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The Secret Product Management Framework

The Secret PM Handbook

One of the most challenging questions about product management has been – in my experience – “What is Product Management?”. In this post, I share a simple model or framework to answer this question. We’re called “product” managers. We’ll start with a box labeled “Product.” Product manager =? Product Owner.

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The Secret Product Management Framework

The Secret PM Handbook

One of the most challenging questions about product management has been – in my experience – “What is Product Management?”. In this post, I share a simple model or framework to answer this question. We’re called “product” managers. We’ll start with a box labeled “Product.” Product manager =? Product Owner.

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How Are You Going to Fix Onboarding?

The Secret PM Handbook

You have a team of engineers and a three month runway – how are you going to fix onboarding? That’s a question I actually got in a product management job interview a while ago. Without doing some research, we have no idea whether this is an aspirin problem, or an operating room problem. Operating room or aspirin?

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A Better Approach To Demoing Can Turn Sales Around

The Secret PM Handbook

The sales engineers felt this was due to a large degree to our “story” on agile. Our product was not as strong as some of our competitors for managing agile projects. I love working with marketing and sales to make sure they can sell my products effectively. The account reps were not hitting quota on new logos.

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431: How to use Jobs-to-be-Done rankings – with Doug Stone

Product Innovation Educators

The steps in ranking and valuing Jobs-to-be-Done—for product managers We have talked a few times about Jobs-to-be-Done in past episodes. It is a customer discovery tool for uncovering the unmet needs of customers—the tasks they want to complete or objectives they want to achieve. Then quantitatively test them.

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Learn the Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) Framework: The Best (free and paid) Resources Available Online

Business of Software Conference

If you’re running a software company (or somehow involved in strategy) you’ll be familiar with the conversations and debates about what the “next killer feature (or product)” is going to be. The Job your Product Does , by Prof. What is Jobs-To-Be-Done? What is Jobs-To-Be-Done? Definition). Source: [link].

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2018 on Inside Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

Intercom, the product, continued to develop at a fast pace with hundreds of new features big and small – from an entirely reimagined Messenger to a thriving Intercom App Store to next generation chatbots, Custom Bots and Answer Bot. If you have a few minutes, we’d really appreciate it if you could fill in our annual reader survey.