The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. . This article explores multiple aspects of product management. the Product Manager role is a rather recent phenomenon.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 20, 2024

How do you conduct root cause analysis in product management? We also explain why it’s important for product managers and share useful tips. Once a hypothesis is proven right, generate solution ideas and prioritize them in terms of impact and technical feasibility. Let’s dive in, shall we?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

From analyzing market trends to churning user needs and technical feasibility into golden product ideas, there are many benefits of ChatGPT for product managers. A potent tool, ChatGPT has proven to be a strategic addition to the product management toolkit, churning out ideas in even the most unlikely scenarios.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

To be a kick-ass product manager , you need a very diverse skill set. This article explores both hard and soft skills that product managers need in their everyday work, so if you’re curious to learn more, dive right in. PMs need to know how to use product analytics tools to gain actionable insights.

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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. After all, the partner teams build products, not the product manager alone. Many attributes contribute to a polished product leader, but one of the key traits is conflict resolution.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 6, 2020

Product managers are rapidly advancing their skills, and as a result, the industry as a whole has had to level-up to compete as the world’s biggest brands continue to adopt a mobile-first approach. We’ve written a lot—and I mean A LOT—of content focused around mobile product management. What Is Mobile Product Management?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. Write a draft, talk through it with your peers, your manager and other staff engineers – and don’t forget to ask for feedback.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

JULY 24, 2023

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. After all, that’s what tech innovation is all about. Do you have a custom algorithm or other technology? But there are some common elements too. What is different, special here?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

Every time I navigate the ocean of Product Management frameworks, we are not tackling one essential part of our role: People and Ourselves. There is a framework for almost every stage of our Product development lifecycle, but one of the only transversal things is that we need people to make things happen.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2022

Product management specializations have trended upwards in recent months. These “specializations” often place focus around a specific set of skills or needs a company has, somewhat creating a division within the product manager role. Are we breaking apart the product manager role a bit too much?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Strategies for switching into a product management role when you don’t fit the cookie cutter qualifications. Getting into product when you’ve already started your career Product management requires, above anything else, good judgment. It shouldn’t be a prerequisite for product management jobs either.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

Do you follow any product manager blogs? Would you like to discover new ones that will give you valuable insights into product management ? In our article, we introduce 20 of our favorite product manager blogs that every product pro should follow, regardless of their experience.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2022

Subcategories for Media Apps: News, Telco, Technology, Games, Sports, Music. “Thanks to the power of mobile, this cutting edge technology is at the fingertips of everyone with a cell phone right now,” Chip Kanne, Head of North America Emerging Sales, Snap. . Data included: Ratings and reviews. Popular phrases.

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Usersnap

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Luckily for Erste Group, they’ve been focusing on customer experience since the very beginning. And George Labs is the digital banking business unit of Erste Group. To collect customer feedback and conduct user testing were means to uncover bugs and manage basic user expectations. What do the customers need?

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. out of 5 stars. 54 global ratings. Where to buy?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 28, 2023

Product Management is a challenging and dynamic field that requires constant adaptation to new technological developments on the one hand and changing customer and market demands on the other hand. This information can then be used to identify areas for improvement and prioritize product development efforts.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

GM’s Product Managers Have Run Into A Battery Problem Image Credit: Frank Hebbert. So I’m willing to bet that you are pretty proud of your product. This is all fine and good as long as the product that you are delivering is truly high quality. The product managers still intend to launch 10 EVs in China.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 28, 2023

Sometimes good ideas just don’t make it to market Image Credit: Vaping360 As product managers, the one thing that we’d all like to do is to be in charge of a very popular product. However, something that we often don’t consider is that if a product is popular, it’s going to get a lot of scrutiny.

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The Accidental Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

NASCAR product managers try to attract a new fan base Image Credit: roger blake So when I say “NASCAR” to you, what do you think of? This group was valued as the most brand-loyal consumers in all of sports. In the past, this image would have been fairly accurate. However, times are changing.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. After all, many product managers tend to treat a strategy as something that’s scared and driven top-down from the executive management level. Simple task, right?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 31, 2022

Great product managers never stop learning. That's why we scoured our bookshelves to make a list of the best product management books we could find. Technology is always changing, as are customer habits. Below is a list of some of the best product management books spanning nearly two decades of thinking.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Onboarding new users is one of the biggest challenges a technical product faces. This is doubly true when a portion of those would-be users don’t have technical backgrounds. If you want to boost product activation and retention, a one-and-done, low-touch onboarding flow simply won’t cut it.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 11, 2019

There are so many changes happening in product management as I write this, and the evolution only seems to be accelerating. With your support, we dove into the most result-driven strategies, popular frameworks, and groundbreaking leaders who changed the product management landscape. I’m excited to watch it all unfold.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 12, 2022

Have you been intrigued by the position of Technical Program Manager? But this doesn't mean you can't prepare for and ace your upcoming technical program manager interview. The responsibilities of a technical program manager are a little more big picture than that of a software engineer. Let's take a look!

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People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

At the base level, it often comes down to credit (an individual did XZY) vs collaboration (a group did XYZ). As you can likely guess if you’ve been following this newsletter, I fall on the side of favoring collaboration as being a key area of focus for performance reviews. I’ve found it isn’t always the case.

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Ronke PM

JUNE 21, 2023

Customer Success/Relationship Management meeting with an existing customer. Internal Sales and Customer Success/Relationship Management Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) meetings. Customer Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) meetings. Engineering Demo Review Meetings. Engineering Demo Review Meetings.

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The Accidental Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Tech product managers have to prepare for restrictions on data sharing Image Credit: If you take a moment to think about it, U.S. tech product managers have actually had it pretty easy. These changes may affect everything that these tech product managers do.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

I’ve gone from being able to spend all week focused on one task to having to cover the huge variety of contexts that come with growing a $10m+ revenue business, multiple important client relationships and projects, a number of ventures and different technology domains. How do you manage context switching? What is context switching?

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Userpilot

JUNE 29, 2023

This comprehensive guide will enable proactive product managers to figure out exactly how to craft documentation that will help users solve their problems and delight them. TL;DR User documentation describes any kind of helpful material intended for the user of a product. Let’s get you started! User persona example.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 25, 2021

So product manager, how do you measure how successful you are being? If you are like most of us, if you are always on the move and always have things that you need to be doing you are probably feeling pretty good about how things are going for both your product and your company. and Uber Technologies Inc.’s

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Product management is one of the fastest-growing jobs in tech today, and that growth doesn't look to be slowing down anytime soon. Product managers are responsible for organizing and guiding the development and shipping of products at every stage of their lifecycle. So, let's get to it!

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Usersnap

APRIL 29, 2023

Product managers have a lot of ground to cover. From staying on top of market trends, user needs, customer feedback , and industry insights to managing their resources, and planning what’s ahead for their product. Breaking-edge technology usually feels like something that requires advanced technical knowledge.

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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

My career started at Hewitt Associates which was a human capital and management consulting firm that operated 500 offices in 120 countries. We provided consulting, insurance brokerage, information technology and business process outsourcing services. The four memorable moments below taught me, and continue to teach me these lessons.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 11, 2022

Ready to learn the most common product manager interview questions and answers to land the job? The role of product management is inherently multidisciplinary, with PMs sitting at the center of many related activities. For this reason, product managers are often called "mini-CEOs." So, let's get to it!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 11, 2022

Ready to learn the most common product manager interview questions and answers to land the job? The role of product management is inherently multidisciplinary, with PMs sitting at the center of many related activities. For this reason, product managers are often called "mini-CEOs." So, let's get to it!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 12, 2021

If you're preparing for the technical program management interview, you already know that the interview generally consists of four types of questions. Candidates are asked these types of questions to qualify their abilities to design a system to solve open-ended or complex technical problems.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2018

Product management tends to work with most areas of a company, and product managers should spend much of their time focussed outside walls of the company too. All the while my products suffered abandonment issues. Thought leadership fits well within the established realm of product management.

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