The Product Manager Coach Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

The art of saying “no” is a critical skill that, when done respectfully and decisively, can significantly contribute to the success of your product and your career. This guide provides a 5-step process for product managers to decline requests while maintaining strong professional relationships gracefully.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. Build a product that users love by delivering value and a good product experience.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? We also look at: What a UX design strategy is Why it’s important Its core principles and elements A practical example of a company with well-established UX strategies Let’s dive right in! Start designing your strategy by clarifying the business goals.

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Userpilot

JUNE 26, 2023

Want to track the different types of product metrics to get product growth insights ? Product metrics are critical for product growth managers to develop the right product strategies and drive continuous value for customers. You can also use a product metrics framework, ie.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. Product manager motto?—?Dan

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. Setting an awesome strategy without building the enablers to executing on it is just a pipe-dream.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

Let’s face it, most organizations have poor habits around roadmap completion — this is why getting leadership (or stakeholders) to develop consistent, stable and familiar routines reinforced through repetition and communication is valuable. Unfortunately, product leadership culture can get a little messy.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The OKR methodology can be a powerful motivator for high performance and product excellence within teams and companies. Implementing a goal-setting framework that sets the bar high sounds like a no-brainer, right? The focus then shifts towards outcomes and individual and team authority and ownership.

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Tyner Blain

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

These mistakes can make a product strategy incoherent, excessively expensive, and ineffective. How we talk about what we choose to do sets our teams up for success. When developing a product strategy, we are not only activating our teams to go “in that direction” but also establishing “how far to go.”

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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. Many Product Leaders start a new role by focusing outwards.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 21, 2021

In this post – we will make it clear how Product Owner vs. Product Manager’s roles differ, what skills each need to have to excel in their roles, why you need both in your product team and when is a good time to hire for those roles! a Product Owner. a Product Owner. In a hurry?

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Userpilot

APRIL 19, 2024

TL;DR Market research is vital for making informed business decisions, enabling companies to understand the market, target audience, and competitors, reducing risks, and optimizing marketing communications and product strategies. Each persona should tell the story of an ideal customer, making them relatable for your marketing team.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

Defining my label carefully, a “product leader” is someone who manages a team of product managers. That maps to titles like Director of Product Management, Group Product Manager, VP of Products, or Chief Product Officer. 2] Driving Strategy, Tooling and Outcomes. [3] We learn by doing.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

The agile manifesto turned eighteen this year, the Scrum framework is even older?—?have Scrum came about even earlier than the agile manifesto almost a whole decade to be exact (although you can traces origins earlier back to 1986 with the article The New New Product Development Game ). are they one role, two roles?

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Amplitude

MAY 7, 2018

Let’s face it, user personas have gotten a bad rap over the years. As a result, many modern product teams have decided to abandon personas altogether and adopt practices like user scenarios, user stories, or the “Jobs to be Done” framework instead. Personas provide a common language across multiple teams.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

and McKinsey’s predictions for the future of product management. The Power of the Elastic Product Team—Airbnb’s First PM on How to Build Your Own. Get the advice of Jonathan Golden, Airbnb’s first product manager who is now Director of Product. 5 Designing Your Product’s Continuous Feedback Loop.

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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. Many Product Leaders start a new role by focusing outwards.

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UX Studio

MAY 8, 2018

Good team competency management is key for high-quality work, so, we recently mapped the whole team. In this article, we present a step-by-step guide on how to do it yourself. Each member of our team eagerly improves their own skill-set all the time. Competency maps can benefit any team, product or otherwise.

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UX Studio

MARCH 11, 2024

I realized that that wasn’t really gonna happen I’m very very bad at competition. And like the warmups and practice, I could see that I was kind of… you can kind of know how good you are on the team [00:04:00] in the warmups. Are there frameworks out there? It’s how you present your work.

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Userpilot

JULY 14, 2023

What is a product analytics framework and why is it important? We also look at: Different types of analyses to include in your framework How to develop a product analytics framework And, the best product analytics tools. Userpilot is a product adoption platform with advanced analytics features.

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

Why Product Features Matter Product strategy, features and the value chain What outcomes are you trying to achieve? How does what we’re building align with the wider strategy of the business? And the product team responsible got some pretty brutal reviews in the process. They’re addictive. And stimulating.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

I apply this lens to a startup that develops solutions in the health-tech market. Going from concept to production and subsequently getting the product in the hands of a customer takes significant effort. To address a broad audience, I present these and additional considerations in general terms.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2019

Autonomy & Product Management— It’s Complicated A framework to increase your autonomy as a PM Credit: Getty Images Autonomy is a touchy subject in product management. I’ve observed new product managers waste time and energy being frustrated about how little autonomy they feel they have.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

This is specifically helpful for anyone who might be new to roadmapping or product management in general. They can use these templates as a framework for how their own roadmaps could be built and function as a great jumping-off point. Is the information presented legibly? can submit feedback for product managers to review.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

This is specifically helpful for anyone who might be new to roadmapping or product management in general. They can use these templates as a framework for how their own roadmaps could be built and function as a great jumping-off point. Is the information presented legibly? can submit feedback for product managers to review.

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Department of Product

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

SaaS Pricing Models for Product Managers 6 ways to price your SaaS product using leading SaaS businesses as inspiration Pricing a product is a critical part of product management; it’s rarely something product teams will or should do themselves and will typically involve a blend of product, marketing and sales.

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Userpilot

APRIL 27, 2021

We will dive into how to find the gaps in your own onboarding and then look at a number of user onboarding tools with various specializations, presenting you with the best ones in their niches. The 8 Best Tools For SaaS Products Support and Onboarding. But why is user onboarding important if you already have a great product?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

All those new features might look good on a product comparison matrix and give salespeople a new angle when pitching reluctant prospects, but none of it matters if those features aren’t solving real customer problems. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Why do product teams become feature factories?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 8, 2020

They then have to switch gears and make the strategy happen in practice – that is part of the challenge of being a product manager! It is usually up to the product manager to develop this strategy for their product, because they know the most about the opportunities and threats that are present for their particular market.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

The Best Product Managers use Product Management Software for: We’ve broken down this list into four stages of the feature life cycle that contributes to building the product value: opportunity identification and validation, design and prototyping, feature development, and launch and iteration.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2021

But when the first storm subsided, and the company stabilised, I looked around at our Growth team working with a large tech squad and wondered… “What the hell are we going to do for the next six months?” By this point, the team were getting on perfectly well without me. Each decision we made affected thousands. Life had other plans.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Unlike a go-to-market strategy, which focuses on the product launch phase alone, a marketing strategy refers to a longer-term approach toward achieving success with your brand. A product strategy , on the other hand, focuses only on the product (answering the who, what, and why of the product).

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ProductPlan

JULY 15, 2021

Clutch’s survey proves that you need an effective product management strategy to measure product vision success. As a product leader, your product vision anchors everything you communicate to your team. The concept provides your organization with the ideal product. . Did something change? .

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

What are people doing right now?

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Department of Product

AUGUST 22, 2022

A health check as a diagnostic tool Product strategy isn’t simply about clear decision making; before you can even begin to make any decisions about the direction of your product, you need to spend some time in diagnostic mode where you try to build a big picture snapshot of the health of your product.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This is why it’s important to have planned actions, keep MOATs front and centre and determine your short-term considerations about how to deploy resources to accomplish a roadmap strategy. This is what your product strategies can be targeted toward. A bad example would be Yahoo.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 8, 2019

You want to be helpful, and people are asking for your help all the time, you have the answers and you love it, you want to be a good team player! The bad news is… it’s not your job. If you are lucky, you might have a researcher in your team helping you with that. That’s easy to say.

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