The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

The need for SaaS product managers is skyrocketing with each passing year. More and more businesses develop Software as a Service (SaaS) products to remain relevant in their respective markets and grow their income streams. Conduct your market research and determine the product strategy.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

The majority of such apps have undergone iterative and incremental development to enhance and improve their features. Most of our readers would have heard of Agile product management. It is a methodology that is followed by a majority of software development companies today. But it is not the only game in town.

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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.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2022

Run continuous market research, discovery, and/or user research to better understand how to solve problems. This is likely the role we are all familiar with the most in the product management community. A product manager building a SaaS product of some sort, working in Agile software development practices.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

A well-structured product team requires a product leader – either a product manager or a product owner. They lead a team that consists of developers and designers. In larger organizations, they may work side by side with QA engineers, product marketers , data analysts , or product ops managers.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

This means: waiting longer for product usage data necessary to validate the features or improve their performance, losing the first-mover advantage and the novelty factor if your competitors beat you to the market, and, more time before your product starts bringing revenue. First, it delays the product launch.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

We are rapidly approaching a company size where not all strategy can originate with the founder; we need to diversify markets, enter new markets, and have at least points-of-view on emerging markets and how we will address them. I was able to collaborate closely with the senior director of product at my company on this work.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 30, 2020

Let us say the entire team, including sales and marketing, are given a task to go from point A to point B. The product team wants the majority of these in house testers to automatically choose the most efficient path. However, not all people know the most efficient path, especially the sales and marketing teams. Market Research.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Product managers are responsible for the overall product success throughout its lifecycle. The product management role is very complex. Product managers carry out market research, lead product discovery , oversee the development teams as they are working on the solutions, and coordinate the product launch.

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Userpilot

JULY 8, 2021

Here is a list of skills a good product manager course should teach you: Writing clear product requirements using relevant terminology. Project management skills with respect to software development practices (e.g. Technical skills for product managers like SQL and HTML/CSS. Agile software development methodology.

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People-First Product Leadership

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

For example, some companies will call it a Software Development Lifecycle or Product Development Process.> > <Provide links to the process and supporting stages> <Include a list of products according to their lifecycle stage> Key Project Links <Provide links to important documents and projects.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

As the name the “Brand Men” suggest the origins of Product Management was truely in marketing. 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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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Are you willing to shape it and head straight to the development process? Many companies struggle to decide whether creating an MVP (minimum viable product ) or MMP (minimum marketable product) or any other type of a minimum product is the right way to start. Test the waters first and get your idea validated.

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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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Userpilot

APRIL 7, 2024

TL;DR SaaS product managers oversee the entire product lifecycle from product strategy to development and decline. Step-by-step guide for the product management process Identify user needs with market research. Develop the product roadmap. Design UX and push for development.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

One of the main reasons for this popularity is that it allows cross-functional collaboration to create products and increases customer satisfaction. In simple terms, cross-functional collaboration happens when a group of people from different areas of an organization, such as sales, finance, marketing, and engineering teams, come together.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

As product managers, you have to work in a hybrid setting where you manage the strategy and act as an individual contributor. That means a better grasp of market research, a deep understanding of the bigger picture, and an understanding of how it affects the product management department.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

It also describes valuable skills you need to learn and career paths within product management, among other things. There is no shortcut to becoming a B2B product manager. These professionals come from various backgrounds, such as communications, engineering, and marketing, to name a few.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

You could volunteer to help a non-profit or small business with international product marketing or you could just do some research on a company’s current product / and show how you might improve it. Develop a Technical Skillset Developing technical skill sets for software development does not mean learning to code.

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Revulytics

AUGUST 8, 2019

Walking back announcements that marketing – or worse, the CEO – has made. So it’s helpful to step back and think: what exactly do we expect of product management? So here you go: “The aim of marketing is to know and understand customers so well that the product or service fits them and sells itself.”.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Market research, for Product Managers, is an absolute necessity for success. Much of the time, you’ll find that your company has already outsourced your market research to a firm. Here, we’ll go over the different types of market research, whether or not you should outsource, and 4 methods for lean market research.

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 19, 2017

A few members of our Marketing team recently attended HubSpot’s Inbound 2017 conference in Boston, one of the year’s largest events for marketing professionals. In her work with the organization, Gray leverages the knowledge of her field to lend leadership strategies for product management professionals.

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