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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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

  This is a recipe for failure: there are no generic product strategies or corporate strategies , and IMHO therefore no context-free prioritization models, metrics, or product goals.  Why is this so critical to Product Management and the larger maker organization?    Etc. 

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Product Vision puts a company’s Vision and Mission into action The Product Vision ensures the Roadmap reflects the priorities which matter the most to the company’s customers and to the company. The Vision is brought to life in the Now / Next / Later roadmap, which is supported by Product Goals. No worries.

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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. Impact mapping starts with goal setting.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 20, 2019

Sydney , 21 October, What Do Product Leaders Do, and How Can I Become One? ( registration ). The day will be packed with learning, exercises, and a safe setting for career discussion. We will cover: What does a product leader actually do? How is that the same/different from what individual product managers do?

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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.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

These exercises build consensus around strategic imperatives. Companies set financial goals, compensation targets, and strategic objectives for the year. For this reason, it’s the perfect time to align those with the product vision by conducting an annual planning session. Annual planning and the product roadmap.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 8, 2020

As a product manager, you may have already learned how to plan and prioritize a product roadmap. In response to a Reddit question asking whether there are product roles that exist with a work-life balance, one user answered: "It depends. Product managers are constantly plugged in with a fear of making the wrong decisions.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2021

A flexible framework for one of today’s most important business documents “A great product manager has the brain of an engineer, the heart of a designer, and the speech of a diplomat.”?—?Deep Just like the role of a product manager can vary significantly from company to company, so can? and should?—?

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Modus Create

APRIL 30, 2020

After working with companies of all sizes, Modus has developed a process that brings product management, design, and engineering together. Modus Kickstart Workshop, Business, and Product Goals. Product Vision and Goals. The overall vision of your product is at the heart of what you are building and why.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 19, 2023

How product managers can build trust and alignment on virtual teams Today we are talking about making virtual product teams more effective. Our guest is Anna Marie Clifton, Head of Product at Vowel. Before Vowel, she held senior product management roles at Asana, Coinbase, and Yammer. Trust builds product.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

TL;DR Customer activation is a term that describes the moment your users – both new and existing customers – start to experience value from your product or service. Activation is one of the most important metrics for product managers and SaaS owners to focus on (and get right). What is customer activation?

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Guest Post by: Chirag Madnani (Mentee, Session 10, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Shobhit Chugh ]. I applied to The Product Mentor program to become a more well-rounded product manager. Often times, stakeholder management includes the understanding and management of roadblocks like these.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

To effectively staff the product team, I recommend including the people shown in Figure 1. [1] 1] Figure 1: The Product Team Members Let’s look at the product team members in Figure 1 in more detail starting with the person in charge of the product. To help you with this, I’ve created the framework shown in Figure 2.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This qualitative exercise empowers brands with customer insights. Heatmaps analytics : Heatmaps let you see which features or UI elements are the most popular in your product. Goals analytics : Let you track certain points on the customer journey and how customers progress towards them.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Step 1: Ensure that you know who the product is for and why people will want to use it. I’ll never forget the day when I suggested to the product manager of a brand-new healthcare product to prioritise its features. Let’s look at a brief example and say that I want to create a product that helps people eat healthily.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 28, 2020

At the start of the year, we all likely go through some resolution or goal-setting exercises, even if it’s only in our own heads. If you analysed and compared your performance on your best day versus your worst day, there’s a big chance that your mindset had a lot to do with it.

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Userpilot

JUNE 3, 2022

Giving users a great first impression is critically important, so defining an effective SaaS onboarding funnel has got to be a priority for any product manager. That should give you the level of insight and clarity you need to ensure each onboarding phase is engineered to meet your product goals effectively.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This qualitative exercise empowers brands with customer insights. Heatmaps analytics : Heatmaps let you see which features or UI elements are the most popular in your product. Goals analytics : Let you track certain points on the customer journey and how customers progress towards them.

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Bain Public

MAY 24, 2019

At Bain Public, we have learned a lot in the many hours and conversations spent mentoring, advising and consulting in product management. This framework also helps product managers to thoroughly consider and evaluate the initiative, pushing them to be more research and data driven. There are 4 critical components (S.O.A.P)

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Userpilot

APRIL 23, 2023

We also look at how product managers can use Userpilot to implement product metrics frameworks. TL;DR A product metrics framework is a set of metrics used to measure the performance and success of a product so that you can improve it. The Pirate/AARRR product metrics framework. And how to choose one?

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ProductPlan

APRIL 25, 2023

And instead of catchy monikers, they tend to go by the more humble titles of “product manager” and “ product operations.” Product operations vs. product management It’s never product operations vs. product management. This includes freeing up product managers for other tasks.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

I talk to a lot of PMs and I ask them (and everyone who subscribes to my newsletter) the same question: what’s your biggest struggle as a Product Manager? Having put together a fairly popular resource on product prioritization methods, I would’ve hoped the situation to be different. That’s our real job as Product Managers.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2018

This meeting is an exercise in strategy, an opportunity to take stock of where your product is, where it fits within the wider market, and where it should go. It also stretches product managers to consider their impact on the wider business, by asking them to review their products margins and revenue generating impact.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 6, 2023

Here are four examples: Joe, the sales rep, has promised a feature to an important customer without first talking to you—the person in charge of the product. It is therefore important that you exercise leadership and address the people issues you are encountering even if this can be challenging and require courage at times.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. But why is working in enterprise software now different?

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

It’s about aligning feedback with your product goals and the company’s vision A simple framework you can use: Impact vs. Effort: How impactful is the feedback, and what’s the effort required to implement it? Effective feedback management is much like curating a library.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Onboarding users is an extremely tricky exercise. Any savvy product manager will tell you that an effective user adoption strategy template would be a huge asset to crafting onboarding experiences that drive adoption and growth. Friction is a massive risk for product managers. Focus on the stage the user is in.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 7, 2022

Maximizing the internal impact of a product launch requires some advanced planning before your product appears on shelves. Read on to learn how to make the most of product launch momentum. Product goals must be defined before launch—and likely much earlier in the product ideation and development process.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 11, 2018

If you want your team to influence product, you can’t get siloed off from product and design. In typical product organizations, you’ll have different functional roles. In many cases (but not necessarily all), you’ll have your product managers (or an equivalent role), your designers, and your engineers. Not so fast.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 8, 2020

Prompted by discussions with Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh , Phil Wolff and John Sebes , I’ve been thinking about tech products that are doing harm in the world – intentionally or otherwise. And whether a code of ethics or other agreement among product leaders/product managers would be helpful. Let’s break it down a bit.

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