategy and vision.

Feedback Software 52

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 28, 2022

Is it technical details, customer insights or revenue and money? Do they talk about tasks and deadlines or blurry visions about the future? How were we developing our teams? We are a team of a designer, two developers, a marketer and me as a product manager. The way they do the meeting will tell you everything.

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UX Studio

JANUARY 24, 2024

But I also advise designers not to oversee the business side of the relationship. We had a lot of multimedia development and also programming languages, but also had this behavioral way of looking at design. Obviously, all development teams and the vice presidents and presidents are always invited to these sessions.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

I had a strong roadmap, clear goals and a vision for the product. A production release was a distant vision. I’m not a technical Product Manager. The result of it were clearly scoped versions, that last about 2 weeks for development, testing, and validation. In fact, our tests regularly failed. Similar, right?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2018

A mentor advised me to think about three broad categories?—?the the content that you need to learn and develop, the learning plan you need to follow and finally the team and people aspects of the job that you need to sort out. Understand or build the mission and vision for the product ?—?goals, Listed down those elements below?

User Testing 60

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Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

I was a product manager myself, then led product teams and have over the past several years been advising organizations’ product groups on the skills needed to be successful. We sell visions. From development hours to revenue to user statistics, we use data every day in our jobs. We sell ideas. We sell investments. Decisiveness.

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Roadmunk

DECEMBER 7, 2017

We really felt like a big issue was that we’ve been incrementally improving our development tools, when in fact our environment has completely changed from writing code on one machine to writing code that needs to go to a distributive system. Did you talk to other product managers, other founders, advisors? Is that correct?

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