The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Leadership Skills Roadmaps are not the ultimate solution for all problems. Working with cross-functional teams involves huge team leadership and responsibilities. Leadership abilities come into play when creating products and satisfying deadlines. Here is an example of a roadmap. A/B testing is useful in this situation.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Building effective teams with people from different disciplines can be challenging due to various circumstances. It’s about understanding the unique dynamics of cross-functional teams and adapting leadership styles accordingly, rather than relying on a one-size-fits-all management strategy.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 2, 2024

Canva made contrarian but conviction-driven decisions like staying private longer, avoiding outside leadership hires, and building a Swiss Army Knife product when conventional wisdom favored single-purpose tools. Staying true to your vision can be a key advantage. Some takeaways: Don’t be afraid to zig when others zag.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 13, 2024

This article explores the fundamentals of portfolio management, its goals, and frameworks for structuring portfolios, and provides insights on aligning product innovation projects with organizational strategy. Innovation Landscape Model The innovation landscape model is another framework for structuring portfolios.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

In the conceptualization phase, product managers must identify the vision, mission, and requirements that will condition how a team builds out a product. On one hand, this entails coming up with possible design concepts that capture the vision, mission, and goals of a given product.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Essential Data Science Product Manager Skills Here are essential technical skills for a data science product manager: 1. Educational courses on technical product management can teach you all you need to know to become the best possible PM. Consider our Product HQ Technical Product Manager Course. Otherwise, skip ahead.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

This can incrementally add new capabilities to the product and potentially quell a few customer complaints, but without a a unified vision, it can also lead to a lot of partial fixes that don’t attack and solve major pain points in a holistic manner. Use prioritization frameworks Every decision to build a new feature is a judgment call.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Market Leadership: Amplitude stood out to me because it’s disrupting the digital marketplace–dominating the segment focused on digital product makers. Foundation for Growth: Amplitude is committed to building the framework to support long-term growth and scale. This is a team full of outstanding sales and technical sales athletes.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

UX vision is a clear and inspiring statement that guides the long-term design strategy and keeps teams and stakeholders on the same page. Next, conduct customer and market research to identify opportunities for UX improvement , and use research findings and business goals to formulate the UX vision statement.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Product managers also have essential soft skills such as communication, leadership, empathy, collaboration, understanding customers, and strategic thinking. That said, this position demands proficiency in both technical and social areas within the role. This allows you to gain practice in using essential social skills.

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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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Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

Create a Vision : Develop a compelling vision for the future state of the organization post-transformation. Gain Leadership Support : Agile Transformation is as much about culture as it is about processes. Leadership buy-in is crucial for driving cultural change, allocating resources, and removing organizational barriers.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

MAY 7, 2024

These titles may sound similar, but they encompass different levels of organizational expertise and leadership. In this article, I will review the differences between the Staff Product Manager and the Senior Product Manager roles, helping you gain clarity and make an informed decision about your career path. Which one is right for you?

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Technical PM Skills A big part of the role of a startup product manager is working with engineers to define and build the product. While you don’t need to know as much about technical product development as an engineer, you should have a good enough understanding and basic knowledge of how technology works.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Inspired by Marty Cagan contains a little about everything in product management and is based on how the most successful tech companies in the world build products. It’ll teach you how to set up continuous discovery with your product trio team of product managers, design leads, and tech leads. Recruiting users for discovery interviews.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 10, 2024

In the tech world, there are often many right answers. Take Apple’s Vision Pro for example. But this technology doesn’t have to be used for entertainment. It’s also a legitimate strategy, and had Apple seen Vision Pro more related to Mac than to iPhone it could have gone down that path too. So how do you choose?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2021

Do you want to represent a big idea concisely to your customers or your leadership? The Concept Map Target Audience: Product Teams and Leadership Intent: Sharing Vision and presenting the concept for acceptance The concept map helps you illustrate and present, well, a concept. Good things come in small boxes.

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bpma ProductHub

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the pragmatic marketing framework and others like it, market understanding, strategy and definition drive all other activities for product development and delivery. To own a product requires a strong vision for what it can become and achieve. So, here’s a simple guide to product management to get you started and on the right path.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Eighteen months ago travel tech company Almundo started to refine its processes to become a product-driven company. Product (and company) strategy is the backbone that guides product goal-setting and roadmap definition, although it’s sometimes overlooked or confused with having a vision. The Approach (the Frameworks).

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Here’s what we learned about product leadership. Your first task as a leader is to set the vision of the team and make sure that the team is set up to deliver it. Another key function of product leadership is to drive collaboration with other parts of the business. Book suggestion: Product Leadership. Where’s my SCARF?

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2023

If you missed Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on the Mission, North Star, and Vision. The Vision evolves over time, and is an inspirational guide for the company's future. Looking ahead, Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

Where charismatic leaders rally the troops around an ambitious vision with a massive potential payoff. It’s not sexy and won’t land the leadership team any TED Talks. That means doing your homework regarding market intelligence, product-market fit, technical feasibility, and the like. So you want to make those chances count.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The stories varied, but a central character recurred: a leader with a vision to humbly serve others. Nowadays, I don’t hear many stories about servant leadership in the media. I think we need more compelling stories of leadership in our lives. A servant leader. We need more inspiration in general. I’m learning every day.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

You are constantly using your roadmap to influence other departments and align their efforts to your product vision. Here is what you should do: Set up time with your leadership teams to prioritise the goals for the next few months Share the goals and initiatives that are required to be prioritised before the meeting.

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The OKR framework can inspire teams and bring focus to an entire company. . OKRs were brought from Intel to Google by John Doerr where the method gained popularity within the high tech and startup communities. The second half of the book explains the OKR framework in more depth to help with roll-out.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

On the one side, they address typical Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective. Nevertheless, speaking of the “role” of Scrum Masters is a suitable path to basic principles of Scrum mastery: Scrum is not a methodology, but a framework. or “true leadership”?—?and and coaching.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Up until now, Product Leaders have had to rely on the approaches and frameworks designed specifically for Product Managers or use generic leadership practices which don’t necessarily cover the unique leadership challenges Product Leaders experience. This is a mistake, particularly if you are new to leadership.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

Every time I navigate the ocean of Product Management frameworks, we are not tackling one essential part of our role: People and Ourselves. There is a framework for almost every stage of our Product development lifecycle, but one of the only transversal things is that we need people to make things happen.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Is it possible to create a framework for non-data decision making to increase psychological safety? In team review sessions, the senior person should share at least one recent failing each time, alongside the learning – this normalises openness, uncertainty, curiosity. Open discussion is the best way to explore this.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 20, 2020

The recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “ The Agile C-Suite ” 1 and Forbes article “Agile Isn’t New: What’s New Is The C-Suite Embracing It” have prompted some good discussion around the Agile Velocity virtual water cooler. . HBR article setup. Balance from the Top. Balancing the Agile Enterprise .

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The executive sponsor communicates the vision, strategy and process of experimentation through all levels of the organization, creating a culture of transparency and trust. Teams often also hold showcases to give everyone a chance to review early designs of experiments as well as final results and learnings.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

Where charismatic leaders rally the troops around an ambitious vision with a massive potential payoff. It’s not sexy and won’t land the leadership team any TED Talks. That means doing your homework regarding market intelligence, product-market fit, technical feasibility, and the like. So you want to make those chances count.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 6, 2022

With company leadership, product management sets the strategic direction for the product(s). Moreover, they communicate the product vision to the organization. To make matters worse, there is no common global regulatory framework, so these rules vary when crossing international borders. Financial Regulations.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 24, 2021

Narrowing Down the Battlefield Figure 1 shows the ‘Technology Adoption Life Cycle’ for discontinuous innovations. This is why I combine several good practices and frameworks to my own ‘Target Customer Scenario Canvas’ (figure 2). Harvard Business Review, January, 1980. (2) Sources: (1) Levitt, Theodore. of Anything.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Up until now, Product Leaders have had to rely on the approaches and frameworks designed specifically for Product Managers or use generic leadership practices which don’t necessarily cover the unique leadership challenges Product Leaders experience. This is a mistake, particularly if you are new to leadership.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Prioritization frameworks Gantt charts/roadmaps Documenting and organizing user research interview results Checklists and task management across teams Spreadsheets do have their drawbacks. The most experienced product leads know what visual frameworks are most suitable for the problem they’re trying to solve. How do you do that?

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