Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

AUGUST 21, 2018

Finding Your Product’s Critical Event(s) By now you have most likely heard the phrase “build it, they will come”. Before we talk about our experience building a dashboard (in an upcoming post), it’s good to have a primer on one key metric that is often referred to as a critical event. Steps to finding your critical event?

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Mixpanel

MARCH 15, 2024

We’re excited to introduce Borrowed Properties, where you can “borrow” a property from one event to another on the fly, and you can analyze as though that property has been tracked on that event all along. Previously, there was no way you could combine data between events.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 30, 2023

This all holds a lot of promise, but what does it mean for product managers? The Metaverse Contains Potential For Product Managers So just what is this thing that they are calling the “metaverse”? Decentraland’s proven ability to hold large-scale events is one of its appeals to product managers.

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UserVoice

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

There are plenty of fantastic ways to keep your product management skills sharp and keep up with evolving industry trends and new technologies. There’s no shortage of product management blogs, podcasts, and reading lists out there to keep you in the know.

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Good Product Manager

MARCH 18, 2019

My SiriusDecisions colleague Cristina De Martini and I are looking at agile adoption — not just within product management, but across multiple functions/departments including marketing and sales. Product Management Events This Spring. Thursday, March 28: Product School Webcast on Competitive Analysis.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 26, 2024

A technical background is a superpower for product managers, as I’ve said before. And now that AI is increasingly infused into products, it’s even more important that product managers understand the basics. For most software product managers, we’re talking about web APIs.

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Good Product Manager

APRIL 28, 2019

Many product teams – especially those working on software-as-a-service offerings – spend most of their time and energy enhancing existing products. Unfortunately, randomly adding features to products without a plan for making sure users know about and get value from them is a common mistake I see product managers make.

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BrainStation Product Management

MAY 22, 2020

Scrapping the Roadmap: Navigating Products Through Change , the latest in BrainStation’s Thought Leadership Series, took place yesterday and the panel discussion again attracted thousands of professionals around the world. Here are some of the key takeaways from the panel discussion. “We Prioritization is Key.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

For product managers , this has posed some unique challenges. In order to be an effective teammate and product manager, you need to be empathetic, flexible, and understanding to others in your company. Their behaviors and preferences are changing, so your product roadmap and mobile features should be changing as well.

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Good Product Manager

MARCH 18, 2019

My SiriusDecisions colleague Cristina De Martini and I are looking at agile adoption — not just within product management, but across multiple functions/departments including marketing and sales. Product Management Events This Spring. Thursday, March 28: Product School Webcast on Competitive Analysis.

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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Whether you’re new to the product management field or a seasoned professional, it’s always valuable to learn from your peers’ lived experiences. While you can watch the full hour-long interview here , this post breaks down four of the key lessons we learned from Ian Hassard, senior manager of product management at Auth0.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2022

To help Paul show these products in action, we’ve enlisted Mathew Cropper, our Group Product Manager, Josh Dorrell, our Product Designer, and Charlotte Sferruzza, our Senior Product Designer. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the event. Paul Adams: Hey, everybody.

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Product Management Unpacked

AUGUST 15, 2019

Greg Coticchia, the executive director of Carnegie Mellon University’s new Master of Science in Product Management program, was recently a guest on The Pitchwerks Podcast , a weekly audio show hosted by Scot MacTaggart that talks about sales, marketing and startups. That’s why Carnegie Mellon’s M.S.

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bpma ProductHub

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

He is the author of six best-selling books, Product Management for Dummies, Optimal Product Process, The Phenomenal Product Manager, Expert Product Management and 42 Rules of Product Management and is the former President of the Silicon Valley Product Management Association (SVPMA).

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Good Product Manager

APRIL 28, 2019

Many product teams – especially those working on software-as-a-service offerings – spend most of their time and energy enhancing existing products. Unfortunately, randomly adding features to products without a plan for making sure users know about and get value from them is a common mistake I see product managers make.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Product Management Planning for 2019. As we look ahead to 2019, we see increased recognition of product management as a key function, and growth in the discipline, though there are still challenges, and there is certainly room for improvement. Product Management Podcasts.

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Iteratively Blog

APRIL 7, 2020

We decided to pen down our thoughts in this article to help illustrate the hits and misses of implicit versus explicit event tracking. Defining implicit and explicit event tracking. Before you go on to read about the pros and cons of implicit and explicit event tracking, let's take a step back and define the two.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

If you’re wondering what strategic product management is, you’ve come to the right place! In the article, we’re looking at the responsibilities of strategic product managers and how they can use data effectively to shape product strategy and deliver delightful experiences to users!

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2023

An innovative product manager like yourself should be concerned about users forming a habit around your product. Nir Eyal’s hook framework: Nir Eyal hook framework Trigger : refers to the feelings or events that initiate use. How Product Managers Salvage User Habits, Part 1.

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Good Product Manager

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Top Product Management Leadership Priorities For 2020. You may remember me posting last fall about some research we were working on at SiriusDecisions/Forrester to understand the biggest challenges and priorities of product management leaders. Your Input Needed: What Product Management Loves (and Hates!)

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Good Product Manager

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Top Product Management Leadership Priorities For 2020. You may remember me posting last fall about some research we were working on at SiriusDecisions/Forrester to understand the biggest challenges and priorities of product management leaders. Your Input Needed: What Product Management Loves (and Hates!)

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

What is a technical product manager? This is the question that opens our discussion of technical product management. TL;DR Technical product managers work with engineering and development teams on the technical performance of software products. What is a technical product manager?

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Good Product Manager

MAY 25, 2017

Upcoming Events. Summer is shaping up to be a busy one for me, with lots of presentations and events already booked. June 7 webinar: The Perfect Product Team. You can listen in when I’ll be a guest on the Product Lunch webcast series, talking about what a best-in-class product management team looks like.

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Good Product Manager

MAY 25, 2017

Upcoming Events. Summer is shaping up to be a busy one for me, with lots of presentations and events already booked. June 7 webinar: The Perfect Product Team. You can listen in when I’ll be a guest on the Product Lunch webcast series, talking about what a best-in-class product management team looks like.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 11, 2023

Success engenders confidence and more success for products and, therefore, product managers. Show me a product manager whose latest release is a hit with users and driving the outcomes desired by the company. I will show you that a product manager needs to be more confident.

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Userpilot

MAY 3, 2023

Any savvy product manager should be looking at how they can leverage software usage analytics to make more informed decisions and boost product growth. In this article, we’re going to unpack exactly what usage analytics is, why you should care about it, how to use it in your product, and the best tools for the job.

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Good Product Manager

MAY 25, 2017

Upcoming Events. Summer is shaping up to be a busy one for me, with lots of presentations and events already booked. June 7 webinar: The Perfect Product Team. You can listen in when I’ll be a guest on the Product Lunch webcast series, talking about what a best-in-class product management team looks like.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Product Management Planning for 2019. As we look ahead to 2019, we see increased recognition of product management as a key function, and growth in the discipline, though there are still challenges, and there is certainly room for improvement. Product Management Podcasts.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 4, 2021

The product managers at Ticketmaster are getting ready to face the first serious competition that they have had in decades. What could possibly cause their product managers to be concerned about yet another competitor? Nathan wants to change how people get their tickets for events.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2023

Once you get into a senior product manager role, one of your key responsibilities is to mentor and manage your junior product managers. It’s because I’m on a constant journey and still learning how to mentor and manage junior product managers.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 13, 2022

(Montreal, Canada) – The Bain Public team is hosting their first ever startup event in November called Product Dayz! Over the last 5 years, Bain Public has partnered with different accelerators, such as Centech , The Holt Xchange , and NEXT AI , to give expert product workshops to growing startups. Event Information.

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Gainsight

JUNE 23, 2020

My career in events started back in 2008 as a sales associate supporting sponsorship fulfillment. I fell in love with the nitty-gritty details of my job so I ventured out of sponsorship fulfillment and dove right into event management. Pivot…Pivot…Pivaat! February 28 – a day I remember well.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 2, 2020

Remote Agile Event Planning?—?a My solution to this challenge is going the extra mile regarding the remote agile event planning. We cannot deal with firewall, VPN- or general networking issues once the big event starts.) I describe the schedule of the upcoming event: starting and end times as well as planned breaks.

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Mind the Product

JULY 6, 2020

With COVID continuing to put paid to our plans and the voice of Ross from Friends ringing in our ears, we’ve pivoted our ever-popular San Francisco and Hamburg conferences to bring you our brand new, online product event – #mtpcon Digital.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 16, 2021

I explained to him what Product Managers do. I told him that Product managers are responsible for guiding the success of a product and that they lead the cross-functional team that is responsible for building, scaling, and supporting it. In many ways, product managers are like movie directors. ????

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Ronke PM

APRIL 11, 2024

Product teams partner with their scrum teams to ensure they can prompt a poll in the aftermath of a significant event, such as the initial use of a particular feature or completion of onboarding, as this will offer a more precise response. Net Promoter Score (NPS) NPS information is owned by the marketing team in many organizations.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Product analytics Hubspot can help you to make data-driven decisions about your product development and marketing needs. From understanding customers to driving sales, analytics is a crucial tool for modern product managers. In this article, we examine what you can achieve with the product analytics software from Hubspot.

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