Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

We ran through various exercises in the first week to give us direction, including user journey mapping , product in a box , and the speedboat game. The output from a product in a box game, where we imagined how we would position the product if it was on sale in a supermarket. This is what we did.

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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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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Since product development is often a blank canvas (particularly in startups) the sheer number of possible scenarios and opportunities you might want to explore can be overwhelming: Should we build a mobile app or not? A deep dive into the tools, frameworks and processes used by product managers from top companies.

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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. The answer is simply: product roadmaps and product development !

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Tyner Blain

DECEMBER 10, 2014

This is important, and can affect product managers because increasing the cost of deliverables affects the bang-for-the-buck calculations , and therefore prioritization decisions. Products fail because of misunderstanding of the phrase minimum viable product. Ramli John makes this bold assertion in an excellent article.

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Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 31, 2016

I gave some my 2 cents based on my experience helping startups and growth folks. I recently asked a handful of folks from the Reforge Collective about the questions they ask when interviewing candidates for competitive positions in growth. They asked a great question – how do you interview for growth folks?

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

How did Amazon’s product strategy fare during the pandemic? Short answer: Amazon’s product strategy example lead the way). Amazon’s product strategy example has rewritten the book on convenience, easy access, and speed, and in doing so, embedded itself in the daily lives and routines of consumers.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 27, 2013

The role of product management in technology firms is a critically important one that is often misunderstood. And while the scope of your product can also vary from a small feature to the entire product strategy for a company, the core discipline remains the same.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2018

So the product management is the only one function that is offering business startups the significant advantages such as in setting up business objectives, targeting markets to deliver measurable products and services, and prioritizing the goals of startups. Still confused about the concept of product management?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: You can’t balance short-term and long-term investments without considering the existing product strategy. If the product isn’t in good shape, R&D needs to prioritize getting it up to speed before focusing on the next thing. But you can overthink this thing, for sure.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

Starting with Content and Process as our two pillars, we set out to compile a list of key must-have traits for what we believed made for a compelling product vision, based on our research and own experiences. Think bigger: what is the product’s significant purpose that will motivate team members on a deeper, intrinsic level?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Last month, for example, I met a startup, which had a good indication from the market that their initial product direction was viable. The people they talked to wanted to test their product, they loved what they saw, and were intrigued to hear and get more. Was it the right choice?

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

” It was very output focused for sure, like, “Let’s build this thing” or “Let’s build this thing to be able to tell a story or market a thing,” but it wasn’t driven necessarily by that strategy upfront. I know for a lot of startups, it’s really output driven and by the founder, right?

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Below are some of the high-level category of KPIs you want to continuously measure and many of them would have come out of the exercises we covered in the previous couple of posts. The individual KPIs that make up each category may vary depending on your product/business: Awareness?—?(top

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2019

Or is it like, “Hey, if this is a consistent pattern then we need to make sure no one ever repeats, we’ll have a principle about the positive behavior that we want.” And this idea of “not now” is really powerful, because saying no is really critical to any kind of product strategy and product execution.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

All of this is why I find the best way to articulate a strategy is as a set of product/market fit hypotheses that you are constantly iterating on and refining. One of the most important responsibilities of product managers is to lead customer discovery efforts to help inform what product to build and how to build it.

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

Carlotta Basile – Associate Product Manager at Bruel & Kjaer UK Ltd – company offering acquisition and vibration software, transducers, ear simulators, sound level meters, measurement exciters, noise mapping, and positioning systems. How did you end up becoming a product manager/ product owner?

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BrainMates

APRIL 2, 2019

Of course, there are many kind ways to say ‘no’ (check out this great article by Sebastien Phlix, Product Manager at Typeform, on the art of delivering a ‘ Positive No’ ). In start-ups, Product Managers often report that founders don’t allow them to steer the Product Strategy and Roadmap.

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Department of Product

AUGUST 2, 2020

A product that has invested heavily in integrating content into the overall experience oozes quality. If you’re aiming to launch a new product in the B2B space your vocabulary may need to alter slightly to cater to a different audience. What’s the business strategy and what’s the product strategy? You can feel it.

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UX Studio

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

You know, I’m going to talk about that, why that change happened, but basically what I do as of today is I help our clients to explore new ways to grow new product strategies, formulate product goals and product vision, and I also help shape the scope of the product. And then from there, I switched to design.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Whereas in smaller teams, product managers don’t have much help. They’re in charge of driving the entire product management process themselves. Nevertheless, some core roles and responsibilities of a product manager are: Develop product strategy and vision. Gather and prioritize product requests.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Just to give us a bit more of an idea of what we’re working with here today, I thought it’d be nice if we did a quick exercise. You heard Teresa’s definition of product discovery. We are wrapping our heads around it, we see the first positive impacts of it. Zero is: never heard of product discovery.

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Arpit Rai

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The motivation behind writing this post is that I have never done a detailed exercise like this in the past for a product that I’m not involved with professionally. In turn, there will be a strong positive impact on Slack’s business metrics such as MAU/WAU/DAU, revenue etc.

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Arpit Rai

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The motivation behind writing this post is that I have never done a detailed exercise like this in the past for a product that I’m not involved with professionally. In turn, there will be a strong positive impact on Slack’s business metrics such as MAU/WAU/DAU, revenue etc.

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Arpit Rai

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The motivation behind writing this post is that I have never done a detailed exercise like this in the past for a product that I’m not involved with professionally. In turn, there will be a strong positive impact on Slack’s business metrics such as MAU/WAU/DAU, revenue etc.

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