Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. PMs and VPs), Lennybot (an AI chatbot trained on my newsletter posts, podcast interviews, and more), and my swag store (great gifts for your favorite PM, or yourself!). This post is just the beginning of a discussion.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Extensive market research is essential to assess the competitive landscape, identify opportunities, and shape the product vision. PMs need to know how to use product analytics tools to gain actionable insights. Hard product management skills Let’s start with the hard skills. This comes with a lot of experience.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

This includes the project management of all of the activities done in product conceptualization, design, development, and marketing. In the conceptualization phase, product managers must identify the vision, mission, and requirements that will condition how a team builds out a product.

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Usersnap

APRIL 29, 2023

ChatGPT on the other hand is easy to access, use and train for anyone. This is possible thanks to the vast knowledge base that it was trained on and its advanced large language model. Write a 1-pager that explains the product vision to the design & marketing team.”

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Tyner Blain

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

These mistakes can make a product strategy incoherent, excessively expensive, and ineffective. When developing a product strategy, we are not only activating our teams to go “in that direction” but also establishing “how far to go.” Or failure.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Melissa Perri is one of the most recognizable names in Product Management. She’s currently a consultant, speaker, and teacher in product management. Her company, Produx Labs, provides product management training. She advises executives around the world regarding product management.

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

Fear not though, as our product management software guide will give you insights into some of the best-in-class applications that will boost your team performance and help you build successful products! Roadmapping software visualizes and plans product development over time, facilitating coordination and alignment across teams.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Overview of Eureka framework for user onboarding. 6-step strategy for retaining more customers. Melissa Perri is a product management consultant, speaker, and teacher. She’s the CEO of Produx Labs, a product management training organization. How to design a scalable product organization. Key learnings.

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Tyner Blain

JULY 31, 2023

The overwhelming emphasis I see in product organizations is on sequencing the execution of the product strategy over the upcoming quarters. Optimizing the product operations work to deliver a subpar product. There is little to no effort applied to shaping the product strategy.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Now don't fear, I know coaching is a profession in itself but you don’t need to become a full trained coach to be a good Product Leader. You want to keep using a framework like this until further horizons become second nature. product strategy, A&M, etc?—?but

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

About the author – Dave Martin Dave Martin is the founder of Product Leader coaching service RighToLeft , executive coach, and Chief Product Officer with over 20 years of experience. He has helped many leaders and teams refine their product strategies and shift from being feature-focused to product-led.

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Folding Burritos

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Naturally, this is extremely frustrating; you know it’s the pathway to a disconnected and incoherent product. Tying everything to a strong value proposition and vision is effectively the kind of thing that produces a cohesive product. A Mini-framework to Drive Stakeholders Towards Problems.

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

Getting external support, such as product management consulting, can help establish the product leadership team responsible for nurturing and guiding the product team. What Is Product Management Consulting? We know how great products are built. Product Culture Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

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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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Bain Public

APRIL 17, 2020

We have a variety of different blog posts , ebooks and approaches designed to help you to understand digital, product strategies that, when employed, will help you to improve your organization, create new value and establish elements of roadmapping into the fabric of your company. The 3 steps to product innovation.

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Arpit Rai

MAY 31, 2020

you have a list of documents you can go through to understand the product better, you’ve been enrolled into a formal training workshop (if the company has one), you’ve been assigned an onboarding buddy to help you out etc. I suggest doing the following: Go through the product documentation, roadmap, product demo videos etc.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Product definition thus varies from organization to organization which causes confusion and frustration within product organization. Mushrooming of training sessions and certifications on PM reflects the situation quite well. . This section sets out my philosophy on how to build products. Product Strategy.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

When to consider re-evaluating your product principles Here’s some ideas on potential triggers for re-evaluating your product principles: Strategic triggers – a major product strategy decision has been made (i.e. Similarly, your vision and strategy help with this too.

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Sequent Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

If a Product Manager doesn’t understand who their customers are, they can’t understand their needs and thus can’t possibly build effective products. Experience-Based Training. Half of our two-day training is devoted to interactive exercises directly applicable to issues back at the office to help the information “stick”.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

The most versatile and robust good habits are formed when we train ourselves to make the best decisions, no matter the circumstances. As a product manager, it’s normal to get all kinds of new feature requests from stakeholders (these requests are usually related to pain points). It might be time to make your CEO provide a clear vision.

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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? What evidence do you have to suggest that the features you’re building will actually matter to customers? They’re addictive.

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Arpit Rai

MAY 31, 2020

you have a list of documents you can go through to understand the product better, you’ve been enrolled into a formal training workshop (if the company has one), you’ve been assigned an onboarding buddy to help you out etc. I suggest doing the following: Go through the product documentation, roadmap, product demo videos etc.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

Education and working skills So, well, you decide to work as a designer and go find formal training to get your first job, that’s great! All those lessons are great and I agree with all of them, but let’s now take a look at an engineering training. This last sentence is a good example for short-term outputs x long-term outcomes.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 13, 2020

Scaled Agile POPM If you’re familiar with Lean and/or Agile frameworks, you’re probably familiar with Scaled Agile. Their Product Owner/Product Manager certification (POPM) is something of a two-for-one: you’ll learn basic product management skills as well as the latest principles for Lean enterprises. Online Available?:

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Learn as much as you can about is the product management processes and procedures at your company. You'll find that some companies may rely heavily on particular frameworks like Agile or Waterfall, whereas others won't use them at all. Every organization has a different company culture and way they get things done.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

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. . Due to the recent global restrictions, we have developed a framework for effective remote collaboration, enabling us to work with clients from various time zones. Wandr Studio.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Even among experienced product professionals, a common misconception in business holds that product strategy and business strategy mean the same thing. Product professionals need to understand the distinction between business strategy vs. product strategy. A Closer Look at Each Strategy.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

17 42 Rules to Lead by from the Man Who Defined Google’s Product Strategy. Jonathan Rosenberg, SVP of Products at Google, gave a lecture to graduating students at Claremont McKenna College, from which FirstRound distilled his comments in this interesting article. .” ” #23 What is Good Product Strategy?

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BrainMates

JULY 21, 2020

Product leadership is made even more challenging, as there are very few models (if any) that cover the complexities and requirements of this -broad role which varies significantly between organisations. Only by building high performing teams can they deliver on the Product Strategy. A QUESTION FOR PRODUCT LEADERS.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Roadmapping software has emerged as a core need for the modern product manager. 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. Edge: Roadmunk.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Roadmapping software has emerged as a core need for the modern product manager. 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. Edge: Roadmunk.

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All About Product Management

JULY 29, 2010

I also took the opportunity to let them know the things (from a professional perspective) that I’m passionate about: All things to do with Product Management/Marketing. Creating strategy and visions and driving them through all the stages to completion. Working with engineering/development teams and cross functional teams.

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Pragmatic Marketing

OCTOBER 18, 2019

We try to give teams frameworks. So they have freedom within those frameworks to do the things that best serve their business. And leading their products. And then within each of these questions we've given people tools, training, resources, and kind of skill building tactics, to understand how do I answer these questions.

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Pragmatic Marketing

OCTOBER 18, 2019

We try to give teams frameworks. So they have freedom within those frameworks to do the things that best serve their business. And leading their products. And then within each of these questions we've given people tools, training, resources, and kind of skill building tactics, to understand how do I answer these questions.

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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. Using prioritization frameworks eliminates these isolated judgment calls.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

Arin: I am the chief design officer and design executive for IBM products, mainly on the software side, I would say. As a chief design officer, I’m responsible for the visioning and the design concepts and connecting the dots between these technologies to build products that users love. Fergal: Cool. How do you start?

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