Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

A project manager is focused on the completion of a specific project, whereas product managers focus primarily on the long-term vision and evolving a product to deliver value over time. Product teams need to have a combination of hard and soft skills to succeed: technical knowledge , communication, leadership, strategic thinking, and empathy.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. That’s why we’ve listed 12 tools that the best product managers use to do their jobs better? and not the best product management tools. Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Unlike a line manager, you usually don’t manage the development team and stakeholders as the person in charge of the product, and the individuals don’t report to you. The stakeholders come from different business units, for example, marketing, sales, support, and service for a commercial product. Leadership at Multiple Levels.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Unlike a line manager, you usually don’t manage the development team and stakeholders as the person in charge of the product, and the individuals don’t report to you. The stakeholders come from different business units, for example, marketing, sales, support, and service for a commercial product. Leadership at Multiple Levels.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 20, 2024

It consists of four sections: Background: Provides context for the project, including why the company is pursuing it, the scope, the project team’s role, and any constraints or key technologies involved. Focus Arena: Identifies the target market, key technologies, marketing aspects, and competitors’ strengths and weaknesses.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

Agile Transformation involves all levels of the organization and applies Lean-Agile principles to business processes, practices, tools, operations, and culture. Business agility encompasses aspects such as product innovation, customer-centricity, cross-functional collaboration, and adaptive strategy execution.

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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 9, 2020

Pendo’s chief product officer shares his take on product management leadership. “If If software is leading the world, then product managers are the modern-day businessmen and women,” says Brian Crofts, Chief Product Officer (CPO) at Pendo. However, Pendo’s platform of tools isn’t exactly what Crofts considers his primary product. “If

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Nulab

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Traditional top-down managerial structures for leadership are being replaced with bottom-up styles of working. Organizations need to be dynamic if they want to attract and retain the best workers — and collaborative leadership is one way to do that. What is collaborative leadership? Here’s everything you need to know.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

Tell me a little bit about your team structure: how many teams, who’s on it, who reports to you? All product managers report to me, and we have five product teams up and running. You have this grand vision. We’re a scheduling tool, so obviously setting up the whole process is not a big deal. What’s the vision?

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

Where charismatic leaders rally the troops around an ambitious vision with a massive potential payoff. It’s not sexy and won’t land the leadership team any TED Talks. But it also sets the stage for a parallel strategy that doesn’t sacrifice short-term wins. The product vision defines where the business wants the product to be.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Setting an awesome strategy without building the enablers to executing on it is just a pipe-dream. And too often I’ve seen poor leaders resort to micro-management, HIPPO, and dictatorship in order to fulfil their strategies. As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Soft skills, like communication or leadership , are more general and can be used in different contexts. Extensive market research is essential to assess the competitive landscape, identify opportunities, and shape the product vision. PMs need to know how to use product analytics tools to gain actionable insights.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Guest post by Angus McDonald, Senior Product Manager at Terem Technologies, and Kayla Li, Delivery Manager at Terem Technologies Word from Scott: Over the years we’ve helped many different teams uplift in different ways. David Marquet’s book ‘ Leadership is Language ‘ is a great source of ideas for helping promote the right mindsets.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Sticking to inflexible annual planning cycles can introduce significant challenges in the era of rapid technological advancements. The static nature of traditional product planning cycles fails to consider quickly-improving technologies and unforeseen changes in the market. Firstly, you want to review your product vision.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

You’ve got a clear vision for the future, and it looks bright! The initial steps of this framework took collaboration between business leadership and the product team to set a direction for development decisions. At first glance that seems like balanced priorities, but the strategies in the lower half are less important than top.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 10, 2024

Communication Skills In any leadership position, effective communication is a transferable skill that helps to support teams and encourage feedback and innovation. Being a Scrum master necessitates having the skill set to navigate through conflicts and find solutions that benefit all parties.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Let’s explore strategies for how we can tackle these challenges. In the product management discipline, cross-functional collaboration is more than a buzzword — it’s a critical strategy. Often, team members have different reporting lines and diverse expectations. It’s not just about bringing together a diverse team.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Welcome back to creating your strategy stack. In Part 2, we dive into establishing your organization's strategy and goals. If you missed Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on the Mission, North Star, and Vision. Subscribe now What’s in a Strategy?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 7, 2021

How to Support Women in Technology?—?And especially in technology?—?is As a woman in the technology industry for 15+ years who has been through this twice, I know how it feels not to have support from your company. Women in technology do not feel consistently supported in ways that will help retain them and grow their careers.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In 2022, the competitive strategy is not as much about analyzing the market opportunities but focusing on the satisfaction of customers. ⤵️ What are the levers of SaaS Growth Strategies? Types of SaaS Growth 5 steps to scale SaaS Growth, regardless of your competitive strategy 1. Create your vision and positioning 4.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Deloitte has shared that more and more businesses are embracing technology in their business processes and solutions. Gartner has also foreseen this transformative digitization, forecasting continued growth and achievement for business objectives in the coming years for both software and devices.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

As product managers, you’re often probably delayed by the time-consuming document assembly necessary for ‘spaced repetition’ of the roadmap strategy. As you well know, repeating your product strategy often leads to better recall later on and prevents any misalignment in the future. So what’s our product document ecosystem solution?

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UX Planet

APRIL 30, 2024

Regardless of your industry, fostering a great design culture will play a pivotal role in reshaping your product or service into something truly delightful as well as propelling you ahead of the competition in many ways. Today, in the mid-2020s, nearly every individual uses at least one or two well-designed platforms or services.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 10, 2024

This is a role that you’ll often find with large organizations that work on multiple products, components, features, and platforms. A product manager is someone who drives and manages the long-term strategy of the product(s) and isn’t just focused on value maximization. The position is more strategic thinking and holistic.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2020

I recently attended an excellent leadership programme, which led me to reflect more deeply on what makes a stand out leader. Of course, a large part of leadership is about designing good domain strategy & operating models etc, but this article focuses on the more emotive, people elements. Recognition for what they do.

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UX Studio

JUNE 30, 2023

We deliver impactful, user-friend, and unique solutions for ambitious ideas. They blend strategy and creativity in their user-friendly designs. They’re building websites, brands, and digital transformation platforms that deliver results and revenue. California is the home of technology and innovation.

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Ronke PM

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

It is an honor to come to work and shape your customers' lives, direct reports, multi-disciplinary partners, and leaders. Use your leadership voice to bring out change. You must have exceptional communication skills to bring your product strategy and vision to fruition. Here are my 15 rules of great product leadership: 1.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 10, 2024

They develop a product vision and strategy to meet company goals and make products that meet consumer expectations and desires. They are responsible for considering product strategy relative to other market conditions. These C-level executives focus on big-picture product strategies.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Product management is an essential part of every offering of any sort of product or service. They analyze the data and identify trends to craft workable strategies. These strategies are recommendations for improvements to the current business and product strategy.

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Ronke PM

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

During this period, we aim to learn as much as possible from our multifunctional partners, direct reports, and leaders because we understand that the lessons they share will make us better individuals, leaders, and product managers. Let's dive into why soft skills are critical in product leadership.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 12, 2017

Product management teams often ask themselves if third-party integration is right for their software product roadmap. Because of this, look through product management job descriptions and you’ll find many that mention third-party software integration, APIs, strategic partnerships, and so on. CEO & Co-founder, ProdPad.

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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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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

On top of that, they need to show success in every product strategy they own. Excellent leadership skills, a fundamental understanding of product management, and a strong portfolio of success are the recipe for success. At times, it also shows your potential for a product leadership role.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

customers, and product team members) to make sure they understand how their decisions will affect the product or business strategy. Effective communication is one of the essential product manager soft skills that involves conveying the product vision, goals, and requirements to diverse stakeholders.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

Ben has led successful technology products for the last 25 years. He  He is also the co-author of Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management. 9:24] What issues do you see with strategy? A lot of companies have a mission statement that they think is a strategy or vision.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

The British dystopian series, Black Mirror envisions our worst nightmares about technology. Relations between technology and design. Undoubtedly, as data-driven systems become a bigger part of our lives, we also notice more when they fail. Technology is based. They made names and photos front and center on the platform.

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