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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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

  We could conceivably do this by raising prices; opening new geographic markets; expanding the current product line; building and launching a new e-commerce business alongside our enterprise CRM business; getting the ticket concession for Taylor Swift’s next tour; or inventing cold fusion to save the planet.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Photo by Alexei on Pxhere A few months after I joined Twiggle as the VP of Product, the CEO gave me a list of competitors to review. Since we played in the e-commerce search space, the list included almost exclusively e-commerce search engines, and one was a generic search engine that seemed to be a good fit for e-commerce apps.

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280 Group

AUGUST 23, 2021

Very large enterprises: where there’s department and organizational partitions abound, and the company is early in its transition to Agile. Once these roles are tightly connected, something interesting often happens: It’s natural for many POs to become increasingly interested in product strategy and the other key responsibilities of the PM.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The customer journey is such an important tool when building your product strategy. In product-led growth, its importance is even more significant. I imagine it was something like that: Let’s say that we have an engineer named Sarah. It must make sense for people to make even a single purchase.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Especially in B2B/enterprise software companies, I see two dramatically divergent ( incompatible ) worldviews that IMO explain a lot of corporate behavior. Enterprise Sales and Solutions Teams… Are paid/rewarded/promoted for working with individual prospects or customers one at a time.  Sales   Aggregate outcomes.  Total

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

  My focus is on B2B/enterprise companies where sales cycles are long; attributing revenue to individual product improvements is challenging; and a few large deals have visibility up to the Board.    The corporate strategy, which the product strategy supports.    Please pull me in on those.”

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Product management doesn’t run Engineering; Engineering runs Engineering. And at least in public, Engineering and Product leadership need to be shoulder-to-shoulder , actively supporting each other at every turn. But there are some engineering team configurations that I see as problematic.  So

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The types of product managers differ in focus and required skills. Data product managers focus on leveraging data for product development. Technical product managers build products with strong technical or engineering elements. They might also have a smaller impact on the key product decisions.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

They started to see the value. -- 2011: "Product reports to the VP of Engineering." 2019: "Product reports to the CPO." We started seeing the need for product leadership, even at the largest of companies. -- 2011: "What is a user story?" Product Strategy = Company Strategy in this case.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 19, 2022

Once the product-based revenue potential is rolled up across the portfolio, an enterprise number emerges to share with leadership. Of course, that product-driven revenue potential will be negotiated with leadership. Roll up the opportunity roadmaps across the enterprise to understand revenue potential.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 16, 2021

Besides app development, the company offers strategy, consulting, design, and product development services. The company’s services embrace three essential aspects: strategic business consulting, user-centric design, and impactful engineering. ChopDawg ChopDawg is a product design and development company located in Philadelphia.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Photo by Iain Kennedy on Unsplash When I was a product lead at Imperva, there was a feature that engineering kept telling me required a rewrite. But you know how it is  — temporary things tend to remain permanently , and engineering kept raising a flag that this feature needs more work. Some even need to be left untouched.

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

Based on the research, PMs develop the long-term product vision and product strategy that are aligned with the overall business strategy. Next, they lead the ideation process and prioritize product and feature ideas. This is essential to build a roadmap that drives the product strategy.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 16, 2023

Fostering better collaboration It’s all too common to feel siloed, especially when working at an enterprise company or in a highly cross-functional role. Effective communication of the product strategy Establishing and maintaining a focused product strategy is difficult. Phillip P.,

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Product Warrior

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

Reviewing product strategy to design a growth engine for established business is a common ask of product leadership, although few businesses achieve it. This post shows you where do you start so you can design powerful and successful growth engines?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2021

But what about product and engineering? For example, I have seen product teams that create OKRs around meeting with customers, and engineering teams that created OKRs around closing the tech debt. And the former can only be answered when you think about the product as a whole?—?including

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

Enterprises such as Qualcomm and Cisco lost some portion of their market share, while Amazon and eBay had declines in their company valuations. The importance of building products that customers valued and the limited amount of finances forced startups to take a different approach when building their products. Quarterly U.S.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

At ProductPlan, we have the tremendous privilege of working with and listening to tens of thousands of product leaders. Our customers span across thousands of organizations ranging from smaller, growth-stage startups to Fortune 500 global enterprises. Change is Afoot. Many of our customers are in the midst of rapid change.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 25, 2020

The worlds of marketing and product are colliding in new ways as customer experience takes center stage. We’re already seeing companies – specifically enterprises – begin switching up their organizational structure in order to prioritize CX. For some brands, they’re moving the mobile app experience out from product and into marketing.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 9, 2024

  Asking Engineering to size 250 things so we can choose 20 that show “high theoretical ROI” on our spreadsheet is a criminal waste of their time.)    Each submitter expects a deep dive on their item including customer interviews and engineering estimates and hard dates. 

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The common thread among the most successful brands is they don’t treat their digital experience like a one-and-done product. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, the team includes 500+ engineers, designers, and product strategists.

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280 Group

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Gate: Is the product ready for beta testing with customers? . Engineering, product management, and quality assurance collaborate to ensure the product is ready to ship. Companies can waste a lot of time and money on development if they fail to verify that the end product doesn’t meet customer needs. .

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 26, 2022

Things I frequently hear from B2B field/sales organizations: "Product doesn't understand how important this is.  They  Engineering/Product lack urgency."  We'll need weeks of deep discovery from over-committed product/design/engineering staff to figure out WTF they really need.  And

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The importance of funnel-tracking tools Here are reasons why they are a must-have for any SaaS platform: Measure the impact of your product strategy : You can analyze data from a funnel to understand how your efforts across marketing, activation, and adoption are paying off. Enterprise : Custom pricing. Amplitude pricing plans.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

Some product organizations have associate and senior product managers. Product managers in more extensive enterprise settings can even operate under titles that don’t distinctly list out “product manager” in it. Associate Product Manager. Do you always start as an Associate Product Manager?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Before joining Rabbit, Amanda was Chief Data & Strategy Officer at HotelTonight, the leading mobile app for last-minute hotel bookings, where she led data analytics, corporate strategy, and data engineering to create and execute data-driven growth strategies. Todd Lombardo, Head of Product & Experience.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 1, 2019

Particularly when selling to the enterprise, where sales teams and looming analyst reports can drive product decisions, companies frequently adopt a “more is more” mentality when it comes to features. Competitive intelligence is useful, but it shouldn’t guide your product strategy. What Causes Feature FOMO?

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Mind the Product

JUNE 28, 2018

Is there a difference between developing an enterprise and a consumer product? In both cases your software product is used by humans, but an enterprise is a legal entity, while a consumer is a person. And the fact that an enterprise is a legal entity makes product management for enterprise products a little different.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

is a leading enterprise organization powering top companies worldwide, including the BBC, Novartis, and Pfizer. 5 products. is the umbrella organization for 5 successful enterprise products: BizTalk360, Document 360, Severless360, Atomic Scope, and Cerebrata, which the business acquired in 2019. 2,000+ customers.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 6, 2023

More valuable are metrics that tie back to the product strategy , ideally as a leading indicator. In the case of product metrics, a leading indicator serves as an early warning signal of an impact on revenue. When faced with this dilemma, a product team will have to ask a question of itself.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

But even as various initiatives are several years underway, many enterprises still face avoidable issues limiting their success. Contrary to popular belief, some of the biggest challenges stifling their progress aren’t tools, engineering, or technology. They often occur across all types of software and product development initiatives.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Data PM: organizations dealing in data products (building AI/ML based products) prefer a PM with data science background so that they can appreciate the problems well and being able to work with data engineers/scientists. There are many frameworks available on building products and the approach varies individual to individual.

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280 Group

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Here are some examples: Product Management Leader : This heading says that even if your last position wasn’t a manager role, you’re looking for a leadership role in your next position. Enterprise Product Marketing : This lets me quickly identify one of your key strengths. Putting it All Together: Talent and Presence.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 30, 2023

We are so thrilled to announce our new Director of Product Managent -- Moshe Mikanovsky. Moshe is a leader in product management who started his career on the engineering side, specifically within the enterprise real-time B2B software space. Q] Do you think that company strategy and product strategy are the same?

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

How to create a scalable product organization. How product strategy uses a company's vision to fuel profitability. An iterative product framework for identifying and pursuing the right opportunities to create value. Melissa broke silence over the excessive focus on delivery in product teams.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 24, 2021

Today we are discussing how to price products, helping you avoid common mistakes and sharing steps to make your pricing smarter. He is the Head of Product Marketing at Narvar, an enterprise-grade customer engagement platform for retailers. Start with product strategy, determining why the product exists in the market.

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