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Oversharing Information With Developers: Product Management Lessons Learned

The Product Coalition

Image by master1305 on Freepik Writing product requirements is the bread and butter of thousands of product managers or product owners worldwide. Whether the medium is a ‘PRD’ (product requirements document), user story, or link to prototypes, there are endless ‘best practices’ and tips for how to do it best.

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Why product managers should not be data-informed by Jens-Fabian Goetzmann

Mind the Product

In his digital breakout session at #mtpcon London 2022, Jens-Fabian Goetzmann explained why product managers should make data-informed decisions and balance quantitative and qualitative research. [.]

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Unveiling Success in 2024: A Vision for Product Managers

280 Group

In this blog, I’ll share insights and strategies gathered from the product management ecosystem to help you harness the power of 2024 and soar to new heights. This involves understanding organizational workings, processes, and historical context beyond your product.

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Product Management for Information Technology

ProductPlan

As digital and product transformations become more common, more Information Technology (IT) departments view their software assets as products that deserve ongoing investment and attention from a consistent, dedicated team. Here’s a look at the product management role in IT and why it’s an important role from now on.

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Building a Research Flywheel: A Helpful Guide for Product Managers & Their Teams

Speaker: Jessica Hall, Product Strategy & Design Leader and Co-Author of The Product Mindset

Every step of the product journey is informed by research: what works, what doesn’t, what customers want, what they need. But no one tool or method can create a thriving research practice for product managers. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours!

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Trailblazing Women in Product Management: Jennifer Marx, Vice President of Product Management at Sythentaic?

280 Group

Jennifer is now the Vice President of Product Management at Synthetaic, an end-to-end AI company. “ I had never worked directly on an AI product before, nor had I worked in a startup, but the more it scared me, the more I knew it’s what I had to do next.” You want to be a decision maker.

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3 Empowerment Levels in Product Management

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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How Product Managers Can Define a Product Vision to Guide Their Team

Speaker: Christian Bonilla, VP of Product Management at UserTesting

Defining the product vision is a high-stakes exercise, which makes it all the more important to avoid some common pitfalls product managers encounter: confusing the company’s vision with their product vision, defining a vision that’s too abstract to be useful in strategic planning, or combining the “what” and the “how” in the product vision.

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How to Increase Your Research Efficiency and Move You From Insights to Action, Faster

Speaker: Michele Ronsen, UX Expert and Founder of Curiosity Tank

Then, take notes with strategic frameworks, in specific formats, to right-size the information collected and expedite analysis and synthesis. Often, the most useful tool product managers and researchers can employ is a carefully thought-out approach. Moving from findings and insights (they are different!)

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The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Strong and Effective Value Proposition

Speaker: Robin Zaragoza, Product Coach and CEO of The Product Refinery

Every product manager has heard, “Keep the customer at the heart of everything you do". But what strategy do managers use to keep the customer and their key problems at the center of the product development process? How do product managers instill this knowledge of the customer across the rest of the organization?

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It's Alive! Bringing Your Product Roadmap Back From the Dead

Speaker: Lisa Mo Wagner, Product Management Coach, Writer, Speaker and WomenTech Ambassador

An effective roadmap is one that is outcome and data-driven, allowing your team to understand the product's progression and how customer feedback will inform it. Product roadmaps must focus on the "now" and allow feedback to inform the "later.". How to Manage your product roadmap.

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Project Analytics: Visibility that Aids Risk Management

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

Product Managers face changes that put delivery at risk. Just as you use data from the customer to inform your solutions, transparency during the building of those solutions is critical for making better risk mitigation decisions.

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Product Management Careers: Job Prospects, Pathways, and Must-Have Skills (2024)

The product management job market in 2024 reflects the fast-growing and ever-evolving nature of the field. For product managers looking to future-proof their careers and take advantage of new opportunities, staying informed about the professional landscape is a smart move.

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How To Build Data-Informed Products

Speaker: Tim Herbig, Director, iridion

As a product manager, you probably know specific ways to gather data to inform your product decisions, like the ever-popular A/B test. Do you just do it anyway, because your company's product culture requires that you have those numbers? Tim will discuss the line between being data-informed versus data-driven.

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How Product Managers Can Shape Inclusive Futures with UX

Speaker: Bronwen Rees, Author and Lead Product Designer at Xero

We all want a world where everyone has equal access to digital information, just as we want all online experiences to be equitable. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours! UX has a critical role in making that future possible. Ways to practice inclusivity within design.