The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Startup Product managers are in charge of setting up the foundation for product management at a new company. Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. According to Airfocus , an optimized product manager boosts profitability and sales, by 34.2

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Product owner plays a central role in agile product development philosophy and scrum for development teams. The product owner (PO) workforce crossed 6,140 and is still on the rise. Communication is an absolute must-have skill for a scrum product owner. of jobs posted on the platform.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2017

Or “ How to Manage Software Development in Teams who Think Nothing Like you “ Product management has two diversity problems. Cultural homogeneity in product teams is dead, welcome cultural diversity. It simply doesn’t work. We’re Trapped in our Cultures. How’s that for a mini-UN?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Guest Post by: Julian Dunn (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Vikas Batra]. I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. Thus, I arrived at the Product Mentor program with ambitions to learn strategy development from a seasoned product mentor.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Does your product team celebrate launching that feature they’ve spent the last three months working on and then never give it another thought until it breaks? Is the senior leadership at your organization constantly ordering you to work on the top 10 priorities that change every other day? What is a feature factory?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 3, 2022

The product management career path can be incredibly fulfilling as you build and work on products used by millions of users around the world. The success of a product, or even an entire company, rests on the product team. Building impactful products is exciting! Are you cut out for product management?

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. Teresa Torres, Author of Continuous Discovery Habits.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Often people stumble into the Product Management career without any Technology background. When I was at Hutchinson Telecoms, I was a Product Manager within the Marketing function. I never had to deal with developers on a day to day basis?—?the I had no idea what I was doing and how I could lead a dev team.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

It also requires product managers to engage much more directly with data scientists about models, predictability, how products work in production, how/why users interact with our products, and how our end users measure success. (Hint: most users don’t understand or care about F1-scores ; they just want to get the right answer.).

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. Product manager motto?—?Dan

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

In IT outsourcing, software service providers often introduce the role of Proxy Product Owner (PPO) to compensate for the lack of product leadership. It only seems natural to want to help the client to move forward with product development and keep the engineering busy implementing the defined requirements.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Guest Post by: Eric Wang (Mentee, Session 8, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Chris Butler]. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. Journey Into the World of Strategy. Simple task, right? First Attempt.

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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. Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 9, 2022

An obvious next career step could be moving over to product management to focus solely on the products themselves. But how easy is it to transition from being a UX designer or UX researcher to product management (PM)? Start Learning Can You Transition from UX to Product Management?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

One signal I’ve been giving much thought too of late is the collision of two roles, Product Management and Product Ownership. A topic of hot debate in the agile and product circles but with very few answers. Credit: DataKitchen Since its inception, Scrum and the Product Owner role has become widely adopted.

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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. They work with leaders and their own teams across organizations. TPMs are responsible for communicating complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical team members.

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Iteratively Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2020

But how do you fix the garbage that is bad data management and quality? Especially if you don’t have control over the implementation of tracking code (as is the case with many data teams). Now, let’s look at why data teams struggle with this validation, and how they can overcome the challenges of it. Well, it’s tricky.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Many entrepreneurs and product managers write about the skills they brought to the table and those they learned along the way. And as a product manager finding out how others made a strategy work, whether it was implementing a road-map software or avoiding other’s pitfalls can make or break your product’s success.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. Lots of people had bad answers and failed answers about how to do it.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 28, 2019

Of course such things are common on any failure to launch a product as well. Shipbuilding in 1628 was not unlike the way many agile software development teams operate. Experts declared the fundamental design and architecture to be bad because there wasn’t enough ballast to ensure stability. Stakeholder management.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Influence is probably one of the most valuable currencies as a product manager. You also have to gain the confidence of your product team, since they are relying heavily on you for the success of the overall product. And as a product manager, you are expected to get there. But you can get there.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Saying No is an important part of the product manager’s role. At every level of our careers, we are faced with unsolicited, opinionated and sometimes outlandish product feedback from our internal teams. Time is money, and I have yet to meet a product manager who asks for another meeting. Lack of interest.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The secret to success in software development is an elusive concept. The best asset for a product manager, and the number one determining factor in the success of a strategy, is the people behind the product. software development is mostly about cultivating personal relationships.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

APM programs or Associate Product Manager programs are roles designed for graduates, to introduce them to the world of PM. Their main goal is to provide mentorship for young talent, and for some, it serves as a good alternative to non-existent Product Management bachelor’s degrees. What is the company culture/mission?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 26, 2022

Data science will only continue to expand as well as more teams begin to use data to make decisions, not just engineering. There will likely be data science professionals working on most marketing and cross-functional teams in the very near future. This type of job may work on a team or lead a team of others.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

Are you thinking of a career in product management and wondering what the product manager career path looks like? In particular, we look at: What the product manager’s role involves Their main responsibilities Common product management positions Tips on how to advance your PM career Let’s dive in.

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Amplitude

MAY 25, 2017

Product Analytics is one of the most high leverage roles in a company that’s investing in software development. However, most companies simply don’t have enough data literacy on their team to interpret the data available to them. How would you go about “improving” a product? How would you investigate why?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

APM programs or Associate Product Manager programs are roles designed for graduates, to introduce them to the world of PM. Their main goal is to provide mentorship for young talent, and for some, it serves as a good alternative to non-existent Product Management bachelor’s degrees. What is the company culture/mission?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The BOLD (Build Opportunities for Leadership & Development) is meant for those business and marketing-related roles. Finally, the APM (Associate Product Manager) is for product management and product marketing management roles. This is not necessarily a bad thing by any means.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

In this Path to PM post, Saeed shares his advice if he were applying for product management careers all over again, and why great product leadership is about influence, service, and patience. How did you break into product management? So many: Leadership is about service, not authority. But I didn’t.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A healthy relationship between product management and engineering is critical to building successful products. It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to work. Here are some of the ways I’ve found for product managers to ensure they have a great relationship with the engineering team.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2018

The Basics Put simply, a roadmap is a living document that shows how you plan to develop your product. So it seems the vast majority of SaaS companies only allow team members to view the roadmap, even if most employees don’t actually use it. Enabling your internal teams to access and use the roadmap should be the minimum.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes. No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. The best product managers are in a continuous state of discovery and know that?—? neither the product nor roadmap are ever static.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Building effective teams with people from different disciplines can be challenging due to various circumstances. In the product management discipline, cross-functional collaboration is more than a buzzword — it’s a critical strategy. Teams with multiple functions are instrumental towards staying competitive and succeed.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2021

Half of the calls I get from CEOs include requests for Product Management to boost productivity in Engineering (aka Development aka Makers). It also signals a lack of trust between the executive team and the development organization: “how do I know I’m getting my money’s worth out of this mysterious process?

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Revulytics sponsors a series of Product Management Today webinars featuring innovative ideas from top software product management thought leaders. I talk with product managers around the world, and it’s really common to spend most of our time talking about what’s sometimes called “vanity metrics.”

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