People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on establishing the organization’s Mission, North Star, and Vision. Part 2, we continued the organizational journey by defining the Strategy and Goals. Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How do product management and marketing teams work together to build successful products? TL;DR Product managers define the overall product direction and oversee the entire product lifecycle. Product marketing sits between product development and the market. What is product management?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

The product manager career path is an exciting one with lots of possible on- and off-ramps. According to LinkedIn, interest in product management has doubled in the United States in the past 5 years. What is the Product Manager’s Career Path? Typical Product Management Roles. Product Manager.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

Effective KPIs help you understand if your product is creating the desired value for the users, the customers, and the business. Without KPIs, you end up guessing how well your product is performing. Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. But it is not enough.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Be Prepared to Look after People, Not Products. When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 18, 2022

Many tech professionals follow a product manager career path because it blends responsibilities and exciting job duties. Product managers are often called "mini-CEOs" because of the influence they have at a company. They manage complex products and work with team members in all departments.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

The product manager career path is an exciting one with lots of possible on- and off-ramps. According to LinkedIn, interest in product management has doubled in the United States in the past 5 years. What is the Product Manager’s Career Path? Typical Product Management Roles. Product Manager.

User Testing 98

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

Effective KPIs help you understand if your product is creating the desired value for the users, the customers, and the business. Without KPIs, you end up guessing how well your product is performing. Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. But it is not enough.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Becoming a director of product requires years of experience managing products and working with other product managers. That gives you the experience and expertise to get to the next level, where you start managing other product managers. Then you’ve come to the right place.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In this article, we look at 13 different ways to collect feedback that product managers can leverage to gain a deep understanding of customer needs and make informed product decisions. Customer feedback is all the information and opinions that you get from your customers about their experiences with the product.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

If this data is actioned, bad product decisions will be made. To achieve this, refer to the needs and business goals stated in the product strategy and the product goals on the product roadmap. Then ask yourself how you can tell that these goals have been met. Don’t cling to your ideas and views.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 6, 2023

Feature velocity is one of the product management buzzwords but what exactly does it mean? Consequently, it’s not a good metric to compare the productivity of various teams. Product features are its characteristics. Benefits are the positive outcomes features bring to users. Are you ready to jump in? Book the demo!

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

A feature prioritization matrix is a product management tool that helps teams decide what features to develop next. The criteria usually revolve around feature importance, like its business or customer value , the resources required to build them, like cost or time, and how much they reflect the organization’s values and goals.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Be Prepared to Look after People, Not Products. When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Listen to this article: [link].

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The Product Coalition

MAY 31, 2021

In this series, I’m tackling different outcomes and traits that individual contributor Product Managers can practice and cultivate to move towards becoming a Product Leader. Leading Complex Initiatives As a Product Leader, you will be expected to lead and drive initiatives that span across an organization.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The Snitch, the Whip, the Bookkeeper, the Six Sigma Black Belt™ Like a job ad for a Scrum Master position, the equivalent for the Product Owner position also reveals excellent insight into an organization’s progress on becoming agile. The Product Owner is a member of the Scrum team; partnering is hence not required.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Observations of a B2C startup product manager working in enterprise. This means a change in approach for product managers operating in startup and corporate environments. Here are two of my most notable product take-aways and one piece of advice for survival. In many cases the product goal is the company goal.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

  This is a recipe for failure: there are no generic product strategies or corporate strategies , and IMHO therefore no context-free prioritization models, metrics, or product goals.  Why is this so critical to Product Management and the larger maker organization?  Short-enough time frame (e.g.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 4, 2022

Product roadmapping frameworks work in a very similar way. There are a few routes you can take to achieve your product goals. A product roadmap is a holistic visual document that outlines your product’s growth path. Product roadmaps are a good way for organizations to prepare for the future.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Why is product failure such a common feature of the SaaS landscape? We’re also looking at what product managers do to increase the survival chances of their products. We talk about product failure when the product doesn’t meet its objectives or goals. The average product failure rate in SaaS.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2018

This meeting is an exercise in strategy, an opportunity to take stock of where your product is, where it fits within the wider market, and where it should go. 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.

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Sequent Learning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Fundamentals of Product Management – For the Last Time. People often ask me why I write books and articles about product management. Sometimes I detect patterns or trends in business performance that would benefit product people with a clarification or a ‘how-to’ guideline. That’s great news.

Customer Experience 63

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

The role of a Product Owner/Manager/Strategist is to help startups capture and transform customer insights into full product experiences that in turn increase customer satisfaction, loyalty, retention, and the business values. Competitor Positioning c. Analysis of Share of Voice (how consumers perceive the product) 4.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 15, 2023

First, the process helps you ensure that your ideas are aligned with your product vision and strategic goals. Second, it’s an effective risk management tactic. This will reflect your product goals and organizational culture. Willingness to pay – Are there enough people ready to buy the product?

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BrainMates

MAY 7, 2019

This means, “Given enough time and enough promotion levels, every position in a firm will be occupied by someone who can’t do the job. ”. The Product Manager is often seen as the leader of a single product. It is rarely formally acknowledged as a leadership position in an organisational structure.

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

Why is product idea validation important? As a product manager, how can you effectively validate ideas and build a successful product that delights users? TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 19, 2023

How product managers can build trust and alignment on virtual teams Today we are talking about making virtual product teams more effective. Our guest is Anna Marie Clifton, Head of Product at Vowel. Before Vowel, she held senior product management roles at Asana, Coinbase, and Yammer. Trust builds product.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 3, 2022

As data-driven product development continues to balloon in popularity, so does the need for accurate and sophisticated implementation of analytics tracking in software products. It’s no secret at this point that great products cannot be created without both excellent design and strong implementation.

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Usersnap

MARCH 4, 2021

This is the story of how Christina, a product manager, set up a feature request workflow with a simple button in her product, so she could learn directly from the customers what to build next. Aligning feature requests with product goals How do I set up a workflow for feature requests?

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 8, 2020

As a product manager, you may have already learned how to plan and prioritize a product roadmap. In response to a Reddit question asking whether there are product roles that exist with a work-life balance, one user answered: "It depends. Work With a Positive Company Culture. a product company.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Does your organization really need such a role if you already have a product manager ? The product launch manager coordinates the work of cross-functional teams and supports the product manager during product launches. Their job is to support the product management function.

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BrainMates

MAY 7, 2019

This means, “Given enough time and enough promotion levels, every position in a firm will be occupied by someone who can’t do the job. ”. A Product Leader is more than a Senior Product Manager. The Product Manager role is a cross-functional leadership role, often managing a single product.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

The importance of building products that customers valued and the limited amount of finances forced startups to take a different approach when building their products. New movements such as agile engineering and lean product management became the core philosophy of lots of successful startups around that time.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Yet product managers generally love what they do and find the role quite fulfilling. However, there’s often a disconnect between aspects of the job that make product managers happy and the metrics upon which they’re judged. When this occurs, product managers must focus on goals unaligned with their passion.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2021

In this post, you can find out the functions of product ops, how it facilitates the internal and external processes to create useful products, what the duties of a product ops manager are, and whether you should hire one or not. What is Product Ops. Is Product Management Same As Product Operations?

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Technical program manager (TPM) roles range from mid to senior-level positions that support organizations with their product goals. Potential technical program managers must keep this unique communication challenge in mind. At most, it puts you in an inspiring position to lead them forward.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

How can product managers leverage them to build successful products? A product roadmap is a general long-term plan of how to deliver on the product vision whereas an agile release plan focuses on short iterations, often called sprints, and are more detailed. The product roadmap looks much further ahead.

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