Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

For years now loyal readers have been asking me to package up my learnings on product management into a cohesive course on the subject. So in 2020, I took a survey of all the available product management courses out there. There were plenty of courses introducing product management to those new to the role.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

Guest Post by: Lamia Benhaddou (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Amanda Ralph]. Amanda had 18 years of product management experience and was able to clearly foresee the obstacles I might encounter in my new role. Indeed the role of a product leader is different to that of a product manager.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

Sam Lightowler’s Advice: Use a Diagram to Demonstrate Value Meet Sam Lightowler, Senior Manager of OTT Operations at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Sam Lightowler , Senior Manager of OTT Operations at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) stepped in to share her experience. and CBC Gem. and CBC Gem.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 13, 2024

Product teams are responsible for creating a strategy and explaining the “why” behind the product. Product’s role is crucial to the development of effective product strategy and stakeholder buy-in. They should not be dismissed as “ticket-takers” and can provide insightful guidance to the product.

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. As a product person, and the VP of Product at Yesware , I’ve never come to fully embrace the discussion of what each team would deliver, in what sequence and within a long timeframe. Output-Based Planning.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

This article assumes that you are familiar with the product vision board or the key elements of a product strategy : market, value proposition, standout features, and business goals. A good vision exercises pull—it describes a future state that people want to bring about. 94, How to Lead in Product Management , pp.

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Tyner Blain

MARCH 31, 2024

Shaping a product strategy involves both. Your product won’t spring into existence fully formed and ready to compete like Athena emerging fully armored from the head of Zeus. Too many teams try and use reskinned project-management tools which are helpful when sequencing instead of being helpful when shaping.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 19, 2022

Once the product-based revenue potential is rolled up across the portfolio, an enterprise number emerges to share with leadership. Of course, that product-driven revenue potential will be negotiated with leadership. In following this approach, you are taking an important and impactful step toward product-centricity.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 17, 2023

How organizations can empower product managers Today we are talking about what a product-led organization is, barriers that can prevent an organization from being product-led, and actions to create the product-led organization. I eventually got fired as a product manager. Not really.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

As you might have noticed from reading this blog, I share many stories related to my personal relationships as a means to talk about product leadership. Often it’s because so much of product leadership is about relationships. At work, things are much more complex.

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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. out of 5 stars. 54 global ratings. Where to buy?

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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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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The first product manager in a startup is a critical role with immense impact on the startup’s success?—?both Photo by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash When I joined Twiggle as their first VP Product I was the thirteenth employee. Shortly after I started, the CEO surprised me by saying I should hire a product manager.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And until now, I never thought to share the view a product leader has on roadmaps — at least publicly. I want to help you if you are new to product leadership -or- if you work for a product leader who doesn’t always communicate expectations, leaving you wondering what went wrong. Why share now? Be empathetic.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

You can download the template for free from romanpichler.com/tools, and you can find more information on how to use it in my post The GO Product Roadmap. I like to use my Product Vision Board to develop a valid product strategy. Use your vision and product strategy to make the right decisions. Learn More.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 3, 2018

But with effort, resilience, and patience, as well as the guidance from others, I have managed to become a reasonably skilled writer. This leads to a fixed mindset , where people see themselves as good or bad at something—be it writing, singing, drawing, or product management—and they believe that there is not much they can do about it.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

Product management is certainly no exception. Product managers and leaders need to find ways to keep learning and growing in an ever-evolving product environment. There’s an abundance of books, podcasts, as well as events at your disposal that cover various product management topics.

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Userpilot

JULY 8, 2021

Product manager courses are everywhere. Product management is one of the most diverse disciplines and requires an extremely broad set of skills. Additionally, the product manager role drastically changes with your seniority. Beginner product manager. Mid-career product manager.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Mindfulness provides a number of well-known benefits, such as, improved creativity, productivity, and wellbeing, and it has become popular at companies like Apple, Google, and Nike. I find that mindfulness is particularly helpful for product managers and product owners. But in reality, it reduces our productivity.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In fact, 2020 brought us so many shocks and surprises that it made identifying top trends in product management more challenging than ever. As a product leader, entrepreneur, and product management author, I have paid close attention to the product community throughout 2020.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

This is a free sample story from my book The Making of Product Managers. Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. Within two years, Negar was promoted to Marketing Manager. After graduating in 2013, she moved to London, U.K.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Moving from project-based thinking to product-based thinking is an essential part of delivering a successful digital transformation. What are the benefits of taking on such an initiative, and how does product management give you the best possible chance of success? How Does Product Management Enable Digital Transformation?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

When do you need it and how does it help product managers build better products? Impact mapping is a collaborative strategic planning technique used by product managers, product owners , and senior technical leadership, who work mostly in Agile software delivery. Roadmap management.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Find our other Product in Practice posts here. Ask 100 product managers how they ended up in their roles and you’re unlikely to hear the same career trajectory repeated twice. Ask 100 product managers how they ended up in their roles and you’re unlikely to hear the same career trajectory repeated twice.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    “ How hard could it be? 

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

A great roadmap helps PM’s achieve the following: 1, It ensures the product team understand what they are working towards, by aligning the product to the company’s short term and long term goals. Image credit: ProductPlan Roadmapping sits in the Product Strategy phase of a Product Management It’s very different to a Product Backlog.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

There are many peer-reviewed studies compiled by the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) that illustrates about half of all product development projects fail; this failure rate is especially much higher in smaller and startup companies. And, using what go-to market strategy. At what price?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2022

This little gardening exercise and the patience it required led me to think about the things in our daily work as product leaders that simply take time, and there is nothing we can do to speed up the process. It was a lengthy process, with quite a few trials and errors, until we found the right strategy.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 11, 2022

I got the leadership team together in front of a whiteboard. They don’t recognize that implementation is a critical part of their product, not an activity managed by a separate team. Treating implementation as your customer’s first impression and interaction with your product. What did I do? Ok, great story.

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Mind the Product

MAY 27, 2019

At ProductTank Montevideo (Mvd) we celebrated World Product Day earlier this month with a presentation from an awesome product leader, VP of Product Strategy at Rootstrap, Neville Reeves. Neville started with a “nine dots” exercise (you must link all nine dots using four straight lines or fewer, without lifting the pen).

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ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2020

Unless your product management stack includes a crystal ball, all those goals and resolutions we made way back in January likely didn’t take global pandemics, fluctuating economies, and social unrest into account. Reassert your leadership. Yet it’s also vital to exercise empathy. Regular roadmap reviews.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 20, 2018

Post-launch, the product manager will be responsible for managing the product lifecycle through its growth, maturity and decline phases. From a lifecycle management perspective, the product manager should monitor the following aspects of that exchange: Alignment of sales forecast and business case.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 3, 2020

Product management is an ever increasingly popular role. Whether you're an aspiring or a current product manager, you certainly have wondered how your role will look 5 to 10 years down the line. APM programs provide college new grads and early-career professionals the chance to break into product management.

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BrainMates

MAY 3, 2020

Delivering value from Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), just like product management, is cross-functional in nature. Just last year, around 60% of all M&A deals were about new products, services, technologies, markets and capabilities. This is where Product Management can help.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Your customers and prospects don’t live in a vacuum, nor can your product strategy. Implementing competitive intelligence as a strategy helps uncover future opportunities and risks. And you’ll get a sense of their revenues, financial stability, leadership team, board members, and any future acquisition activity.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Throughout my career as both a product manager and startup founder, there’s been one severely underrated skill I credit for much of my success—and that’s reading. I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

These exercises build consensus around strategic imperatives. For this reason, it’s the perfect time to align those with the product vision by conducting an annual planning session. This big-picture exercise may not put everything on the table. Annual planning and the product roadmap.

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