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3 Empowerment Levels in Product Management

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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Product Manager’s Secret 2020 Weapon: Remote Workshops

Mind the Product

As product managers we are, at our core, facilitators. It is ultimately up to us to get all interested parties to align and collaborate on building the right thing for our business and making sure we understand our users so it’s the right thing for the market. As such, we spend a lot of our [.].

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10 Tips for Effective Product Management Meetings

Roman Pichler

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. Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

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My Faith in True Market-Facing, Customer-Value-Driven Product Management Has Been Fully Restored!

Product Management University

After countless conversations, articles, webinars and conference sessions, I started to feel like the profession of product management had been reduced to…. Convincing stakeholders the above supports company goals (product strategy). Here’s the reason I love the vertical market approach. Finding user problems.

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Strategic Portfolio Management 1 of 10 – How to Forecast Revenue by Market vs. Product

Product Management University

Product managers and product marketing managers, if you’re into data driven decisions, forecasting revenue is one of the more difficult things you’re tasked with, especially for each product/module. For the vast majority of you, 80% of your revenue comes from 5 or fewer market segments.

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How To Climb The Product Marketing Career Ladder Faster

Product Management University

If you’re looking to climb the product marketing career ladder faster, here are five things you can do that’ll accelerate your climb. Track Record of Year-Over-Year Product Revenue Growth Not to state the obvious here, but product revenue is always top the priority. I came into a product marketing role from pre-sales.

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Product Portfolio Management & the Strategic Ripple Effect 4 of 10 – Market Strategy vs. Product Strategies

Product Management University

Going all the way back to my practitioner days, it was apparent then that as product management goes, so goes the rest of the organization. I guess that shouldn’t be a surprise since everything revolves around the products. Product strategies view the customer in silos (by user) from the bottom up.

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