Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2022

But unfortunately, in many companies, the product leadership team can perpetuate a negative culture — setting up product managers to fail. In essence, the product leadership team are those with influence on the product roadmap. Building and nurturing strong, cross-functional, co-located, empowered product teams.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

I’m in Duke Leto’s camp and believe a boss - at any level - should care and be thinking about their team. His people-first leadership approach lives on through his son who recognized his father’s skills and ability to lead by example. We all have good and bad days. I won’t ruin the movie for you.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. In this role, he drove the development of products that took eBay’s global e-commerce platform to new levels of success. Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. Who is Marty Cagan?

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Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

Agile implementation typically focuses on team-level adoption of Agile practices, emphasizing principles such as self-organization, cross-functional collaboration, and incremental delivery. Focus Only on Team Level Agile Transformation initiatives sometimes focus exclusively on individual teams, neglecting the broader organizational context.

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Ronke PM

APRIL 5, 2023

Table of Contents Product and design partnership What does design-driven leadership mean? Design-driven leadership is product management Final thoughts The very essence of leadership is creating a space that enables our teams to dream big, imagine, and bring what was once unthinkable to life - therefore, changing humanity.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

The important basis is the development of a strategy for short- and long-term digital transformation based on business results rather than technology. Involve them in strategy development, gather their input, and address their concerns. Vision & goals Now, chart your course. What is the importance of digital transformation?

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

9:00] Who is responsible for developing product strategy? I’m a big proponent of developing strategy with a team, but there does need to be one person accountable for it. 11:03] How is senior leadership involved in product strategy? 14:24] Share your Strategy Generation framework for developing product strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Sanj started working at Salesforce back in 2005, when the company had around 1,000 employees and a few hundred million in revenue, and he was a part of its growth for 14 years, holding several leadership positions in multiple markets in EMEA. Since leaving college, I knew I wanted to work in technology, in a sales or go-to-market position.

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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. How can you justify redirecting resources to tweaking the UX or integrating an API when they could spend time building the next big thing?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Here are 2 actions you can take to develop your Craft Competence: Craft Competence ?? and others feel that.

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Ronke PM

AUGUST 16, 2023

Table of Contents Technical Support Customer Success/Relationship Managers Marketing Sales Team Data Scientist Finance UX Researcher UX Designer Content Designers and Conversational Designers Engineering Legal Security (IT) PMO (Product Management Office) (Bonus!) Finance One of my favorite teams to partner up with is finance.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. Without vision and looking ‘ahead’ it’s easy to get bogged down in ‘urgent’ low-impact tasks. Average ships per person in the team. Let’s dive in!

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2023

If you missed Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on the Mission, North Star, and Vision. The Vision evolves over time, and is an inspirational guide for the company's future. The Vision evolves over time, and is an inspirational guide for the company's future.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

This exchange unfolded over weak, black coffee in your typical, bland white-walled corporate conference room. Instead, I respond, “How can your team function without one?” They certainly don’t serve to dictate every move a team should make. Contrary to popular belief, their primary purpose isn’t to guide the team.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. This includes the project management of all of the activities done in product conceptualization, design, development, and marketing. Since the team is small, you will have to manage the technical aspects of product development.

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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. How can you justify redirecting resources to tweaking the UX or integrating an API when they could spend time building the next big thing?

Reporting Tools 52

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Up until now, Product Leaders have had to rely on the approaches and frameworks designed specifically for Product Managers or use generic leadership practices which don’t necessarily cover the unique leadership challenges Product Leaders experience. This is a mistake, particularly if you are new to leadership.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

Let’s face it, most organizations have poor habits around roadmap completion — this is why getting leadership (or stakeholders) to develop consistent, stable and familiar routines reinforced through repetition and communication is valuable. Let’s dive deeper!

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Effective product team communication is not about talking to your team more often or providing them with more granular tasks. You want to make sure your team understands why what they’re doing matters. Not just from you to your team, but from them to you, and to each other. What is this data telling us?

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Mind the Product

MARCH 15, 2017

When Ben Horowitz wrote his groundbreaking memo good product manager, bad product manager nearly 20 years ago he described a product manager as the CEO of the product. The CEO also controls all the resources of the company – with hiring and firing prerogatives across the company and final say on the budget. Not just Semantics.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

There is a framework for almost every stage of our Product development lifecycle, but one of the only transversal things is that we need people to make things happen. Self-Regulation Managing one’s internal impulses and resources. We have to develop an appetite for generating fresh ideas. It is the only thing”.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Managing stakeholders is such an important skill to develop. It is about guiding your team and resources toward what truly matters for the product’s success and your company’s vision. The reality is that you are juggling finite resources to deliver your product in a timely fashion.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 3, 2022

The success of a product, or even an entire company, rests on the product team. Leadership and upper management will likely set the direction of the company and the products you're building. Product managers are trusted to follow through on the company's objectives and vision , even if they don't always agree.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

As a Product Manager, you’re a team player who guides product development along its chartered course, but you have to do that without being the literal captain of the ship. Influence without authority is the skill of driving product development and ‘telling people what to do’ without formally being authorized to do so.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Organizations create Customer Success teams to increase Net Revenue Retention, and we’ve recently published research showing that NRR drives valuation. But, then, organizations find that the baseline impact of simply having a CS team eventually plateaus–your NRR stagnates. You may also look outside the CS team.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 2, 2021

If you have ever waited in line for a COVID test or vaccine, you understand how successful operational leadership can hinder or accelerate a positive customer experience. Building the proper foundation early on will set your team up for success in the long run. for senior leadership. for senior leadership.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

The roadmap is much more than a directive document that tells teams what to do by when. It is ideally a galvanizing document to drive vision, bring teams into alignment and commitment, and lead them and your customers to your future, promised destination. You own it, but many other teams are gunning to influence it daily.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 17, 2019

The product team : This is the close-knit team that build the artifacts used to evolve the product (green layer). Ideally, this is a cross-disciplinary team working closely together in an iterative/agile kind of way. Culture and rituals are key here: A safe culture is required for such teams to exist and operate efficiently.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

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. As a technical program manager, you communicate with product managers, leadership teams, and external vendors.

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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. It was clear the team needed a talent growth plan.

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Innovatemap

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Your product and engineering teams are fighting fires constantly and do not have the bandwidth to think about the future. When your teams are too busy trying to patch up the existing product to do proper product discovery on new directions or innovations, your software is in danger of stagnating. Menus become convoluted.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Up until now, Product Leaders have had to rely on the approaches and frameworks designed specifically for Product Managers or use generic leadership practices which don’t necessarily cover the unique leadership challenges Product Leaders experience. This is a mistake, particularly if you are new to leadership.

Feedback Software 52

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Prioritisation is a necessary evil of every product development lifecycle. Deciding what to build, where to focus limited resources and what customer segments to target are questions that face every organisation on a daily basis. Netflix Abstracts the Team out of Product Design. How bad Ideas get on the Roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This means you can save time and money developing features customers really care for and reduce risks of undesirable effects on your customers. The executive sponsor communicates the vision, strategy and process of experimentation through all levels of the organization, creating a culture of transparency and trust.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. Today we’re going to talk about the wonderful work of fiction that every product team has known as the roadmap. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the episode.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

Listen to understand the basic definition of marketing, marketing roles that may have resources useful to product managers, and how product managers can make better use of marketing resources. Also, we talk in the beginning about Jill’s experience developing the Adobe Creative Cloud; lots to learn just from that.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The OKR methodology can be a powerful motivator for high performance and product excellence within teams and companies. The focus then shifts towards outcomes and individual and team authority and ownership. The OKR methodology helps organizations measure success and stay on target with their strategy and vision.

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