BrainMates

JUNE 20, 2022

With the rapid rise of technology, resilience is also key in the planning of technology and digital strategies by CTOs and tech leaders. However, the topic of product strategy resilience rarely if ever surfaces when talking to product leaders about their product strategies. The post Scenario Gaming.

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Dear Strategy

MARCH 15, 2023

The podcast will continue to serve as an education tool, and will even be expanded to reflect the full array of business topics that we now cover in our classes and workshops. Now what about the new framework? Although these steps were covered in our classes and workshops, they were not separately indicated on the framework.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 3, 2023

You should be aware of new trends, be able to make an informed guess if they are likely to impact your market and product, and decide if a technology needs to be further investigated. This usually doesn’t require in-depth technical skills like being able to write code or understand how a specific machine learning framework is used.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Sequent Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Here at Sequent Learning, we regularly speak with Product Management executives around the world about their latest challenges. Faced with increased competition and aggressive profit goals, Product Management leaders can’t afford missed milestones, and certain concerns keep cropping up: How can I improve team’s performance?

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Bain Public

APRIL 17, 2020

Career Development Program Details: Whether you are a Founder or part of the Product, Engineering or leadership team, you need actionable strategies and impactful techniques that drive results today. We already knew we could deliver expert guidance via a series of on-site workshops. The 3 steps to product innovation.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry. It is a well-established company, a leader in its domain, but it still needs to deliver new products to the market so product-market fit is a very relevant topic.

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Dear Strategy

OCTOBER 6, 2021

On this episode of Dear Strategy, we talk about the difference between a product strategy and a go-to-market plan, and why it’s important to have both of these key planning tools working together in harmony. First, a product strategy is NOT a product roadmap. It’s an important tool, but it is not a strategy.”

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Bain Public’s SOAP™ methodology and tool offers a full picture of your product strategy, tactics, metrics and roadmap all in one place. SOAP™ is a methodology that Bain Public created for product planning and roadmap prioritization based on principles of Product Strategy, Lean Startup, User-centered design, Data Science and more.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Read the rest of this article to find out more on why we believe in giving back, the many workshops and initiatives we offered pro bono that benefited the Montreal, Toronto and North American startups, our new holiday campaign, and our plans for 2022. Why We Believe In Giving Back We understand that running a startup isn’t easy work.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Product managers can make better decisions if they’ve built transparency and trust with their team. Here’s a straightforward framework for collaborative decision making that is founded in transparency and trust. Product Decisions. Product decisions are either tactical or strategic. Decision Rules.

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Arpit Rai

MAY 31, 2020

This post is about what one should do in the first 30–60–90 days of joining a new product management job. The checklist I had created spanned a few areas such as: Team Manager Customers Product Market & Competitors Product Management Process I’ll cover each of these areas in more detail below.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Yet, for many product managers, simplicity is challenging to achieve. Unlike featured-based roadmaps, which focus on the delivery and output of capabilities, outcomes-oriented roadmaps prioritize desired outcomes or results — a key element of product strategy. Often, product managers skip this step in favor of speed.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2021

This could be the Product Trio of the Product Manager, Design Lead and Tech Lead, or it could include others depending on what you’re planning (some, like Google , call it the Product Triad ). For example, if you’re working on an AI product, it makes sense to include an AI specialist.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

At Bain Public, we’re proud to offer free one-on-one sessions, discounted rates and lead pro-bono partnership efforts, donating company time to provide product-driven startups with expert advice and coaching about product management. Get 40% Off Our ‘SOAP™ Workshop Series’. Why We Believe In Giving Back.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

What: 1,500 tech product managers and product developers gather online at one of the world’s largest product management & development conferences. Pro Pass: $395, you get everything included in the open pass plus ProductWorld PRO Technical Workshops Feb 17 and PRO Sessions Feb 18-19. Product Con.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The appetite for building exceptional products has never been higher, and yet, many organizations struggle to grow effective and successful product management. With that in mind, how can business leaders develop organization competency and fast-track product innovation? We assess its unique strategies and tactics.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

I consider it important to have these discussions not only directed towards the product managers but to the “product trio” (**) or even all team members. Push for high-quality KRs Finally, no matter how much we say OKRs are an easy framework, having high-quality key results is hard.

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Arpit Rai

MAY 31, 2020

This post is about what one should do in the first 30–60–90 days of joining a new product management job. The checklist I had created spanned a few areas such as: Team Manager Customers Product Market & Competitors Product Management Process I’ll cover each of these areas in more detail below.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

The position of Product Manager has been one of the fastest-growing roles in tech in recent years, with a 30 percent growth in job openings year over year. The trouble is, candidates who possess the varied skill set needed for Product Management are elusive and highly sought-after. Do Some Soul-Searching.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Managers and product managers are often frustrated by the apparent lack of care the development team is showing for the needs of the business. When a long-awaited product or feature finally launches, it often comes well short of the needs. For many organizations the solution is product management.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

At Amplitude we’re big believers in product teams aligning their vision and strategy to a north star metric. In fact, we believe so strongly that this framework helps transform product organizations that we host workshops about it across the globe. Benefits of this change.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 9, 2024

One technique that I teach in my product courses/workshops is something I call “count the digits.”    To be useful, Count The Digits and similar heuristics fit into a larger framework where we have strong customer insights and thoughtful goals/strategies/OKRs.

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

As business advisors and executive coaches, we've worked with dozens of CEOs to help them build and grow their product leadership team as they scale their company. What we’ve noticed instead in the startup world, is a lot of people become product managers by default rather than design. What Is Product Management Consulting?

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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. See Melissa Perri’s product kata ). Hiring strategy.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

The position of Product Manager has been one of the fastest-growing roles in tech in recent years, with a 30 percent growth in job openings year over year. The trouble is, candidates who possess the varied skill set needed for Product Management are elusive and highly sought-after. The Personality Test.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

TL; DR: Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product efficiently as its Achilles heel has always been the product discovery part. Participation is free.)

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Additionally, the person in charge of the product must have the necessary expertise. Finally, the individual must be empowered to decide if no agreement can be reached within the product team. It’s therefore important that you align the product team members by setting the right goals.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2018

The quantifiable component here is around the breadth of product selection (“anything”) Product strategy: which is another term that often comes up in close proximity to mission and vision statements, is the “how”. Good product visions explain the problem and why its worth solving (validation). Too often?—?I

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Dear Strategy

MAY 26, 2020

That doesn’t change, no matter what type of strategy you are developing. For more information, by the way, you can always download a copy of our Strategy Generation Framework that outlines each of these steps in much more detail. Many companies that I work with have digital products that support one or more tangible products.

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UX Studio

MAY 8, 2018

Client Management. Business and Strategy. Workshop Facilitation. In teams of other types or domains, the list and hence competency management itself will likely look completely different. Now we have finished with some basic goal-setting toward improved competency management, we now need a scale. Prototyping.

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Amplitude

APRIL 9, 2019

Jessica Wagner: I’m a lead product manager at Fueled , a digital product agency in New York that specializes in cutting-edge design and technology for mobile apps, websites, wearables, and blockchain. I’ve spent my entire career in product strategy, so this is a very organic progression for me.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

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. Without it, product teams become feature teams focused on outputs and not outcomes. The Approach (the Frameworks). Playing to win by Alan G.

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UX Studio

AUGUST 14, 2017

UX professionals are not lone fighters, but actually mediators between users, business managers and developers. A UX workshop can help you gather the team and brainstorm to make better decisions. Ensure everybody is on the same page by making them more involved in the product development process with these tools. Preparation.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

With expertise in product management, strategic thinking, and agile transformation, we strive to be more than a design agency. Our UX experts often travel to meet the client, work right on the spot, and become a true extension of the client’s product team. . What does a product design company do? Wandr Studio.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Product management teams are overwhelmed. I can say this authoritatively because Modus has been providing product consulting to clients of all sizes for nearly a decade. The root cause: there is no universal definition of what product management is, and as generalists, product managers end up doing everything.

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