The Product Manager Coach Blog

MAY 7, 2024

Navigating the world of product management can be overwhelming, especially when trying to understand the different roles and responsibilities. Two positions that often cause confusion are Staff Product Manager and Senior Product Manager. What is a Staff Product Manager?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

What are the different types of product managers? We also look at the levels of seniority among product managers as well as the skills they need to lead successful teams and build products that delight customers. The types of product managers differ in focus and required skills.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

What is a technical product manager? This is the question that opens our discussion of technical product management. TL;DR Technical product managers work with engineering and development teams on the technical performance of software products. What is a technical product manager?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

If you’re wondering what strategic product management is, you’ve come to the right place! In the article, we’re looking at the responsibilities of strategic product managers and how they can use data effectively to shape product strategy and deliver delightful experiences to users!

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

Effective KPIs help you understand if your product is creating the desired value for the users, the customers, and the business. Without KPIs, you end up guessing how well your product is performing. Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. But it is not enough.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How do product management and marketing teams work together to build successful products? TL;DR Product managers define the overall product direction and oversee the entire product lifecycle. Product marketing sits between product development and the market. What is product management?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

How can product managers leverage them to build successful products? A product roadmap is a general long-term plan of how to deliver on the product vision whereas an agile release plan focuses on short iterations, often called sprints, and are more detailed. The product roadmap looks much further ahead.

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

What does a product manager do? We look at: 7 key responsibilities of product managers. Different kinds of product manager roles. Qualities of a good product manager. TL;DR A product manager is in charge of the entire product lifecycle. Who is a product manager?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Be Prepared to Look after People, Not Products. When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

Effective KPIs help you understand if your product is creating the desired value for the users, the customers, and the business. Without KPIs, you end up guessing how well your product is performing. Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. But it is not enough.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

You’ll end up guessing how well the product is doing and if it is creating the desired value. While common sense suggests that managing a product without the right measurements is not a sensible approach, I’ve seen product teams who did not use any KPIs. If this data is actioned, bad product decisions will be made.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

The product manager career path is an exciting one with lots of possible on- and off-ramps. According to LinkedIn, interest in product management has doubled in the United States in the past 5 years. What is the Product Manager’s Career Path? Typical Product Management Roles. Product Manager.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 18, 2022

Many tech professionals follow a product manager career path because it blends responsibilities and exciting job duties. Product managers are often called "mini-CEOs" because of the influence they have at a company. They manage complex products and work with team members in all departments.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

The product manager career path is an exciting one with lots of possible on- and off-ramps. According to LinkedIn, interest in product management has doubled in the United States in the past 5 years. What is the Product Manager’s Career Path? Typical Product Management Roles. Product Manager.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Becoming a director of product requires years of experience managing products and working with other product managers. That gives you the experience and expertise to get to the next level, where you start managing other product managers. Then you’ve come to the right place.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Be Prepared to Look after People, Not Products. When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Listen to this article: [link].

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The Snitch, the Whip, the Bookkeeper, the Six Sigma Black Belt™ Like a job ad for a Scrum Master position, the equivalent for the Product Owner position also reveals excellent insight into an organization’s progress on becoming agile. This certainly avoids promoting the wrong description to prospective candidates.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 6, 2023

Feature velocity is one of the product management buzzwords but what exactly does it mean? Consequently, it’s not a good metric to compare the productivity of various teams. Product features are its characteristics. Benefits are the positive outcomes features bring to users. Are you ready to jump in? Book the demo!

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The Product Coalition

MAY 31, 2021

In this series, I’m tackling different outcomes and traits that individual contributor Product Managers can practice and cultivate to move towards becoming a Product Leader. Leading Complex Initiatives As a Product Leader, you will be expected to lead and drive initiatives that span across an organization.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

What does the product launch manager do? Does your organization really need such a role if you already have a product manager ? The product launch manager coordinates the work of cross-functional teams and supports the product manager during product launches. Ready to dive in?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

A feature prioritization matrix is a product management tool that helps teams decide what features to develop next. The criteria usually revolve around feature importance, like its business or customer value , the resources required to build them, like cost or time, and how much they reflect the organization’s values and goals.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Are you looking for crucial technical program management skills to become a successful technical program manager? Technical program manager (TPM) roles range from mid to senior-level positions that support organizations with their product goals. Well, you’re in the right place.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In this article, we look at 13 different ways to collect feedback that product managers can leverage to gain a deep understanding of customer needs and make informed product decisions. Customer feedback is all the information and opinions that you get from your customers about their experiences with the product.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 4, 2022

Product roadmapping frameworks work in a very similar way. There are a few routes you can take to achieve your product goals. A product roadmap is a holistic visual document that outlines your product’s growth path. Product roadmaps are a good way for organizations to prepare for the future.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

  This is a recipe for failure: there are no generic product strategies or corporate strategies , and IMHO therefore no context-free prioritization models, metrics, or product goals.  Why is this so critical to Product Management and the larger maker organization?  Short-enough time frame (e.g.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 15, 2023

First, the process helps you ensure that your ideas are aligned with your product vision and strategic goals. Second, it’s an effective risk management tactic. This will reflect your product goals and organizational culture. Willingness to pay – Are there enough people ready to buy the product?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Why is product failure such a common feature of the SaaS landscape? We’re also looking at what product managers do to increase the survival chances of their products. We talk about product failure when the product doesn’t meet its objectives or goals. The average product failure rate in SaaS.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 28, 2024

As a product , marketing , or customer success manager, you can track dozens of metrics and it may be tempting to do so! Start by reviewing your product vision , strategy, and goals , and choose the North Star metric that’s aligned with them. Product performance metrics: CSAT. Pirate Metrics.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Observations of a B2C startup product manager working in enterprise. This means a change in approach for product managers operating in startup and corporate environments. Here are two of my most notable product take-aways and one piece of advice for survival. In many cases the product goal is the company goal.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

The role of a Product Owner/Manager/Strategist is to help startups capture and transform customer insights into full product experiences that in turn increase customer satisfaction, loyalty, retention, and the business values. Competitor Positioning c. Analysis of Share of Voice (how consumers perceive the product) 4.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2018

This meeting is an exercise in strategy, an opportunity to take stock of where your product is, where it fits within the wider market, and where it should go. It also stretches product managers to consider their impact on the wider business, by asking them to review their products margins and revenue generating impact.

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BrainMates

MAY 7, 2019

This means, “Given enough time and enough promotion levels, every position in a firm will be occupied by someone who can’t do the job. ”. Further, The Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing & Management Review (2013) outlines that leadership is much more than instincts and skills. Product Leader is a different flavour of leadership.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 3, 2022

As data-driven product development continues to balloon in popularity, so does the need for accurate and sophisticated implementation of analytics tracking in software products. It’s no secret at this point that great products cannot be created without both excellent design and strong implementation.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 8, 2020

As a product manager, you may have already learned how to plan and prioritize a product roadmap. In response to a Reddit question asking whether there are product roles that exist with a work-life balance, one user answered: "It depends. Work With a Positive Company Culture. a product company.

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Sequent Learning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Fundamentals of Product Management – For the Last Time. People often ask me why I write books and articles about product management. Sometimes I detect patterns or trends in business performance that would benefit product people with a clarification or a ‘how-to’ guideline. That’s great news.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 19, 2023

How product managers can build trust and alignment on virtual teams Today we are talking about making virtual product teams more effective. Our guest is Anna Marie Clifton, Head of Product at Vowel. Before Vowel, she held senior product management roles at Asana, Coinbase, and Yammer. Trust builds product.

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

Why is product idea validation important? As a product manager, how can you effectively validate ideas and build a successful product that delights users? TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need.

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