Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 27, 2023

Lessons for product managers from PDMA’s Outstanding Corporate Innovators Award Every year the Product Management and Development Association (PDMA) recognizes an organization with the Outstanding Corporate Innovators Award (OCI). Hershey, the chocolate maker, was the last winner, in 2022.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Over the years I’ve worked alongside a number of enterprise product managers in many companies. I’m a product manager at Adobe, a company with a long product management tradition and which has produced some of the best products in the history of software. How one customer differs from another.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 11, 2017

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. As product managers, we need to find market problems, create solutions, and take the solutions to market. Operating room or aspirin?

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 18, 2017

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 first one is about “how to demo.”

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 6, 2020

How product managers can boost innovation in companies large and small. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [6:13] Customer Development, Agile Engineering, and the Business Model Canvas became the Lean Startup. How product managers can boost innovation in companies large and small.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 7, 2024

Brought to you by: • Orb —The flexible billing engine for modern pricing • Dovetail —Bring your customer into every decision • Vanta —Automate compliance. Before LaunchDarkly, she was a longtime chief product officer at Color and Optimizely.

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The Secret PM Handbook

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The definition of the ideal customer – the demographics, the characteristics, the industries – comes from Product Management. Product Management does the research to determine that there is a problem that can be solved. And that’s up to Product Management. Three Things You Can Do Today.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 10, 2017

As a product manager it’s not uncommon to feel pulled in a million different directions as you work to meet the needs of your customers, developers and company stakeholders. We have adopted Slack as the main communication tool for the Zalora engineering team. Write a Handbook. Release Notes. Documentation Powers.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Product managers are forever students; they are constantly seeking to learn and grow their skillset and knowledge. As the technology industry continues to grow, so much product managers so they don't fall behind. What better way to do so than by reading! Have fun reading away! - - - - - - - - - - - - - -.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 28, 2021

I credit overengineering for that really complex change management process or that 200 page employee handbook you may have been asked to read. I suspect it has something to do with creativity. It’s not limited to software development either?—?I

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 10, 2023

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. He has a Masters of Product Design and Development from Northwestern University and teaches Innovation Strategy internationally. AI is able to extract the statements and categorize them.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Cindy Chang, Senior Product Designer and Ulaize Hernandez Troyas, Product Manager. ” On Product Management. Builder beware: marketing tension in product-first companies. Brian Donohue, Director, Product Management. Ulaize Hernandez Troyas, Product Manager.

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The Secret PM Handbook

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

As the product manager, you understand the types of problems your solution solves. For example, if the sales person just knows that you have a project management solution, then they are only going to be able to ask about projects at a generic level. Developing Good Discovery Questions. Next Steps.

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The Secret PM Handbook

JANUARY 15, 2018

When I started as the Director of Product Management at my last company, they had a lot of successful and enthusiastic customers, a product that worked – although a bit long in the tooth – and a good lead pipeline. It’s Not Their Fault appeared first on The Secret Product Manager Handbook.

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Split

AUGUST 16, 2018

Chances are if you’re an engineer or product manager who works on anything even somewhat related to continuous delivery, Jez Humble wrote your handbook. This co-author of the Jolt award-winning Continuous Delivery also made hefty contributions to both Lean Enterprise and The DevOps Handbook. Thank you, Jez.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MARCH 28, 2018

These stories are a critical component of the knowledge that product management can provide to sales and marketing and sales engineers to help ensure sales success. For example, I often tell a story about helping a sales engineering team with their demo. It was a big challenge for me once.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MARCH 28, 2018

These stories are a critical component of the knowledge that product management can provide to sales and marketing and sales engineers to help ensure sales success. For example, I often tell a story about helping a sales engineering team with their demo. It was a big challenge for me once.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

In the perfect world, product managers have all the time, resources, and skills to do impeccable, in-depth market and user research. In the real world, product managers may have to start from scratch and quickly find something meaningful to work on. There is only the real world. Prioritise topics with the biggest impact.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 5, 2022

In Gainsight’s book, The Customer Success Professional’s Handbook, the authors shared the essential skills that every CS professional should possess. Solutions Consultant or Presales Engineer: The role of a Solutions Consultant or Presales Engineer is a Sales collaborative role. Core CSM competencies.

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Sachin Rekhi

MARCH 1, 2020

It's no wonder then that 85% of my writing stems directly from my career as a product manager and entrepreneur. I'm known as that product guy, so it makes it easier for people to easily recommend me to others or seek me out when they are looking for product-specific content. How to Prioritize a Product Roadmap.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 12, 2017

Product managers tell me – and the people managing product managers tell me – that one of their biggest challenges is communicating with the development team. Product management has all the responsibility, and none of the authority. Product requirements are our “stock in trade” as product managers.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 12, 2017

Product managers tell me – and the people managing product managers tell me – that one of their biggest challenges is communicating with the development team. Product management has all the responsibility, and none of the authority. Product requirements are our “stock in trade” as product managers.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

This wasn’t Elad’s first experience with hyper growth – Google grew headcount 10x during his time as a product manager there – nor the last. Congratulations on the High Growth Handbook. Adam Risman: Elad, welcome to Inside Intercom. What are a few of the key points in your career that led you to write about this?

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 25, 2021

The reason is that the JTBD framework (used and applied correctly) helps entrepreneurs, designers, and engineers clearly understand what “job” customers are trying to accomplish. This in turn helps you create products (or features or marketing campaigns) that resonate with customers and align with their goals.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 18, 2017

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 first one is about “how to demo.”

Demo 191

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 11, 2017

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. As product managers, we need to find market problems, create solutions, and take the solutions to market. Operating room or aspirin?

User Testing 170

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 18, 2017

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 first one is about “how to demo.”

Demo 150

Demo Agile Differentiation Product Research 150

The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 11, 2017

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. As product managers, we need to find market problems, create solutions, and take the solutions to market. Operating room or aspirin?

User Testing 150

User Testing Research Software Product Research Download 150

Gainsight

JUNE 11, 2021

The Fate of The Customer is the Future of Product Management led by Carlos González de Villaumbrosia, CEO and Founder at Product School. Properly educating your customers will bolster your product adoption in a way that is inherently a one-to-many engagement or even better, an on-demand self-paced approach.

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DISQO

JUNE 15, 2015

With the rise of ‘lean’ methodologies and literature, product managers today understand that continuously generating user feedback throughout the product lifecycle can help mitigate the risk of wasting resources to build something no one wants. While he likely never said that , the sentiment is not lost on product managers.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2018

Engineers who become managers try to code their way out of having to manage people. Designers try to design their way out of managing people. Product Managers try to whiteboard and b t their way out of it. Patrick Collison wrote a great piece about this in the High Growth Handbook.

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Iteratively Blog

MAY 31, 2020

Why should companies care about product analytics? Traditionally, implementing product analytics hasn't been easy. It takes time and involves aligning multiple stakeholders to create a working product analytics engine that you can use to drive your business forward. Document everything.

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DISQO

JUNE 15, 2015

With the rise of ‘lean’ methodologies and literature, product managers today understand that continuously generating user feedback throughout the product lifecycle can help mitigate the risk of wasting resources to build something no one wants. While he likely never said that , the sentiment is not lost on product managers.

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DISQO

JUNE 15, 2015

With the rise of ‘lean’ methodologies and literature, product managers today understand that continuously generating user feedback throughout the product lifecycle can help mitigate the risk of wasting resources to build something no one wants. While he likely never said that , the sentiment is not lost on product managers.

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The Secret PM Handbook

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Nils first met Hubert Palan in November 2014 at the Product Management Summit in San Francisco. Nils was presenting some ideas on a “ roll your own product management system of record ,” while Hubert was there to talk about the product he was building – a real product management system of record.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

Why disregarding product design books is a mistake. Books that give product managers a light about design or that give designers a light about business. The 4 most recent product design books you should be reading right now and why. ? The problem with most reading lists. ? Books that are too high-level. ?

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