The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 30, 2020

But, effective leadership skills need to be used to overcome and manage such resistance. This is also a good way to find the elusive product market fit. Market Research. Many product teams just do the market research at the initial stages of product development. The market dynamics can change overnight.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 27, 2022

These exercises give teams many insights into what customers care about and their pain points, with enough quantitative data to validate assumptions and win over stakeholders. Another place to dedicate budget dollars is accessing market research from industry analyst firms such as Gartner or Forrester. Customer Surveys.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

You must elevate these business-critical strategic components of your product leadership role into your schedule on a regular–even daily–basis. Strategic Roadmap : Develop a cross-functional strategic roadmap that factors in dependencies needing alignment (sales and marketing efforts related to a product launch, for example).

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 4, 2022

And you’ll get a sense of their revenues, financial stability, leadership team, board members, and any future acquisition activity. The exercise itself may illuminate and flesh out the broader competitive landscape. Market research companies may be worth considering if you’ve got some budget to play with.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 5, 2020

The point of this exercise is to practice your active listening skills. Practice user research to understand your user’s behavior and draw insights for your product! Leadership Becoming a great PM doesn’t stop at getting to know your users. Leadership Becoming a great PM doesn’t stop at getting to know your users.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

One of the main good things about having a roadmap is the chance for collaboration that this exercise brings. This description of role is also related to the concept of product leadership, as you can see in more detail here. Whenever you do this exercise, bear in mind that things are not set on stone.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

That was a good exercise and that was learning number one: Breaking it down into its smallest pieces and aligning on something and learning together as a team, I think unblocked a lot. The next thing we learned is that actually, we struggle to understand how we prioritize and how we do research. That’s amazing. Kudos to you.

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Sequent Learning

JULY 30, 2018

The first exercise we do in our product management essentials workshops is to have the participant teams (there are typically 4-5 teams grouped by tables) list the challenges that a product manager faces and then draw a picture of a Product Manager. Art: collaboration, vision, creativity, storytelling, leadership, positioning.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2022

These exercises give teams many insights into what customers care about and their pain points, with enough quantitative data to validate assumptions and win over stakeholders. Another place to dedicate budget dollars is accessing market research from industry analyst firms such as Gartner or Forrester. Customer Surveys.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We’ve broken up the senior product manager interview questions guide into the following categories: Product Management Questions Product Planning Questions Product Strategy Questions Leadership Questions Let’s take a look at the questions in each category. How do you figure out what your customer needs from your product?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

Future-Backwards Exercise: Bring relevant stakeholders together to imagine the best and worst possible futures that could happen given the company’s current vision, strategy, and market conditions. Look for troubling trends like increasing churn, low engagement, or a growing number of bugs. Prioritise topics with the biggest impact.

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Userpilot

JULY 8, 2021

This requires a special type of leadership and strong communication skills, most of which can only be effectively learned on the job through experience. It’ll cover all important aspects of product management including market research, prototyping, and implementing product analytics. The best part? Conclusion.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 4, 2016

this is why a critical skill of product owner is leadership without authority. Step 3: Exercise [link] : Codecademy is not very easy to follow (maybe just my thoughts), because it won’t teach you the higher level idea, so you couldn’t have an overall understanding and it’s easy to lose in the details. Everyday’s tasks are different.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

A designer, for example, may have been interested in arts as a kid and loved to exercise his creativity. 2) Foundational research can’t be a block in the process Products with no meaning tend to be a huge and fast failure. However, this process can’t last forever and/or block team’s work.

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

Elizabeth Grantham – Founder and Product Owner at TheOptimal.me – subscription exercise plans for mature women. Aunkita Nandi – Managing Director and Product Manager at Tier5 Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd – web development and digital marketing products. Recognise and embrace your uniqueness.

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Userpilot

MARCH 3, 2022

This includes market research (potential employers), understanding product strengths (your value to the customer), iterative development (subsequent drafts), or refining the UI (formatting). For instance, write how much money you made for your previous employers or how much work satisfaction of your team improved under your leadership.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 20, 2024

The process involves researching the target audience’s problems, needs, and motivations, and creating user personas representing key customer segments. Use customer and market research insights to clarify your value proposition, focusing on how the product addresses customer needs and stands out from competitors.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

And ultimately, what happens with the product that you’re maintaining that’s been around for a number of years is that you’re only improving it on the margins, you have to kind of launch a whole new version to really get in and like really exercise your skills. I can’t we don’t do market research.

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