Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Women are still underrepresented in the Product Profession – with only 33.3% of US Product Managers being female in 2021, according to a metastudy of 30 million profiles conducted by Zippia : Source: [link]. Melissa Perri – Speaker, consultant, and teacher in Product Management. CEO of Product Labs.

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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. Better Products.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Looking to become a B2B Product Manager? This career guide offers a detailed overview of the best B2B product management training options. It also describes valuable skills you need to learn and career paths within product management, among other things. Well, you’re in the right place.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

The product manager career path is an exciting one with lots of possible on- and off-ramps. According to LinkedIn, interest in product management has doubled in the United States in the past 5 years. What is the Product Manager’s Career Path? Typical Product Management Roles. Product Manager.

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Good Product Manager

MARCH 29, 2016

In this SiriusDecisions blog post , I share some insights from our research, including whether product managers and marketers felt they had a consistent process for understanding, prioritizing and applying needs, and what their roles and responsibilities were for uncovering needs. This is shaping up to be a very busy spring!

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

When people (and VCs) aren’t spending money easily, you must be super sharp with your value proposition, positioning, product, marketing, and sales. While I understand this distinction, I believe that a company cannot reach real product-market fit without nailing down its GTM, and vice versa. Here is how it works.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

If you’re just dealing with tough market conditions, the situation is different but the conclusion is quite similar: When people (and VCs) aren’t spending money easily, you must be super sharp with your value proposition, positioning, product, marketing, and sales. Here is how it works. What had changed?

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

From high school to business school, and throughout my professional career, I was supremely comfortable with it , and reveled in solving problems, to the appreciation of my managers, colleagues, and teachers. Management guru, Peter Drucker had said, if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. 3) How should I go about solving it?

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Mixpanel

MARCH 30, 2020

Latest studies note that only 35% of product manager roles are filled by women, and most of those roles are entry-level positions, meaning they are often removed from influential decision making. Meanwhile, if you’re looking to start or advance your career in product management, check out AWIP’s job board. Let’s dive in.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

The product manager career path is an exciting one with lots of possible on- and off-ramps. According to LinkedIn, interest in product management has doubled in the United States in the past 5 years. What is the Product Manager’s Career Path? Typical Product Management Roles. Product Manager.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. You can read her writing on ProductTalk.org.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 23, 2017

We’re delighted to announce our first three speakers, who will share their unique insights on building products in SaaS, how to be more creative and innovative, and how to change enterprise culture; Tickets are on sale now! At Macromedia she was responsible for new products and businesses that leveraged the Flash Player.

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Good Product Manager

MARCH 29, 2016

In this SiriusDecisions blog post , I share some insights from our research, including whether product managers and marketers felt they had a consistent process for understanding, prioritizing and applying needs, and what their roles and responsibilities were for uncovering needs. This is shaping up to be a very busy spring!

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 23, 2021

Two weeks ago Grant Hunter discussed what is product management. I am sharing this episode now because Steve Johnson, who is also a business partner with Grant, did a masterful job at the Summit, describing the real nature of product management. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [0:55]

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2019

After leaving the Navy and working on nuclear submarines, Dan Olsen embarked on a career that has spanned enterprises and start-ups, consulting, speaking, writing, and running the Lean Product & Lean UX meetup. He joined us to talk about product/market fit: what it is, how to know when you have it, and how to achieve it.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 28, 2019

Most product managers are driven to achieve excellence in their craft. Many, however, get stuck in what I call “product consultant” mode and cannot break out of it. Many product managers never get to launch a product, let alone own one. Accumulating Product Management Scar Tissue.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

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. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The disruptive growth approach focuses on gaining market leadership with a lower-cost product, which will help capture new customers. Disruptive products are low priced and high volume. The products are easy to use and provide immediate results for customers. Make sense of your data.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

The responsibilities of product teams include facilitating product discovery , launches and releases , customer onboarding , feature adoption, and account expansion. A well-structured product team requires a product leader – either a product manager or a product owner. Product Team Roles.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry. It is a well-established company, a leader in its domain, but it still needs to deliver new products to the market so product-market fit is a very relevant topic.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and the go-to-market side (sales, marketing, customer success) of tech firms, especially at B2B/enterprise software companies.  That  This is a must-close.”

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you are the new product leader of your company, your company might be in product leadership debt. I had already been blogging for a while when she was born, so some of you might remember me writing about how I applied product management practices in the many decisions I needed to make around her birth , for example.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

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. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Failure modes that often come up: Exec teams don’t know what Heads of Product do, or want someone who will “make development more efficient”. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity. Each department wants to hire in its own image.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

In my experience, there’s usually a fundamental misalignment between two broad groups at software companies – especially B2B/enterprise companies — that I’ve been thinking/writing for a while.  One Get it done, and move on.  I hear this every day, in every sector, at every stage of growth.  So

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Get ready to dive into insightful discussions, practical strategies, and real-world examples that will empower you to create and manage products that meet user needs and leave them truly satisfied. Product Drive is Userpilot’s FREE online event where experts from top companies come to share growth and marketing insights.

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ProductBoard

JANUARY 29, 2019

Find the product management conferences you can’t afford to miss in 2019 with this complete list of every product management conference by region and date. Product management conferences and events are an excellent way to learn product management best practices and network with your fellow product managers.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Ladislav Bartos Product Manager, Gumtree.com.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Especially in B2B/enterprise software companies, I see two dramatically divergent ( incompatible ) worldviews that IMO explain a lot of corporate behavior. Enterprise Sales and Solutions Teams… Are paid/rewarded/promoted for working with individual prospects or customers one at a time.  Sales

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

It took me time to understand that I need to present myself as a product leadership coach and product strategy expert rather than a consultant. When you are product-led, the company had decided that it is going to grow by selling the same product to each customer. That’s the whole reason VCs invest in startups.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 18, 2024

Something that comes up periodically in my product leadership coaching sessions: “As a Director or VP of Product, how do I get folks outside my immediate span of control to make improvements or do their jobs better or take my advice?”    Unpacking those: Sales’ motivation to sell new products. 

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. Why product management is essential to business success. They are product driven but not in the sense of developing products and then finding customers for the products.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Guest Post by: Julian Dunn (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Vikas Batra]. I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. Thus, I arrived at the Product Mentor program with ambitions to learn strategy development from a seasoned product mentor.

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Mixpanel

APRIL 27, 2020

Leading a product team in a startup—where it’s basically you, or maybe you and one other person—is far different from leading a large product management team for a well-established company. When you’re a startup and you’re looking for product-market fit, you need to be ruthless.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2022

Product managers need to talk to customers. Photo by David Clode on Unsplash In SVPG’s Coach the Coaches workshop held last month in London, Marty Cagan talked about the fact that product managers must have direct access to customers. Raviv was a seasoned manager with many years of experience. I felt so grateful.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Build persona foundations from research In the spring of 2022, I had recently joined Mixpanel and was tasked with solving “our enterprise adoption problem.” For even more qualitative data here, we use an automated enterprise Slack channel. This exercise developed our team’s first principles for understanding who we’re solving for.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

For instance, they invited their product manager, Leah, to join Slack. In either case, eBay would evolve from being a paying customer to becoming an enterprise-grade paying customer. At this point, they no longer wanted to rely on other forms of communication when interacting with people outside their team.

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