The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

While technical skills are still essential, the ability to influence, negotiate, tell compelling stories, and lead with empathy is now a critical differentiator. A growing library of frameworks, case studies, and actionable tools. Soft skills. So, what does this shift mean for product managers? Ready to future-proof your PM career?

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 29, 2024

These courses offer an unconventional approach to traditional product marketing that makes it easier for product marketing managers to generate more revenue from existing products without splitting hairs to define and communicate their differentiating value. Who Are the Courses For?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

A Product Framework from Concept to Delivery: Part 1 Why “FE²AR” As a technology executive, I have seen my share of successful and not-as-successful products. The starting point is identifying differentiators that are tangible to the target audience beyond revenues and gross margin customers believe are beneficial. Ecosystems? —?As

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 5, 2017

In this post, I share a simple model or framework to answer this question. The first box in the Secret Product Management Framework. The Jobs To Be Done framework has a whole methodology for finding unmet needs of market segments. The Secret Product Management Framework. Design, both visual and technical. Product Owner.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 7, 2025

One of the key differentiators among the various cloud development environments is hosting. By default it uses specific frameworks called Next.js It can build web apps using both JavaScript and Python frameworks and particularly excels at building internal admin tools (e.g. ” Another popular tool is Replit.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

A decision making framework that I use is. Don’t make decisions solely based on competitors, but know who your competitors are, their differentiating capabilities, their shortcomings, and how to shed light on their shortcomings without ever talking poorly about a competitor.

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Product Management University

MARCH 24, 2021

Marketing wants a strategy that makes it easier to differentiate your value. A Framework for Delivering High-Value Customer Outcomes. Customer success wants a strategy that quiets the squeaky wheels. Engineering wants a product strategy that allows them to use their technical savvy. Related Articles.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 14, 2023

To do this, let’s take a look at my product strategy framework shown below. You can learn more about the framework by reading the article My Product Strategy Model. Is your product still sufficiently differentiated ? How Does the Strategy Relate to the Vision and Roadmap? Do You Need a Strategy for Your Product?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Vikas was able to provide me with a framework for developing product strategy, which ultimately revolves around answering the fundamental question of “how do we win?” This framework covers five major questions: What do we aspire to be? Where do we play? And where do we not play? How do we win? core of strategy). About Julian Dunn.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Solutions Value Chain is a framework that helps you uncover real, strategic value for your customers—from the top of their organization all the way down to the people in the trenches doing the day-to-day work. What is The Solutions Value Chain? Here’s how each team can leverage it to deliver more value.

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The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Why my product is a better choice for you (the differentiators). This is the classic framework from Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm. For example, articulating a meaningful Dramatic Difference or “differentiator” portion of the value proposition is usually difficult. Who the product is for (the market).

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Userpilot

JULY 24, 2024

Launching a product without a well-defined product strategy framework is similar—you risk wasting resources without a clear path to success. So, how do you outline a product strategy framework that is the foundation of product-led growth ? What is a product strategy framework? Why do you need a product strategy framework?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. I find that the framework is best suited for products that are affected by a significant amount of uncertainty and change.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 3, 2023

This usually doesn’t require in-depth technical skills like being able to write code or understand how a specific machine learning framework is used. But if nobody has had time to learn about the technology in general and research specific machine learning frameworks, you’re probably months away from offering a similar feature.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 11, 2024

However, just because customers want them doesnt mean theyre delivering the level of differentiating value your organization needs to meet its own goals. Market Analysis Before and With AI Customers are clamoring for a number of improvements to your product and youre on a mission to get them funded and on the roadmap.

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UX Planet

MARCH 9, 2025

This one lacks clarity, differentiation, and a compelling purpose. OKR (Objective, Key Results) is a helpful framework for stating clear and actionable goals. How OKR framework helps shape strategy goals. Google HEART framework is a great tool for finding specificmetrics. Image by Jens-Fabian Goetzmann.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 20, 2020

She condemns the SAFe framework, which separates the role of product owner and product manager, asserting the former as tactical and the latter strategic. Communication, Melissa says, will be the make or break differential when it comes to making it into the C-Suite. She believes that product people have dynamic skills. Communication.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Study any sales coaching blog, podcast, or book and you’ll find plenty of advice on the best ways to coach your sales reps: join their calls, listen to recordings, apply a framework … the list goes on. At Intercom, we’ve developed the GEMS framework to help everyone on our teams achieve best-in-class written communication.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Goals for AI/ML Integration Competitive Differentiation: Leveraging advanced AI/ML capabilities to create a distinctive market position that sets our solution apart from traditional automotive sales approaches. Framework for Building AIsystems Machine Learning Machine Learning (ML) is utilized for data-driven predictions.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Below, you’ll find what I believe is the most actionable, specific, and straightforward framework for crafting a strategy, for both your product and your company. As Chandra shares below, his framework sits on top of the best strategy wisdom out there (e.g. So we teamed up to make that happen.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 18, 2017

But as I wrote the recent post on how my various articles align with the Secret Product Management Framework I realized I didn’t have many articles on go-to-market. Our product’s portfolio management capabilities were a significant differentiator. But they weren’t being used effectively to differentiate in the demo.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Over the past year, Phil Carter has been developing a framework for growing consumer subscription businesses, called the Subscription Value Loop. The stronger and more differentiated the value promise, the more subscribers will pay and the longer they’ll keep paying.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

For pricing and engagement, we go through the 5Q Framework. Mindbody, which sells fitness plans and software for gyms, sold a few fitness plans, and you didn’t see a lot of differentiation between them. For pricing and engagement, we go through the 5Q Framework. 5Q stands for five questions. 5Q stands for five questions.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 13, 2024

Is your product still sufficiently differentiated and does it still stand out from competing offerings? Note that this perspective is in line with an agile development framework like Scrum. Do the changes indicate that the current product strategy has to be adapted? Competition : Are your competitors launching new products or features?

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Userpilot

JUNE 26, 2023

Choosing the right feature request prioritization framework enables product teams to make informed decisions and deliver the maximum customer value possible, especially when resources are limited. Our guide introduces 15 popular prioritization frameworks along with their pros and cons. What is a feature prioritization framework?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 14, 2021

10 Types of Innovation Framework from Doblin When legendary design thinking firm Doblin released the 10 Types of Innovation Framework , they challenged product teams to think less about new features (“the easiest thing to copy”) and more about their overall experience and go-to-market strategy. How to Start an Audit?

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Competition is increasing, products are becoming less differentiated, customers are becoming less loyal, and the cost of acquiring new customers is rising year after year. The SaaS industry is undergoing a quiet revolution. It’s within this landscape that retaining existing users has become just as important as acquiring new ones.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 24, 2020

Everyone’s going to be a fan of prioritization frameworks that simplify and streamline the process. So, what are the most popular prioritization frameworks of 2020? We also discovered MoSCoW, Story Mapping, RICE, Kano, and using multiple frameworks were the most popular selections for prioritization. out of 5 score. Confidence.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2019

Sure, there are semi-quantitative ways of estimating uncertainty for each assumption (for example, the RICE framework for prioritization), but as with many things in product development, these are guess-based models that help us to compare options. Problem discovery frameworks like Jobs-To-Be-Done, service blueprints, journey maps.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

We solve customer problems by deeply understanding the jobs that they use our product to tackle, often applying the jobs to be done framework. In the race for market share, startups try to close the gaps on incumbent companies, while incumbents try to build new, differentiator features. Whoever does it fastest will win.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

To innovate effectively, you have to be able to differentiate between the known and unknown problems you are trying to solve, and adjust your operations accordingly. The New Horizon Framework. Known vs Unknown. So how do we take this spirit and use it to improve innovation practices within companies?

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 18, 2017

But as I wrote the recent post on how my various articles align with the Secret Product Management Framework I realized I didn’t have many articles on go-to-market. Our product’s portfolio management capabilities were a significant differentiator. But they weren’t being used effectively to differentiate in the demo.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 18, 2017

But as I wrote the recent post on how my various articles align with the Secret Product Management Framework I realized I didn’t have many articles on go-to-market. Our product’s portfolio management capabilities were a significant differentiator. But they weren’t being used effectively to differentiate in the demo.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2018

Most sales and support teams are already well versed in conversations about data deletion, risk assessments and security frameworks, but those issues are going to become an even more prominent part of the discussion once GDPR comes into effect. Active communication and transparency are key to customer trust.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 27, 2021

How to differentiate and build a competitive advantage that you can sustain and defend over time Photo by Pavel Danilyuk from Pexels Creating your product strategy is hard work. Focus and Positioning: A different type of prioritization Selecting is not about prioritization frameworks or ROI calculations.

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The Secret PM Handbook

OCTOBER 9, 2018

To start with, let’s go into the situation with a framework for future success. We (the product managers) are the experts in our product: We know who it’s for, we know why it’s better, we know its differentiators, we know the stories of pain our prospects are suffering, and the glories of the successes of our customers.

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