280 Group

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Product leaders in need of extraordinary talent rarely find themselves in a position where they are afforded ample time to recruit, evaluate, hire, and ramp-up a new Product Manager. You want to do it right, but you also want to fill the position as quickly as possible. 4: Speed Up Candidate Sourcing. TEAM SOLUTIONS.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This can create tension between product teams and your company leadership or stakeholders —some argue that they can’t coordinate work with the rest of the company without these dates. The reason I say this is because teams put a lot of time and energy into a document that is immediately out of date and often ignored.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 7, 2024

Highlight the value you can bring in a new position and why it’s essential for the company’s success. This means setting measurable goals and behaviors that align with your leadership principles and organizational values. ” Prioritize tasks you loved and allocate more time to them.

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Mind the Product

MAY 23, 2017

The long awaited book Product Leadership is finally about to hit our Kindles, iPads and possibly even our hands. It’s a book that shows product leadership to be a mentality and style, rather than a set of rules. The core tenets of Product Management are a natural breeding ground for leadership roles. Let teams shape the how.”.

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2022

But unfortunately, in many companies, the product leadership team can perpetuate a negative culture — setting up product managers to fail. In essence, the product leadership team are those with influence on the product roadmap. Product-led cultures elevate products to the highest levels of the company’s mission.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Then, from this position of strength, we guide your organization to structure and prioritize the launch and development of new products that will, in turn, go through their own lifecycle stages for sustained, profitable performance over time.

Framework 52

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Mind the Product

MAY 23, 2017

The long awaited book Product Leadership is finally about to hit our Kindles, iPads and possibly even our hands. It’s a book that shows product leadership to be a mentality and style, rather than a set of rules. The core tenets of Product Management are a natural breeding ground for leadership roles. Let teams shape the how.”.

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280 Group

JULY 30, 2019

Mentoring others and demonstrating thought leadership through writing and speaking are great ways to not only strengthen these skills, but also advance your career. This type of mentoring is great to practice your product management skills– whether it’s helping to write a requirements document or attending a retrospective.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

So you found a new position as a product leader, congratulations! I decided to write this article to help you, product leaders, with your new position. Even if you’re not starting a new position now, you probably won’t retire from your current company, so at some point, the tips in this article would surely be relevant for you?—?save

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. The End Game of Product Strategy A product strategy synthesizes the choices made and packages them into a document. A document with one primary goal?—?creating Once documented, I use a simple scoring mechanism to determine coherence: A yes with a solid how gets a one.

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People-First Product Leadership

OCTOBER 22, 2023

The positive nature of appreciative inquiry resonated with me. The other AI promotes such a model by looking for the positive instead of the negative (or gaps). Dream: Unlock creativity and possibilities by imaging potential positive futures, representing multiple perspectives, opinions, and understandings.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2019

Sure, there are some junior positions out there that can be reached with a few months’ experience and a prestigious certification. However, most of the time professionals who undertake the transition aim to build the following story with their resume: their gradual acquisition of product skills across different positions and functions.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Is the role of product operations about building and documenting processes—guided by the needs and requirements of product? Or is it about refining, documenting, and shepherding the ongoing use of established processes? Excerpt of responsibilities for a product operations specialist position (via LinkedIn) at Muck Rack.

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The Product Bistro

MARCH 23, 2021

The product manager was responsible for generating the documentation and paperwork for shipping. Or your product is a niche within the Business Unit, and marketing focusses their resources on the major components of the portfolio, and you find yourself doing messaging, positioning, and content creation/curation for collateral.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Now, the verdict is in, and everyone agrees that proactive Customer Success Managers (CSMs) are best positioned to drive value and deliver a better customer experience. Undefined Customer Experience Processes for onboarding, adoption, and every other stage of the customer journey are not in place, or at least, not documented and standardized.

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280 Group

MARCH 11, 2022

Product Marketing Managers possess excellent verbal and written communication skills and can demonstrate success with positioning and launching products. The Director of Product Marketing usually reports directly to C-level leadership and is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Product Marketing.

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 5, 2024

After these conversations, our leadership will find the most suitable person for the position who will help the internal team. When this happens, organizations need professionals to fill in someone else’s position quickly. When a leave starts from one day to another, the tasks left behind are not always well documented.

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280 Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Or maybe you stepped into a management position and you are managing a couple of Product Managers (who manage the great new “thing”). Now is the time to maximize this opportunity and be incredibly effective in this new position. You landed that great new gig…. You are the Product Manager of this great new “thing.”

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 30, 2017

It’s the expectation of a positive outcome”. But how do you develop the confidence required to lead a team of stakeholders to a positive outcome? Look around at your own company and in your PM team, how many women do you see (let alone any minorities) in leadership roles? Informed: Wake Up Wisdom for Women” in 2011.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

The explanation from software leadership is often unsatisfying or unclear. Do your own review first so you can be confident and better positioned. Getting Buy-in from Leadership Business leaders are often concerned about how their tech teams will react to an external technical review. Are you ready?

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Userpilot

JULY 23, 2023

Below are the main positions and how they contribute to building a solid GTM strategy. Work with finance and leadership to manage the budget allocated for GTM activities and ensure cost-effectiveness. Ensure all marketing content is consistent with the product’s positioning and brand voice. Who is part of the GTM team?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

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. An outcome-based roadmap removes such constraints and prioritizes delivering a positive change to users’ lives. How is the outcome-based roadmap different from regular roadmaps?

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 3, 2022

Dorian has a deep background in product development, starting in engineering and then moving to business leadership roles.? He has held R&D leadership roles and founded Auxilium in 2002 to help companies improve their R&D and leadership practices and transform their new product development using Agile practices.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Fifteen years ago Ben Horowitz published his now famous memo, “G ood Product Manager/Bad Product Manager ” in which he posits that “A good product manager is the CEO of the product”. This is a classic leadership trap that many leaders (not just CEOs) often fall into. A bad CEO takes the credit and passes on the blame.

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UX Studio

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Six years later, as I’m writing this, UX Folio helps 138 277 professionals to document and showcase their work in a fraction of the time, taking them closer to finding their dream jobs. We moved to a new office and introduced the Studio Lead position as a full-time professional support for the researchers and designers on the team.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

I then have a section on product leadership, which is important for all product managers, but especially for senior folks looking to advance in their career. Spool Babe Ruth and Feature Lists - Ken Norton Using The Kano Model To Prioritize Product Development - Martin Eriksson Position, Position, Position! Leadership.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

advance on the field, position for scoring, score, etc. While you may start longer, edit it down to a clear, concise document that can be digested and understood in thirty minutes and tells a story. for example, your starting lineup, your formation, etc. Objectives and Key Results. Assumptions, constraints, and dependencies (ACD) ?—?What

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Product management and leadership From the struggle to balance innovation and market fit to maintaining a customer-centric approach to product development and navigating talks with business partners, product leaders face many challenges. Product management and leadership speakers. leadership to uphold your customer-centric focus.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 17, 2021

The difference between the unsuccessful and successful ones is a product manager’s ability to foster meaningful, positive, and productive relationships with everyone involved. The basic blocking and tackling of product management is well understood and documented now.

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Product Bookshelf

APRIL 15, 2024

Product strategy tends to be mysterious because it is typically associated with executive leadership, large-scale bets, and major inititiaves. Strategy…focuses on outputs: here’s the position that we are striving to achieve in the marketplace. ” is rivaled only by “What is a roadmap?”

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 4, 2019

At the individual level, its impact is positive but limited, but put into practice team-wide, good habits ensure companies avoid seeing talented teams chase work rather than drive outcomes. We create distinct docs for each functional teams and even one for leadership teams. Focusing on the right work, across teams.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Of course, we still needed to convince leadership that this wasn’t just going to be a very expensive boondoggle that would fail to deliver on what was promised. The results were positive and suggested we would be able to run in production, so we moved on to the next phase – actually building the thing. Testing our hypotheses.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Technical program manager (TPM) roles range from mid to senior-level positions that support organizations with their product goals. As a technical program manager, you communicate with product managers, leadership teams, and external vendors. Strong leadership is the ability to motivate and solve problems in an innovative way.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 26, 2020

Our leadership team is fully engaged in the active management of our response during this challenging period. Based on our years of experience managing a dispersed workforce, we are well-positioned to lead and conduct our business fully remotely. We are dedicated to helping you and all of your customers.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Unfortunately internal promotion isn’t always positive A quick disclaimer: I’m a huge advocate of career development and internal promotion. Product Management is a leadership role which is difficult to ‘start small’. Are the expectations of each role and seniority level clearly documented? What job titles do you use?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 22, 2021

In this article, I discuss how individual contributors can become effective interviewers and demonstrate leadership skills in improving their hiring process. Their leadership in the vision, strategy, and roadmap drives customer and business outcomes. Find or create a framework for documenting the expectations for each role.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Without thoughtful leadership around them, it may not be in product manager’s gift to achieve a “good” roadmap. This is because product leadership is genuinely hard and quite distinct from the job of product manager – something that is often misunderstood. A cross-functional team at FutureLearn.

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