The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In this part we dive into what you really came here for – product management-specific mental models. Why are product management-related mental models different? The mental models I’m going to talk about share two key characteristics: They are about about products. Who the product is for (the market).

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

If you’re into building up or developing an organisation or you’re deep into agile coaching, sooner or later you might come around the question for a Product Manager and/or a Product Owner. Introducing Product Management means to install a discipline and to make the company product led and vision oriented.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Mastering the craft of product management is no easy task. I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables.

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Department of Product

AUGUST 11, 2020

The 5 types of Product Differentiation How to fight your natural instinct to copy others The allure of copying competitors The gravitational pull towards copying competitors is real. The product teams who are able to fight this natural instinct to copy others are the ones who will build truly differentiated offerings.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 21, 2022

What product management best practices can help you build valuable and delightful products for your customers? Whether you’re an aspiring product manager or an already established product professional, our list will help you reflect on your processes and hopefully improve them. Check out our list!

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on establishing the organization’s Mission, North Star, and Vision. Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. What is the vision for the future you want to create? What ground has been covered?

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

A handy tool to capture your answers and describe the product strategy is my Product Vision Board shown in the picture below. You can download the template by clicking on the image and you can find more advice on how to use it in the article The Product Vision Board.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A robust UX strategy is also a valuable differentiator helping you stand out in competitive markets. UX vision is a clear and inspiring statement that guides the long-term design strategy and keeps teams and stakeholders on the same page. Start designing your strategy by clarifying the business goals.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

What is the product-market fit framework? How is product market fit different from product-customer fit? What should a product manager do to achieve and maintain the PMF? Product-market fit and product development are interconnected and happen in parallel. Let’s jump in!

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Userpilot

APRIL 7, 2024

SaaS product management is about understanding user pain points, crafting features that solve real problems, and constantly improving the user experience. The approach to managing SaaS products is entirely different from traditional on-premise software. Specify product vision and create the product strategy.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 17, 2020

If somebody asks what’s the job of a product manager, the only correct answer is?—?pretty In traditional businesses, the product manager’s role is spread evenly across several departments or individuals. This requires product managers to maintain a well-organized, streamlined process of product development.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 3, 2023

You should be aware of new trends, be able to make an informed guess if they are likely to impact your market and product, and decide if a technology needs to be further investigated. 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.

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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. They lack vision and lead nowhere. Ready to dive in to learn more?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. The results showed that they wanted better (and more frequent) feedback on how to further develop their product management skills.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2023

Without their engagement, contribution and participation in the strategy, product build and launch will move significantly slower. I went right into vision development, then the market assessment, and zoomed ahead to answer how we would win. They bring unique skills to support, challenge, and refine your vision.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

All those new features might look good on a product comparison matrix and give salespeople a new angle when pitching reluctant prospects, but none of it matters if those features aren’t solving real customer problems. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Product managers don’t want to ship features no one will use.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2017

In the following lines, I’ll describe a process around decision making which you can use as a repeatable and sustainable methodology to constantly make important product decisions. Great product managers say no Research is the center around which all of the other dynamics of product management find their orbit.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 21, 2021

Drawing a clear line between a product owner vs. product manager can be tough, given their varying roles from company to company. Despite any difference in roles, both the product manager and the product owner share a common goal: building products that create value for the stakeholders. In a hurry?

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

When plotting out our product’s trajectory, there’s a constant tension between two competing mindsets. Where charismatic leaders rally the troops around an ambitious vision with a massive potential payoff. Meanwhile, the slow, steady drumbeat of cautious experimentation and incremental enhancements always makes the product better.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 10, 2022

Let’s describe it as “Batman versus Superman” # Declared variables Superman = "Service Management" Batman = "Product Management" In the past few months I got the feeling everybody is talking about Services, with the extremely important focus on customer-centricity, but products and market-orientation are more and more out of focus.

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Mind the Product

MAY 5, 2020

Ahead of the ninth Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) on May 21st and, at a time where digital products are very much in the spotlight, we’re digging deep into accessibility to better understand how we, as product managers, can improve our digital products. What’s right for my product?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

How should product managers handle customer requests to improve customer satisfaction and drive value for users and the business? Customer requests are queries about your product. A customer request management system consists of tools and processes that allow the relevant teams to deal with requests efficiently.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 24, 2021

The mistake most Product Managers make is to focus on a too broad and large market segment because they fear a niche market will not be profitable enough. This is why I combine several good practices and frameworks to my own ‘Target Customer Scenario Canvas’ (figure 2). Marketing Success Through Differentiation?—?of

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

I’ve been talking with product managers lately about how the concepts of “essentialism” can help them focus their efforts on what matters. I distilled the advice a few months ago in my book The Essentialist Product Manager and have recently been giving talks and workshops on the topic. Start with the product vision.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Blue ocean strategy has become an increasingly popular business framework over the past two decades, especially in the SaaS industry. It focuses on differentiation and low cost simultaneously to break the value-cost tradeoff. This strategy rejects traditional competitive business frameworks focused on outperforming rivals.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Product (and company) strategy is the backbone that guides product goal-setting and roadmap definition, although it’s sometimes overlooked or confused with having a vision. Without it, product teams become feature teams focused on outputs and not outcomes. The Approach (the Frameworks). Playing to win by Alan G.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2022

‘Feature factory’ is not exactly a positive term, especially if you’re aspiring to be a product-led SaaS product management team. We also look at what product managers can do to avoid falling into the trap. To avoid falling into this trap, feature development should be driven by product vision.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. Therefore, as a goal, we decided we wanted every product manager to be able to answer these two questions: Where do I want to go?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Product management is an important organizational role. Product managers are typically found at companies that are building products or technology for customers. The product manager is often considered the expert of their products and is responsible for the strategy, roadmap, and feature definition for product.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Link things back to your vision and mission, and don’t get distracted by your competition. A good way of focusing on desired outcomes is to use Teresa Torres’ Opportunity Solution Tree, from the continuous discovery framework. Always keep your vision in mind. Make sure you have a solid vision and value prop statement.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 17, 2018

A good product manager generally has a keen instinct for human behavior. However, the best product managers have learned how to incorporate the science of human behavior in a more rigorous way than just relying on instinct. A Good Behavioral Product Manager Applies Basic Human Behavior Principles to Product Principles.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

After what seemed like months of work, our product was emerging from stealth mode. The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. No choices = no product strategy. The series of choices following a framework = the product strategy. Michael Porter There I sat, facing a significant strategic choice.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2022

We’re also looking at what product managers do to increase the survival chances of their products. We talk about product failure when the product doesn’t meet its objectives or goals. Entering immature markets and devising a relatable product vision are also serious challenges.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 19, 2021

There was not a particular framework that made the difference; it was their willingness to find the best approach for their organisation and workers. Mission and Vision Are your company’s mission and vision well defined? In many organisations, the mission and vision are not clearly defined. You create a job listing.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 2, 2020

In addition to bringing engineering management strategies to help the internal team organize and execute, I also leveraged product management frameworks to drive alignment internally and externally. What is the mission, vision and strategy to solve the problem? What problem(s) are being solved?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Blue ocean strategy has become an increasingly popular business framework over the past two decades, especially in the SaaS industry. It focuses on differentiation and low cost simultaneously to break the value-cost tradeoff. This strategy rejects traditional competitive business frameworks focused on outperforming rivals.

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Roadmunk

AUGUST 10, 2017

The rise of the SaaS model in the product space has been swift, to say the least. So as product managers, knowing how to manage only traditional, on-premises software no longer cuts it. Here’s who we spoke with: Evan Michner , Principal Product Manager at Atlassian. Title: Principal Product Manager.

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