The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Product managers adopt a lo-fi approach to advertising their products Image Credit: nefasth When we think about how we want to present our products to our potential customers, I think that we can all agree that we’d like to make the product look as attractive as possible.

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The Secret PM Handbook

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Product management is a hot, hot profession right now. It’s one of the most important roles in a product company , especially in high tech. If you’re wondering about this, or want to scope yourself against a basic set of guidelines for product managers, this post is for you. Have you built something?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The range of work we do as product managers is so broad that we inevitably end up finding inspiration from all sorts of sources, whether it’s books on business strategy or essays on design. Thinking, fast and slow, in product management. What, you might wonder, does this have to do with product management?

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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. In this article, we continue doing the same.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A mindset of product experimentation is vitally important for product success and growth. In the modern SaaS world, being able to form a solid product experiment hypothesis and execute successful experiments is a key product management skill. Ready to learn more about experimentation? Next, define the end goal.

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The Secret PM Handbook

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Product management is a hot, hot profession right now. It’s one of the most important roles in a product company , especially in high tech. If you’re wondering about this, or want to scope yourself against a basic set of guidelines for product managers, this post is for you. Have you built something?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Measuring the performance of product managers is a real challenge for a number of reasons. When planning the product managers’ goals, this challenge can translate into taking the wrong direction altogether. Here is a new way to look at product management goals, and make them a useful tool for both you and your team.

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Product Management University

JUNE 11, 2020

There are plenty of product manager job interview questions out there for hiring managers. Here are three that the product manager (or product marketing) candidate can ask the hiring managers. The Playbook: 2 Guidelines to Set the Tone for the Interview. Relax and Smile! Smiles can be heard.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JUNE 12, 2023

That’s why being a cruise line product manager can be a very good job. Now that they have once again been granted permission to sail, how are their product managers going to go about finding ways to get their customers to come back and travel the high seas with them? Clearly passengers are willing to climb aboard.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 12, 2022

After creating your product manager resume , it’s well worth writing your product manager cover letter if your prospective employer wants one. The proper format for a product manager cover letter The last thing you want is your cover letter to look just like any other.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

How to build connection and empower product management teams Tami Reiss is with us. She is an experienced product executive who works with tech product leaders and teams to realize their potential by focusing on their strengths to advance toward their goals. 18:23] How can product managers build those relationships?

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bpma ProductHub

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The mentorship program at the Boston Product Management Association and how to make the best out of it. Here in Boston, the Boston Product Management Association is on a mission to continue this tradition by organizing mentorships programs specialized for Product Managers and Product Marketing professionals.

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Mind the Product

MAY 16, 2022

In this #mtpcon Digital Americas session, Cris Valerio, Product Manager at Instacart, shares her thinking on why user insights are important for making product decisions and provides some guidelines for gathering the right user insights.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 4, 2024

Yet this is what the life of a product manager often feels like. Baking the ideal product roadmap through localization Let’s apply our metaphor of the recipe, cook, and dish. The roadmap recipe, the best practices, and guidelines for roadmap creation are time-tested methods for preparing a delicious dish — the roadmap in a lab.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

They will also train a machine to produce screens based on typography, color, components, and design system guidelines. I asked ChatGPT to follow the Google Material Design guidelines to add styles. Due to Google Material Design’s popularity, ChatGPT knows its guidelines, so it added the Google Material Design styles to the form.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 21, 2015

In the past few years, I have had a lot of people come up to me and ask about Product Management (lean, agile, waterfall, whatever) and what makes a "good" Product Manager. While these are necessary, I don't see them as the epitome of a "good" Product Manager. Setting the Stage. Excellent question!

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 21, 2015

If you want to read the story behind the Lean Product Management Manifesto, you can find it here. Over the past few months I have been working with people in the Lean and Agile community to figure out how we can communicate the benefits of a Lean approach to Product Management. The Lean Product Management Manifesto.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

Product operations is an emerging function. How does it help modern product management organizations to scale effectively? Similar to the emergence of design ops in the last five years, product operations fulfills a need to streamline a scaling function. What Product Managers do. What is Product Operations?

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 3, 2020

What All Industries Expect from Their Product Managers. Whether the industry is pharmaceuticals, furniture, or food, product managers representing all types of products share a few common high-level responsibilities. They develop a strategic direction and drive the development of their companies’ products.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Another downfall of this situation is that even when you do have someone who can excel at both roles, more often than not, the project management takes priority over the product management. Product strategy often lacks “urgency” and gets pushed back to make room for urgent tactical matters like on-time product delivery.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Refine new product copy “We built a UX GPT Writer trained on all of our writing, brand guidelines, and product nomenclature. Designers rough out what they need it to say, send the GPT a screenshot from Figma, and it will rewrite it to be concise, using our guideline and brand voice standard. ’ etc.”

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 3, 2023

Product Management Technology If you’re unfamiliar with software development, you may not have heard of Scrum. Scrum is an Agile methodology that can help teams work together more efficiently to develop products. Increment: A potentially releasable product that the Scrum team creates at the end of each sprint.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Goals are the specific UX objectives the product aspires to achieve, for example, improving usability. The strategy should also have information about the UX team, processes, and guidelines. Key elements of an effective UX strategy An effective UX strategy is made up of a UX vision, goals, plan, people, processes, and guidelines.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

Second, a learning roadmap allows you to leverage your product roadmapping skills and use them to create an actionable learning plan. For example, the guidelines I have developed for the GO product roadmap template directly apply to the roadmap in figure 1. Creating the Learning Roadmap.

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Product Club

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

Applying the 3 Horizons Framework to Product Management | Michael Rutledge from Michael Rutledge. First presented at Product Tank, a division of Mind the Product, February 2019. This balance is critical not only for product success but also to inspire and motivate teams.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JULY 16, 2018

The job titles product marketing manager and product manager are confusing enough to start raging debates about who does what. But I can give you some guidelines that generalize the areas of accountability. The product marketing role is focused on current products and next products.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JULY 16, 2018

The job titles product marketing manager and product manager are confusing enough to start raging debates about who does what. But I can give you some guidelines that generalize the areas of accountability. The product marketing role is focused on current products and next products.

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NextBigWhat

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

So while product management at HubSpot is different than it is at other companies, these are universally valuable guidelines that I think can help candidates leave strong impressions anywhere. Christopher O’Donnell, VP of Sales Products at HubSpot, has taught us to look for a maker when we interview PM candidates. [

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

What is product operations (ops)? How is it different from product management ? And what role does it play in a product-led organization? In this article, we’ll go over what the product ops function is, the responsibilities of a product ops manager, and why it’s important for your product team.

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UX Studio: Product Management

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A design system is the source library of the elements professionals can use to design and develop a digital product. It is a collection of standards containing principles, guidelines, and reusable components. Design systems should also incorporate documentation: rules and guidelines on how to use specific elements.

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Sequent Learning

MAY 25, 2021

How Product Managers Get Promoted in 2021. I’ve written in other forums about my research that suggests a large portion of the product manager population don’t know what’s needed to get promoted. I was doing a product management assessment a couple of years ago and I was reviewing the job descriptions for various levels.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Yet, for many product managers, simplicity is challenging to achieve. Unlike featured-based roadmaps, which focus on the delivery and output of capabilities, outcomes-oriented roadmaps prioritize desired outcomes or results — a key element of product strategy. Often, product managers skip this step in favor of speed.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 30, 2019

Every year, for MTP Engage Hamburg, we invite speakers from outside the mainstream product scene and ask them to contribute an additional perspective to stimulate discussion among our audience. We need to develop a new set of guidelines for a new era in tech, outlining how to interact with our users, regulators, and society.

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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. The interview guidelines by Glauco Cavalheiro below offer an overview of how they now run interviews. Tweet This.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 24, 2019

Trading and product management decision-making are more alike than you might think. Decision-making is part of every product manager’s toolkit. Think about what it would mean to have effective guidelines or laws for better decision-making. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [6:03]Risk:

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Part 2 of series on experimentation When should product managers experiment? 10 guidelines to design high impact experiments. Running Experiments has become one of the most valuable tools for Product Managers to validate ideas, de-risk releases and measure the impact of their work. And when are experiments invalid?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

A common saying in the valley when describing the product manager role is that we are the “CEO” of the product. Let’s assume that is the intended role of the product manager. The answer is anything and everything that is needed to get the product out the door and keep your users happy.

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