The Product Manager Coach Blog

MAY 7, 2024

Two positions that often cause confusion are Staff Product Manager and Senior Product Manager. In this article, I will review the differences between the Staff Product Manager and the Senior Product Manager roles, helping you gain clarity and make an informed decision about your career path.

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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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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

These are typically brand-new and young products as well as products that are experiencing a bigger change, for example, to extend their life cycle by addressing a new market segment or by replacing some of the technologies. It therefore offers only limited support for product people.

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Userpilot

JULY 15, 2022

Some examples of macro conversions are users completing the whole checklist to reach the activation stage, converting from a free trial to a paid plan, upgrading the account to access pro features, reaching complete product adoption , and reviewing your product and driving word of mouth multiple times.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

As part of her role at Livescale, she defines product vision, roadmaps and growth opportunities as well as researches and analyzes the market. Chanida has to come face to face with Livescale’s customers, including their worst realities and pain points using the Livescale live shopping product.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Eighteen months ago travel tech company Almundo started to refine its processes to become a product-driven company. Our goal was to define how we would set and communicate the company strategy, and how that strategy would lead OKRs and backlog definition. Product Strategy in an Agile World Marty Cagan.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

That gives you the experience and expertise to get to the next level, where you start managing other product managers. Over time, potential product directors need to show an ability to lead the entire product team. On top of that, they need to show success in every product strategy they own.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

It’s about aligning feedback with your product goals and the company’s vision A simple framework you can use: Impact vs. Effort: How impactful is the feedback, and what’s the effort required to implement it? On the other hand, developers get down to the nitty-gritty technical aspects.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

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 whole agile team should take part in release planning but the product owner is accountable for the final plan.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2022

SaaS companies often struggle to identify user problems worth solving, differentiate their products, and get the pricing right. Entering immature markets and devising a relatable product vision are also serious challenges. To avoid product failure, don’t launch without achieving product-market fit first.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2020

They cover the concept of the Product Owner role, product discovery, how to deal with external and internal stakeholders, product portfolio and product roadmap planning, and the Product Backlog refinement. 58 Product Owner Theses Do you want to get this article in your inbox? Source: Scrum Guide 2020.)

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

Many venture capital firms were interested in investments at comparatively high valuations in technology companies available around that era. Investment banking firms, substantially benefiting from initial public offerings (IPO), strongly encouraged investments into the technology sector. Startup funding was relatively easy to raise.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

Associate Product Manager. In terms of day-to-day work, associate product managers do everything a product manager does, but on a smaller scale. In other words, you may not set the product strategy or own the product roadmap , but you will set priorities for your projects. That they can lead by example.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

Associate Product Manager. In terms of day-to-day work, associate product managers do everything a product manager does, but on a smaller scale. In other words, you may not set the product strategy or own the product roadmap , but you will set priorities for your projects. That they can lead by example.

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CardBoard

AUGUST 31, 2023

This user-centric approach ensures that the product you’re building is something your users actually want and need. It’s like a common language that cuts through jargon and technicalities. The product map, meanwhile, helps you communicate your product strategy and plan to stakeholders.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Unlike a go-to-market strategy, which focuses on the product launch phase alone, a marketing strategy refers to a longer-term approach toward achieving success with your brand. A product strategy , on the other hand, focuses only on the product (answering the who, what, and why of the product).

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2018

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. State of Product. State of Product is the biggest presentation you’ll ever prepare for and its aim is to define and communicate strategy for the coming year.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2018

Understand the technical architecture for the product : Get an engineer to sit down with you and explain how the product works under the hood and which major technologies and frameworks have been used. Understand or build the mission and vision for the product ?—?goals,

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UX Studio

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

You know, I’m going to talk about that, why that change happened, but basically what I do as of today is I help our clients to explore new ways to grow new product strategies, formulate product goals and product vision, and I also help shape the scope of the product. So I think they like it.

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