The Product Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2024

💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, AI, and more. He is a key advisor and speaker known for his product strategy insights. Renowned for her practical approach to aligning product, marketing, and sales strategies.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2023

If You Don’t Know What a Product Manager Is — Don’t Hire Me. If you really want me to be your product manager, then this is explicitly the kind of product manager I will be in our company. Being a Product Manager (PM) in a IT (Information Technology) services company may seem complicated. We are not.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

It is a known fact that startups which are accompanied or coached, view their chances of success as being much higher compared to those that are not. of accompanied startups assess their chances of survival as strong, especially during the current uncertain climate. of startups rate their chances of survival as high, 13.5%

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. Product Management Books #1 – Continuous Discovery Habits [NEW! ].

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Ask Benny

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

How to enter into a new product management position in a new company. You just landed into a new product management position. Whether it’s a VP product or a product manager, whether it’s a small or big company, you are expected to get fast into the role, and many times you are expected to do it by yourself. Congratulations.

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Bain Public

AUGUST 22, 2022

Second, to assist and work in collaboration with the rest of the Product Management team and third, to work in collaboration with our broader team – which includes UX/UI, Engineering and a team of Data Scientists. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. Setting an awesome strategy without building the enablers to executing on it is just a pipe-dream.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 26, 2020

Considering a career in management consulting or product management? What Each Role Does Day To Day Product Manager Product managers (PM) lead and influence teams to build enticing products. Consultant Consultants are in the business of advising people in a specific field. There exist many non-technical PMs.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Second, to assist and work in collaboration with the rest of the Product Management team and third, to work in collaboration with our broader team – which includes UX/UI, Engineering and a team of Data Scientists. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies.

Research Software 52

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Second, to assist and work in collaboration with the rest of the Product Management team and third, to work in collaboration with our broader team – which includes UX/UI, Engineering and a team of Data Scientists. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Second, to assist and work in collaboration with the rest of the Product Management team and third, to work in collaboration with our broader team – which includes UX/UI, Engineering and a team of Data Scientists. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies.

Research Software 52

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sachin Rekhi is the founder and CEO of Notejoy , and a prolific blogger on product management. In this Path to PM post, Sachin and I discuss five practical paths to product management. How did you first break into product management? First off, product management is very communication and leadership oriented.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

How to enter a new product management position in a new company. Congratulations, you just landed a new product management position. Whether it’s a VP product or a product manager or it’s a small or big company, you are expected to adjust quickly to the role. I would advise you differently. You should make it personal.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

The position of Product Manager has been one of the fastest-growing roles in tech in recent years, with a 30 percent growth in job openings year over year. The trouble is, candidates who possess the varied skill set needed for Product Management are elusive and highly sought-after. Speak to a Learning Advisor.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

The position of Product Manager has been one of the fastest-growing roles in tech in recent years, with a 30 percent growth in job openings year over year. The trouble is, candidates who possess the varied skill set needed for Product Management are elusive and highly sought-after. The Personality Test. The Personality Test.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

We hope this article will help you better understand what the leading companies in design thinking do and how to choose the most suitable design strategy firm to partner with. . We are aware that many companies choose their path and manage the challenges themselves. How to introduce design thinking into large companies. UX studio .

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

Collect information and work with your cross-functional partners to be an effective product manager. Take Charge Product Management by Greg Geracie. You won’t find these two sentences in any books on product management: “It was 6:45am. .” Your role as product manager is to see the forest, not the trees.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

One signal I’ve been giving much thought too of late is the collision of two roles, Product Management and Product Ownership. As time progressed many Product Managers wondered if they should be a Product Owner and similarly many Product Owners started to wonder where they fit in relation to their Product Manager counterparts.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 27, 2013

The role of product management in technology firms is a critically important one that is often misunderstood. Product management boils down to owning the vision, design, and execution of your product. Your strategy can change over time and it may require updating your vision.

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Let’s establish this right upfront: nothing beats a well-managed full-time in-house team of local developers. For example, a local startup team I consult for are developing their web app in-house while outsourcing their mobile development team of 12 to Poland. So why would you want to outsource anything? Efficient Kickstarts.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

TalkTalk was fined £400,000 in 2016 for failing to have appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to secure its customers’ personal data, and for keeping their personal data for longer than necessary. Under the GDPR this fine could have risen to £35 million. A DPIA can be used in a variety of situations.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Before that, I was a general manager at Microsoft.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? How do you promote gender diversity in the product management field? I’m a product manager at Dropbox , and I have been a product manager now for about just under 10 years. I’m a product manager at Stripe.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 8, 2017

After years of seeing companies head down the wrong path, we’ve come up with a short list of considerations for product engineers and managers to take into account when designing, or hiring a development team to create, a connected hardware product. Many companies forget that it is advisable to keep product specifications restrained.

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Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 31, 2016

I gave some my 2 cents based on my experience helping startups and growth folks. It’s not an immediately technical or product-based experience, and yet it’s an interesting question that might actually become more and more relevant. The velocity of growth is determined by one part strategy, one part implementation.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. But why is working in enterprise software now different?

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers Decide when to care about trends and when to sit back and watch what happens next Trends and the product lifecycle Imagine your product strategy stayed exactly the same for the next 10 years. What would happen? It’s impossible for one person to do. And not all trends matter.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 19, 2021

But alas, as startups scale, as more people join and those people turn into teams, which then turn into teams of teams and into orgs, you’re adding a lot of complexity to the mix. If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: As a startup grows, things like more teams, processes, and cross-collaboration are unavoidable.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Without a systematic approach to your product management process and clear roadmap, you’ll likely face several hurdles like lack of direction, unclear priorities, wasted resources, missed deadlines, difficulty in scaling, and more. To help you out, I’ve put together this extensive guide on the product management process.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

As VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter, Elad Gil was a key player as company headcount skyrocketed from 90 to 1,500 employees. This wasn’t Elad’s first experience with hyper growth – Google grew headcount 10x during his time as a product manager there – nor the last. The second is employees.

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Radical Focus is about a management method called Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). The OKR method has its roots in HP’s Management by Objectives (MBO) which seeks to achieve alignment through a cascading set of objectives through the enterprise. The first part of Radical Focus is a story about a startup which sells tea.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

You can quickly go from strategy to execution and you know exactly what should be done next. Teresa Torres (Product Discovery Coach, Product Talk) – Managing Outputs vs Outcomes from Business of Software Conference. So today I want to talk about managing by our outputs versus outcomes. Transcript. Good morning everybody.

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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

The General Manager model. Each organization is led by a general manager (GM) who is responsible for all the functions within their organization. Tradeoffs for the General Manager model are outlined in my post retrospective on Implementing Amazon’s single threaded owner model. Who does technical leadership?

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Aptrinsic

JANUARY 2, 2018

How to Build and Manage Successful Product Team During Aptrinsic ’s recent Mastering Product Adoption and Growth event, industry-renowned product leaders shared their insights into driving product growth. Today, about 76,000 businesses and more than 56 millions users trust Box to manage content in the cloud.

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Roadmunk

DECEMBER 7, 2017

This is the latest episode of Product to Product —a product management podcast for / by product people. You may know her as the VP of Product at Lola , a former product manager at Kickstarter , or as a previous PM at Microsoft. While her startup is still in very early stages, Ellen is completely in founder mode.

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