People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. Product Vision puts a company’s Vision and Mission into action The Product Vision ensures the Roadmap reflects the priorities which matter the most to the company’s customers and to the company. What have you achieved over the last year?

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As Product Managers, we perfectly understand the need to generate and use customer feedback. This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. Feedback is only relevant vs. a goal and user context.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. .

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Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

Product managers often work in cross-functional teams and bridge the gap between multiple departments. Product managers need to put themselves in the shoes of company executives, other team members, and of course end users so a strong affinity for empathy will go a long way. Communication skills. Leadership.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

It defines, communicates, supports, and improves important operations which can be standardized, such as communication, planning processes, team gatherings, and training. How it’s become a critical function for scaling effective product teams. Developing and maintaining a continuing education program for product managers.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. Overengineered products are difficult to use, filled with bugs, and instead of improving your users’ lives, they make them unnecessarily complicated. Low feature adoption is one of the symptoms of over-engineering.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 15, 2021

You’ve probably also been asked “what’s your greatest strength (or weakness)” once or twice while interviewing for jobs. You may have also read the famous article ‘Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager’ by Ben Horowitz. Interview example: “I strive to be a data-driven decision maker for my teams.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 3, 2022

Product-centric and customer-centric approaches shift the emphasis away from pure technology innovation and project-based management. Understanding the difference between product-centric vs. customer-centric can help your product-centric organization focus on creating and augmenting innovative products. Customer centricity.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Horrified, he began working to create more affordable and safe products, ultimately reverse-engineering existing solutions and the processes that went into their creation. Develop Customer Empathy With MVPs. User Feedback is Essential. And thankfully, his first customer reported that his product was ‘Good’.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

Let’s face it, most organizations have poor habits around roadmap completion — this is why getting leadership (or stakeholders) to develop consistent, stable and familiar routines reinforced through repetition and communication is valuable. Do you validate the pain point and place it in a parking lot for triage?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. Allocating time for a specific research stage is often a no-go for leadership, so make the habit of interviewing customers continuously. Average ships per person in the team.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Talk to Users & Customers ?? Your First 30, 60, 90 Days as a PM Checklist Common Mistakes Made in Early Days as a PM Talk to Users & Customers: Understand Their Pain Points Abstract by Oleg Shcherba Your first order of business as a new product manager should be talking to customers!

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 2, 2020

After 10 years, this internal tool supported thousands of daily internal users across countless teams, but nobody could explain exactly what the tool was providing. The system provided different functionality for different customers and the total scope was far greater than the internal team’s staffing capacity.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Organizations create Customer Success teams to increase Net Revenue Retention, and we’ve recently published research showing that NRR drives valuation. But, then, organizations find that the baseline impact of simply having a CS team eventually plateaus–your NRR stagnates. You may also look outside the CS team.

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Mind the Product

MAY 14, 2018

It was only after director and screenwriter James Gunn sent out this tweet that I realised the same can be said of product management: It’s worth reading his whole thread but essentially his point is that, while people don’t die if you act badly, to act well you need years of training, practice, experience, and honing your skill set.

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Mixpanel

OCTOBER 17, 2022

If you are a growing business, it’s common to add more people–more developers, more designers, more product managers. The ratio between engineers and product managers or designers in our company is very high. My product team is small, which ends up being great because I don’t prefer to have an overly large team with multiple layers.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The focus of product management is overseeing product development at all stages of its lifecycle. A product manager's role is to coordinate the work of various teams across the organization with the shared goal of developing products. SMART goals are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound.

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UserVoice

JULY 31, 2017

The customer onboarding process is a vital stop on the path to customer happiness and product success. In This Article: Why Gather Product Feedback During New Customer Onboarding? Forget Your Customers, What Are Your Account Manager’s Pain Points? 5 Easy Ways To Collect Feedback During Onboarding.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

There’s a science to successful customer onboarding, and following the client onboarding best practices in this article will set you on the right path. Read on as we explore client onboarding and how to combine creativity, thoughtfulness, and the right onboarding software to help customers ‘get’ your product. Less churn. Less churn.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. We’ll be in touch with you to discuss your challenges further, and to come up with a custom solution for you! They provide custom web design services that help clients achieve their brand and digital marketing objectives.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. We’ll be in touch with you to discuss your challenges further, and to come up with a custom solution for you! They provide custom web design services that help clients achieve their brand and digital marketing objectives.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Situation: You’ve painstakingly constructed a roadmap after consulting with various stakeholders, the development team, and your peers. Remember, they’re dealing with board members, investors , and customers who may be applying pressure. Even the boss has a boss, not to mention demanding customers. Sympathize.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Are you willing to shape it and head straight to the development process? In this article, we’ll help you distinguish the starting and end points for the product development and guide you through the MVP, MMP, MLP, MDP, and MAP startup stages. test your concept’s problem/solution fit with potential customers.

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Userpilot

JUNE 9, 2021

A Product Manager builds the product by identifying customer needs and creating specifications for developers. They also ensure it fulfills the business’s wider objectives, do the initial research, user interviews, and collect user feedback and data. How to get your first Product Management job. TL;DR – Post Summary.

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Userpilot

MARCH 13, 2024

TL;DR Feature ideation is a process through which product teams brainstorm ideas for new features to introduce to their product. It helps you meet user needs, enhance user experience , improve product value, and gain a competitive advantage. Why do you need feature ideation in your product development process?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A healthy relationship between product management and engineering is critical to building successful products. It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to work. Except, we live in the real world where life is messy, responsibilities overlap, specifications change, and the way teams interact can introduce friction.

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Roadmunk

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Listen to it below: For context: As a company that builds roadmapping software for product people, we’re immersed in the product community. They’re open to sharing their own experiences of working in product (both the good and the bad) in very honest ways—and they’re very generous with advice. If it does, then great.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Instead of relying on someone else (like a coach or leader) to tell them what to do next, product teams can use an opportunity solution tree to keep track of their desired outcome , the opportunities they’ve identified to chip away at that outcome, and the solutions they’re considering to address those opportunities.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

TL;DR A product manager leads the product management team and is responsible for overseeing all stages of the product development process. Typically, product managers are responsible for market and user research, product discovery , feature prioritization , and roadmapping. The Product Manager is next on the ladder.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

First, how can product managers establish processes to enable their teams to succeed? Processes include forums to sync with different members of your team and other teams, forums to get leadership alignment, ensuring high quality of deliverables, and OKR planning. Second is setting up the right funnels for access to users.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 18, 2021

In previous episodes, we’ve talked about how customer feedback and cross-team collaboration play a crucial role in the features and updates we build here at Intercom. Or rather, two – conversation topics and custom reports. I mentioned at the start our company values: obsessesing over our customer success.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

It’s even harder when product managers and engineers are bogged down with work that distracts them from their highest leverage activities of identifying problems and building products people want to use to solve those problems. At its core, product operations enables product teams to achieve better outcomes. What Is Product Operations?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

These are our improv techniques for conducting user interviews, consolidating user pain points to create solutions, humanizing your customers, and working with your team to bring it all home. We hope they come in handy for you and your team.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 17, 2024

If you do not scale, you will be unable to reach a new pool of customers and your competitors will leave you in the dust. If you scale prematurely, you may struggle to satisfy customer expectations. Scaling involves finding the right timing, understanding customer psychology, and making critical decisions to drive product-led growth.

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Usersnap

OCTOBER 31, 2023

I → Identify the Customer R → Report the customer’s needs C → Cut, through prioritization L → List solutions E → Evaluate tradeoffs S → Summarize recommendation Let’s decode these steps in detail in the following section. – People with age >60 years Should the solution be disabled-friendly?

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 17, 2023

In this week’s newsletter, I’m focusing on articles which will help you navigate through the product management fog and learn practices that help setup product teams for success. To ensure your team’s success, think beyond your own team. which bring more value and benefit the organization - not just your team.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 16, 2020

Before moving to super app Gojek to lead its efforts on mass financial inclusion, Adam Darcy developed PayMe, a product that has helped to transform the way young people in Hong Kong think about HSBC. We validated the pain points using focus groups and user interviews, and we quantified them using a survey. The Results.

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