The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This is justified with the idea that PMs aren’t just “PMs” in such smaller teams — they’re a bit of everything (even software development if the skills are there). We make life easier for our engineers, and ensure what the team is building aligns with leadership and product success.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

As professionals who work in such a technology-driven field, technical product managers need to understand the technical intricacies of the product vision they are managing. If you have done any projects in programming or software development and you document your work, then be sure to include it in a portfolio.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

DevOps is the practice of software development (Dev) engineers and of IT operations (Ops) working together during a product’s entire lifecycle, from design through development to production support, in order to shorten the total lead time (from concept to cash) and to provide predictable delivery of high-quality products.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As a technical program manager, you communicate with product managers, leadership teams, and external vendors. Technical program managers demonstrate leadership and team building with key stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery. Strong leadership is the ability to motivate and solve problems in an innovative way.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

This includes the project management of all of the activities done in product conceptualization, design, development, and marketing. In the conceptualization phase, product managers must identify the vision, mission, and requirements that will condition how a team builds out a product. Can a founder be a product manager?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Impact mapping is a collaborative strategic planning technique used by product managers, product owners , and senior technical leadership, who work mostly in Agile software delivery. The purpose of an impact mapping process in software development. The map will help you set the high-level vision. Ready to dive in?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Mixing the words, key responsibilities across companies started to emerge: Define product vision and strategy. Team execution and development. Next, we looked to see if other businesses had already built a career development plan. Processes (M): Strategy : Translation of the mission and vision into a coherent product strategy.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 3, 2022

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. This means that as a new PM, you may not have much say in the strategy of the company.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

Then when I heard his backstory in technology leadership roles at Xerox and Experian and the challenges he encountered with product roadmaps, I was eager to invite him to be a guest on this podcast. Our original vision for Gocious was to help manufacturing in product planning and collaborating about the future innovation of products.

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Mixpanel

APRIL 27, 2020

Neil Rahilly, Mixpanel’s VP of Product and Design, walks us through how product management leadership priorities change as you move from startup through scale up and all the way to enterprise. At the enterprise stage of growth, your goal is to balance this team autonomy with the larger corporate vision.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. She works with executives worldwide, advising them on product strategy and leadership. How product strategy uses a company’s vision to feed the bottom line.

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Izenda

JUNE 28, 2020

In software development, a product manager is inherently the CEO of the product: the person who is responsible for strategizing and defining the product roadmap. The software product manager takes responsibility for a product line’s vision and profitability. Able to maintain strong ownership/leadership of process.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

A product team structure is how a business organizes the product team to best support software development. It brings together experts from different disciplines and functions who work together to design, develop, launch, and support a product. Book the demo to see how it can support your product team structure.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Be aware that collaboration requires leadership. Aim to build consensus with the development team, but don’t shy away from difficult conversations. But recognise that software development can be challenging and that human beings make mistakes. Don’t be mad with the team if the sprint goal is missed once. Learn More.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 10, 2017

According to Richard Banfield of Fresh Tilled Soil, a successful product roadmap is a strategic document that focuses on the product vision and conveys the path to achieve it. Boston Women in Product (BWP) hosted “Product Roadmaps: A Roundtable Discussion” on March 28th, 2017. Creating a Focused Product Roadmap. Mike Byerly.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 12, 2022

Instead, use specific examples like analytics, leadership, communication, or teamwork. You can comb through the job description and company vision statement to determine which product management skills will look best. Clarify the exact benefits you brought to the company: Skills only matter if they help!

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Product Culture

MAY 2, 2018

In my mind, these are the core aspects of leadership. Listening Is The Most Important Form of Leadership. Note that I mentioned the “ability to listen” first in leadership skills. When I am hiring product managers, I look for the following qualities in this order: Leadership Skills (listening, deciding, communicating a vision).

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 14, 2020

The Steps and Exercises of the Product Mindset Workshop The product mindset workshop comprises of seven steps, starting with the product vision to the business model to personas to ideation: 1. Product Vision We start the workshop with a recap of the product vision?—?why our product vision?—?is Show Me the Money?—?the

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Mixpanel

APRIL 27, 2020

Neil Rahilly, Mixpanel’s VP of Product and Design, walks us through how product management leadership priorities change as you move from startup through scale up and all the way to enterprise. At the enterprise stage of growth, your goal is to balance this team autonomy with the larger corporate vision.

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

Product Managers (PM) need to effectively communicate product vision, strategic roadmaps and concepts to a variety of different stakeholders through the different stages of the product life cycle. Guest Post by: Inis Hormann (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Paul Hurwitz].

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

Perhaps its origins in software development didn’t do the Product Owner role any favours in this department?—?it the one who speaks to customers, sets the product vision and direction. the one who works with developers day-to-day, stuck in the solution space, far away from the customer? a new role which I guess it was?—?but

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Strategy documents and presentations are not thought-leadership handed down by the product manager from on high, but used as a discussion point in order to get consensus amongst a variety of stakeholders: engineering, sales, marketing, business development, executive management, and so on. Where do we play? And where do we not play?

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

After years working in and coaching numerous software development teams, O’Reilly recently released the second edition to my book on how to get better at adapting to changes in teams, called Dynamic Reteaming. They are the team (both ad hoc and formalized in nature) you must work with to bring your product vision to market.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

Processes (M): Strategy : Translation of the mission and vision into a coherent product strategy. Agile : Product owner role, software development, team cadence, delivery. His scope is no longer his clan or tribe but the overall product and long-term vision. Data-driven : Decisions based on objective criteria.

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Agile Velocity

JUNE 4, 2020

That is largely due to how the Agile movement got started and where the vast majority of emphasis has been over the years–on IT and/or Software Development teams. However, because of its deep IT/software roots, that has been obscured. Likewise, the latest trend and emphasis on “Business Agility” is nothing new.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 11, 2017

Software development has become a strategic priority for all companies in today’s digital era. It enables you to become that product authority who can define the problem-solution-fit, set product roadmaps, manage contingencies, and bringing to fore the collective expertise of your team while maintaining your business-oriented vision.

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BrainStation Product Management

MAY 7, 2019

Chances are you’ve heard of Agile Development , a process for software development that is based on an iterative approach. Many organizations, particularly those involved in technology, use Agile Methodologies in their digital product development. The Product Management Process. What it Takes to be Successful.

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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. I started my career as a software developer, working on database applications. So many: Leadership is about service, not authority.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 9, 2022

Of course, many UX professionals may have shown leadership in their current positions. As a PM, excellent communication skills and leadership will be an expected part of the position. However, many people do not yet possess strong leadership skills only because they have not yet found a time to hone those skills easily.

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People-First Product Leadership

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Goals: Understand the company Strategy, including Mission, Vision, context for identifying opportunities, and Goals (include links to relevant assets) Dive into the product development lifecycle and ask yourself: How do the stages differ from what you’ve seen at other companies?

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. For example, is our engineering sprints solving the problems that align with our Orbis product vision and release goals? Simple task, right? About Eric Wang.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 26, 2021

Making updates to on-premise software takes longer than SaaS because it involves having the customer install updates in-house. For that reason, on-premise products typically follow a waterfall approach to software development with longer release cycles to minimize the number of upgrades the customer needs to make.

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BrainStation Product Management

MAY 7, 2019

Chances are you’ve heard of Agile Development , a process for software development that is based on an iterative approach. Many organizations, particularly those involved in technology, use Agile Methodologies in their digital product development. The Product Management Process. What it Takes to be Successful.

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Bain Public

MAY 21, 2018

Does that mean it’s time to embrace the mathematical techniques that enable the building of intelligent software applications using the family of techniques known as deep learning? There’s no doubt that delegating parts of the software development process to machine learning models is going to be mandatory. Absolutely!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2022

We often recommend looking up your interviewer on LinkedIn to understand them a bit better, and reviewing public vision documents produced by the company. Here are a few examples: AWS (Amazon) asks system design interview questions, technical concept questions, and focuses on behavioral questions related to their core leadership values.

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Agile Velocity

JUNE 6, 2018

The audience and I then thought through the various activities that happen during software development in traditional development frameworks, and who was responsible for those activities. Servant leadership/Facilitation/Coaching. Manage expectations to leadership. Convey product vision & goals.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Topics: Remote workshops, Reducing Risk with Continuous Delivery, Harnessing The Power of Design in an Enterprise, A Compelling Product Vision Through Insight Development, Beyond Data: How to Get BuyIn, How to Approach a Product Overhaul, and much more! What: ACE is the largest software development conference in Central Europe.

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