Product Management University

APRIL 25, 2023

The hard part is avoiding the trap of TELLING employers what the product (you) does versus SELLING its value. Here we are in the early part of 2023 and so many of my talented friends, former colleagues and customers have fallen victim to the mass layoffs in high tech. Is there any technology company that doesn’t want that?

Technical Review 244

Technical Review Research Software Systems Review Customer Experience 244

Roman Pichler

APRIL 7, 2025

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] AI Strategy Benefits My research shows that AI can help you make better strategic decisions faster, at least for certain products. [1] Additionally, you should review AI-generated answers rather than blindly trusting a tool, even if the results sound very convincing.

Product Strategy 193

Product Strategy User Testing Data Visualization Strategy 193

Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

2 Use Scrum for Products that Experience Uncertainty and Change Scrum is often seen as the standard way to create digital products, and I have met more than one company where the product managers were told to be agile and do Scrum. As I mentioned earlier, Scrum is not a product management framework.

Product Research 382

Product Research Feedback Software Research Software User Testing 382

Product Innovation Educators

JULY 29, 2024

Outcome-Driven Innovation – for Product Managers Watch on YouTube [link] TLDR Tony Ulwick, creator of Jobs-to-Be-Done, introduces Outcome-Driven Innovation (ODI), a revolutionary approach to product management. Ulwick introduced the opportunity algorithm in a 2002 Harvard Business Review article.

Data Visualization 284

Data Visualization Research Software Product Research Product Management 284

The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Strategies for switching into a product management role when you don’t fit the cookie cutter qualifications. Getting into product when you’ve already started your career Product management requires, above anything else, good judgment. It shouldn’t be a prerequisite for product management jobs either.

Technical Review 167

Technical Review Product Management Product Manager Research Software 167

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Follow the Breadcrumbs of Who is Using What, and Not Just Who is Investing in What, for a Bigger Picture of Where We Sit Today Photo by David McBee from Pexels If you follow the pundits and tech leaders like I do, there seem to be “two trains running” re: what is and isn’t Web 3.0. Namely, “who” owns its core components is a hot topic.

Technical Review 158

Technical Review Technology Onboarding KPIs Customer Experience 158

Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Lessons from launching a #2 Product of the Year on Product Hunt – for product managers. Today we are talking about getting attention for your product launch. Joining us is a co-founder who got his product to #1 Product of the Day, #1 Product of the Week, and a finalist for Product of the Year on Product Hunt.

Product launches 254

Product launches Development Team Review Technical Review Customer Feedback 254

Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 3, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams.

Research Software 156

Research Software Product Research Artificial Inteligence User Testing 156

Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. This article will help reduce such churn by refining your product management and UX analysis approach. This shows how well your product addresses user needs.

Data Visualization 105

Data Visualization Analytic Tools Research Software User Testing 105

Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Fortunately, technology has been rapidly advancing and there are tools available that make this a solvable problem. Sentiment analysis is often used to review survey results from customer-service interactions, product reviews, etc. Named Entity Extraction?—?identifying from social media posts or survey responses)?

Technical Review 30

Technical Review Feedback Software User Testing Artificial Inteligence 30

Roman Pichler

JANUARY 20, 2025

Having said this, the system in Figure 1 captures the specific product strategy approach Ive created. [1] 1] Figure 1: A Product Strategy System You can use the model in Figure 1 to review and improve your current product strategy approach. Strictly speaking, these arent product strategy tools.

Systems Review 167

Systems Review Product Strategy Strategy Product Research 167

Product Innovation Educators

JULY 4, 2022

How product managers can get customer insights from a community to create a competitive advantage. Today, we get to find out together as the VP of Product for Wyze joins us. His name is Steve McIrvin and we met a few years as we both had kids competing in Science Olympiad. The leading brand cost about $150.

Artificial Inteligence 284

Artificial Inteligence User Testing Feedback Software Customer Feedback 284

Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

In other words, the goals should be part of a validated product strategy—a strategy whose key assumptions and risks have been successfully addressed. This might have involved observing target users, interviewing them, carrying out competitor research, and using throw-away prototypes, to name just a few strategy validation techniques.

Feedback Software 280

Feedback Software Data Visualization Analytic Tools Research Software 280

Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

I therefore recommend applying a different product roadmapping approach and using goal-oriented roadmaps , which are also called outcome-based. As their name suggests, these roadmaps focus on product goals or outcomes such as acquiring customers , increasing engagement , and future-proofing the product by removing technical debt.

Roadmap 317

Roadmap Weak Development Team Customer Experience User Testing 317

Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

What does it mean for us as product managers? We all use AI or machine learning (ML)-driven products almost every day, and the number of these products will be growing exponentially over the next couple of years. What does it mean for us as product managers? Imagine that you’re going to a coffee shop.

Artificial Inteligence 195

Artificial Inteligence Data Visualization Product Research Reporting Tools 195

Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2025

Your customer information lives in Salesforce, while your support tickets are in Zendesk, your product usage data in Mixpanel, and your marketing campaigns in HubSpot. When data collection is messy, product managers lose visibility, teams waste hours chasing answers, and user experience suffers. Sound familiar?

Data Visualization 105

Data Visualization Analytic Tools Feedback Software Reporting Tools 105

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I enjoyed in-person meetings, especially in-person product review meetings. Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I worked in healthcare technology at the time.

Technical Review 147

Technical Review User Testing Product Research Customer Feedback 147

Amplitude

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As product managers (PMs), we spend a significant portion of our time talking to customers and understanding their experiences to shape our roadmap and strategy—you may have even done an interview with us! Some of these tools are for managing everyday tasks, while others are critical for making strategic product decisions.

Analytic Tools 98

Analytic Tools Feedback Software Reporting Tools Research Software 98

Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Over the years I’ve worked alongside a number of enterprise product managers in many companies. I’m a product manager at Adobe, a company with a long product management tradition and which has produced some of the best products in the history of software. How one customer differs from another.

Enterprise 180

Enterprise Customer Feedback Customer Experience Reporting Tools 180

Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

Lessons from the discoverer of Stage-Gate for product managers Today we are talking with a legend in product management. Besides his best-selling books Winning at New Products and Portfolio Management for New Products , he has published more than 130 articles on R&D and innovation management.

Telecommunications 255

Telecommunications Research Software Feedback Software User Testing 255

Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Organise the Team around a Product As the name suggests, a product team is focused on a product. Additionally, the person in charge of the product must have the necessary expertise. 4] As you may have noticed I didn’t list the product backlog.

Reporting Tools 385

Reporting Tools User Testing Customer Experience Product Research 385

People-First Product Leadership

OCTOBER 22, 2024

I recently spoke at Productized in Lisbon on ‘turning stress into success’ Why this theme? Because, as product managers and leaders, we’re stressed. 88% of product managers feel stressed often or all the time. 52% of product managers time is spent on unplanned activities.

Technical Review 59

Technical Review Data Visualization User Testing Customer Feedback 59

Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Inclusion for me, is the name of the game – because inclusion is to say that everybody matters. How do we get a great experience of a digital product for every single person using it? Accessibility and Inclusion – Guiding Points for Product People blog post. * Links mentioned in this episode. Like our theme music?

Product Research 218

Product Research Customer Experience Feedback Software User Testing 218

Modus Create

MAY 26, 2021

As part of a recent customer engagement, we were tasked with defining a naming convention for GitHub repositories. Up to this point, each project team had used whatever convention (or none) they liked to define the repository name, leading to a situation where there was a lack of consistency across the GitHub organization. Consistent.

Naming 105

Naming Product Research User Testing Research Software 105

Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

so my investor said that I need a product manager to do our product roadmap?”. When I worked as a product management consultant clients would often talk about “needing a product roadmap ASAP”. In reality, asking for a product roadmap was shorthand for “please help me with my strategy”.

Roadmap 178

Roadmap Research Software Technical Review User Testing 178

Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

How product managers can create products that customers cannot be indifferent to In episode 468 , Dr. Merrick Furst introduced us to the discipline of deliberate innovation and how companies can create products customers absolutely must have. The purpose of this podcast is to help you create products your customers love.

Technical Review 258

Technical Review User Testing Product Research Customer Feedback 258

Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 26, 2021

How product managers can benefit from Scrum for joyful, prosperous, and sustainable work. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [1:55] 1:55] What is the Scrum Alliance and what does your role as Chief Product Owner involve? Other organizations use a product owner team. [28:54]

Reporting Tools 204

Reporting Tools Feedback Software Technical Review Agile 204

Mind the Product

JUNE 18, 2018

It also stretches product managers to consider their impact on the wider business, by asking them to review their products’ margins and revenue generating impact. The positioning document is a very simple one-pager which serves as a communication tool between product manager and product marketing manager.

Research Software 156

Research Software Onboarding KPIs Product Research User Testing 156

Product Talk

APRIL 16, 2025

Some of these challenges were due to me being a beginner. If you arent familiar with the technical details of REST APIs, you might want to read my Understanding Web APIs: What They Are and How They Work article before reading the rest of this article. I had to learn the conventions of a REST API. I was new to OAuth.

Feedback Software 164

Feedback Software Product Research Customer Experience User Testing 164

Product Talk

APRIL 5, 2023

Today’s Product in Practice focuses on Ellen Juhlin , a Product Talk Academy instructor, product coach and consultant, and Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs, who recently found herself facing this challenge. Teach them how to look for inspiration from analogous products.

Engineering 277

Engineering Feedback Software Product Research Technical Review 277

Folding Burritos

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Besides these functional views of the product and its backlog, there is also the technical view the development team has. It’s useful to keep an Engineering board for this and it can be considered part of the backlog, as it’s the reference for technical debt items and other engineering tasks. Kanban board. Negotiation.

Technical Review 170

Technical Review User Testing Product Research Roadmap 170

The Product Coalition

JULY 25, 2023

Once upon a time, in a metropolis of modernity and innovation, there lived a diligent and ambitious product manager named Yağmur. In this journey, Yağmur had the chance to find a profound connection between technology and the natural world. She witnessed everything when they were created. The sky is the limit.

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Product Research Customer Experience Blog 148

Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

www.your-app-name.com) and set up a landing page, complete with your app’s name and description and a form for visitors to sign up for email alerts on your app’s progress. Are there any bloggers or journalists whose names keep coming up? Most importantly, don’t forget to include in-app feedback software in your tech stack.

Feedback Software 264

Feedback Software Analytic Tools Research Software Product Research 264

Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2022

Product management specializations have trended upwards in recent months. These “specializations” often place focus around a specific set of skills or needs a company has, somewhat creating a division within the product manager role. Are we breaking apart the product manager role a bit too much?

Research Software 98

Research Software Analytic Tools Feedback Software Product Research 98

The Product Coalition

APRIL 20, 2023

If there’s one common mosquito biting all product managers in tech, it’s the imposter syndrome that plagues all of us. If you ask any PM (product manager) in the tech industry — no matter what company or product, chances are that they’ll agree that imposter syndrome is real. Fu (pen name).

Technical Review 147

Technical Review Product Research User Testing Software Review 147

The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes. No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. The best product managers are in a continuous state of discovery and know that?—? neither the product nor roadmap are ever static.

Analytic Tools 174

Analytic Tools Data Visualization Feedback Software Research Software 174

Product Talk

MARCH 2, 2016

Funded projects get assigned resources and a product manager starts gathering requirements. The product manager interviews key stakeholders to understand what they need, documenting what they find. The Limitations of the Traditional Product Discovery. Are You Already Doing Modern Product Discovery?

Product Research 185

Product Research Data Visualization Software Review Development Team Review 185