Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

What is a technical product manager? This is the question that opens our discussion of technical product management. TL;DR Technical product managers work with engineering and development teams on the technical performance of software products. Tech PMs work actively with product teams on the product vision and strategy.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Setting smart product goals is a vital skill for any sensible SaaS owner or product manager to get right. In this article, we’re going to explore what makes an effective product goal, the difference between goals and product initiatives, how to set them and make them work with your product backlog, and more.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are metrics that measure how your product is doing. 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. A Goal-directed Approach to Choosing KPIs.

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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. For some people, that’s straightforward.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

As the person in charge of the product, your aspiration should be to lead the stakeholders in order to create value together and achieve product success. In reality, however, some product people either aim to please the stakeholders by saying yes to their requests or by brokering compromises. Form a Stakeholder Communi ty.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are metrics that measure how your product is doing. 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. A Goal-directed Approach to Choosing KPIs.

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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.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

What’s a feature prioritization matrix and how can product teams leverage it to make better product decisions? TL;DR A feature prioritization matrix helps product teams decide which features to develop next, focusing on high-impact features and resource optimization. These are the key questions we cover in the article.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 20, 2019

In addition to my formal coaching of product leaders (Directors, VPs and CPOs who directly manage teams of product managers), I talk with lots of senior individual contributors about the risks and challenges of moving “up the ladder” into product leadership roles. So I have a strong sense of what product managers want.

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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

What product discovery techniques can product managers use to build products that deliver value for their customers? TL;DR Product discovery comes before the product delivery process and its aim is to find and validate opportunities and solutions that will enhance product value and drive business goals.

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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. A first step to form effective product teams is therefore to identify the products in your organisation. But what is a product? This sounds simple enough.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Have you ever wondered why a Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy is required when you launch a product or service? We discussed business ideas, researched options for funding, and most importantly, we supported each other. In retrospect I always focused more on execution, and less on planning and strategy.

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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. What does a Product Manager do?

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ProductPlan

JULY 16, 2021

Acquiring a consensus on product direction remains the number one challenge for product professionals, according to ProductPlan’s 2021 State of Product Management Annual Report. The art of product leader communication relies on the concept of responsibility without authority. Leading with context instead of control.

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Userpilot

JULY 15, 2022

A macro conversion defines actions undertaken by a user that serve the primary goal of your business. You can track macro conversions to gain a better understanding of your product, in the long run, track the success of your marketing strategies, and identify when you’ve completed your primary conversion objective.

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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. Product failure is often attributed to poor UI/UX.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

A typical product development process would follow the Waterfall principles, taking quarters, and even a year to release a product to the market. 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.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2021

Product Ops facilitates communication across multiple teams and plays a key role in connecting resources and data. The work of product ops makes the product development process easier for the product team and helps to build user-friendly products. What is Product Ops. Does your company need Product Ops?

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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. At ProductPlan, we’ve surveyed and spoken to many product leaders about their career trajectories and past professional experience.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Your product go-to-market strategy is the final ingredient for any successful product launch. It is a small but prominent element that drives every other component of your marketing strategy. A go-to-market ( GTM ) strategy is a comprehensive plan detailing how you want to launch your product.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

How can product managers leverage them to build successful products? Agile release planning allows teams to deliver value in less time and collect user feedback while they are still working on the product. The whole agile team should take part in release planning but the product owner is accountable for the final plan.

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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. At ProductPlan, we’ve surveyed and spoken to many product leaders about their career trajectories and past professional experience.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The SaaS industry is full of advice on the perfect product metrics to gauge your users’ activation, engagement, and interactions. But how do these concepts translate into real product improvements? What are product metrics? Not all products are the same. or “How simple is our product to use?”

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Userpilot

JULY 14, 2023

What is a product analytics framework and why is it important? We also look at: Different types of analyses to include in your framework How to develop a product analytics framework And, the best product analytics tools. Solid product analytics tools include Amplitude , Google Analytics 4 (GA4) , and Hotjar.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Interested in finding out how to become a director of product? 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.

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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. How about if I told you this was also the first time this product manager’s company created this particular process for feature requests?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 11, 2022

What are some good product vision examples? How is the product vision different from the company vision? What makes a great product vision? How should product managers develop effective product vision statements? Product vision and company vision overlap in single-product organizations.

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UX Studio

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

With a background in Business Administration, Management, and Leadership, he has vast experience as a Business consultant, Product strategist, and now as an Innovation Portfolio Lead. years, I’ve been lucky enough to be involved in a lot of projects where we built amazing products in different industries. Should we do research?

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Product Management University

AUGUST 5, 2019

The Portfolio vs. Every Product! Here are five B2B product management best practices that’ll give product management teams the coveted “strategic” moniker among executives, marketing, sales, engineering and customer success teams. Let’s say all 20 products have three market segments in common.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 31, 2021

Part 2 of Becoming a Product Leader Product Leaders drive impact for the business by taking on complex initiatives and defining strategy across multiple teams. This is Part 2 of the “ Becoming a Product Leader ” series. So the potential impact you can have on the business— either positive or negative?—?increase

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

This guide to portfolio product management and marketing answers the following seven questions. What is Portfolio Product Management and How Does It Differ From Traditional Product Management? What are the Core Principles of Portfolio Product Management? Are There New Roles in a Portfolio Product Management Model?

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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. Recap: What are Product Roadmaps? Recap: What are Product Roadmaps? A product roadmap is a holistic visual document that outlines your product’s growth path.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2018

This second post on the methods we use at Onfido to help us think commercially and strategically looks at State of Product meetings. 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. State of Product.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 7, 2022

Executing a product launch is no easy feat, and it requires designing, building, and testing a product. But savvy product teams shouldn’t squander their opportunity to build on the product launch momentum. But savvy product teams shouldn’t squander their opportunity to build on the product launch momentum.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

What are the different types of product managers? We also look at the levels of seniority among product managers as well as the skills they need to lead successful teams and build products that delight customers. TL;DR A product manager oversees the entire software product development cycle, from discovery to launch and beyond.

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

What does a product manager do? We look at: 7 key responsibilities of product managers. Different kinds of product manager roles. Qualities of a good product manager. TL;DR A product manager is in charge of the entire product lifecycle. This is essential to build a roadmap that drives the product strategy.

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