Mind the Product

AUGUST 23, 2017

A friend, who’s recently become a product manager, asked me that recently. She’d inherited a technical product where the engineers already had a view of the direction and deliverables required. During planning workshops the engineers were mentioning a lot of tools, methods, processes and concepts that were unfamiliar to her.

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Modus Create

APRIL 30, 2020

Just like building a house, if a product’s vision, blueprint, or the foundation is wrong, the output has serious problems. Successful projects start with everyone understanding the goals, processes, general requirements, and technologies. Collaboration Between UX, Product, and Engineering.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

Product Management in an inter-disciplinary role which tries to marry Business strategy and Marketing with Design and Engineering, hence making better products that users need. Product Roadmap Based on the Product Strategy, a quarterly and an annual product roadmap is made for the company by the PM.

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Modus Create

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Product development is exhilarating. There is something special about a team rallying around a vision and creating a product that users love. . However, it isn’t fun to redo a product every three years. Engineers love the smell of clean code and would ideally love to refactor each line. And that’s on a good day. .

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

It helps product managers communicate the steps they are looking to take to reach the product vision and fulfill their strategy while remaining flexible in case there are any bumps on the road. In addition, it helps product managers tell a story , that is, the story of where they’re heading and why.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2017

Whether you believe roadmaps should be date-based, short-term or long-term, your roadmap needs to convey the strategic direction for your product. A product roadmap has several ultimate goals. Describe your vision and strategy. Communicate progress and status of product development. Align internal stakeholders.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2019

After the first few weeks at the company, it was a messy situation where they were trying to be both a product and a service company. Due to constant change in direction that did not align with the company vision which caused key lead engineers and product managers to lose hope and quit the company. What happened next?

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 19, 2023

10:30] How do you keep virtual teams aligned on product goals and priorities? The engineer who is demoing the work talks about why it is important for the customer and what impact it’s supposed to have. This exercise means the engineers now have to know what the answer is to, “Why is this important?”

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

There are four distinct constituencies within an organization that a product manager is required to influence without authority in order to ensure the success of their product: 1. Engineers, designers, and testers on your product team. Inspire others to share your vision. Make their problems your own.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Product managers, have you ever wondered what user story mapping is? User story mapping is a simple method for converting your vision of a product into a roadmap that allows broad team collaboration and enables your entire team to see the bigger picture, how everything connects, and how to plan the minimum viable product.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

As part of her role at Livescale, she defines product vision, roadmaps and growth opportunities as well as researches and analyzes the market. Chanida has to come face to face with Livescale’s customers, including their worst realities and pain points using the Livescale live shopping product.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 14, 2018

In many cases, product managers are the liaison between technical and non-technical worlds. Supporting the engineering build of the product, the design build of the product, and the non-technical efforts for the product (Customer Success, Marketing, Sales, etc.). The same is true for an effective product leader.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 18, 2022

Product managers are the first point of contact for anyone at the company if they need to know more about the product. PMs typically work alongside many different roles and departments, especially engineering, design, sales, and marketing. The average product manager salary is around $112,000/year.

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280 Group

OCTOBER 3, 2020

What do you think about “zero bug strategies” where you don’t deliver a product with known bugs. That also means that you can’t place a fixed limit on engineers working on the “bug” workstream. Bugs create technical debt that decreases productivity as developers work on new features.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 20, 2017

Establish Understanding of the Product Vision. Jason starts by recommending that when you are about to begin work on any project with others, the whole team should understand the project vision, goals and objectives. Crucially, this cross-functional collaboration should happen early in the development process.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 11, 2022

What are some good product vision examples? How is the product vision different from the company vision? What makes a great product vision? How should product managers develop effective product vision statements? Product vision development takes a few iterations.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Unfortunately, it’s often common for companies without a product vision or plan to have a hard-driving unhealthy 24/7 work culture. Product managers are constantly plugged in with a fear of making the wrong decisions. engineers, sales, marketing, customer service). Manage Your Peers. Can you motivate them?

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Bain Public

MAY 24, 2019

It is no secret that a product manager needs momentum in areas such as product development, product sales and customer adoption in order to succeed. As a product leader, you need momentum to gain executive buy-in as well as engineering and marketing resources so that you can create interest and awareness around your product.

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Bain Public

MAY 24, 2019

But, the end result is engineers creating a product with "must have" features in which customers are not willing to pay. Founders or C-suite executives assume that the vision described in a business plan, pitch deck or through a patented prototype, will ensure competitive success. Ask yourself: why are we doing this?

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DISQO

JULY 1, 2016

To combat this, Wizeline’s Head of Product, Wendy Johansson, argues for organizations to diversify their pool of product managers. Instead of exclusively seeking product managers with engineering backgrounds, Johansson believes that those with empathy and user research backgrounds can better keep organizations aligned with customers.

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DISQO

JULY 1, 2016

To combat this, Wizeline’s Head of Product, Wendy Johansson, argues for organizations to diversify their pool of product managers. Instead of exclusively seeking product managers with engineering backgrounds, Johansson believes that those with empathy and user research backgrounds can better keep organizations aligned with customers.

User Testing 40

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DISQO

JULY 1, 2016

To combat this, Wizeline’s Head of Product, Wendy Johansson, argues for organizations to diversify their pool of product managers. Instead of exclusively seeking product managers with engineering backgrounds, Johansson believes that those with empathy and user research backgrounds can better keep organizations aligned with customers.

User Testing 40

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2021

If you require a pivotal role to facilitate communication among departments, keeping everyone aligned, you can hire a product ops manager. What Is Product Ops? Product Ops, which is short for Product Operations, is a function or a role that connects the trio of product developers, engineers, and users.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

I find it extremely helpful that the entirety of the team’s time is clearly defined, even when that line of work is not managed by the PM (such as technical debt, which should be managed by the engineering organization). Do we want to work on multiple product goals at once? Does it contribute to our current goals at all?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 6, 2023

Increasing velocity requires aligning development and engineering teams to enable not only feature development but also continuous integration. Developing only the features that are in line with product vision also increases velocity. They are higher-level projects that you need to achieve the product goals , called themes.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

Associate product managers will collaborate daily with other product team members and other adjacent teams like UX and engineering. During this work, they’ll communicate the status of their product to all relevant stakeholders. Performing validation testing of production releases, bug fixes, and feature requests.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Chapter 1: Why Product Management in the Enterprise is different First, Ben and Blair explain what a Product Manager (PM) is. “…the To execute well a Product Manager “ harnesses incentives built into all of the other teams and aligns them toward a single destination ”, Ben and Blair describe. Establish clear metrics of success.

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Userpilot

MARCH 13, 2024

Prototyping builds a minimum viable product with new feature ideas to test their impact on the user experience. The Analogy product ideation process helps you find innovative product feature ideas through analogies. Reverse engineering involves defining a goal and backtracking from it to find feature ideas to take you there.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 5, 2019

Here are five B2B product management best practices that’ll give product management teams the coveted “strategic” moniker among executives, marketing, sales, engineering and customer success teams. Vision & Strategy. ” Product 2 Goal : “Create a culture where people love coming to work.”

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

Associate product managers will collaborate daily with other product team members and other adjacent teams like UX and engineering. During this work, they’ll communicate the status of their product to all relevant stakeholders. Performing validation testing of production releases, bug fixes, and feature requests.

User Testing 98

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Process-wise, the Product Owner is accountable for effectively managing the Product Backlog, thus “owning” the product on behalf of the organization. The Product Owner can explain to any stakeholders how their requirements fit into the plan of how to achieve the product vision. co-located or distributed?—?to

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The Product Owner is also accountable for effective Product Backlog management, which includes: a) Developing and explicitly communicating the Product Goal; b) Creating and clearly communicating Product Backlog items; c) Ordering Product Backlog items; and, d) Ensuring that the Product Backlog is transparent, visible and understood.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 4, 2022

Product roadmapping frameworks work in a very similar way. There are a few routes you can take to achieve your product goals. A product roadmap is a holistic visual document that outlines your product’s growth path. Product roadmaps are a good way for organizations to prepare for the future.

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Userpilot

MARCH 16, 2023

It slows down product delivery which may lead to missed opportunities and increased costs. To avoid analysis paralysis, product managers should use the business and product goals to guide the decision-making process. If it helps you drive your product growth in the right direction, go for it.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 25, 2023

Product managers own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the product(s) they manage. This entails customer and market research, internal prioritization exercises, and tying back product goals and metrics to organizational targets and KPIs.

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Usersnap

MARCH 4, 2021

Aligning feature requests with product goals How do I set up a workflow for feature requests? Aligning feature requests with product goals. This included getting a deep understanding of our personas, and crafting a long-term product vision that would help our customers get to their desired outcomes.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

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. New movements such as agile engineering and lean product management became the core philosophy of lots of successful startups around that time.

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