The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today! View the live stream….

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The standard startup playbook—hunker down, cut burn rate and hope the market improves before you run out of runway—isn’t the right path forward for SaaS businesses. Every company has a finite amount of dev-hours to dedicate to perfecting its product, so even revenue-positive features can prove a drain on resources.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

More and more, I see startups hiring PMMs as their first marketer ”. More and more, I see startups hiring PMMs as their first marketer – understanding the value they bring when it comes to nailing your positioning and product-market fit from the start. Luckily, we’re seeing some shifts in the industry.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

The product management process starts with building an understanding of your users and the market, defining a vision and strategy , generating and prioritizing ideas that could solve user problems, articulating them in a clear roadmap, launching an MVP, and then gathering feedback to evolve it over time.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

We’d spent weeks perfecting the roadmap presentation for our annual customer conference. It felt like people had overlooked all the greatness of our roadmap and were focused on the (relatively few) changes we’d made along the way. For many product people, this is the nightmare scenario of sharing their product roadmap.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

About the author – Else van der Berg Else has over a decade of experience working for startups and scaleups but is currently an interim Product Lead/Advisor at Value Rebels. She has a knack for strategic thinking and loves SaaS in general, especially product-led growth. Positioning. Connect with Else on Linkedin.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 20, 2018

As Intercom’s customer base moved upmarket, it became increasingly obvious to us in Sales that what worked well in our product for early-stage startups didn’t for larger companies. To fix it, we had to change how we worked with our product team. Trial and error: adding sales input to the product roadmap.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

The Product Collective blog offers lots of practical advice like early-career tips. Ken Norton offers lots of valuable insights based on years of experience in his Bring the Donuts product manager blog. Startup product managers will learn a lot from the Review – blog from the First Round.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many ways to build a roadmap and many types of roadmaps you can make. Some will delight and engage the executive team by taking a high-level approach and focusing on goals and strategy. Roadmaps for sales and marketing tout new functionality and minimize the time spent on technical debt and scalability.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 9, 2022

In a nutshell, yes, you can transition from being a UX designer to product management if you are prepared, have the right mindset and are willing to develop the right skills for the job. Many UX designers try to swap out their UX hat for a PM position instead. Successful product managers are ready for a creative challenge.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. After attending a web development boot camp and working as a web developer at a small startup, she got the opportunity to become a product manager. After graduating in 2013, she moved to London, U.K.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2020

but we had no previous training on strategy. Furthermore, there is no clear path to learn product strategy and no agreed-upon “go-to” resource to start developing this muscle. Understanding how to differentiate based on particular attributes to better serve particular segments is nowadays a common practice in product strategy.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

As artificial intelligence technologies continue to evolve and become more mainstream, so too does the demand for machine learning product managers grow among startups and Fortune 500 companies alike. You must also understand the technical elements that condition your product’s development. Keep on reading then.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

Another incredibly important aspect for product managers to master is defining and iterating on your product's strategy. A compelling strategy details exactly how you'll dominate your market and is constantly refined until you find product/market fit.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

We quickly realized we needed to redefine our product methodology to suit our distinctive position. Our customers, unfamiliar with product thinking and interviews, do not respond well to traditional discovery methods. But what exactly is a micro-delivery? It is a deliberate and minimal delivery that serves a learning agenda.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We’re proud to say that we’ve given over 1000 hours of pro bono work since 2018 for young up and coming startups and entrepreneurs; we take corporate responsibility very seriously. As a business, we want to achieve success in ways that honour our ethical values as well as respect startups and accelerator communities.

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bpma ProductHub

MARCH 20, 2017

The sales team is providing feedback and advising that the product is missing features preventing them from penetrating market A, and if only they had those features, they could be very successful selling. The same repeats for market B, C and D and before long the product team is inundated with requests that keep changing day in and day out.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Jenna Gaudio is the Vice President of Product Management at Vydia, the award-winning tech company empowering content creators and their teams. In this role, Gaudio drives the strategy behind roadmap management, agile product development, and cross-functional communication. The Best Product Consultant. Drew Falkman.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

How to create a scalable product organization. How product strategy uses a company's vision to fuel profitability. An iterative product framework for identifying and pursuing the right opportunities to create value. Melissa broke silence over the excessive focus on delivery in product teams.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

From there we put together a basic roadmap and started writing user stories. The output from a product in a box game, where we imagined how we would position the product if it was on sale in a supermarket. But we’d also realised that the Yimby positioning wasn’t reflected in the use of the product.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Ideate: At this point, product managers use the conclusions they have drawn from analyzing customer feedback to come up with a strategy and plan that helps them successfully position their products within their markets. Create a fictitious startup within the SaaS industry. Work with real SaaS startups as an intern.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Most companies don’t have a clear picture of their roadmap. Bain Public’s SOAP™ methodology and tool offers a full picture of your product strategy, tactics, metrics and roadmap all in one place. It breaks product innovation in 3 steps -- Product Mission, Product Blueprint and Roadmap Pillars.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 4, 2020

They annually offer over 40,000 leadership positions and delivers over 500 power conferences. AIESEC "Global Entrepreneur " is a global internship opportunity at a startup for young people who seek to develop themselves and their career. A well understood product roadmap aligns behaviours within the business.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2018

In 2017, she and her team launched a family of consumer hardware products ranging from smartphones to smart speakers, earning 26 different design awards. This collection established a design aesthetic for technology products that is tactile, bold, emotional and undeniably Google. Joe Leech, Product Strategy Consultant.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Mind the Product

JULY 1, 2019

The day-to-day life of a product manager on those products will be vastly different. Questions About the Product, Roadmap, and Industry. What are the improvements the product needs in the next five years? The goal here is to learn about the product vision. What are the arguments for and against it?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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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

AUGUST 15, 2018

Today, however, I’m the Chief Product Officer of a small digital advertising startup, making difficult product decisions and helping the company to grow. This is the story of why I traded private equity for product. Product was the discipline that could give me that. Becoming Chief Product Officer.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Many CEOs will tell you that they’re the best-informed people when it comes to knowing what customers need — and that they’re in the best position to drive decisions on product priorities. What happens here is that these expectations and this type of behaviour become the primary contributor to product strategy gridlock.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

There are many peer-reviewed studies compiled by the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) that illustrates about half of all product development projects fail; this failure rate is especially much higher in smaller and startup companies. The answer is simply: product roadmaps and product development !

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2022

There’s a lack of teaching that happens in the early stages of a product manager’s career, forcing people to make career decisions just to survive rather than thrive. In essence, the product leadership team are those with influence on the product roadmap. leadership losing control of a product roadmap).

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Industry veterans and startups quickly try to stand out in an already clustered SaaS market. It takes more than just keeping up with the competition on product comparison checklists to stay relevant. Effective product teams position their solutions as market leaders. Killer features for niche markets.

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

People always think that product managers operate this very critical, high-leverage function that, when executed correctly, greatly facilitates the leap past prototypes into a steady return of profits. What we’ve noticed instead in the startup world, is a lot of people become product managers by default rather than design.

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