The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Technical program manager (TPM) roles range from mid to senior-level positions that support organizations with their product goals. If defining project scopes, reviewing solutions, and generating reports interest you, this is the perfect career. They work with leaders and their own teams across organizations.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 11, 2017

My journey to product management was not what you might expect, but then again, maybe you would. I redesigned the internal and public web properties and was promoted into my first “product leadership” role. Senior management. I studied accounting and computers in high school. From Startup to Enterprise. Developers.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 17, 2020

Others have tried, but we’ve yet to find anyone else with her depth of experience (spanning stints as a developer, designer, researcher and product manager), her empathy for both users and stakeholders, her experience as a teacher, and her sense of humour. Building better products. Nobody rants quite like Laura Klein.

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People-First Product Leadership

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

A new product manager is joining my team in a few weeks. To ensure I hit all the key topics, I asked individuals across the organization to do a review - anchoring on people the new PM would be working with directly. Sign up for internal training that covers company-wide policies and systems.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 7, 2018

I speak/write incessantly about the importance of product managers talking directly with their users and buyers (collectively “customers”), not mediated through Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, User Experience, or stray notes posted to Salesforce. But this post isn’t about criticizing individual product managers.

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Product Bookshelf

MARCH 17, 2017

The beginning of a Lean UX project is a hypothesis statement which clarifies vision and goals for the team and company leadership. The first step of the process is to document and review your assumptions. The problem statement includes the current goals of the product or system. Assumptions. Problem statement.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Soft skills, such as communication, conflict management, and leadership, play a more vital role than hard, technical skills. Nevertheless, you'll still be an engineering manager. 2+ years of experience contributing system architecture, scaling applications, design patterns, or reliability of modern software products.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JULY 13, 2020

Digital Lumens began in 2010 as a lighting management system for large industrial customers. Together, Neil and the Digital Lumens product management and marketing teams developed a case study that provided the sales team with a concrete example of a real sales situation. Support from senior leadership is vital.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JULY 13, 2020

Digital Lumens began in 2010 as a lighting management system for large industrial customers. Together, Neil and the Digital Lumens product management and marketing teams developed a case study that provided the sales team with a concrete example of a real sales situation. Support from senior leadership is vital.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JULY 13, 2020

Digital Lumens began in 2010 as a lighting management system for large industrial customers. Together, Neil and the Digital Lumens product management and marketing teams developed a case study that provided the sales team with a concrete example of a real sales situation. Support from senior leadership is vital.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 11, 2010

Though he is known as a brilliant financial strategist, it was a simple management tactic he used throughout that really struck me as effective. Producers at PayPal is what we would typically call product managers these days. Peter Thiel is no doubt a man with a big vision. Yet their success was completely dependent on eBay.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2020

For managers, it means moving: From WIIFM (what-is-in-for-me syndrome) to team playing?—?the In both situations, the incentive structure of an organization most likely still fosters a predictable behavior that contradicts the organization’s goals at a system level. No stakeholders : Stakeholders do not attend the Sprint Review.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 25, 2019

After a short period of time, he introduced a similar policy to the one above. Exploring Agility in Distributed Information Systems Development Teams: An Interpretive Study in an Offshoring Context. Summary Most studies I reviewed showed that there are hurdles to remote/distributed teams.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Apologizing in advance: I’m intentionally exaggerating the differences between two broad corporate groups: wildly oversimplified roles and attitudes and reward systems.  Each Expect customers using products in unusual ways to have unusual needs.  Our  Each group does something irreplaceable.

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Product Bookshelf

AUGUST 23, 2016

Bouter notes that if you have selected cost leadership as a pricing model, the most important type of research will be cost structure and procurement costs. With explicit measurement, “the ambition is to model all relevant factors and thus make an explicit estimation of price sensitivity based on knowledge of the entire system.”

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Modus Create

MARCH 16, 2020

Each industry and company will need to design plans to address these risks individually and collectively, while monitoring the situation to adapt and make quick decisions to address potential threats (like adopting a work-from-home policy quickly as a mitigation strategy). This creates a perfect storm for companies with limited liquidity.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

Of course he’s going to have but to me this was a surprise and then somebody in support was like I think we need a product manager because I don’t know what the dev team is going to prioritize and the dev team is like I don’t know what support people want what the customers want first. How do I prioritize the roadmap?

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 29, 2018

They got to work with product managers, you got to work with designers, data scientists, all sorts of different folks. They get good feedback and good reviews. We have the right mix of components, like should it just be designed team should the product and engineering design teams go together and stuff like that.

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