Product Management University

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The new product is going to boost your differentiation in the competitive space. How you design and build products doesn’t change in a portfolio management model. You’ve just built some cool new A.I. enabled product or feature set and everyone’s totally energized over the upcoming announcement and marketing launch activities.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 21, 2023

The product CEO analogy for product managers has been around forever, but when you think about it, does it really make sense for B2B software? Every product manager wants to have a reputation for being strategic. What is Strategic Product Management? Before we dive in, let’s define strategic product management.

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Product Management University

MARCH 24, 2021

It’s to demonstrate that you have a vision beyond the next release or two for how you’re going to make customers better at mission-critical processes that are strategic to their business. Marketing wants a strategy that makes it easier to differentiate your value. The Ultimate Guide to Portfolio Product Management.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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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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Roman Pichler

APRIL 3, 2018

What is the company’s vision? Think, for instance, of Google’s vision “to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” Where will you play? Which management systems are required? The answer is simple in my mind: executive management. What is your winning aspiration?

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UX Planet

MARCH 9, 2025

Introduction Introduction is the first section that management will read, and it should help them understand what this project is all about. The better you explain the scope, the higher the chance management will understand what parts will be affected by the redesign. Bad vision statements To be the best eCommerce platform in theworld.

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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. Vision: Vision Narrative.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In some cases, growth problems are caused by a limiting spotlight vision, where product organisations continue to focus on the needs of a small segment of users even when it reaches a point where it no longer yields meaningful returns. It was not only a selling point; it was a differentiator.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2017

To do a great job as a product manager or product owner, you require two skills sets: product-specific and generic ones. As product-specific skills are crucial, I find that many product managers and product owners strive to develop these capabilities. Balancing Specific and Generic Skills. Growing Your Horizontal Skills.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 18, 2018

The most important lesson I learned in The Product Mentor program with Jeremy and Zoe was that Product Management has a language. All ideas were rated on some additional key criteria apart from financial gains/losses such as: customer value, regulatory requirement, ease of adoption, whether it was a differentiator for us in the market or not.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel. Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 4, 2022

How product managers can get customer insights from a community to create a competitive advantage. I wanted to learn how this company creates competitive products, differentiating on cost while offering comparative capabilities that equates to much higher value for customers. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [3:15]

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

What’s product differentiation? What differentiation strategies can a product manager use to make the product stand out in a saturated market? Product differentiation is about highlighting the features of your product that make it stand out on the market. What is product differentiation?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

1] As simple as this sounds, there is a catch: To create value with Scrum, you must understand who the users and customers are, why people would want to use and pay for the product, which business benefits it should generate, and, in the case of commercial products, which features differentiate it from competing offerings.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 11, 2022

What are some good product vision examples? How is the product vision different from the company vision? What makes a great product vision? How should product managers develop effective product vision statements? Product vision and company vision overlap in single-product organizations.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel. Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

AUGUST 20, 2020

Product Vision or Product Vision Statement is the long-term goal for a product includes the long-term mission and the motivation behind its creation, along with why it’s important. Product visions, ultimately, serve as the guideposts for the development of the products. What is a Product Vision?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder).

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 21, 2021

Pipeline, Process, and Practice for Product Managers. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [1:20] Second, make sure development teams have the flexibility to reduce the number of deliverables on their plate to manage the work that’s important for the teams. This is the Product Mastery Now podcast.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 14, 2019

Not surprisingly, when you’re looking for customer validation for B2B products, there simply aren’t as many datapoints to draw from in enterprise product management as there are for consumer products. The following are some tips and tricks I’ve learned working on B2B products at Google and Rubrik, a startup in the cloud data management space.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 7, 2023

How to Choose the Optimal North Star for a Roof Shingles Assessment Vision API Company How the Right North Star Metric Can Illuminate Your Business Path Introduction In recent years, many new API SaaS companies are emerging that provide AI-powered capabilities for processing text, audio, images and video.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

How marketing and product management work together. That is what our guest did to investigate what people think about marketing and how it fits into the work product managers do. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [0:38] 18:13] How can product managers engage those marketing resources?

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 16, 2023

If we go back to post 3 of 10 , you’ll see the ripple effect of a customer-facing portfolio vision in full swing when it’s time to craft your portfolio (and product) positioning! This is what differentiates you more than anything. In fact, they’re one and the same with some minor wordsmithing if done right. Let’s give it the acid test.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 19, 2020

In our model, product teams effectively own a piece of the product, and consist of a Product Manager, Designer, and a few Product Engineers. Core to that balance is a diversity of skill sets and vision on the team working in alignment. But, we all work together in unison to try and make this product.”.

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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. Competition: Is your product still sufficiently differentiated ?

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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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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

Differentiation: In a crowded market, your brands unique personality and approach set youapart. Seamless navigation, personalized product recommendations and intuitive interactions differentiate leading brands from generic alternatives. Trust: Consistency and usability across digital platforms build confidence. million to 91.7

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 2, 2021

Is this solution something we want to innovate on and own as an industry leader and differentiator, or is it table stakes where we want to be on par with the market? At the execution level, does this project contribute directly to differentiation or closing product gaps? Here’s a breakdown of each part. Innovation. How to rank.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 1, 2024

How product managers can design their customer experience journey We all want to create products that customers find valuable and even delightful. But accomplishing that is complicated, and some teams lose focus on the real objective or start without a clear vision for what they need to accomplish.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 8, 2019

For revenue-generating products, you should also investigate if the product is still effectively differentiated: Do users have a compelling reason to choose it over competitors’ offerings? Capture your decisions and document the new strategy for your product, for instance by creating a new, forward-looking Product Vision Board.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 18, 2019

As product managers, we need to be skilled in a variety of areas from defining features and requirements to understanding customers, analyzing usage metrics, prioritizing features, managing releases, and the list goes on. In my experience as a product manager, strategy has been one of the toughest skills to develop.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

A good product experience is the primary driver behind product differentiation and ultimately, lasting customer satisfaction (measured through CSAT and NPS ) and loyalty. But product experience requires a company-wide effort that includes customer-facing teams like customer success, marketing, and account management.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

We have five product managers, one UX researcher , five designers—one of them director of design, leading the design team. All product managers report to me, and we have five product teams up and running. You have this grand vision. Stephanie: We set it up as individual goals for all product managers to do continuous discovery.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 21, 2020

Photo by Karla Vidal on Unsplash ‘How-To’ Guide for Crafting Your First Product Vision I originally packaged this up from a recent coaching session I had with a Product Manager who had been tasked for their first time to develop a product vision from scratch?—?hope A good vision should be clear, punchy, and inspiring.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Going all the way back to my practitioner days, it was apparent then that as product management goes, so goes the rest of the organization. Throw in customer on-boarding for new customers and customer success on account management just for good measure, and their collective impact on recurring revenue (ARR/MRR).

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Mind the Product

JULY 29, 2019

But the digital-first approach adopted by Starling enables a richer user experience so users can that manage, control, and spend their money from their smartphone. When developing a product it is important to have key product principles that you believe will ultimately deliver your vision. Requirements for Building a Bank.

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