Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 27, 2023

Lessons for product managers from PDMA’s Outstanding Corporate Innovators Award Every year the Product Management and Development Association (PDMA) recognizes an organization with the Outstanding Corporate Innovators Award (OCI). Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [3:04] Why was the OCI award created?

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 10, 2023

The steps in ranking and valuing Jobs-to-be-Done—for product managers We have talked a few times about Jobs-to-be-Done in past episodes. It is a customer discovery tool for uncovering the unmet needs of customers—the tasks they want to complete or objectives they want to achieve. Then quantitatively test them.

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The Secret PM Handbook

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

” In that post I focused especially on what you do with the market discovery knowledge you get from customers once you found it. The “product management system of record,” I called it.). Even if you aren’t (yet) an expert in your product, talking to customers one of the best ways to create value. Problem space.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Product-led growth is launching SaaS companies to success faster than ever. Unfortunately, if you’re a product leader or manager who’s in charge of building your product-led growth strategy from scratch, you may feel overwhelmed. . Enter product analytics, the secret to building your own product-led machine.

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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. What I’m looking for in a new product manager.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 11, 2017

That’s a question I actually got in a product management job interview a while ago. Without doing some research, we have no idea whether this is an aspirin problem, or an operating room problem. Then I’d go do some research on onboarding. Why aren’t customers successfully using our product? Why are they successful?

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 5, 2017

One of the most challenging questions about product management has been – in my experience – “What is Product Management?”. We’re called “product” managers. We’ll start with a box labeled “Product.” I suspect most of what you’ve learned about product management thus far has revolved around “the product.”

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Sequent Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2023

What is a Product Manager? The role of a product manager is the linchpin in product development, overseeing the entire lifecycle from inception to market launch. Tasked with strategizing, planning, and executing product initiatives, they’re the visionary behind the product’s success.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As the pressure to perform piles on product leaders and managers, there’s a way to release the tension, drive product growth, and tap into a growth plan that feeds off itself. . We’re talking about the product-led flywheel. And assembling your own product-led flywheel may be easier than you realize. Active customers.

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Userpilot

APRIL 9, 2024

TL;DR Onboarding platforms allow organizations to design personalized onboarding experiences that enable new users to realize the product value. They also offer feedback features and analytics to support data-driven decision-making. Reducing time to value is essential for user retention and product adoption. Ready to dive in?

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Gainsight

APRIL 21, 2022

Since 2021, we have seen more product-led hypergrowth than in years past. Though the past two years were some of the most challenging times for businesses, it did not stop one of the most difficult seasons from producing hypergrowth for product-led companies. Product Experience . Creating a Product Roadmap?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 11, 2023

Design skills can be valuable for Product Managers (PMs) to allow them to understand, communicate with the design team, and effectively contribute to the design process. Photo by Balázs Kétyi on Unsplash I have been scrutinizing and reflecting for a long time, on what a product manager should do and need.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Product managers are forever students; they are constantly seeking to learn and grow their skillset and knowledge. As the technology industry continues to grow, so much product managers so they don't fall behind. How do you know that you are making a product or service that your customers want?

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Brought to you by Coda —Meet the evolution of docs | Jira Product Discovery —Atlassian’s new prioritization and roadmapping tool built for product teams | HelpBar by Chameleon —the free in-app universal search solution built for SaaS — Tom Conrad is the CEO of Zero and on the board of Sonos.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 18, 2017

Our product was not as strong as some of our competitors for managing agile projects. I love working with marketing and sales to make sure they can sell my products effectively. It was full of “Our product does X” and “Let me show you how our product does Y.” The account reps were not hitting quota on new logos.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

DevOps is the practice of software development (Dev) engineers and of IT operations (Ops) working together during a product’s entire lifecycle, from design through development to production support, in order to shorten the total lead time (from concept to cash) and to provide predictable delivery of high-quality products.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. It put all the activities I do as a product manager into perspective. One test of a new framework is how well it explains “previous observations.” Love the Problem, Not the Product.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

It might be to launch a new product, to define a new category or to hit $1M in revenue. You hit your goal – you launched that new product, defined that new category, hit $1M in revenue. Figure out how your product can solve the problem you originally solved, but for a broader set of customers. Build your next big product.

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The Secret PM Handbook

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Co-opting product management into sales. My good friend Geoffrey Anderson ( @ganders2112 ) recently wrote about a situation we product managers sometimes find ourselves in. When sales are not going well, company leadership might ask product management come in to help hit the numbers. This can be a bad thing or a good thing.

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The Secret PM Handbook

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

(This is the second post in my series about using product knowledge to create better sales enablement and jumpstart a repeatable sales process. They don’t have the problem your product solves, or they don’t have it badly enough to spend money to solve it. Marketing Uses Product Knowledge To Know Who To Target.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

Twenty five mini-research ideas for finding something meaningful to work on. In the perfect world, product managers have all the time, resources, and skills to do impeccable, in-depth market and user research. In the real world, product managers may have to start from scratch and quickly find something meaningful to work on.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 3, 2017

Sprints enable you to get answers to key product and service questions in just five days. The process moves through identifying questions, creating solutions, storyboarding, prototyping, and testing with customers. Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

Lessons from the discoverer of Stage-Gate for product managers Today we are talking with a legend in product management. Our guest is Dr. Robert Cooper, who discovered the now famous Stage-Gate process and was named the “World’s Top Innovation Management Scholar” by the prestigious Journal of Product Innovation Management.

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Gainsight

JUNE 17, 2022

If you’re considering implementing—or have already implemented—a product-led growth (PLG) strategy, one of the first things you should determine are the metrics you’ll need to measure success. . Here’s how to pick out the perfect metrics for product-led growth. . How do product-led strategies contribute to business growth? .

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The Product Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2024

Hello, all you product-loving folks! 💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, AI, and more. ☕ Thanks for reading Product Café Newsletter ☕️! These are just 7 from our comprehensive list of 24 product folks.

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Gainsight

APRIL 2, 2021

Yet, one cohort of CS leaders exists that I’ve found to truly be special snowflakes: Customer Success teams in companies that employ Product-led Growth strategies. Because the product is so technical, the CS team includes the traditional CSM role as well as Technical Account Managers and Solutions Architects.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Intercom, the product, continued to develop at a fast pace with hundreds of new features big and small – from an entirely reimagined Messenger to a thriving Intercom App Store to next generation chatbots, Custom Bots and Answer Bot. If you have a few minutes, we’d really appreciate it if you could fill in our annual reader survey.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2017

If you are visiting this page, there are chances you might be seeking an answer to one of the following questions – Having completed my formal education, how do I start my career in Product Management? Coming from a non-related industry, how do I break into Product Management? How do I learn the necessary traits of Product Management?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 13, 2019

You have to build a product that solves a problem and works well for them. As you reach your next wave of growth, you need to continue to invest in those customers and in that product, and recognize that, in order to keep growing, you need that product to appeal to more people. How to expand your market. Be ruthless.

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DISQO

JUNE 15, 2015

With the rise of ‘lean’ methodologies and literature, product managers today understand that continuously generating user feedback throughout the product lifecycle can help mitigate the risk of wasting resources to build something no one wants. While he likely never said that , the sentiment is not lost on product managers.

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DISQO

JUNE 15, 2015

With the rise of ‘lean’ methodologies and literature, product managers today understand that continuously generating user feedback throughout the product lifecycle can help mitigate the risk of wasting resources to build something no one wants. While he likely never said that , the sentiment is not lost on product managers.

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The Secret PM Handbook

JANUARY 15, 2018

Successful customers, quality product, but bad sales. When I started as the Director of Product Management at my last company, they had a lot of successful and enthusiastic customers, a product that worked – although a bit long in the tooth – and a good lead pipeline. Product-specific objection handling guides.

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The Secret PM Handbook

JUNE 16, 2017

So I share this little bit of research with them: In a meta-analysis of 46 studies on debriefs (also called after action reviews or lessons learned), Scott Tannenbaum and Christopher Cerasoli found that when appropriately conducted, debriefs can lead to a 20-25% average improvement in performance. I need a 10x benefit.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2018

Where SaaS companies get prioritization wrong and a new approach to get it right There are many ways to prioritize what makes it onto your SaaS product roadmap and most of them are incredibly time-consuming and only done by your product teams. We also looked at some other research by Mind the Product and by Richard Banfield.

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NextBigWhat

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

using product-led growth. Enter: product-led growth. 2/ Duolingo’s product-led growth was based on 3 main tenets: Gamification. Enter: product-led growth. 2/ Duolingo’s product-led growth was based on 3 main tenets: Gamification. Obsessive A/B testing. Feed everything to an A/B test.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 14, 2020

Building generic products. Employee handbooks for Gitlab and Basecamp. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. How to do remote working well. Being organised.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 10, 2017

As a product manager it’s not uncommon to feel pulled in a million different directions as you work to meet the needs of your customers, developers and company stakeholders. This is particularly important in large-scale organisations or when you build a customer-facing product. Write a Handbook. Release Notes. Strategy Paper.

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