The Product Manager Coach Blog

MAY 7, 2024

Core Responsibilities of a Senior Product Manager: Market and Customer Insight: Maintaining a deep understanding of customer behavior and market trends is essential for adapting product strategies to meet customer needs and capture market opportunities.

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ProductPlan

JULY 23, 2019

Product managers wear many hats, but one of the most uncomfortable ones they’re forced to occasionally don is that of the product vision “Gatekeeper.” This particular aspect of product management requires PMs to do what most people find uncomfortable… say “no.”. The importance of maintaining a product vision.

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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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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

The product manager’s responsibilities include conducting market and customer research using primary and secondary sources like interviews, surveys , or industry publications. Based on the research, PMs develop the long-term product vision and product strategy that are aligned with the overall business strategy.

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

Fear not though, as our product management software guide will give you insights into some of the best-in-class applications that will boost your team performance and help you build successful products! Roadmapping software visualizes and plans product development over time, facilitating coordination and alignment across teams.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 1, 2019

Yet, industry data shows quite the opposite – a whopping 80% of product features are rarely or never used. Of course, product teams need to develop and ship new features. Most companies say they’re not competitor obsessed , but still one in five say they look primarily to competitors for product inspiration.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

A strategic product manager (PM) is responsible for shaping and sharing a strategic vision for a product, and yet—oddly enough—finding time for strategic activities can be a very real challenge. So, how does a product manager take ownership of more than just backlog management? Developing a Product Strategy.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables. Vision: Vision Narrative. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 7, 2022

Imagine a B2B software company selling a downloadable app that enterprises install on their machines. So instead, visionary product leaders will explain the big-picture plan—the “why.” ” They’ll enthusiastically share their vision with the development team. Doing this also serves another purpose.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

Product managers are responsible for figuring out what’s worth building and what’s not, requiring a yardstick against which to measure opportunities — the purpose. Product managers must articulate what success looks like for a product and rally a team to turn that vision into a reality.

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DISQO

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The survey of more than 550 product leaders and managers from startups and large organizations in the U.S. found that product management no longer influences narrow parts of a business, and is in fact now exposed to high-level business objectives and driving a lot of organizational growth.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Nevertheless, some core roles and responsibilities of a product manager are: Develop product strategy and vision. Gather and prioritize product requests. Stay informed about industry trends. The collection of feedback can vary across teams, especially in large enterprises.

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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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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. They can lead other, more junior product managers.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Without further ado, let’s look at the list of top product designing companies to work with in 2021, based on our judgment. . Top product design companies. There are big players in every industry that have made their brands recognizable worldwide. In the design industry, these are multinational product designing companies.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2021

Are you an enterprise business leader or a start-up leader planning to offer your software product as a SaaS platform? A step-by-step approach to developing a SaaS product Take the following steps to build a SaaS platform: 1. E.g., you need to look for experience in the industry you target and the technology stack.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2019

Firstly, it is impossible to be an industry leader when other people are telling you what you should build. It is much better to think ahead and innovate to create products that fit into the bigger vision of the company. Who are the most competitive players in your industry? More About The Product Mentor.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 14, 2020

To stay ahead of the curve, product analytics needs to innovate, and that’s exactly what our team has done. Today, we are thrilled to announce Journeys, Event Explorer, and Breadcrumbs—industry-first capabilities in Amplitude that equip any team to build the next generation of products. Luckily, you don’t have to wait.

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The Product Guy

JULY 2, 2017

You want to be the product that is useable, feasible and valuable to the target audience/customer ie you’re selling yourself as the solution to some specific company’s specific problem. You can stand out from other product managers by applying these skills to yourself. Are there other industry/product types that interest you?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

Product strategy, discovery, and delivery: These are the three general dimensions for which product managers are responsible to optimize in a customer-centric organization. Product strategy exists outside the well defined guideposts of dual-track agile (a product discovery and delivery methodology).

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 18, 2022

The Benefits of Adding More Product Roadmap Viewers in ProductPlan. Product leaders across industries—software, finance, and healthcare—want a centralized location to house product initiatives and updates. It’s a balance to share the product strategy in a clear and easy-to-digest format for all audiences.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

venture capital investments, 1995–2017: [link] The burst of the bubble (also known as the dot-com crash ), took place in the early 2000s and was a critical turning point for the technology industry. Enterprises such as Qualcomm and Cisco lost some portion of their market share, while Amazon and eBay had declines in their company valuations.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

About The Product Mentor. The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People. View the live stream….

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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. They can lead other, more junior product managers.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Guest Post by: Lee Atkins (Mentee, Session 7, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Jordan Bergtraum]. Truly understanding your customers and finding ways to improve your product is an overwhelmingly daunting task. One method that Product Managers are turning too is the Customer Advisory Board. More About The Product Mentor.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

Customer Success (CS) Strategy The role of the PM here is to understand the requirements of the users, how to convert new users into repeat paying customers, and what levers to rely on in order to grow the existing customer accounts. Upsell Strategy (upgrade, expand, replace) b. To do so, the activities of the PM include: a.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

About The Product Mentor. The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People. View the live stream….

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Regardless of whether you’re building products for software, hardware, or services, product managers of every stripe are considered the driver of a product’s strategic development and the single source of truth for questions, requests, and feedback related to their products. Get internal stakeholders in alignment.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The product manager’s role is to help determine the product mission that will lead their team on a path to achieving goals, transforming visions from strategy to execution. This is what your product strategies can be targeted toward. Today, the average enterprise buys from over 900 SaaS vendors.

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Mind the Product

JULY 1, 2019

The day-to-day life of a product manager on those products will be vastly different. Questions About the Product, Roadmap, and Industry. What are the improvements the product needs in the next five years? The goal here is to learn about the product vision. What are the arguments for and against it?

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Themes are critical building blocks for your product’s strategy, each Theme is usually a statement describing an idea that is critical to the vision of your product. Each of these items are also useful when communicating your product’s strategy to various stakeholders within your organization.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Today we are witnessing what could still be considered the early days of a multi-decade digital transformation affecting almost every industry. But even as various initiatives are several years underway, many enterprises still face avoidable issues limiting their success. From downstream planning and upstream tracking to Aha!

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DISQO

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The survey of more than 550 product leaders and managers from startups and large organizations in the U.S. The research, conducted in December 2019, was the fifth annual report on the trends affecting product management teams in companies both large and small.

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DISQO

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The survey of more than 550 product leaders and managers from startups and large organizations in the U.S. The research, conducted in December 2019, was the fifth annual report on the trends affecting product management teams in companies both large and small.

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Birst BI

JANUARY 29, 2019

Operationalizing BI and analytics – that is, putting the power of data in the hands of everyone across the enterprise, not just analysts and data scientists – has always been the mantra for Birst co-founder Brad Peters. When you founded Birst, you had a vision for what BI could be. Mona Patel works in Birst’s Product Strategy team.

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The Product Guy

MAY 3, 2018

This process of allowing these different channels to paint the clearest perspective of that user is invaluable in making sure that product is being built with the user’s goal in the products vision. Products are not simply about being built. There isn’t one individual responsible for a product’s success.

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BrainMates

APRIL 2, 2019

Great Product Managers deliver products for a market segment, not for an individual or for one enterprise customer. You’ll be faced with many different requests to make a change to your product for a handful of customers, and will need to use your judgement, data, or both, to evaluate these promptly.

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