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3 Empowerment Levels in Product Management

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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Why Market Leadership Starts With Product Management

Product Management University

But products are the nucleus, and that means market leadership starts with product management. There are the obvious things product management does. I want to focus on the responsibilities of B2B product management that don’t get much airtime. To some product managers, market is synonymous with users.

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If I Were Building a Product Management Organization From Scratch, It Wouldn’t Have Product Managers

Product Management University

Don’t sweat it, product manager purists. Building a product management organization in this manner gets you into your dream job, the strategic product management role you’ve always wanted, and your new title reflects your actual responsibilities. You own the day-to-day care and feeding of your products.

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Product Managers – More Strategic as Product CEO or Portfolio Executive?

Product Management University

The product CEO analogy for product managers has been around forever, but when you think about it, does it really make sense for B2B software? Every product manager wants to have a reputation for being strategic. What is Strategic Product Management? Here’s an example. Let’s have a look see!

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

Explore proven solutions, laying the groundwork for triumphant product launches. Gain inspiration from real-world success examples from top digital companies, offering invaluable insights into their winning strategies.

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OKRs in Product Management

Roman Pichler

Let’s say, for example, that the objective is to “increase engagement.” This is done by using higher-level key results as lower-level objectives, as the following example shows. Goals in Product Management. Does this mean that there is a natural fit between goals in product management and OKRs?

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Empathy in Product Management

Roman Pichler

The opposite is true: You can empathically address unhelpful and inappropriate behaviour, as the following example shows. Imagine that John is a sales rep and a key stakeholder who hardly ever attends the product strategy workshops you’ve invited him to. Instead, he requests product roadmap changes by talking directly to you.

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. Attendance of this webinar will earn one PDH toward your NPDP certification for the Product Development and Management Association.

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Products for Product People: Best Practices in Analytics

Speaker: Andrew Wynn, Senior Product Manager, Looker

Who builds products for the product people? As a product manager, you know how helpful custom tailored data solutions can be to doing your job well. Learn product analytics best practices from Andrew Wynn, Product Manager at Looker. In this webinar, we'll cover: Real examples for different verticals.

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How to Develop a Recession-Proof Product-Led Strategy

Speaker: Wes Bush, Author of "Product-Led Growth"

As PMs, we all know the importance of building a successful product-led growth strategy. Zoom, Stripe, and Airtable are all examples of software companies with strong PLG strategies. How to adjust your product-led strategy during uncertain times. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours!

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Navigating the Product Tightrope: Balancing Innovation and Current User Demands

Speaker: Jason Brett - Founder & Chief Product Officer, Product Coffee

In today's rapidly evolving market, product managers face the challenge of driving innovation while also meeting the needs and expectations of their existing user base. This webinar aims to equip you with strategies and insights to successfully navigate this delicate balancing act.

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How Product Managers Can Learn to Love Reporting

Speaker: Eric Feinstein, Professional Services Manager, Looker

For a long time, Product Managers have found it challenging to design interfaces inside their products that users could use for reporting. Eric Feinstein, Professional Services Manager at Looker, has done workshops with product managers who are looking to add effective reporting.

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Why Product Managers Must Relearn Their Customers

Speaker: Janelle Estes, CIO, User Testing

The impact on businesses cannot be understated, and product managers have felt the brunt of it. So how do you adapt your product development process knowing that your customer's behaviors and expectations have completely changed over the past year? Real-life examples of this process.

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How Product Managers Can Define a Product Vision to Guide Their Team

Speaker: Christian Bonilla, VP of Product Management at UserTesting

Defining the product vision is a high-stakes exercise, which makes it all the more important to avoid some common pitfalls product managers encounter: confusing the company’s vision with their product vision, defining a vision that’s too abstract to be useful in strategic planning, or combining the “what” and the “how” in the product vision.

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How to Achieve Product-Market Fit

Speaker: Dan Olsen - Product Management Trainer and Consultant, Author, and Speaker

Everyone working on a product is trying to achieve the same goal: product-market fit. But most products fail to do so. In this webinar, product management expert Dan Olsen will share his simple but effective framework for achieving product-market fit from his book The Lean Product Playbook.