Product Management University

APRIL 12, 2021

You’re now in a great position to tell everyone what you’re going to do, why, and how it’s going to benefit them and the customers. With market dynamics and customer business priorities as the backdrop, you’re now in a position to make well-informed decisions on portfolio and product investment priorities.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 29, 2020

What does leadership entail in the context of design? How does an organization benefit from strong design leadership? Leadership as a topic is an extensive and broad area of science, and many other aspects are essential, such as intrapersonal communication or managing resources, just to mention a few. Listen first. Find purpose.

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Userpilot

JULY 23, 2023

Product Manager : Defines the product vision, roadmap , and features, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure the product meets customer needs and market demands. Below are the main positions and how they contribute to building a solid GTM strategy. Create product vision and strategy. Who is part of the GTM team?

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People-First Product Leadership

MAY 6, 2024

I bring this up given a reference Brene Brown and Amy Webb made to Harvard leadership and innovation expert, Linda Hill — the “biggest challenge to digital transformation is not technology, it's people.” Thanks for reading People-First Product Leadership! Thank you for reading People-First Product Leadership.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Excellent leadership skills, a fundamental understanding of product management, and a strong portfolio of success are the recipe for success. If you’re looking to move forward from a product manager position, you need to have a formal degree. At times, it also shows your potential for a product leadership role.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

You see this when you have a strong vision-led founder, or an organization where the culture encourages risk-averse decision making…in other words, your typical hierarchical structure. Go ahead and talk with peers in sales, marketing, engineering, product managers, design, support, finance, and so on. really love?—?your your products.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Product managers are responsible for establishing a product’s vision and long-term business strategy while ensuring that all stakeholders are aware of said strategy. While it is a senior position, there are numerous career paths, such as Group Product Manager (GPM) and Principal Product Manager (PPM). Then look no further.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 22, 2021

Today there is a new school of leadership emerging to remove this frustration. It’s called empowering leadership. This leadership style encourages leaders to give freedom and responsibility to people and stop controlling and micromanaging them. If done right, empowering leadership can free up a lot of time for managers.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Again, that can be a lot to take in, and many new challenges might present themselves on a day-to-day basis when working in this position. Such skills include Responsiveness Versatility Adaptability Leadership Therefore, if you want to succeed in this role, you’ll need to be a very strong and dependable manager.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

This mid-level product role is like the associate-level product manager position. When are you ready to move from Product Manager to a senior position? Build business cases, articulate strategy, sell your vision to leadership, understand the market, analyze consumer engagement, lead your team, etc. Set a vision.

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BrainMates

MAY 7, 2019

This means, “Given enough time and enough promotion levels, every position in a firm will be occupied by someone who can’t do the job. ”. Product Leaders who claim the title without actively seeking formal leadership learning and coaching are doing a disservice to those who serve their people and this great profession.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

As professionals who work in such a technology-driven field, technical product managers need to understand the technical intricacies of the product vision they are managing. Step 4: Build a Portfolio Landing a position as a technical product manager requires more than a one or two-page resume.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

This mid-level product role is like the associate-level product manager position. When are you ready to move from Product Manager to a senior position? Build business cases, articulate strategy, sell your vision to leadership, understand the market, analyze consumer engagement, lead your team, etc. Set a vision.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

How product strategy uses a company's vision to fuel profitability. Follow her for a good dose of career advice combined with a neverending supply of positive energy. Alexandra’s podcast empowers women in Product to think bigger about their careers and shoot for the leadership positions in their organizations.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 20, 2020

With that in mind, I started to dig into these articles and relate to how we’re addressing organizational leadership with Path to Agility ®. I wholeheartedly agree with the need to “create balance from the top” as a central tenet of leadership engagement. The Agile Leadership Team. HBR article setup. Balance from the Top.

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Amplitude

JULY 29, 2020

Product Mission and Vision. A product vision is the big-picture “why” of your company. When your teams are aligned around the mission, this becomes the driving force to make your product vision a reality. Your product vision describes the world that your company wants to create. Vision: being the best, around the world.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

Well, the CPO position has certainly grown and evolved over time. In short, the CPO oversees all aspects of a product’s vision, design, and development. It’s the CPO’s job to make sure that impact is positive. A CPO should be able to craft a vision that energizes the entire company.

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BrainMates

MAY 7, 2019

This means, “Given enough time and enough promotion levels, every position in a firm will be occupied by someone who can’t do the job. ”. Product Leaders who claim the title without actively seeking formal leadership learning and coaching are doing a disservice to those who serve their people and this great profession.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 10, 2018

marketing, finance, operations, brand etc.?—?again, Lead with the strength of your ideas : In my mind, thought leadership is one of the best ways to influence. The long game starts with a compelling vision for your product that you rally and inspire the entire organization around. There is a long game and short game here.

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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’ ). Being a Product Manager is a leadership role, not an order-taker role. A Product vision is key to delivering great products. Shy away from taking initiative?

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 12, 2022

10:49] What are the challenges that leaders face in getting other senior leadership in the organization aligned around feature prioritization? If you know someone wants a promotion, you can position your product as something that will make them more visible as a successful contributor to something awesome. [24:22]

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 9, 2022

Many UX designers try to swap out their UX hat for a PM position instead. Of course, many UX professionals may have shown leadership in their current positions. As a PM, excellent communication skills and leadership will be an expected part of the position. Can I ask my boss for a pathway to a PM position?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

business models, your product/business, finance, sales, marketing, scaling) 4. Product vision, strategy, goal setting User experience. understanding business models, finance, sales, marketing, scaling) Every part of the company works together to create and deliver value to its customers. Finance ?—?“ On to chunk #3… 3.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Not only that: giving back requires active involvement and implementing solutions in response to product leadership challenges and Canadian startup ecosystem expectations. How else does Bain Public have a positive effect on the Canadian startup ecosystem? 2021 has been a year full of growth and prosperity for Bain Public.

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Pragmatic Marketing

MAY 23, 2017

It brings to mind strong leadership skills, influence and accountability, all key traits of successful product managers. Based on their position, control of resources and ability to reward and punish, they are the company’s final decision-makers. They must rely on persuasion and inspiration to make a positive impact.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Between working with the co-founders on the strategy, validating concepts with the users, assessing the analytics, driving features and functionality with the team, and working with finance on the new business model, marketing on acquisition, and the warehouse on fulfillment, you can imagine the workload Kate faced on a daily basis.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2020

Steering stakeholders towards a common vision in the highly cross-functional product manager role doesn’t have to be daunting when working remote I’m used to having the discipline of planning my life around work in the office. With the transition to remote, you should make sure they still know you’re there for them.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 4, 2021

This means their business models focus on using technology to apply innovations to the finance space. Both companies are actively hiring new engineers at the moment, but which should you choose? Both Coinbase and Robinhood are financial technology or FinTech companies.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

You speak finance, technical and customer, connecting the dots for all three. They are responsible for all product activities within an organisation, creating the overall product strategy to achieve the corporate vision and goals set by the CEO and board members. You observe, interrogate and solve their problems. You are multilingual.

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ProductPlan

JULY 6, 2020

When you’re just getting things started, an anything-goes, Wild West attitude can sometimes be a positive. The “CEO of the Product” concept goes out the window, and CTOs, salespeople, and finance folks will now be interfacing with multiple representatives of the product organization. A Unified Destination.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 18, 2021

From finance and investment banking to product? And if they do return to their previous position, they have more inroads back into Product. Sometimes that has to happen in a general management position. In those roles, he proved leadership experience that resonates with Product leadership. That’s interesting.

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Oren Steinberg

JULY 13, 2018

Its product isn’t ready for scale, its team is not staffed for sales and it has yet to establish its positioning. Seeing the positive outcome of opportunities where others do not, is what defines this profession. That is why the abundance of opportunities with potential positive outcomes is most challenging. Start with Why.

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 30, 2019

So we assume that if vanity metrics are going in a positive direction, impact metrics are, too. You have your vision on one side, you hopefully have a strong value proposition, maybe you have a strategy. Maybe the finance guy would tell us once a year, but data-driven really wasn’t a thing when I first became a product manager.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Many CEOs tell me that they (personally) are the best-informed people within their companies about what customers need , and they (personally) are best positioned to drive decisions on product priorities. It’s as important as sales, marketing, finance, operations or support. Somehow, interpreting customer needs can feel different.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

In particular, we look at: What the product manager’s role involves Their main responsibilities Common product management positions Tips on how to advance your PM career Let’s dive in. The Associate Product Manager position is an entry-level role responsible for smaller projects and supporting more senior colleagues.

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Userpilot

JUNE 12, 2024

TL;DR In SaaS companies, a product owner is responsible for developing the product’s vision and navigating the product roadmap to maximize value. In SaaS companies, a product owner is responsible for developing the product’s vision and navigating the product roadmap to maximize value. Let’s get started! What is a product owner?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

At the enterprise level within companies, this is why you’re always going to need technology leadership. The finance department has to choose a financial system, and the recruiting department needs to choose an applicant tracking system. From a leadership perspective, you have to scale your leadership style.

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