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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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

As business advisors and executive coaches, we've worked with dozens of CEOs to help them build and grow their product leadership team as they scale their company. Getting external support, such as product management consulting, can help establish the product leadership team responsible for nurturing and guiding the product team.

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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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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 tool was initially used in Agile software delivery to set key business objectives and plan how to achieve them. Let’s get to it!

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. That means software teams will play a more central role in product development. The second class is complex products.

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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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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. Challenges of transitioning from software engineer to product manager. She works with executives worldwide, advising them on product strategy and leadership.

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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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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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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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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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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

This sort of hand-waving has been most prevalent in software companies, where the supposed price of strategy missteps is seen as low. Julian Dunn is a senior product manager with Chef Software where he. has over fifteen years of experience as a software developer and. Where do we play? And where do we not play?

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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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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

Scrum and the agile manifesto were created in a time where we used to still package and ship software physically. Largely contained to that area, Product Managers were focused on product sales through pulling promotions, price and marketing levers, largely leaving the development of the actual product to others.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 26, 2021

Believe it or not, there used to be a thing called on-premise software that you have to install and upgrade yourself. In this ultimate guide to SaaS product management, we'll walk you through the benefits of SaaS over on-premise software and how you can build a successful product as a SaaS PM. And you had to own all the servers.

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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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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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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

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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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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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? For example, is a helpdesk ticket required.

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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?

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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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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. Toronto had a small software community back then.

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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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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

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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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. Think of this as the way a software system interacts with other systems/ people. View the Amazon Software Development Manager Guide here.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Aplana is a privately held software development company that has been on the market for 20 years. Its offices are located in different countries, including the UK, US, and Germany for sales operations and Ukraine, Russia, Belarus for skilled software engineering teams. . Wandr studio. Echo & Co. Design First. Fuzzy Math.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

What: 1,500 tech product managers and product developers gather online at one of the world’s largest product management & development conferences. India Software Product Management Summit. Topics: Product & Design, Organization & Leadership, Jobs & Careers, Psychology & Ethics, and much more!

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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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Revulytics

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Revulytics sponsors a series of Product Management Today webinars featuring innovative ideas from top software product management thought leaders. You have your vision on one side, you hopefully have a strong value proposition, maybe you have a strategy. Think of this as a hierarchy that starts with vision and strategy.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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