The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Principal product managers are among the most senior roles in the product development process. Therefore, the expected salary increase inspires many junior product managers to climb up the corporate ladder and land this position. The demand for technical and product management positions is high.

Customer Experience 52

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Iterative planning enables product management teams to respond quickly to changes in the market and emerging trends. The ability to adapt and adjust to changing product strategies positions companies for continuous improvement and sustained success. Ongoing planning is crucial for staying ahead in a competitive landscape.

Data Visualization 99

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Candidates learn the essential technical skills of the product manager’s role in a structured learning environment with the support of an instructor. Taking on individual steps of the process is a good starting point for platform product managers unable to complete an entire product lifecycle.

Reporting Tools 52

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Amplitude

JULY 29, 2020

When it comes to product strategy, there is so much conflicting advice that getting started can be confusing. Some companies’ strategies are so generic that they could mean anything, or nothing at all—as perfectly illustrated in this product strategy madlibs , which fills in the blanks with buzzwords and jargon and calls it a strategy.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Convincing stakeholders the above supports company goals (product strategy). After more than two dozen conversations with product management VPs and SVPs, I’m happy to report the market-facing, customer-value-driven product management I’ve long known is alive and well. Finding user problems.

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Innovatemap

MARCH 17, 2021

While we at Innovatemap like to think there are plenty of things that make us unique — like our incomparable product knowledge, design prowess and commitment to grow — there’s one quality that sets us apart from the naked eye, and it’s one we’re incredibly proud of: our high percentage of women. Kristin and Katie (2019 Photo).

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Product managers are responsible for establishing a product’s vision and long-term business strategy while ensuring that all stakeholders are aware of said strategy. While it is a senior position, there are numerous career paths, such as Group Product Manager (GPM) and Principal Product Manager (PPM).

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ProductPlan

JULY 16, 2021

Acquiring a consensus on product direction remains the number one challenge for product professionals, according to ProductPlan’s 2021 State of Product Management Annual Report. The art of product leader communication relies on the concept of responsibility without authority. Spend Time on What Matters Most.

Reporting Tools 98

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

The product management process starts with building an understanding of your users and the market, defining a vision and strategy , generating and prioritizing ideas that could solve user problems, articulating them in a clear roadmap, launching an MVP, and then gathering feedback to evolve it over time.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Some context: The typical product manager ( PdM ) gets dozens of new requests and demands and ideas and suggestions and escalations and bug reports and customer complaints and ChatGPT-generated word salads each day.    (Agilists state this in the positive: “start less, finish more.”)

Reporting Tools 105

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Here, to help you, are five product management tricks and tools for every product leader. It’s the foundation of our product strategy.

Reporting Tools 140

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 16, 2022

Making a strong case for investing in product operations begins by opening their eyes to what’s missing from the mix. Yet, without a dedicated product operations resource, those requests for such reports often fall onto employees with other responsibilities. Thus you must define product operations for the executive team.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

As artificial intelligence technologies continue to evolve and become more mainstream, so too does the demand for machine learning product managers grow among startups and Fortune 500 companies alike. The same report shares that this investment spells a new era of challenges in AI development that businesses need to find solutions for.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Finally, if you’re looking for salary benchmarks ahead of a potential career move, check out these free reports. Essential reads for product teams The latest from the Department of Product Substack ?Chartpack: They’re selling different products, but 80% of what they do is pretty much the same.” Disney+ lost 11.7

Analytic Tools 52

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 18, 2022

What does an Associate Product Manager Do? Job Responsibilities and Duties First and foremost, the most entry-level product manager position, besides interns , are associate product managers. Generally speaking, associate product managers will work under other product managers in larger companies.

Product Management 52

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

Here are some more benefits to consider: Maximize customer value and satisfaction By using a methodical approach to prioritize features based on customer feedback , market research, and user data, product managers can identify features that are most aligned with customer needs and preferences. How can you do it? Rinse and repeat.

Data Visualization 98

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In our 2021 State of Product Management report , 97% of senior leaders said being strategic is the most important thing for their organization’s success. It all starts with a commitment from leadership that strategic thinking and planning are worth the time and makes it a core tenet of the team’s approach.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 22, 2021

Today there is a new school of leadership emerging to remove this frustration. It’s called empowering leadership. This leadership style encourages leaders to give freedom and responsibility to people and stop controlling and micromanaging them. If done right, empowering leadership can free up a lot of time for managers.

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Product Management Unpacked

AUGUST 8, 2018

And while more and more organizations have separated their VP of Marketing and VP of Product Management roles, I am not sure that benefits the company. Finally, the product management software organization Pendo in their State of Leadership report states that 44.7% report to ‘Product’ (the least).

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Product-led sales take this to another level, with the product-led growth activities and the data it delivers helping to determine where and when to use your sales team to have the best chance of converting or optimising revenue. This is not a strategy and will likely not help you achieve your objectives.

Data Visualization 52

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 27, 2022

That includes product teams, who must determine how to maximize their return on their 2022 budgets. To get the most bang for your budgeted bucks, we can look at some of the trends revealed in our latest State of Product Management Report. Product teams are spending on things that make them work better, smarter, and faster.

Data Visualization 89

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 15, 2018

We partnered with more agile third-party technology companies, many of which were startups, and delivered projects including an omni-channel order management system and a cloud-based data-management and reporting system. I started by asking simple questions to test the clarity, alignment and focus of the leadership team.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

If you are already doing a job, you must acquire relevant experience in data science, data analytics, product development, and product strategy and roadmaps. Research shows that a majority of open jobs are filled through networking and 80% of job seekers reported that their network helped them land a job of their choice.

Data Visualization 52

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

But the discipline has matured, and more organizations value what dedicated product management has to offer. Product strategy has now become the primary focus of the job. Product strategy is a high-level plan for the product. It ties overall business objectives to the product. Metrics that Matter.

Customer Experience 59

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 10, 2018

Every now and then, it’s interesting to ask: What does a Product Manager (PM) do? The answer of course has some take on: They juggle managing products and people. They need to have technical/processual skills as well as those lauded, but ever elusive, leadership skills. It looks like we’re not doing so well.

Reporting Tools 60

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Having vaguely connected this interest with the work of a product manager, she inquired with the career services team at Lighthouse Labs about open positions for a product manager at their partner companies. What she wanted was to be a product manager, but she was only able to find jobs in web development.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 26, 2021

Definitely, other skills exist—things like product vision, or product strategy, or engineering strategy, or communication, or managing up. EM resumes will need to show at least 3-5 years of engineering and leadership experience. It should also report your previous engineering and management experience.

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

The product manager role is responsible for understanding what customer problems to solve and what success looks like for a product. The different types of product managers include the traditional product manager, the product owner, the growth product manager, the technical product manager, and the platform product manager.

Feedback Software 98

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Improves key metrics at each customer touchpoint As a comprehensive plan, a UX strategy enables delivering a consistently positive user experience along the whole user journey. Graphic designers – focusing on the aesthetics of the product, they work to create visually appealing and consistent UIs that align with product branding.

Research Software 104

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 11, 2019

Yet while a political climate is nearly always a factor, soft skills determine which way these politics shape a product, strategy, or the entire direction of a company. Strategy Sinks Nokia There is a very high probability that you at one point had a Nokia mobile phone.

Technical Review 60

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

That maps to titles like Director of Product Management, Group Product Manager, VP of Products, or Chief Product Officer. There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. . Sound Byte.

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Userpilot

MARCH 11, 2022

Must have product management tools : Userpilot for product adoption, Hotjar for heatmaps and recordings on how users engage with your product, Airfocus for prioritization and road mapping, Cord for collaboration, and UXPressia for story mapping. Best reports, statistics, and product benchmarks.

Analytic Tools 98

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 31, 2019

If you lead a product management team, you know firsthand just how challenging it can be — balancing being a member of the executive team to leading your product managers in the day-to-day trenches of creating. All the while, delivering an excellent product. Leading a product team is uniquely complex.

User Testing 57

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Development teams (aka scrum teams, squads, crews) formally report up through Engineering, but Product Management has a shared responsibility to support well-functioning teams and build trust. Product Management can only succeed through a strong partnership with Engineering. So improving. What’s next? Why is it important?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Little did I know that creating a solid product strategy takes such a major chunk of the product leader’s time. Most companies hire a product manager (and other positions) too late. It takes time, but from my experience, great people are quick learners, so that it could turn into a positive ROI quickly.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2022

That includes product teams, who must determine how to maximize their return on their 2022 budgets. To get the most bang for your budgeted bucks, we can look at some of the trends revealed in our latest State of Product Management Report. Product teams are spending on things that make them work better, smarter, and faster.

Data Visualization 52

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 4, 2022

If you have, you can thank an excellent Product Marketing Manager or PMM for their hard work. The purpose of a product marketing manager is to reduce the questions and concerns a customer has about a product. A PMM positions the product so that the targeted customer recognizes its value.

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