The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Curious to know how to advance your career as a long-term product manager as either s group product manager or principal product manager? Product managers are responsible for establishing a product’s vision and long-term business strategy while ensuring that all stakeholders are aware of said strategy.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership. Aspects which are more on the human skills end of the spectrum and vastly different from being a Product Manager. Shift #1: A leader of leaders The two top things I’ve head people reply to the question “how do I move into Product Leadership?”

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Ronke PM

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Use your leadership voice to bring out change. Use your position to lift others up as others have done for you. Be passionate and always curious about your product. You must have exceptional communication skills to bring your product strategy and vision to fruition. Use your leadership voice to bring out change.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Influence and Trust as Leadership Building Blocks. It’s important for me to point out that effective leadership must be based on the intention to support the people you want to lead, not on the desire to control or manipulate anyone. Measures to Build Trust with Stakeholders, Dev Teams, and Other Product People.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Be Prepared to Look after People, Not Products. When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

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Userpilot

APRIL 25, 2022

What is product leadership and how is it different from product management ? In the article, we’ll be discussing what the product leadership role entails and how it is different from the product management role. Product leaders are responsible for building the right teams and organizational cultures.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

This article assumes that you are familiar with the product vision board or the key elements of a product strategy : market, value proposition, standout features, and business goals. Solution : Describe the ultimate purpose of your product, the positive change the product should bring about like “healthy eating”.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder).

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

This is particularly helpful when you are faced with a large group of stakeholders, which is not uncommon in bigger companies. As its name suggests, the grid analyses the stakeholders by taking into account their power and interest; it assumes that people take a low or high interest in your product and have low or high power.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

You have to earn the necessary digital product management and lead skills and demonstrate them to potential employers with confidence. A product lead or the lead product manager is often an experienced senior professional who drives the product strategy, leading and supervising a product team.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Principal product managers are among the most senior roles in the product development process. Therefore, the expected salary increase inspires many junior product managers to climb up the corporate ladder and land this position. The demand for technical and product management positions is high.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

The value the product should create is not clearly understood : A validated product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are missing. If this data is actioned, bad product decisions will be made. Do this at least once per quarter, as a rule of thumb, ideally as part of the product strategy reviews.

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Amplitude

JULY 29, 2020

When it comes to product strategy, there is so much conflicting advice that getting started can be confusing. Some companies’ strategies are so generic that they could mean anything, or nothing at all—as perfectly illustrated in this product strategy madlibs , which fills in the blanks with buzzwords and jargon and calls it a strategy.

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

At the heart of an organization that creates product magic is a product leader who is an expert at leadership and coalition building. These leaders understand that bringing effective products, solutions, and services to market requires consensus building and engaging cross-functional teams in the journey.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

Guest Post by: Lamia Benhaddou (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Amanda Ralph]. Amanda had 18 years of product management experience and was able to clearly foresee the obstacles I might encounter in my new role. Indeed the role of a product leader is different to that of a product manager.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2024

Product leadership is such a hard role, one of the hardest. thepaintedsquare from Unsplash As a board member at ProductX  — the largest product conference in Israel — I met last week with a guest speaker to prepare his talk at the upcoming conference. Summaries are a very powerful leadership tool. Photo by Jessica Lewis

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Mind the Product

JUNE 7, 2018

This means there is a lack of strategy to develop digital products which meet the needs of users and generate revenue. Move From Product Delivery to a Product Function. Many product teams find themselves in a service-like position – where they act on requirements decided elsewhere in the business.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Why do product managers need them? That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes. Build a product that users love by delivering value and a good product experience.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

That gives you the experience and expertise to get to the next level, where you start managing other product managers. Over time, potential product directors need to show an ability to lead the entire product team. On top of that, they need to show success in every product strategy they own.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 31, 2021

Leading Complex Initiatives As a Product Leader, you will be expected to lead and drive initiatives that span across an organization. So the potential impact you can have on the business— either positive or negative?—?increase Within Autodesk Construction Solutions (ACS), PMs are responsible for their individual product areas.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

More and more, I see startups hiring PMMs as their first marketer – understanding the value they bring when it comes to nailing your positioning and product-market fit from the start. When I joined Intercom five years ago, I was thrilled with how closely PMM partnered with the product and sales teams. Evolution is essential.

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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. Getting external support, such as product management consulting, can help establish the product leadership team responsible for nurturing and guiding the product team.

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Product Talk

MAY 13, 2020

Product teams struggle to drive business outcomes because many companies haven’t taken the time to define their strategy. Marty Cagan highlighted this in his recent post “ Product Strategy – Focus.” The product team should narrow down opportunities that are most within their control or influence. Tweet This.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2019

(Un)fortunately, Product Management is not really an entry-level job. Sure, there are some junior positions out there that can be reached with a few months’ experience and a prestigious certification. Here is a quick summary of these mistakes and why they could be red flags for product team recruiters across the world.

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People-First Product Leadership

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In Part 2 , we’ll cover the Organization’s Strategy and Goals. Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals Share People-First Product Leadership Quick refresher I’m a strong believer in the importance of a well defined strategy. Establish a clear strategy.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

Product Coalition publishes the most popular one of the product manager blogs on our list. The Reforge blog helps product managers with topics like analytics , team management and development, product leadership , or product strategy. SaaS Product Adoption: The Ultimate Guide.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

What product managers need to know about positioning products to create value. Today we are talking about how market segmentation is done and how it impacts product pricing. To help us with the details, a product strategy and pricing expert is joining us, Dan Balcauski. 2:05] What is product strategy?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

The product management process starts with building an understanding of your users and the market, defining a vision and strategy , generating and prioritizing ideas that could solve user problems, articulating them in a clear roadmap, launching an MVP, and then gathering feedback to evolve it over time.

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Userpilot

JUNE 25, 2021

But they’re not quite as risk-loving as innovators and need positive reviews from innovators before adopting new products. This is frustrating, especially since early adopters are the very segment that’s best able to provide them with positive references! How to improve product adoption among the early adopters.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 17, 2023

Chaos ensues — communication breaks down, trust fails, roles are no longer clear, no one is accountable for executing the plays, and positional silos appear. Then why do we accept it when we are building products? Tribes” are groups of squads working on related areas of the product. Would they win? Absolutely not!

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Userpilot

JULY 31, 2023

TL;DR The product marketing manager role (PMM) is primarily responsible for a product’s positioning, messaging, and branding. Who is a product marketing manager? A product marketing manager (PMM) is responsible for a product’s positioning, messaging, and branding.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

  (Agilists state this in the positive: “start less, finish more.”) ” “Roadmap items X and Y specifically benefit your functional group, and were the ones that your directors prioritized as their top two.    The corporate strategy, which the product strategy supports. 

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2018

While there is still no one-size-fits-all solution, a standard is emerging from most successful product teams and organisations that can serve as a template for your own: Product Management Career Ladder. Associate Product Manager. This is an entry-level position, for someone who is brand new to the role.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2023

Product management has always been a cross-functional discipline responsible for working with multiple groups including engineering, marketing, sales, and support. So much so that a book by that same name appears on just about every must-read list for product managers. Consider it the price of leadership.

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Product Management Unpacked

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

I sat in a meeting about business strategy recently and one of the pieces of advice I gave the leadership team was that strategy was a lot about deciding what we were not going to do – what we were going to say ‘no’ to. ‘No’ can be a positive. The opposite is true. And we need to start looking at it that way.

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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. This is a mistake, particularly if you are new to leadership.

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