The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Top 10 AI Product Manager Skills Let’s dive right into those skills that you’ll need. Technical Skills As an AI product manager, not having a strong command of the technical aspects of product development is out of the question. All product managers need to have a deep understanding of the products they’re managing.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 19, 2018

New product development is a risky business for companies – the failure rate for product launches hovers around 40%. A quick look at Product Hunt demonstrates there is a flourishing market for new products, all of them competing for our time and money. What is a Gate System? Why use a Gate System?

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

” GTM leaders typically ascribe this situation to lack of attention, poor work ethic, or weak understanding of customers on the part of product management – i.e. personal failures best addressed by replacing or upgrading product staff.  Or

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2020

Itamar has over 20 years of product management experience working with industry leaders such as Google and Microsoft. Three Types of Launch. Part of the role of a product manager is to discover and help build products that have a high market impact. Negative – where launches are so bad they get rolled back.

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Mixpanel

MAY 23, 2024

Sometimes, features don’t even make it to the beta stage—and that’s often not a bad thing when you consider the alternative is overspending time and resources to force a feature that isn’t worth it. As a product manager at Mixpanel, I spend a lot of my time testing and evaluating new features and changes for our product.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2019

A UK-based consultant, Joe Leech has built a reputation for managing change (for both users and stakeholders) and as the guy to call when a product launch has gone wrong. Troubleshooting a poor product launch. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

The responsibilities of a product marketer fall into two types: pre-sign-up (acquisition) and post-sign-up ( retention ). The amount of responsibilities you'll have as a product marketing manager depends on how product-led the company is. What is the product marketing manager role? 2 – Collaboration skills.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Regardless of whether you’re building products for software, hardware, or services, product managers of every stripe are considered the driver of a product’s strategic development and the single source of truth for questions, requests, and feedback related to their products. The role of digital product managers.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

First, how can product managers establish processes to enable their teams to succeed? Processes include forums to sync with different members of your team and other teams, forums to get leadership alignment, ensuring high quality of deliverables, and OKR planning. 8:27] What do you put into the product vision statement?

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Userpilot

MAY 5, 2022

Product managers lead interdisciplinary product teams to deliver products that bring value to customers. The product management process is a set of steps taking the project from the initial concept to the final product. The product development process is one aspect of the product management process.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 8, 2018

However, his belief in his product vision drove him to solve a real problem experienced by thousands of women. Padman’s work has been literally life-changing, but it’s worth noting that his mindset and product development steps were as well-honed and effective as anything you’d see from the likes of Netflix, Amazon, or Google.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 4, 2022

If you evaluate the product features themselves, the update wasn’t bad. The problem was users don’t think about the value of a product strictly in terms of features. Remember that your product experience is the journey your customer goes through within your product. In fact, it looked good.

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Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2021

For example, not running user tests may help launch more features faster, but result in UX issues and lower customer satisfaction later. UX debt affects high-growth SaaS companies in industries where time-to-market is mission-critical and bootstrapped startups without a design team most. What is UX debt? Think about it.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2017

Instead, they use a system that allows them to explore many possibilities while continually developing options for better investment decisions based on what they discover from exploring each possibility. The majority of options will turn out to be bad options but the point is that those options are now visible as such.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

One of the challenges we've long acknowledged in the tech industry is how difficult the transition can be from a software engineer to an engineering manager due to the vast distinction in the skill set to be great at the new role. a product leader. Doing this right means a lot more than simply supporting your team.

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Mixpanel

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Good product teams know their users inside and out. They understand how they use their product, how long they stay, why they drop off, which cohorts will monetize, and where they should place their big bets. Does this mean every product team should be packed with data science degrees? Business-product sense.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The best product launches are like the cream cheese frosting on a decadent chocolate cake! enabled product or feature set and everyone’s totally energized over the upcoming announcement and marketing launch activities. The new product is going to boost your differentiation in the competitive space. All good, right?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

If you let yourself get carried away, it’s really, really hard to tell the difference between a good and bad one. The result of idea validation is to develop a feasible prototype or MVP?—?both The further down the development cycle you go, the harder, costlier, and less appealing it is to claw your way back up and start over.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

The responsibilities of a product marketer fall into two types: pre-sign-up (acquisition) and post-sign-up ( retention ). The amount of responsibilities you'll have as a product marketing manager depends on how product-led the company is. What is the product marketing manager role? 2 – Collaboration skills.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

The responsibilities of a product marketer fall into two types: pre-sign-up (acquisition) and post-sign-up ( retention ). The amount of responsibilities you'll have as a product marketing manager depends on how product-led the company is. What is the product marketing manager role? 2 – Collaboration skills.

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ProductPlan

JULY 11, 2019

Product teams must not only create an amazing product, they also need to set the stage for the product getting the awareness it requires for trial and user adoption. If a new feature or product never gets used, it doesn’t matter how awesome it is… it’s gathering the same dust as every less great product on the market.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 15, 2023

There’s a vast gap between a great idea and bringing that idea into reality: and there’s no better example than a product launch plan. If you get your product launch plan wrong, all the hard work and effort of building your product might be for nothing. Book a demo with our team to learn more.

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Department of Product

AUGUST 22, 2022

Here’s some of the areas we felt could be the most impactful as part of your product health check, spanning data, devices, value proposition, business and strategy. Sure, you can dig deeper later on, but these are fundamental metrics that are important to understand when you’re assessing the overall health of your product.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The weary musician jotting down notes and chords that came to them in a dream or the product manager dreaming of new product ideas. Product teams long for similar moments of inspiration, but the motivational poster vision of breakthrough ideas misses the raw materials and effort that lead up to these moments.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As usual, you really had to be there but here are the Sigmacorn notes… 9:00 Mark Littlewood: Opening remarks Welcome to BoS! How will we win?

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

In the spirit of “Staying Thirsty” we’ve compiled this list of books, blogs, Slack communities, and podcasts for product-obsessed people that want to develop themselves in and out of the office. Books for Product Managers. As a product manager, you have to be many things. Slack Groups for Product Managers.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 19, 2020

The purpose of the program is to develop the next generation of leaders at Google and equip them with the freedom and responsibility to have strategic impact very quickly. They work well with a team and they thrive in a collaborative environment. APMM interviews can vary a lot depending on the company, industry, and role.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

Some are moving away from detailed, written product requirements documents (PRDs), while others are using shorter write-ups, user stories, or jobs-to-be-done formats. Some product teams are moving away from written PRDs to visual artifacts like mockups and prototypes. Eric Ries, in his post “What is customer development?

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Products launch, marketing campaigns unfurl, and execs stroll onto stage, announcing the next big thing. Yet behind the scenes, things are often much different… as nearly 1,000 product professionals in a single survey have indicated. Said one financial services executive, “Industry focuses a lot on data driven-decision making.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

The responsibilities of a product marketer fall into two types: pre-sign-up (acquisition) and post-sign-up ( retention ). The amount of responsibilities you'll have as a product marketing manager depends on how product-led the company is. What is the product marketing manager role? 2 – Collaboration skills.

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Usersnap

AUGUST 25, 2021

Sometimes target audiences can overlap, thus making some brands address the same persona or team. So, how could you answer your target audience’s needs and desires with your brand, products, and services? Even though it may not feel comfortable, this step is crucial for the development of your brand and business.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 10, 2016

In this talk at ProductTank NYC I recounted five tactics I learned while helping relaunch dozens of digital products over the last decade, and then used to successfully relaunch ICv2.com. ICv2 is a popular trade website for the comic, graphic novel, board game and toy industries. Tactic #2: Unknown Hunting.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 13, 2020

You don’t have industry experience. PMs come in all shapes and sizes, but ultimately they’re responsible for managing the product through its lifecycle. From initial design and development through launch, upgrades, maturation, and eventually end-of-life, PMs are found wrangling other departments with competing priorities.

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

In each of these scenarios, some companies will quickly adapt to new trends and reconfigure their product offering to stay relevant. The types of trends that matter to product teams So if we agree that staying on top of trends matters, the question then is, what types of trends should we bother staying on top of?

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

In most companies, they have the final vote about which product initiatives get the green light and budget to move forward, which products to kill, and whether a product in the final stages of development is ready for launch or needs more work. This is why I’m suggesting we de-prioritize that feature.”

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The more product-led the company, the more post-signup activities the product marketer will do. The pre-signup activities include planning product launches, writing product and feature pages, writing help docs, FAQs, sales/cs enablement assets, and creating bottom-of-the-funnel educational content.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

In those six years leading the team, I’ve led its growth from one person to 180 people that are now spread across five different functional teams: Customer Success Manager (CSM), Partner Success Manager (PSM), Professional Services, Support, and CS Ops. And yeah, we offered excellent customer service through our CS team.

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