Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

How product management teams can make better innovation decisions I am interviewing speakers at my favorite annual conference for product managers, the PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference. David Matheson, whose session is titled “Improving decision quality during stage gate reviews.”

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. Up until the mid-80s, many of the software engineering jobs were for special-purpose machines or applications. What's so bad about that?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 5, 2020

This series is about helping a team create a less brittle environment—more resilience. Brief description of the problem at a recent client: Person A checked in code that broke an “unrelated” part of the system. I'll call this checking in code in Email that broke Search. (Yes, The managers didn't understand.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If you say yes to every request, you are in danger of creating a Frankenstein product—a product that is a collection of unrelated features, offers a weak value proposition, and gives rise to a poor user experience. While the product roadmap is a plan in its own right, it is a mistake to create and manage it in isolation.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. Treat the Team as an Equal Partner. Treat others how you want to be treated. The team members are not your resources but the people who create your product.

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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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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. Highly effective Product Managers (or what I call Exponential PMs) tend to be strong in all of these areas. Let’s tuck in… What makes for a highly effective Product Manager? ?? the craft of product management, creating customer and business value) 2.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? It’s a lot about how you frame it. This post is about just that? This post is about just that?—?determining

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Amplitude

JANUARY 23, 2018

As VP of Product at Amplitude, I get the opportunity to work with hundreds of different products teams every year?—?ranging So in the mode of Ben Horowitz’s classic essay Good PM/Bad PM , I’ve captured my thoughts on what I believe makes a good product team vs a bad product team. PM, Design and Engineering?—?are

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Over the past few years, many people in the development community have sounded off about “rating nags” and the “please rate me” dialogs that some apps show, with perhaps the most pointed critique coming from John Gruber , of Daring Fireball. This is about how companies communicate with their customers in the mobile world.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For years, managers have been trying to find ways to make software product development faster and easier. Now, we have at least these: Low code environments so people can write their own code. AI to take the place of humans in product development. That changes the questions teams often ask themselves.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

They can contribute to every stage of the customer journey and uncover insights into customer relationship management. It may be reading articles on your blog, engaging with ads, leaving reviews, contacting the support team, and so on. Referral stage: Customers review your product and recommend it through word-of-mouth.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Instead, you should engage the stakeholders, leverage their expertise, and generate as much buy-in as possible , as I explain in more detail in my article “ Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People.” ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 11, 2022

We’ll also learn to use in-product experiences to manage customer dissatisfaction and prevent them from putting a dent in your business. Customer dissatisfaction arises due to a shortcoming of your business concerning your product or customer service. Dissatisfaction due to the product value offered and the price asked for it.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 19, 2022

Managing a warehouse is not easy. A warehouse management system will help to organize the workflow effectively. What is a warehouse management system? A warehouse management system combines software, specific devices (for example, data collection terminals with a scanner), and IoT sensors to track inventory information.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

My journey to product management was not what you might expect , but then again, maybe you would. Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications.

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Modus Create

MAY 3, 2023

Common misconceptions with UX and product development UX is a powerful and valuable tool, but misconceptions abound about what UX can do and how long it can take to reap the benefits. In engineering-driven organizations, product management can be very feature-focused. Many designers started as developers. Not so fast.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 6, 2022

The software engineers at Google work on some of the most influential products in the world. As a result, being a software engineer at Google can be an incredibly fulfilling career. Google places a significant emphasis on technical skills for its engineering teams. Lucky for you, we have the inside scoop.

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Userpilot

JUNE 30, 2022

Without it, you’d find yourself implementing features for the wrong customers, distorting your value proposition, and leading your customer support (CS) team to burnout from dealing with bad-fit users. So, how can you determine customer fit and get the right user feedback to ensure customer success? Let’s go over the concepts.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Let’s take a closer look at what customer analysis is, its benefits, and how to get started. Gather insights about your customers from internal teams. Leverage product analytics to do a customer behavior analysis and get a better understanding of how customers interact with your product.

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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. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? Will Larson: I would love to.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Often people stumble into the Product Management career without any Technology background. When I was at Hutchinson Telecoms, I was a Product Manager within the Marketing function. I never had to deal with developers on a day to day basis?—?the I had no idea what I was doing and how I could lead a dev team.

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Userpilot

APRIL 7, 2023

When your product is catering to other businesses, it can be difficult for sales reps and other teams to understand the needs and experiences of the clients, especially if the client company sells multiple products. However, customer insights can help your teams understand all aspects of your B2B partners.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 11, 2019

Guide on Managing Cross-Functional Team To develop a good project, you need to consider two important factors?—?a a project idea and a team of specialists. Speaking about the team, there is always a question: what team structure to choose? What is Cross-Functional Team? Less time, less money.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 14, 2019

There are thousands of articles, books , videos , and conferences that discuss the traits necessary for you to become the greatest Product Manager ever. However, information on what makes a disastrous Product Manager is much harder to come by. The “Yes PM” This type of poor Product Manager is difficult to identify.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

You’re autonomous, your code is immaculate, and you have a deep understanding of building and shipping software. Despite not having a formal education in engineering, Sarah landed a job as a developer in the French consultant Grand Manitou. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    “ How hard could it be?    Now.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. I think that poor communication and differing team cultures might be part of the problem, but how can I know for sure? But how do you know which? Missed deadlines.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Most new remote workers were thrust into this new work environment due to a global pandemic. If you are currently managing a group of remote workers, then your main goal should be keeping them productive. Make Managing Paid Time Off Easier Keeping employees loyal will require lots of hard work.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Customer service KPIs measure the performance of customer service teams and customer support management. You should track customer service KPIs to measure the performance of your support teams, improve customer satisfaction, and boost customer retention and loyalty. Measure the performance of your support team.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 3, 2022

As data-driven product development continues to balloon in popularity, so does the need for accurate and sophisticated implementation of analytics tracking in software products. From the perspective of many engineering teams, product analytics is treated as a second-class citizen. Spearhead a slick analytics implementation.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Restaurants don’t put an Apprentice Chef in charge of the kitchen overnight, so why do we do this with Product Managers? Photo by Sebastian Herrmann on Unsplash Whilst it has been around for decades, product management has grown rapidly over the last few years. In 2021, Product Managers are in high demand and the talent war is rife.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 22, 2021

Engineering manager interviews are some of the toughest in the tech industry. Not only do you need to demonstrate your technical prowess and experience with designing complex systems, you also need to showcase your soft skills in people management. Managing Individuals How do you run 1:1s with your team?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Here’s our story how we’re developing a product using machine learning and neural networks to boost translation and localization Artificial intelligence and its applications are one of the most sensational topics in the IT field. So does that mean there’s already localization software on the market that uses machine translation?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

Today, people want to be able to manage their finances entirely online, a feature not every bank is currently able to provide. For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. In-house resources were enough to develop and support these services. We execute.

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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. Product-Led Onboarding by Ramli John and Wes Bush is a new book about how to implement user onboarding for the ultimate customer retention.

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