Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

“What is the difference between a Product Owner and a Product Manager?”. Let’s look at where these terms and disciplines originated from and how some common frameworks explain them. Honestly, I did very little of what I teach as Product Management now either. I liked this name. I’m confused.”

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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

AUGUST 15, 2023

A handy tool to capture your answers and describe the product strategy is my Product Vision Board shown in the picture below. You can download the template by clicking on the image and you can find more advice on how to use it in the article The Product Vision Board.

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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 26, 2019

Product Management frameworks are exciting to learn and frustrating to implement. As a product manager myself and a framework teacher, I totally understand the appeal. Being a product manager is a messy job. In the least, frameworks provide a comforting structure.

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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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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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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Since product teams face new challenges, product leaders need to ponder how to evolve teams and support individuals across product organizations. Below is an overview of the main problems I ran into, along with our framework for addressing them and sustaining our innovation and growth. More About The Product Mentor.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2018

In speaking with many product people (PMs, designers, engineers, data scientists) over the last few months?—?I’ve I’ve realized that people use the words mission, vision and strategy interchangeably. Positioning it as a Q&A for readability (and to mix things up a bit) Mission, vision, strategy?—?I’ve Not going to lie?—?I’ve

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2018

Since then, I studied a lot about UX, product management, design thinking, agile, customer experience and a wide range of subjects that are related to delivering a great experience to the user. That is what I´m calling “magical framework”. This is also true when related to digital products.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

I’ve been talking with product managers lately about how the concepts of “essentialism” can help them focus their efforts on what matters. I distilled the advice a few months ago in my book The Essentialist Product Manager and have recently been giving talks and workshops on the topic. Think “Minimum Product.”.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 12, 2022

How product managers can align stakeholders on product projects. Today we are talking about the need for product leaders to manage stakeholders and the associated challenges this creates. Aligning the perspectives of stakeholders on a product project is desirable as well as difficult.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Guest Post by: Tofi Buzali (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Andy Wadhwa]. As a product manager, it can be quite daunting to start a new software product from scratch. Define Product Vision and Strategy. What change will it bring to the world? Slice Out Releases. Rollout Plan.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Our continuous discovery champion is Sören Weber, a Senior Product Manager on the Search & Flow team at trivago. The product trio collaborating on the opportunity solution tree using Mural. Many members of the Search & Flow team were regular Product Talk readers. First Steps in Mapping out Opportunities.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

An Agile Release Train (ART) is a feature of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). They work on a fixed schedule and share the vision, product backlog, and roadmap defined by SAFe. Furthermore, this is the time teams evaluate progress and identify improvement backlog items in a problem-solving workshop.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Here at Product Talk, we’re excited about showcasing what good product management looks like. That’s why we recently launched the Product in Practice series , where we’re highlighting excellent work that different product teams are doing. But every once in a while, I’ll contribute a post like this one.

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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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Modus Create

APRIL 30, 2020

Just like building a house, if a product’s vision, blueprint, or the foundation is wrong, the output has serious problems. 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.

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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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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Provide context and direction First and foremost, product leaders should provide context for teams to make informed and aligned decisions. Leaders should understand the company’s vision and strategy, be able to communicate it in a meaningful way, and clarify the role their “unit” (*) plays in that strategy.

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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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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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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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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 14, 2018

Product Managers can create a shared sense of purpose to empower high-performing teams. This is where you make your move from product manager to product master. That is the move to being a product leader in your organization or the organization you want to work with. How organizations can win.

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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? So how are you managing your products exactly?

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Dear Strategy

DECEMBER 21, 2020

And that component will typically be broken down into several different layers as follows: Vision – This is the highest-level statement of what you want your strategy to help you achieve. The timeframe for your vision is usually 5-10 years out (or more), and the format is typically very high-level and very aspirational.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

a clear and compelling vision. from ‘ Drive’ All top product leaders know the importance that vision plays in the success of a product. Sometimes the Product Vision was something spoken by a visionary leader, but unseen. Or worse of all, sometimes there was just no Product Vision at all.

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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? CEO vs Product Management. As you might expect, a reasonable contingent attending the roundtable work in startups, businesses where the founder/CEO is still very much involved with the product.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 31, 2020

Product practice is relatively new in many regions around the world, leading to misunderstandings and a failure to understand the value a product manager can contribute to an organisation. As a result, it can be challenging for those with product management roles to achieve alignment with stakeholders on goals and outcomes.

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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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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. Evolving Amplitude’s north star.

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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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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Additionally, the person in charge of the product must have the necessary expertise. To help you with this, I’ve created the framework shown in Figure 2. The vision describes the ultimate purpose for creating the product and the positive change it should bring about. Let’s take a look at them.

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Product Management University

APRIL 12, 2018

GREENVILLE, SC – April 12, 2018 — Proficientz announced today its 2018 Product Management University training curriculum, a series of training courses that teach best practices in product management, product marketing and sales enablement for B2B and B2B2C organizations. Incentive Pricing.

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Whether you search Google, filter Upwork or gather recommendations, the framework for vetting dev shops is more or less the same: Create a list of potential partners. I would recommend this model if you have no technical or product management background. He flew over to Lviv for an intensive, four-day workshop.

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