The Product Manager Coach Blog

MAY 7, 2024

These titles may sound similar, but they encompass different levels of organizational expertise and leadership. In this article, I will review the differences between the Staff Product Manager and the Senior Product Manager roles, helping you gain clarity and make an informed decision about your career path. Which one is right for you?

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

His people-first leadership approach lives on through his son who recognized his father’s skills and ability to lead by example. Share People-First Product Leadership Cultivating a culture of authenticity One begins to wonder when the the culture deck is 100+ pages and/or the whisper network is strong.

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Modus Create

JUNE 23, 2021

There are two ways to talk about transformational leadership. . We can dive deep into the academic theory created by Bruce Avolio and Bernard Bass in 1991 and understand how it fits into the broader Full Range Leadership Model. . But first, let’s define transformational leadership. . What is Transformational Leadership?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 1, 2021

In a commissioned study by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Intercom undertaken in April 2021, Drive Conversational Experiences for a Future-Ready Customer Support Strategy , we learned that only 37% of support leaders and decision-makers are satisfied with their organization’s current digital channels and solutions. Sound familiar?

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People-First Product Leadership

OCTOBER 1, 2023

I’ve been at a number of product events recently where conversations turned to fractional work, joining or launching a startup, or simply taking time off due to a lack of opportunity in one’s current situation. We came up with a few potential factors. The input I received from others always made my work shine brighter.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Throughout the year, we’ve talked with and learned from industry leaders, experts, and innovators about a multitude of topics: from facing the tech slowdown to the dawn of machine learning, from the trends transforming customer support to using human insight to create memorable experiences. For me, two thoughts occurred. “We

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TIBCO - Thought Leadership

MAY 6, 2019

For companies looking to innovate and keep pace with the ever-evolving field of analytics, understanding the trends that will have the biggest impact is critical. Top Technologies Innovative Companies are Using. Innovation in Analytics – Trends to watch through 2020. We share a few of them below.

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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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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 25, 2020

According to this hiring trends report , the demand for senior-level PMs increased 51 percent over the last two years (compared to entry-level at ten percent and mid-level at 26 percent) with an overall jump of 32 percent in all PM-related roles. With these new leadership roles comes a lot of organization-wide change.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

Challenging situations are great opportunities to grow as a human being and by doing so, you increase your leadership power. Additionally, keep an eye on market developments, new trends and technologies, and the competition. As Superman puts it, “You are much stronger than you think you are. Trust me.”. But that’s not all.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Discuss product performance data (KPIs), competitive analysis, and market trends.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 21, 2024

We get it–your days are packed with roadmap review meetings, brainstorming sessions, and making (what sometimes feels like) too many PowerPoint presentations. We’ve been crunching the numbers, analyzing the trends, and distilling them into bite-sized insights so that you can have the tools you need to thrive as a product leader.

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Split

MARCH 20, 2024

Without dependable deployment processes, teams face greater technical debt, production issues and risk of downtime, and delays in unlocking business value from code. Why Release Management Matters A robust release management strategy is critical for optimizing a software delivery workflow.

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BrainMates

MARCH 11, 2020

Your Product strategy is the most important long-term document you ever create for a Product. But before you can craft your Product strategy you need to know — what’s going on? What’s going on with your existing customers should be the first area you focus on in the strategy development process. What’s the business strategy?

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

Startup product managers will learn a lot from the Review – blog from the First Round. Hacker Noon blog articles deliver a wealth of technical insights. The Reforge blog helps product managers with topics like analytics , team management and development, product leadership , or product strategy.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 23, 2023

Product analysts research to find market trends, collect and analyze data, track and assess product performance , understand product requirements, and report insights to stakeholders. A product analyst needs to have the following skillsets: Technical skills: data analysis , data visualization, statistical analysis, and technical tools.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2023

"Digital transformation" is the process of using technology to redefine processes, products, and services to create more value for customers and organizations. Digital transformation (DT) is the process of leveraging digital technologies and data to create value and gain a competitive edge in today’s rapidly changing digital economy.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

It’s good practice to review previous reports and look for areas for improvement before you start writing a new report. Using simple language, without jargon or technical terminology, will make the report easy to understand by stakeholders from different backgrounds. Finally, reports outline the next steps to be taken.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Hard skills, like technical knowledge, are job-specific and enable product managers to perform their core responsibilities. Soft skills, like communication or leadership , are more general and can be used in different contexts. Conducting market research As a product manager, your job is to shape the product vision and strategy.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 10, 2024

For example, being able to proactively (1) identify important customer problems to solve in support of company goals and (2) build a compelling strategy to address those problems. The product strategy and product roadmap will be shared with you, but you will not define them. Right from the start, you get whiffs of product sense. .

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BrainMates

MARCH 11, 2020

Your Product strategy is the most important long-term document you ever create for a Product. But before you can craft your Product strategy you need to know — what’s going on? What’s going on with your existing customers should be the first area you focus on in the strategy development process. What’s the business strategy?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers.

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People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As you can likely guess if you’ve been following this newsletter, I fall on the side of favoring collaboration as being a key area of focus for performance reviews. I find such an attitude ironic as technology is always changing. Looking to technology trends, Chris Dixon reminds us of the power of collaboration.

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Ronke PM

JUNE 21, 2023

Internal Sales and Customer Success/Relationship Management Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) meetings. Customer Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) meetings. Engineering Demo Review Meetings. 3iab (product manager, design lead, and tech lead) weekly sync. Customer Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) meetings.

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Under 10 Consulting

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

three roles of product management: business strategy, technical planning, and growth tactics. Technical planning drives the next version of your existing products, defining new features and capabilities to be delivered next. Business strategy determines new products to build or new markets to serve. There are actually.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

Many other tech companies organize themselves in this way, including Spotify , Atlassian , and Airbnb. Worked with support leadership to develop a weekly support call between product managers + support team leaders to triage support tickets. Technical program management. What Product Managers do. What Product Operations is not.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 26, 2022

A person who is successful in a data science career is a mix of a mathematician, computer scientist and a trend-spotter. Using the data, analysts help to uncover trends and meaningful patterns to assist businesses in creating future actions. Data scientists are curious and analytical.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

You’re probably dealing with leadership suffering from shiny object syndrome. Sowing doubts: The most important part of a strategy is getting buy-in and following through on execution. Diverting technical resources: Inevitably, many of these shiny object investigations require a technical assessment of their viability and impact.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

When it relates to your design career you will be ask to not only sell or persuade people on your skills, your ideas and leadership. Living and working in the intersection of design and tech — still wants to be an astronaut when grown up. Many of my current and past projects cannot be included here due to Non-Disclosure Agreements.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

We’ve written about the best conferences for product managers here —today let’s review the can’t miss conferences for product leaders (executives, C-Suite, and the like). Agile Leadership Summit. This conference has targeted sessions and speakers for product managers, business leaders, and technology marketers.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2024

However, successfully implementing agility into your company can provide 20%-30% financial gains according to research by McKinsey & Company, and increased parallel process and employee experiences have a direct causal impact on revenue by more than 50% according to Harvard Business Review. Technology development is cognitive work.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. Compare this example with a different one: I was working for a large technology company, tasked with helping develop a new digital product. Unfortunately, things didn’t go to plan. Don’t forget to regularly rotate sites.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. Compare this example with a different one: I was working for a large technology company, tasked with helping develop a new digital product. Unfortunately, things didn’t go to plan. Don’t forget to regularly rotate sites.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Hence the need to have young and innovative minds who follow the trends of the industry to come up with these strategic thoughts while the senior leaders review and align it with the organization’s business goals.”. This is how I might look at it: Strategy = Needed features = Approximate confined time with great value.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 20, 2020

The future back strategy for product managers. Mark is also the author of the previous books Dual Transformation and Reinvent Your Business Model and the McKinsey award-winning Harvard Business Review article “Reinventing Your Business Model.”. As Alfred Chandler said, “Don’t let structure dictate strategy.”

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ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2020

Let’s begin this process by reflecting and reviewing. Going into this year, the number one thing product managers wanted out of 2020 was finding a clearer purpose and company strategy. Regular roadmap reviews. Reassert your leadership. Assess What has Changed So Far. How did you do against your first-half goals?

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Userpilot

JUNE 3, 2022

As the market gets more competitive, SaaS companies are increasingly relying on product-led marketing strategies to gain traction. To excel in your role as a product marketer you need to stay updated on best practices, industry developments, and all other product marketing strategies. You’re in luck. Best product marketing tools.

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