Product Management Unpacked

MAY 26, 2020

Meet Claire Marcus, senior product manager at UPMC Health Plan. Unlike traditional product managers, Claire is less involved with the technical aspects of product management. In some settings, this role is assumed by the product manager who is managing the technical aspects of the product. It is a huge collaborative process.

Technical Advisors

The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Product specialization : “very tailored to solve a specific technical or business need” that becomes complicated quickly. To not try to please everyone, Ben and Blair advise “staying the course, given your strategy is sound”. The customer vs. the user: the one buying your product isn’t the same one who pays for it. How are we doing?

Enterprise

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. She had many ideas about how to improve marketing tactics but did not have the technical skills to either make the necessary changes on the web or create better solutions using technology. Unfortunately, there were none.

Technical Advisors

UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 28, 2022

If you want to know what the culture is like in a product team, you should visit one of their product meetings. The way they do the meeting will tell you everything. Who speaks at the meeting? Is it technical details, customer insights or revenue and money? Run great product meetings and your culture will thrive.

Weak Development Team

The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

For example, institute regular meetings with each stakeholder or have stakeholders name product ambassadors, who then act as “liaison officers” and train them accordingly. Early in the transition process, it is advisable to educate them with product-related workshops on agile principles. How do you deal with that? more sales?—?over

Product Research

Userpilot

AUGUST 12, 2024

Then, he founded the Silicon Valley Product Group to pursue his interests in helping others create successful products through his writing, speaking, advising, and coaching. Otherwise, you won’t be able to meet customer expectations—or worse, implement solutions that are technically not feasible or unsustainable.

Feedback Software

Userpilot

AUGUST 23, 2023

A product analyst needs to have the following skillsets: Technical skills: data analysis , data visualization, statistical analysis, and technical tools. But aspiring students are advised to study the following under a bachelor’s degree – business management, statistics, economics, or computer science.

Data Visualization

ProductPlan

JULY 2, 2019

You add a new commitment to the roadmap. Suddenly, your team is scrambling to meet the original release date. Jonathan Reilly , Technical Product Manager at OneMain Financial, advises building your emotional intelligence. Keeping your product on track can be difficult when requests continue to pile up.

Product Management

Userpilot

MARCH 3, 2022

Product managers with technical skills such as SQL or technical stack are in high demand, so highlight them in your resume. Show off your Product Manager (technical) skills. Here’s what Ritesh Thombre, Sr Product Manager(Data & Analytics) at ZS advises: Ritesh Thombre on presenting skillsets in your resume.

Data Visualization

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As a project manager at an IT company working with many non-technical startup founders, our clients, I often get to resolve a variety of interesting issues that relate to technology and communication. In the meantime, at the start of the software development project you have to be aware of the legal requirements, your end-product must meet?—?for

Technical Review

Effective Roadmap Planning and Development Process for Enterprise Products

AUGUST 2, 2018

Roadmap Planning process Unlike Consumer products, you have two different types of audience to satisfy in Enterprise world, namely Buyer and User Persona. Typical process what I evangelize for roadmap planning process is the below. I typically advise the below format. We should be dynamic to readjust roadmap to meet its goals.

User Testing

Mironov Consulting

MAY 18, 2024

  Out of scope means they can advise, counsel, suggest, offer to help… but don’t own the decision/action.    Unless there’s a really strong technical or design reason to go that way, I’ll go with another division of labor.”   Easy to address, or massive potential technical debt?”

Technical Advisors

The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2023

Still, we have a duty to advise what’s best for the product. Let me do MY work without interfering with YOUR anxiety of meeting impossible deadlines. A good Product Manager should challenge your vision, your decisions, your timing, your roadmap. I’m not speaking for all Product Managers but here is my list.

User Testing

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. Or how will you be able to build a product roadmap that gets you executive buy-in? Questioning them.

Feedback Software

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

If you have advised any of these people with tasks like product growth, pricing strategy, or market sizing, be sure to note that on your resume! Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles. Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

Consulting

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

If you have advised any of these people with tasks like product growth, pricing strategy, or market sizing, be sure to note that on your resume! Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles. Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

Consulting

Gainsight

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

And I love digging into the details of those needs – figuring out what we need to do from a systems and process perspective to meet those needs. Together, we’ve mapped out a three-year roadmap for the CS org. Based on this long term roadmap, we translate specific goals into projects that become Epics tracked in GitLab. .

User Testing

Gainsight

AUGUST 6, 2021

This step involves enabling the CS team so they can effectively onboard, teach, or advise customers about the new feature. Ensuring visibility into your product roadmap and building a communication channel will keep your CS teams informed on what’s coming and what they should expect. Step 2: Enabling and preparing your CS team.

Product launches

Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

This list is particularly useful for a product manager who came to the role from a technical team and may not have previously reviewed this type of information. Geracie advises synthesizing all the data you collect into a hypothesis (product strategy) that will be reviewed and discussed with internal leaders and key customers.

Technical Advisors

Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

The right mentoring and coaching support facilitates a startup’s transformation and enables roadmap planning and execution, without straying from the ultimate vision and goal. They determine the vision and build a roadmap that will lead their team on a path to achieving goals. In fact, 83.9% Justin Hunt, CEO, Blaise Transit.

CTO Coach

The Product HQ

JUNE 20, 2024

Bias for Action – Rewind any moment in your career where you find it hard to meet a deadline. Strategy Questions The second scale bring broad responsibility of product managers to develop a product vision and product roadmap. Product managers are also expected to have a decent amount of technical understanding and experience.

Technical Advisors

The Product HQ

JUNE 20, 2024

Group Product Managers are responsible for developing a group of products from its inception to market launch while also leading cross-functional teams toward achieving the company’s objectives by their product roadmap. What do you prioritize when creating a product roadmap? How did you manage the roadmap for a previous product?

Data Visualization

The Product HQ

JULY 1, 2024

Therefore, it’s advisable to filter your industry when looking for an exact yearly salary figure. Other factors that play a role are location and technical expertise. They are individual contributors that help move the product roadmap forward. The difference comes when the industry requires a lot of technical knowledge.

B2B

Modus Create

MAY 11, 2020

Think of all that lingo we hear and speak in business meetings, like agile, digital transformation, leverage, etc. One technique we use here at Modus and we advise for is the featureless roadmap – it helps teams to concentrate on objectives and outcomes rather than create granular pieces of deliverables that don’t fit together.

Technical Advisors

Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

Who does technical leadership? For example, the Product Manager has one version of a roadmap, and the Engineering Manager has another. I’d say I was going to set up a local leadership meeting. I would explain to the group that I’d seen this meeting help teams work better together. Who does project management?

Weak Development Team

The Product HQ

JUNE 10, 2024

Therefore, if a product manager wanted to make such a switch, she would be advised to first rise the ranks internally while simultaneously building influence (e.g. Product Lead Engineer A product lead engineer looks after product roadmaps within a product development team.

Product Management

Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

It will even write your roadmap for you as we shall shortly see. They’re very trusting, the technically sophisticated, and they really just wanted to get time back in the day. I’d like you to meet Nicole. And I would not advise using this approach if you’re in that 15 to 20 percent range.

User Testing

Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

A lot of product teams are asked to deliver a fixed roadmap with some dates on it. So, this visual for those for the product folks in the room to tell a board that I made it up and it’s a 12 month roadmap for Netflix that I totally made up. So what Dewey is advising us to do. These are the essentials of thinking.

User Testing

Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? I’ve been kind of actively running away from management roles, and mostly that’s just a factor of the things that I really wanna learn or I just really wanna learn how to be a really, like, kick-ass technical PM. So that’s me.

Technical Review

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 19, 2021

A good way to reduce the complexity of your operational cadence is to just kill that extra meeting, that extra step you’re thinking about. ” Things like, “Hey, maybe we should have an annual roadmap.” And so, you decide to establish long-term technical ownership in the form of a team.

Reporting Tools

Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

He was the Growth Advisor in Residence at Greylock Partners, Growth Lead at Pinterest, and first marketer at Grubhub. He advised companies like Tinder, Hipcamp, Reddit, Canva, and Pocket. has exorbitant technical costs with maintenance example: Twitch tipping streamers through a system of “cheering” called Bits.

Technical Review

Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

After years of struggle, I’m advising all of my clients and product leader coachees to stop using the term “MVP”. To delete the letters MVP from roadmaps and product charters. These (of course) don’t exist yet, since we’re still concept-testing problem statements and feature/function and technical requirements.

Technical Advisors

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

I got my first real leadership opportunity about five years into my career when one of the teams I was on was struggling with the product roadmap. Rather than complaining to my manager, I decided I would step up and take responsibility for figuring out the product roadmap. That project led to my first cross-functional team.

Engineering

Product Bookshelf

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

One of the rules, written by Lawley, advises to work on problems you are passionate about. This will increase your chances of finding a solution which meets their needs. The more interested you are in the customer and their challenges, the better questions you’ll ask and the more observant you’ll be.

Technical Advisors

UX Planet

MAY 15, 2025

Thats what led me to create the Human-Centered AI Product Framework a practical methodology for designing AI products that are not only technically sound, but intuitively useful and meaningfully human. Are we solving for user pain or for technical novelty? DesignStrategy How do users experience and understand this AIfeature?

Technical Advisors

People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 2, 2025

Interestingly, neither Pricing nor Insurance had mobile on their roadmaps, but our Billing customers found both desktop and mobile equally frustrating. Document everything: Using AI to record meetings and send summaries with "Just confirming we agreed to X by Friday" helps keep micromanaging in check. The key insight?

Technical Advisors