Product Talk

APRIL 7, 2021

I am a former chief product officer and now coach and advise product leaders and teams. We talked about opportunity solution trees , customer journey maps, experience maps, story mapping —there are lots of ways for teams to externalize their thinking so that they can align around it and stakeholders can follow their progress.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 23, 2023

This change has been primarily driven by increased access to analytics tools like Userpilot that help businesses achieve product growth. Product analysts research to find market trends, collect and analyze data, track and assess product performance , understand product requirements, and report insights to stakeholders.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

She advises executives around the world regarding product management. Andrea Saez – Writer, Speaker, Advisor | Sr PMM @ Product School. Follow her for a good dose of career advice combined with a neverending supply of positive energy. Melissa Perri is one of the most recognizable names in Product Management.

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Modus Create

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Tips for achieving AI-led digital transformation What eight industry leaders want you to know By Modus Create Posted in Digital Transformation , Operations , Platform , Product Published on: December 10, 2024 Last update: December 10, 2024 AIs evolution from a buzzy trend to a business investment has taken many executives by surprise.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. It’s seldom their ability to do the job technically?—?to interpersonal, emotional intelligence, etc?—?that

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2021

If you’re looking to scale up your SaaS business , you may have considered hiring a marketing agency. Rather than hiring a bunch of marketing people in-house and figuring out a process from scratch, it can sometimes be more cost-efficient to hire an agency, plug your business model into their existing systems, and press play.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

If you’re not a subscriber, here’s what you missed this month: Why PMs are best positioned to thrive in an AI world On asking for help (even when you really don’t want to) Part 2: Time management techniques that actually work Subscribe to get access to these posts, and every post.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JANUARY 30, 2020

In the last year, major companies in business intelligence (BI) digital solutions, such as Qlik and Tableau were already investing on it. However, it's essential that businesses don't underestimate those tools' UX design. It doesn’t matter how much potential a tool has if it’s too difficult or too unpleasant to use.

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Userpilot

MARCH 3, 2022

This includes market research (potential employers), understanding product strengths (your value to the customer), iterative development (subsequent drafts), or refining the UI (formatting). Product managers with technical skills such as SQL or technical stack are in high demand, so highlight them in your resume.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

UX studio is one of the global innovation design consulting firms focusing on UX design, research, and strategic consulting. We researched the top design consulting firms’ competency level, experience, and portfolio to define the most reliable design thinking companies you can trust and partner with in 2021.

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

It makes sense then that the most crucial skills for Product Managers are intangible people skills – otherwise known as soft skills, but we’ll discuss that later – which tend to be more transferable from position to position and industry to industry. Technical Skills for Product Management.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

TL; DR: 71 Product Owner Interview Questions to Avoid Imposters If you are looking to fill a position for a Product Owner in your organization, you may find the following 71 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. A new feature is overdue and has been drastically underestimated due to unexpected technical debt.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

To create a successful product strategy, you’ll need to research your market , identify your target audience, and define your unique value proposition. Perform market research and define your target audience A successful product strategy is built on a solid foundation of customer understanding. What market gaps have they left?

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 7, 2021

In this guest post Paul Kenny (founder of Ocean Learning and long time BoS participant and speaker) argues that software and SaaS “proven sales playbooks” are BS. Our CRM system can prompt the team to make the optimum number of calls, to follow up efficiently and to be better at predicting call or demo outcomes.

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UX Studio

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In the Tep sports tracker app, you feed a virtual pet (tamagotchi) by doing sports activities. As a gamified activity tracker app, it turns the pyramid upside down: our team focused on features of delight first. As a consequence, the functional and reliable features still have some technical hiccups which would need more work.

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Userpilot

MAY 26, 2021

Love it or hate it, one thing is clear: product onboarding is an important driver of activation and retention in SaaS businesses. Allow us to walk you through the product onboarding best practices that we’ve learned through working with hundreds of SaaS businesses. Userpilot is a phenomenally versatile onboarding tool.

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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

As product managers, we bear the responsibility for bridging the two worlds – technical and business, and need to influence both. Change must happen on two levels across the organization: Technical – Roles and responsibilities must be understood, accepted, and adopted. As a result, specializations in roles developed.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 20, 2024

The questions are in various categories and are inclusive of: General Questions Technical Questions Organization and Time Management Questions Feedback Questions Conflict Resolution Questions Product Management Process Questions Career Path Questions Management and Leadership Questions Let’s dive right in.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Building a powerful SaaS product takes way more than just an idea. For instance, in large companies like Google and Facebook, product managers collaborate with dedicated researchers, analysts, and marketers who assist them in different stages of the product lifecycle. Conduct market and competitive research.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

Scrum and the agile manifesto were created in a time where we used to still package and ship software physically. Later whilst being an adviser at Stanford university Neil H. The rise of the internet, smart phones and all kinds of technical advancements, saw many monolithic empires crumble through disruption? heaven forbid?—?actually

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Speak to a Learning Advisor. It makes sense then that the most crucial skills for Product Managers are intangible people skills – otherwise known as soft skills, but we’ll discuss that later – which tend to be more transferable from position to position and industry to industry. Technical Skills for Product Management.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2023

Being a Product Manager (PM) in a IT (Information Technology) services company may seem complicated. Still, we have a duty to advise what’s best for the product. I’ll need to speak and work with stakeholders, customers, experts, researchers, customer support and senior management. Let’s work together on your amazing product!

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The Product HQ

JUNE 10, 2024

If you look at just a few examples of product owner open positions on LinkedIn, Glassdoor, and Indeed, you’ll notice a lot of differences in requirements, experience, skills , qualifications, and responsibilities. Once you become a scrum product owner, you are in a decision-making position. Otherwise, skip ahead.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 10, 2017

While there are a large number of tools which claim to help you to create value, for me, quite frankly, it boils down to only a few secret weapons which do not (most of the time) involve buying fancy software or subscribing to the latest project management doodads. This should not be confused with technical documentation.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo. Technical experience is not required. This is exactly what our tools do.

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UX Studio

JANUARY 24, 2024

She has an extensive background in Customer Experience and Telecommunications fields, with more than 15 years of experience working both as a designer and researcher, while also leading large teams. But I also advise designers not to oversee the business side of the relationship. Karthik: That’s amazing.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

Without previously having a PM job, it is vital to position your resume to appear as if you were already doing PM related tasks in your current consulting role. If you have advised any of these people with tasks like product growth, pricing strategy, or market sizing, be sure to note that on your resume!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

Without previously having a PM job, it is vital to position your resume to appear as if you were already doing PM related tasks in your current consulting role. If you have advised any of these people with tasks like product growth, pricing strategy, or market sizing, be sure to note that on your resume!

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ProductPlan

MARCH 4, 2022

As we found in our research for ProductPlan’s 2022 State of the Product Report , only 25% of businesses with 20 to 100 employees have a product operations role or team. If you’re looking for a position as a product operations analyst, you’ll be getting in early to a new but fast-growing field.

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The Product HQ

JULY 1, 2024

Average B2B Product Manager Salary The B2B product manager position is a full-time role that involves developing and managing one or multiple products. For the most part, B2B product managers work in the software, IT, and tech industries. Therefore, it’s advisable to filter your industry when looking for an exact yearly salary figure.

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UX Studio

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

They focused too much on their technical side or even visual design, but nothing about the communication. We also need research. Do you find UX writing easily researchable? At the UX writing course we have a UX writing research module. Research for copywriters and UX writers is the most important thing…”.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 10, 2024

A career in product management requires a wide range of PM skills from business and data analysis to technology expertise. Therefore, if a product manager wanted to make such a switch, she would be advised to first rise the ranks internally while simultaneously building influence (e.g. product positioning and product marketing plans.

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Roadmunk

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Most recently, Ellen left Lola to launch her own startup that will make it possible to build a complete scalable app in an afternoon. She’s essentially creating a brand new programming language that aims to bring the ability to write software to a billion people. In particular, I really like helping people make software.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 21, 2019

This can be in terms of the companies you want to target, the roles you want to get into or the kind of industry, products, or technologies you want to work on. You want to do some research regarding the industry, company, team and the role before the actual interview—get this done quickly as there are many more important things to focus on.

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Effective Roadmap Planning and Development Process for Enterprise Products

AUGUST 2, 2018

Market Research : Adopt Primary and Secondary research techniques to gather intelligence on the market. Position your product in the magic quadrant and determine where your product lags. I typically advise the below format. Define the problem space and test the commercial viability of the solution. Discovery a.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

Teresa Torres is a Product Coach at ProductTalk.org advocating strong critical thinking practices to ensure there is a strong connection between what teams are learning in their research with the product outcomes that they are making. So, there’s this concept from decision making problem solving research called ill-structured problems.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How deep does your understanding of the technology go as a PM? And how much do you try to be, like, a subject matter expert from a technological standpoint compared to your engineering team? How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? So that’s me. Christy : Awesome.

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