Product Management Unpacked

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

I’m excited to be named Product Executive in Residence (PXIR) at Carnegie Mellon University. This new PXIR role enables CMU to bring the voice of industry into classrooms and product leadership curricula. There is also the ubiquity of what’s often referred to as the “product problem.”

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 12, 2020

In preparation for applying to Product Marketing Manager roles, the standard application suite applies: a resume, cover letter, and maybe some additional materials like references or transcripts. The header should have the date, title and name of the recipient, and address to the extent available.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Going through these iterations is what I do when I work with founders personally or through the new product-market fit masterclass. Product strategy is a special kind of strategy. Unlike what most people think, the product strategy isn’t the strategy of the product department. That’s about strategy in general.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This will change the way that a lot of people think about product market fit, BS metrics, understanding the needs of the people that really matter. Rahul Vohra (Founder/CEO, Superhuman) – The Product-Market Fit Engine from Business of Software Conference. So I’m going to talk about Product-Market Fit.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. Marty Cagan is a well-known figure in the product management and technology industry. Who is Marty Cagan?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Product Manager (PM) & Product Marketing Manager (PMM): The Product Doppelgangers Photo by Kaleidico on Unsplash Try Googling for ‘product management vs product marketing’, you will see several results around this topic. Product marketers are like restaurant managers.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The problem The friend I talked to is named John. He’s become passionate about technology and wants to make a career switch. Almost all PM jobs require 3+ years of experience building products. Here’s a few examples of career paths that start in a related role and work their way to product. Don’t know anyone?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 17, 2023

I could start comparing features and value statements, but there was a problem: I never met any of these names as part of our sales cycle. The reason we didn’t see them in any of our POCs was because they were targeting a different market segment. I’m sure that your product, too, has a generic list of competitors.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Further, users also impact the revenue model of the product as they stay around with product values that satisfied their needs and experience. The onset of product growth hacking The concept of growth hacking flourished primarily post dot-com bubble. Tip: Growth hacking works well when the product-market fit is qualified.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [1:38] What kind of problems are executives of organizations talking about now? Established organizations are seeing a lot of external change—new technologies, new behaviors among customers and employees, and digital change. You may have an inflexible structure.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

To give a little background on startup V (not the actual name), the founder is a successful entrepreneur and has 20 years track record in running a successful heavy industry manufacturing business of about INR100 crores ($17m) annual turnover. Refer image 2.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2020

In my previous post, I introduced the four different flavours of product manager, depicted by the PM quadrants matrix. What are the four flavours of product manager? In this post, I’ll go into the responsibilities for each of the four ‘flavours’ of product manager. Use technical knowledge to solve business problems.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 8, 2022

The story of how the first product of the information age was created and found product/market fit. A prominent monk named Trithemius of Sponheim wrote in 1492, “Printed books will never be the equivalent of handwritten codices.” The Church burned Joan of Arc burned on the stake. Many considered lenders vile. Absolutely!

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

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. What’s the meeting about? Which outcome do you want to achieve?

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Product Talk

JUNE 21, 2023

Today, we’re excited to share that we’ve added yet another instructor (and yes, her name is also Ellen!) Meet Ellen Brandenberger , a product coach and consultant and Director of Product at Stack Overflow. By the way, it’s not a requirement that new instructors be named Ellen—just a fun coincidence! to the roster.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

As such, it cannot be limited to include only the product-related parts like features and product KPIs. As a product leader who is creating this roadmap, you need to treat it as a compass and plan not only for your team and the technology team but rather as the direction that the entire company needs to go in.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2022

Technical Product Managers (TPMs) focus on highly technical products and have those considerations upfront as they’re coming up with potential solutions to problems. Whereas consumer-facing product managers are perhaps less “technical”, these types of PMs need to fully understand the technologies they are building for.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 4, 2024

The principles of identifying and forming your own product community remain the same. Starting a community of practice I joined Pearson to create the Future Technologies team. As part of my work, I built the Future Technologies Champions community. As part of my work, I built the Future Technologies Champions community.

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bpma ProductHub

JULY 5, 2016

Drawing on another’s positional or referent power, for example by name dropping, is a critical mistake when maneuvering a conflict. Bullying and name dropping expose you as someone who does not know how to manage conflict constructively and relies on others for influence. Image from Flickr Commons.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

We are literally in a race, and I think almost every single person listening to this who’s in a product or engineering team or any kind of technology company is almost certainly in a race, too. You’re in this race of who’s going to be able to move the fastest. .” “When you have momentum, you can feel it.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Hint: innovative technology can only take you so far. The target audience in this case was very specific (although very wide, and that’s also an important part of product-market fit). Specific Trade-Offs Making the luxury of cars affordable to the average American person can only be achieved with mass production.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 11, 2019

When we announced in September last year that we’re bringing #mtpcon to Singapore for the first time, it was in the knowledge that the technology and innovation scene across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is booming. Amplitude has also chosen Singapore as its APAC HQ.

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

To develop successful products that delight users, product managers need to wear many hats. They are strategists, planners, negotiators, mediators, leaders, customer advocates, storytellers , and change agents – to name just a few. What does a product manager do? Key roles in product teams.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 23, 2020

We’ve interviewed several prominent names in the industry, including the CEO of Product School, Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia; Andrea Saez, Head of Product Growth and Education at ProdPad; Gen Furukawa, Co-Founder at Prehook; Natália Kimli?ková, Trends to Watch In Product – Table of Contents. Natália Kimli?ková,

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 13, 2023

Technology allows you to create almost anything from nothing, unlimited by what you already have. But that leads to another problem — how do you know which product to create? I’d get off the plane and there’d be 5,000 high school kids cheering my name with cars welcoming me to the country. So what would 11 star experience be?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

As the name suggests, a welcome page is the first landing page new users see when they sign up for your product. That’s a lot of extra hassle, and the opportunity cost of them not coding your core product is quite high, especially given that developers are normally the most expensive people on most SaaS teams.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively. I worked in healthcare technology at the time. Accountability with names tied to each item on the roadmap is critical. As a result, the team struggled with how to prepare. If not, why?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2023

If you really want me to be your product manager, then this is explicitly the kind of product manager I will be in our company. Let’s work together on your amazing product! Being a Product Manager (PM) in a IT (Information Technology) services company may seem complicated.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2021

Photo by Ono Kosuki from Pexels OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) are a useful tool for goal setting and team alignment, and in recent years they have gone from being used primarily in quantitative parts of the organization (namely sales and marketing) to being very popular in product and technology as well.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

JustGiving’s goal is to grow the world of giving, enabling more money to be raised for good causes through the use of technology. In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes.

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Userpilot

APRIL 25, 2024

Effective market research combines both qualitative methods, which explore consumer motivations, and quantitative methods, which provide measurable statistics, to create comprehensive insights that guide business strategy and decision-making. It acts like a guide, helping businesses navigate the complex market landscape.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Product-led growth is one of the hottest topics in our industry. Some people swear by the name of it, while others disregard it completely. Photo by R Khalil from Pexels Product-led growth (PLG) seems to be everywhere these days. In a product-led company, the product team has a strong presence in the business organization.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2018

pithy statement: “Marketing is what you do when your product or service sucks.” No wonder marketing has a bad name in the tech industry. Product-first contrasts this. It’s about building a product so great that it sells itself. In technology, fast followers are really fast. Just ask Snapchat.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2020

Technology changes that. With technology, you can truly create from nothing, unlimited by what you already have. But since technology is so new in the evolution of human thinking, it is much easier for all of us to still think from what we have, instead of truly creating from nothing. as was the case in our little story.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 24, 2020

Through the series of tweets, he argued that as cloud and SaaS technology business models become mainstream, the notions of “pre-sales” and “post-sales” have become antiquated: “However, with the shift to bottom-up, this role is changing. What’s In a Name? Market a product. Sell a product. (Do use as a title ?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

February Product Conferences. Big names like the Product Marketing Alliance, Product World, and Product Con are still going through with virtual versions of their flagship conferences. Product Marketing Rendezvous. Source: Product Marketing Alliance.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 15, 2021

The skills product managers need in a changing environment. This podcast will soon be changing its name to Product Mastery Now. You don’t need to do anything to keep listening, but it will show in your podcast player not as The Everyday Innovator but as Product Mastery Now.

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