Mind the Product

JANUARY 10, 2017

As a product manager it’s not uncommon to feel pulled in a million different directions as you work to meet the needs of your customers, developers and company stakeholders. The practices I describe are not an exhaustive list of tools and methods. Stakeholder Meetings. I meet my business stakeholders once a week.

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

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. If you want your local and remote teams to work together closely on the same parts of the system, then you should put some more effort into structuring your development process.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

The book starts with Sean agreeing to be the first product manager at Alpha Technology Ventures. Geracie traces the product manager’s role from developing the product vision, through business planning, to leading cross-functional collaboration to build the product, and finally establishing and reporting on metrics.

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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

As product managers, we bear the responsibility for bridging the two worlds – technical and business, and need to influence both. Change must happen on two levels across the organization: Technical – Roles and responsibilities must be understood, accepted, and adopted. As a result, specializations in roles developed.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Building a powerful SaaS product takes way more than just an idea. For instance, in large companies like Google and Facebook, product managers collaborate with dedicated researchers, analysts, and marketers who assist them in different stages of the product lifecycle. Conduct market and competitive research.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 10, 2024

A career in product management requires a wide range of PM skills from business and data analysis to technology expertise. The VP of Product sets the product vision for her team, ensures that product strategy is aligned, and coordinates with other executives to accelerate growth. The answer depends on your background.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Here I aim to show how experience, respect for discipline, and an insistence on following good project management practices can go a long way to help to develop successful software projects in spite of many challenges. To be clear, we will not discuss how to start a software development project or which steps you should take to kick it off.

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UX Studio

JANUARY 24, 2024

She has an extensive background in Customer Experience and Telecommunications fields, with more than 15 years of experience working both as a designer and researcher, while also leading large teams. But I also advise designers not to oversee the business side of the relationship. Karthik: That’s amazing.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

A good starting point would be working with the “Manifesto of Agile Software Development,” particularly ensuring that stakeholders understand that adapting to change over following a plan is paramount for the organization’s future success. A new feature is overdue and has been drastically underestimated due to unexpected technical debt.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2018

A mentor advised me to think about three broad categories?—?the Understand the technical architecture for the product : Get an engineer to sit down with you and explain how the product works under the hood and which major technologies and frameworks have been used. Understand or build the mission and vision for the product ?—?goals,

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Product Talk

APRIL 7, 2021

I am a former chief product officer and now coach and advise product leaders and teams. We talked about opportunity solution trees , customer journey maps, experience maps, story mapping —there are lots of ways for teams to externalize their thinking so that they can align around it and stakeholders can follow their progress.

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Roadmunk

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Most recently, Ellen left Lola to launch her own startup that will make it possible to build a complete scalable app in an afternoon. She’s essentially creating a brand new programming language that aims to bring the ability to write software to a billion people. In particular, I really like helping people make software.

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