The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 30, 2020

An efficient and easy product feedback loop is an essential component of every successful product. Setting up an effective customer feedback loop is one of the primary responsibilities of the product team. Of all the product management skills , this is one of the most important ones.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Startup Product managers are in charge of setting up the foundation for product management at a new company. Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. According to Airfocus , an optimized product manager boosts profitability and sales, by 34.2

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Similarly, there are also many products that should have failed but didn’t. We’ll explore how you can test and research ideas for your product, service, or business model. Idea validation is a process where a specific product, service, or business idea is tested in various ways to determine its viability.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 12, 2024

He has over 16 years of experience building internet products, consults with Fortune 500 companies, and is among the most well-known and respected product leaders in all of Asia. Effective strategic thinking requires context on the company, product, and stakeholders that you might not have yet. What would success look like?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2020

This article is part of a wider guide on how to establish a product discovery framework in your organization. Establishing a product discovery framework from scratch takes cross-team effort, so it’s important to get the right people on board from the start. sometimes those with the loudest opinions? —?so

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

A strong value proposition is a cornerstone of a product, so let’s do it right. Let’s see how we approach this topic with a simplified, four-step framework. There are various practices to do proper discovery. Usually, we start with user interviews and other generative research methods. Let’s see some of the most popular.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Image by ar130405 from Pixabay Test management tools are utilized to save information on the ways testing is done, plan testing activities and tell the status of the quality assurance activities. The tools have various approaches to testing and therefore, they have various sets of features.

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Product Talk

APRIL 8, 2020

Welcome to the latest installment of Product in Practice! For this post, we spoke with a product team from Simply Business about some of the major lessons they’ve learned since adopting continuous discovery habits like interviewing their customers, questioning their assumptions , and using the opportunity solution tree to guide their work.

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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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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2022

If you’re looking to improve your team's work, a product management framework can be an excellent starting point. A framework is a set of guidelines or principles that can help guide your team’s decisions and provide a common understanding for all team members. Example of Applying DACI Framework 2. DACI What is it?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2020

A practical guide for building a robust, scalable, and lean product discovery framework in your organization. Provided by Unsplash All too often, product discovery articles read like high-level strategy think-pieces. It finishes with an 8-week guide to making lean product discovery happen in your organization.

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Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

Why is incremental innovation important for product managers ? Incremental innovation is a process of gradually modifying a company’s existing products or services through small improvements. Small but regular improvements are a more reliable way to achieve product-market fit. How is it different from other kinds of innovation?

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Mind the Product

MARCH 24, 2020

These are situations that are fraught with the possibility for unintended consequences – something Roisi Proven covered in her great episode (and talk) about the Black Mirror Test. Ethical frameworks for product development. The Black Mirror Test. Kim Goodwin’s talk: How can we Build Human-Centred Products.

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Usersnap

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In the competitive landscape of product management, prioritizing user satisfaction and engagement is pivotal. Quantifying user interactions and analyzing engagement provide insights necessary for informed decisions, enhanced competitiveness, and superior product development. What is Google’s HEART Framework ? Happiness 2.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Product-market fit (PMF) is a tricky thing for startups. It’s that sweet spot where the needs of your target market perfectly align with what your product is offering, and if you’re a product manager at an early startup, it’s your job to help your product find that fit. but nothing around how to measure it.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In the previous article, I discussed in detail about Agile Product Life Cycle and its different phases and outcomes that allow an organization to function end to end in an agile product life cycle. In image 1 I have listed some practices in sticky notes below each of the phases to drive the Agile product life cycle.

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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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Mind the Product

JULY 30, 2019

Roisi Proven is a true product person: she has a penchant for imagining the worst, which she’s turned into a superpower to put all of her product decisions through a rigorous ethics test. Ethical frameworks for product development. The Black Mirror Test. Listen if you’d like to learn more about.

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Usersnap

DECEMBER 10, 2023

User Acceptance Testing (UAT) is important for more agile software development teams. It’s the last stage in the software development life cycle, and it ensures every product meets the requirements and designations of the users. This is why the magic of the best user acceptance testing tools is crucial. Testsigma 2.

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Product Talk

MARCH 2, 2016

Their efforts have helped to shape the ongoing conversation about the evolution of product discovery. If you aren’t familiar with dual-track development, it’s the separation of product discovery from product delivery. Cagan defines discovery as “figuring out what to build” and delivery as “then building it.”

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 22, 2020

This article is part of a wider guide on how to establish a product discovery framework in your organization. Establishing a robust product discovery infrastructure at your organization gives you the freedom to focus more of your time on creating, analyzing, and testing customer insights.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2020

Check out more insightful sketches by Jono Hey on sketchplanations.com This article is part of a wider guide on how to establish a product discovery framework in your organization. Up until this point in the blog series, the focus has been all about establishing the framework. We were faced with a lot (!) And that’s OK!

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Mind the Product

MARCH 3, 2020

The best product people are the ones that are insatiably curious, who want to learn more, who want to get better at all aspects of the job. As Head of Product at Founders Factory , a corporate-backed accelerator and incubator for early-stage startups based in London, Seb Sabouné works with founders and teams to become more product led.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2022

Nimble young businesses, who live by the Lean Startup approach of building, measuring, and learning, move from nothing to a product customers love in what appears, from an established company perspective at least, virtually no time. Startups practice the lean methodology to avoid spending time on things that won’t deliver value.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 8, 2022

The truth of the hour is: Come what may, companies or products succeed because they offer a service that a customer truly wants! Christensen once said that when we buy a product we are actually hiring something to get a job done. As a product developer, the framework challenges you to consider viewpoints in regard to the customer.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. Overengineered products are difficult to use, filled with bugs, and instead of improving your users’ lives, they make them unnecessarily complicated. Why do developers overengineer software products?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

Product management is equal parts art and science – and it’s vital to the success of your SaaS. TL;DR Product management describes the continual process of overseeing the development of a product across its entire lifecycle. The main difference between product management and project management is the focus.

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Userpilot

JULY 8, 2021

Invented in 2007 by Dave McClure, pirate metrics is a framework that is still used by businesses to measure and optimize customer interaction across their lifecycle. But how does the pirate metrics framework work for SaaS and how can it help drive growth? Dave McClure's Pirate Metrics framework. What are Pirate Metrics?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Product roadmaps provide a high-level view of all product development motions, including UX ones. A field roadmap gives a general overview of all UX efforts across all areas and products. A specialty roadmap focuses exclusively on one area, for example, UX design or research , but across multiple products.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

How to choose the right product team structure for your SaaS? We also look at: Responsibilities of product teams Key roles you may want to include Different ways to structure your team Examples of different structures Let’s get right to it! They lead a team that consists of developers and designers.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

This article is tailored for product managers eager to excel in interviews focusing on product sense and execution. In product management , it’s crucial to discern genuine expertise from merely holding a job title. I am not in favor of assigning home exercises.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We’re kicking off a new venture with an enterprise tech product at its core. I’m eager to see the founding team we’ve put together succeed, so I’ve put together a list of books that contain the ideas that I’ve found most useful for a new product venture at this stage (getting from 0.1 theories, frameworks and approaches?—?for

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. It is important that these friendly connections represent the target persona market you have outlined, as otherwise, the feedback loop is likely to be weak. Meet your target users and get feedback.

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Mixpanel

JULY 22, 2020

One of the most impactful things a product leader can do to help their team succeed is to point everyone in the same direction—to channel all of the team’s energy, focus, and resources towards an aligned outcome. Below, I’m sharing a framework that I’ve leveraged to set goals and effectively institute them across an organization.

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Mind the Product

JULY 28, 2020

The post Leading Teams to Success – Christina Wodtke on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. Drawing on her own experiences, Christina tells the story of Allie, a product lead who has to step up and learn to manage a team effectively. It goes well beyond analytics, frameworks, and agile.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2021

Defining your product strategy is the most important aspect of deciding to build something new. It helps your entire team rally around a vision and a set of outcomes, making sure everyone is aligned in reaching those product growth goals. What is a product strategy? How do you set a product vision?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

For new product managers or in startups with newly formed product teams, the building roadmap is their first kick at having the influence of the company direction. You might be super excited to go away for 2–3 weeks, conduct market research and come back with a colourful looking roadmap. So what can you do?

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