The Product Bistro

MARCH 16, 2021

The most powerful phrase in product management isn’t something witty about product market fit, or positioning, or market segmentation. You are the product manager, you own it, and while you could play the blame game (and be correct), you shouldn’t. It is why I am a product manager.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

While sales teams stereotypically rally around contests, talk sports and drink coffee (which is for closers)… development teams may sit silently side-by-side-side most of the day engaging in multiple Slack conversations, taking breaks for air hockey or exchanging giphys , and critiquing each other’s code indents.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2021

At UX Studio , while we develop our products, uxfol.io and copyfol.io , we are mainly focused on agency work, meaning that we cooperate with several clients as external teams. This post was written from the perspective of designers, mainly intended for external teams and entrepreneurs. Five challenges and solutions.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 25, 2023

Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model.  Last

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

At the heart of an organization that creates product magic is a product leader who is an expert at leadership and coalition building. These leaders understand that bringing effective products, solutions, and services to market requires consensus building and engaging cross-functional teams in the journey.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 20, 2024

How product managers can master product process Watch on YouTube TLDR – The Product Innovation Charter (PIC) is a short document that provides direction and alignment for a product development project. In this article, we will explore the seven knowledge areas for product mastery.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Product management is a challenging role, no matter what industry you work in. But with great challenges come great opportunities, and most product managers thrive on taking on new tasks and solving difficult problems. Product managers must live and breathe their product. My team is too small.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The Product Backlog is Too Big. A few years ago, I was asked to help a healthcare company with their agile transition and its impact on product management. One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

Second, a learning roadmap allows you to leverage your product roadmapping skills and use them to create an actionable learning plan. For example, the guidelines I have developed for the GO product roadmap template directly apply to the roadmap in figure 1. If that’s the case, then don’t feel bad.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Ensure that your product goals always capture the desired outcome the product should create and not the output. A good test to understand if a product goal describes an outcome is to ask the why question. Your job is not to please the stakeholders, but to achieve product success. 7 The Roadmap is Speculative.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 27, 2022

What is iterative testing? How can it help product managers build products that drive value for their customers? Iterative testing involves running repeated experiments on your product features to evaluate their effectiveness and identify improvement opportunities. What is iterative testing?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2024

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” — Mike Tyson I’ve wrestled with weak roadmaps — even some downright disasters. Product managers and their teams start with enthusiasm, hit the ground running, and create a solid roadmap. Tie feedback-based changes to tests planned for the current development cycle.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This is only natural: Through years of bad habits, many of us have shown engineers that we only value them for the code they can write. Ellen is the Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs , a B2B company that offers voice communication to teams in industries like hospitality, retail, transportation, logistics, and security.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 28, 2022

I stumbled upon a bunch of product management memes while preparing for a talk. clearly, all of us know the importance of truly understanding the customer problem before we ship a product, testing something with customers perhaps in a lab setting or in a pilot before scaling. Of course?—?the this is also a dangerous myth.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

Why do product managers need a new feature validation framework? TL;DR Product managers need a new feature validation framework to ensure that they meet user needs or drive organizational goals and avert product failure. Product teams should invest in validation when developing the MVP.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2023

And What You Can Do to Avoid Them Disclaimer: I don’t really believe you can ‘teach’ Product Management. That’s what I did in 2022 and doing so, I also got to dig into a lot of clients’ products. Product Managers I work with often tell me that “the purpose” has been decided by top management “a while ago”.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2021

The secret to acing a product management interview isn’t just knowing what questions to expect. The Most Common Product Management Interview Questions What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development? What main changes would you make to [our product]?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Instead, you should engage the stakeholders, leverage their expertise, and generate as much buy-in as possible , as I explain in more detail in my article “ Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People.” ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. Overengineered products are difficult to use, filled with bugs, and instead of improving your users’ lives, they make them unnecessarily complicated. Why do developers overengineer software products?

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

It can also result in a large product backlog and high development cost: The greater the number of people who should benefit from your product is, the more diverse their needs are likely to be, and the more features are usually required to address them. Many Needs but No Compelling Reason for Using the Product.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Product Bookshelf

APRIL 15, 2024

Martin Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumels Product strategy is a set of choices informed by product vision and company objectives. Strategy development requires imagination and creativity ; a good strategy is not the result of detailed analysis. Why is product strategy so hard? Playing to Win by A.G.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Experimental Design For Product Testing?—?Important Take, for instance, a food scientist who believes that a new flavour enhancer could improve consumer demand, or a pharmaceutical company that have developed a medication which they believe could relieve high-blood pressure. The reason is simple.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

In this ultimate list of product manager interview questions, we have tried to simplify the process of hiring great product managers. Product management encompasses the entire SaaS lifecycle from ideation to launch and everything that follows. What to look for in product managers? Leadership.

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Mixpanel

MAY 23, 2024

When you’re releasing a new product or feature, the step that gets the most attention is usually the beta testing phase. But getting a feature to a market-ready state is a long process involving months of work before you get to beta testing. Is there excitement for this potential feature?

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

For Product Managers and Developers, selecting the right, usability testing platform and tool isn’t just a task; it’s a crucial step in shaping your product’s success. The market offers a variety of usability testing tools, each varying in price, features, and research methods. Usersnap 2.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Startup Product managers are in charge of setting up the foundation for product management at a new company. Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. According to Airfocus , an optimized product manager boosts profitability and sales, by 34.2

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 29, 2018

“We just pushed it live,” the release manager belts out, to a team fresh off the battlefield that is software product development. I was fortuitously dropped into this arena, with not a hint of prior experience building and releasing products. You’re all part of a team. While keeping those in mind?—?and

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2023

Dark periods are when a product team knows what to design and develop and go about doing it, but the work has yet to be exposed to users in any significant way. Product dark periods are when a product team’s commitment and culture are tested. Developers will be knocking out cards.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

There is a ton of product management advice out there, but most of it is generic tips repeated over and over again. With a self-named newsletter and podcast, Lenny is a widely followed product expert. Lenny is a newsletter writer, podcast host, angel investor, and product consultant.

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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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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2022

Running A/B tests and making data-driven decisions is essential if you are passionate about enhancing your customer experience, boosting retention, and increasing revenue. Anyone even remotely involved in product management will tell you that! But how do you run successful tests? Testing new features before building.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2022

Do you find being a product manager particularly challenging? Take a look at these nine indicators to determine if product management is the right career for you, or not. digital product management positions have never been more pervasive or idolized than they are right now. Let’s be real for a second?—?digital

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

However, having a high bounce rate doesn’t always necessarily mean that your product is not solving an important problem. Users can bounce because of multiple reasons such as poor design or poor content and/or product messaging. You can easily create and run those tests using the UsabilityHub.

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Userpilot

JUNE 27, 2022

What is developer marketing, and what is the point of it? As the name suggests, developer marketing is marketing to developers. In short, developer marketing is more than just capturing the attention of software developers and getting them to use your product. What is developer marketing?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

How to Achieve Success in Your Product Strategy In today’s rapidly evolving market, having a clear product vision and a well-defined strategy is essential for the success of any tech product. A compelling product vision is a guiding light, providing direction and purpose to the development process.

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