Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2022

Product market fit, often just called product/market or “P/M” is one of the most important Lean Startup concepts. There is a lot of information out there about why it’s important for having a successful product and grow your business, but finding out how to achieve product-market fit can still feel elusive.

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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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Product Management University

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In most B2B organizations, it’s more the exception than the rule that customer success managers inherit accounts where they’re in a position to play offense because the customer is thrilled with your products. That’s the beauty of a portfolio management approach that begins in product management.

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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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BrainMates

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Having spent several years playing both Marketing and Product Management roles, I can confidently suggest that every Product Manager who wants to make a significant impact on the overall success of the business should switch to Product Marketing roles several times in his career. The Unknown Unknowns.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2023

What is product success? What can product managers do to improve their chances of building successful products? How can they measure that their product is on a path to success? Successful SaaS products satisfy user needs and realize organizational business goals. Are you ready to dive in?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

What’s product planning? How do you apply your product management skills and knowledge to build a robust product plan? Product planning is the iterative process that prepares every stage of the product development life cycle, from the initial idea through launch and further development. Are you ready?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 13, 2022

What is product parity? How can product managers avoid building parity products? We talk about product parity or brand parity when a brand’s product offers exactly the same functionality as competing products. Product parity also limits your marketing and branding strategies.

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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. The product momentum gap by Dave Martin.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 16, 2022

You’ll almost certainly have heard of a minimum viable product. But a minimum delightful product might be new to you and exactly what you need to focus on as a product manager. Next, remember to keep your vision at the center of your product enhancements. Focusing on a competitive differentiator.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 26, 2021

You know how when you log into a SaaS product, you often notice the UI has changed or there are new options that weren't there before? That's SaaS product management hustling in the background to give you the best experience. And you had to own all the servers. Nightmare, right?

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Innovatemap

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Product management and product marketing are becoming essential roles in the digital world we live in. Companies that don’t have strong product management and product marketing functions run the risk of losing market share to more strategically focused teams. Defining market position 2.

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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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 25, 2022

Have you recently been invited to a product marketing manager interview? One of the best and first things you should do is review the most common product marketing interview questions and answers. Product marketing managers play a critical role in bringing new products to market.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 1, 2020

You don’t need to be a data scientist to be a product manager. You don’t need to have any serious data analysis experience to start your product management path. But the best products are data-driven products, which means you need to get comfortable with handling data on a day-to-day basis. Don’t believe us?

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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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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

What is product service management? How is it different from product management ? Product service management is a marketing function whose objective is to keep track of customer and market need fluctuations and inform product development. Product service management vs product management.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

How marketing and product management work together. Turns out if you ask 50 different people what marketing is, you’ll hear 50 different answers. That is what our guest did to investigate what people think about marketing and how it fits into the work product managers do.

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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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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 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.

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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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Pragmatic Marketing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

has stayed on top of a rapidly evolving market by conducting research that delivers such products as the Game of Thrones Slots Casino , one of the drivers of the publicly traded company’s (Nasdaq ZNGA) third quarter, the best in its 12-year history. San Francisco-based Zynga Inc. No one can argue with the end user!”

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Pragmatic Marketing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

has stayed on top of a rapidly evolving market by conducting research that delivers such products as the Game of Thrones Slots Casino , one of the drivers of the publicly traded company’s (Nasdaq ZNGA) third quarter, the best in its 12-year history. San Francisco-based Zynga Inc. No one can argue with the end user!”

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Mixpanel

APRIL 27, 2020

Leading a product team in a startup—where it’s basically you, or maybe you and one other person—is far different from leading a large product management team for a well-established company. When you’re a startup and you’re looking for product-market fit, you need to be ruthless.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In order to answer the questions above, you may want to use techniques such as direct observation, user interviews, prototyping, creating a strategy canvas or E-R-R-C grid , and you may capture some of them using a tool like my product vision board. And if so, what are the consequences for your product?

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Arpit Rai

MAY 31, 2020

This post is about what one should do in the first 30–60–90 days of joining a new product management job. The checklist I had created spanned a few areas such as: Team Manager Customers Product Market & Competitors Product Management Process I’ll cover each of these areas in more detail below.

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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.

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

Why is product idea validation important? As a product manager, how can you effectively validate ideas and build a successful product that delights users? TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Here’s an example of product positioning at its finest. If you’re a car enthusiast, go read the marketing copy for your dream car. The product marketers do a masterful job of getting you to envision exactly how awesome you’d look and feel behind the wheel of that car.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

A well-structured product team requires a product leader – either a product manager or a product owner. In larger organizations, they may work side by side with QA engineers, product marketers , data analysts , or product ops managers. Product Team Roles.

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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”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Ladislav Bartos Product Manager, Gumtree.com.

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Arpit Rai

MAY 31, 2020

This post is about what one should do in the first 30–60–90 days of joining a new product management job. The checklist I had created spanned a few areas such as: Team Manager Customers Product Market & Competitors Product Management Process I’ll cover each of these areas in more detail below.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Guest Post by: Julian Dunn (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Vikas Batra]. I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. Thus, I arrived at the Product Mentor program with ambitions to learn strategy development from a seasoned product mentor.

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Mixpanel

APRIL 27, 2020

Leading a product team in a startup—where it’s basically you, or maybe you and one other person—is far different from leading a large product management team for a well-established company. When you’re a startup and you’re looking for product-market fit, you need to be ruthless.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Create your vision and positioning 4. Each has a different approach to SaaS growth and will significantly impact your company’s product vision and revenue strategy. Differentiated SaaS Growth. The differentiated growth approach is creating a product with unique features which can make it stand out from the crowd.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 11, 2017

10 common mistakes or pitfalls new product managers should avoid. A few months ago I was contacted by a product manager, Areo Wong, who works in Hong Kong. He has been struggling to learn what the role of product manager was really about. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [3:09]

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