Good Product Manager

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Top Product Management Leadership Priorities For 2020. You may remember me posting last fall about some research we were working on at SiriusDecisions/Forrester to understand the biggest challenges and priorities of product management leaders. Your Input Needed: What Product Management Loves (and Hates!) a) Many (most?)

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 25, 2022

Have you recently been invited to a product marketing manager interview? One of the best and first things you should do is review the most common product marketing interview questions and answers. Product marketing managers play a critical role in bringing new products to market.

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Product Management Unpacked

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

I’m excited to be named Product Executive in Residence (PXIR) at Carnegie Mellon University. This new PXIR role enables CMU to bring the voice of industry into classrooms and product leadership curricula. There is also the ubiquity of what’s often referred to as the “product problem.”

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. An economic downturn, a war — you name it. While I understand this distinction, I believe that a company cannot reach real product-market fit without nailing down its GTM, and vice versa. Here is how it works.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry. It is a well-established company, a leader in its domain, but it still needs to deliver new products to the market so product-market fit is a very relevant topic.

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Product Talk

JUNE 21, 2023

Today, we’re excited to share that we’ve added yet another instructor (and yes, her name is also Ellen!) Meet Ellen Brandenberger , a product coach and consultant and Director of Product at Stack Overflow. By the way, it’s not a requirement that new instructors be named Ellen—just a fun coincidence! to the roster.

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

As business advisors and executive coaches, we've worked with dozens of CEOs to help them build and grow their product leadership team as they scale their company. Getting external support, such as product management consulting, can help establish the product leadership team responsible for nurturing and guiding the product team.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. 6 steps to product-market fit. (1) Read several people’s paths to product manager in this article [link]. From building products to building people – the path to leadership.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 2, 2022

If you’re in product marketing or product management, you’re likely familiar with the concept of user personas and buyer personas. These terms might even be used interchangeably in your organization to describe a product’s customers. Executive Leadership (The Ultimate Buyer). So let’s dive in. Want to learn more?

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

So to celebrate International Women’s Day – as usual – we’re casting the spotlight on some of the most prominent influencers and thought-leaders in Product – who also happen to be ladies. Melissa Perri – Speaker, consultant, and teacher in Product Management. CEO of Product Labs.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

Therefore, choose a specific market segment and develop a product for the few, not the many, as Steve Blank suggested , particularly when you manage a new or young product. More Information : Market Segmentation Tips and Strategize , pp. 59; Boost Your Product Leadership Power and How to Lead in Product Management , pp.

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First Round Review

MARCH 15, 2018

Anne Raimondi has headed up product, marketing and operations at big names throughout tech. This one lesson is at the heart of her approach to leadership. Continue reading at First Round Review »

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Product Talk

MAY 13, 2020

This illustration can help focus a cross-functional leadership team who shares the business outcome goal to determine which leading indicator outcomes each functional team will own. In this example, let’s say the product team believes that the opportunities in green are most within their control or influence.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

By the way, while the tips here address specific challenges that product leaders face, many of them would apply to any kind of leadership position, and even to non-leadership positions, so feel free to forward it to friends who are currently on the move. and in product leadership positions there is so much of it!

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We write wildly aspirational job descriptions for candidates and we confuse subject/market expertise with product management/leadership experience to name just a few errors. Rich Mironov wrote The Art of Product Management and is a voice for the scrappy entrepreneur in all of us. Cross-functional leadership.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Photo by Tamil Vanan on Pexels You might have heard that I’m writing a book on product leadership. As you can understand from the name, most workshops are about novels and focus on how to build the plot and the characters that drive it. They named it after the feedback I constantly gave them on their presentations.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Voila: Improve the odds of discovering your product, make them aware it exists Build consumer understanding of your product beyond the name (what does it do? That’s how you find product market fit. why is it valuable? is it fit for my use case?) Truth seeking. Responding. That’s how you retain.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 31, 2021

So ladies and gents – here’s Product Drive 2.0.! Product Drive 2.0. Teresa Torres is not the only big name on the Product Drive lineup this year. Other notable speakers include: Ramli John – Managing Director of ProductLed and co-author of “Product Led Onboarding”. Product Operations.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2022

I bet with this last name he must have thought about creating such a game long before he actually did it. especially startups on their way to product-market fit, the ARR itself might not be important. But that’s where your leadership comes to a test. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

There is a ton of product management advice out there, but most of it is generic tips repeated over and over again. With a self-named newsletter and podcast, Lenny is a widely followed product expert. How did Lenny Rachitsky get started in product management?

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People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

We are constantly learning new skills (tip of the hat to ChatGPT), re-establishing product market fit due to a new competitor, or facing changing market dynamics (remote, hybrid, back to the office). A product practitioner named Emily Webb borrowed a term from healthcare - professional protectionism - to describe this behavior.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 22, 2021

Pillars and practices for product managers to deeply understand their customers’ problems. I am changing the name of the podcast to Product Mastery Now. The new name is coming soon. The logo will look the same—just the name is changing. . Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:09]

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

This is essential to build a roadmap that drives the product strategy. PMs collaborate closely with teams from across the organization, like the engineering team, and liaise with senior leadership. When the product is ready, PMs use customer feedback and product analytics to track product performance and inform its future innovation.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2023

So much so that a book by that same name appears on just about every must-read list for product managers. In the product-led organization of 2023, product teams are gaining authority over previously independent teams and even some historically in a leadership role over product.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

Product Coalition publishes the most popular one of the product manager blogs on our list. The Reforge blog helps product managers with topics like analytics , team management and development, product leadership , or product strategy. Product Talk is a valuable resource for product professionals.

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bpma ProductHub

JULY 5, 2016

Drawing on another’s positional or referent power, for example by name dropping, is a critical mistake when maneuvering a conflict. Bullying and name dropping expose you as someone who does not know how to manage conflict constructively and relies on others for influence. Image from Flickr Commons.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2023

The previous version was almost five years old, and we knew that we needed an ambitious and clear vision to bring a next-generation Messenger to the market. Surveying the landscape First, we zoomed out from day-to-day execution and evaluated Messenger across multiple dimensions – product, market, customers, and business.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

If it took Marty almost 10 years to address this important aspect of product leadership, no wonder many product leaders don’t understand that this is part of their role. Whether you are doing it yourself or as part of the CPO Bootcamp , remember that your role as a product leader is not to lead the company’s product.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

McElroy influenced two entrepreneurs named, Bill Hewlett and David Packark?—?names names look familiar, anyone? As the name the “Brand Men” suggest the origins of Product Management was truely in marketing. Adopted in name and structure only, the original intent, principles and mindsets were largely left behind.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 19, 2021

DigiDay named her a DigiDay Changemaker. In this talk from BoS USA Online 2020 , Nandini discusses the background to the story and the actions the company’s leadership took to address a challenge that most software company CEOs have never seriously considered: booting users who violate their Acceptable Use Policies.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Sales execs want more sales-y Heads of Product; development execs want more engineering-ish Heads of Product; marketing teams want a marketer in product clothing… no candidate passes muster with all groups. What’s In a Name? IMHO, Product Leadership Experience Is Essential for Heads of Product. <rant>

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Userpilot

MAY 9, 2024

Growth marketing and demand generation target distinct stages of the entire customer lifecycle, using separate funnels. These funnels are: Pirate funnel : Used for growth marketing, it divides customer interactions into six tasks, namely Awareness, Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, and Revenue (AARRR).

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Product Manager (PM) & Product Marketing Manager (PMM): The Product Doppelgangers Photo by Kaleidico on Unsplash Try Googling for ‘product management vs product marketing’, you will see several results around this topic. Product marketers are like restaurant managers.

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First Round Review

MARCH 15, 2018

Anne Raimondi has headed up product, marketing and operations at big names throughout tech. This one lesson is at the heart of her approach to leadership.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

You’ll also be meeting people from other disciplines, like Software Development, Product Marketing , Operations, etc. Naturally, having a big name like Facebook, Google, Twitter etc on your resume will be a bonus. You’ll have access to more resources, and some of the bigger names are setting the bar in terms of tech.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Poppy is a co-founder and CEO of Darktrace, a world-leading AI company for cyber defence, named Europe’s ‘Fastest Growing Super Scale-up’ by Tech Tour in 2018. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. Poppy Gustafsson // Darktrace.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And until now, I never thought to share the view a product leader has on roadmaps — at least publicly. I want to help you if you are new to product leadership -or- if you work for a product leader who doesn’t always communicate expectations, leaving you wondering what went wrong. Why share now? Who owns the roadmap?

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