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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Mixpanel

JANUARY 3, 2022

The point is that some of these might be catchable by non-technical team members whose job it is to analyze the data, but a lot of cases could only ever be noticed by someone who understands how the implementation actually works on a technical level: an engineer like yourself. Keep the product folks technically up-to-date.

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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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Imaginary Cloud - Design

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The purpose of analyzing user profiles and motivations is to understand the product concept, value proposition, usage, and user profiles of the product, feedback, and motivations. Design patterns and industrial technology study help existing players to leverage their expertise and practice to differentiate your product/design.

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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

Start from the beginning A comprehensive audit of your current situation is always the best place to start when it comes to your product strategy. You should know your company’s broader vision, objectives, target, and KPIs inside out and constantly view your product through the lens of this wider context.

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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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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Then the leadership team took our quarterly goals and translated them into objectives and shared them with the managers. Lesson 1: Don’t define OKRs without teams input It now sounds very stupid, but after 1 month into the cycle, we realized that most of the teams needed tech and product help to achieve their objectives.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Product Market Fit (PMF) surveys help teams evaluate product viability. Bug reports are essential for improving the technical soundness of your product. For example, positive and negative customer reviews on public sites like G2 or Captera can be invaluable sources of information.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It’s important that they have the right skills to spot and evaluate design and technology opportunities and to develop a rough understanding of the likely effort required to implement product decisions. The skills typically include architecture, programming, testing, and if the product is end-user facing, UX design capabilities.

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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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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

Product idea validation is essential to avoid spending too many resources on a product that fails because nobody needs it. First, you need to clearly define the product goals, the problems it solves, and its alignment with the organization’s business goals. Some questions to answer include: What is the product?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2020

With this goal in mind, we decided to focus on the following metrics. My suggestion is to have a vision for monetization and document the assumptions and goals before building the product. After each booking, we would ask the user to rate the experience (an NPS score) and share a review about the doctor.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Chapter 1: Why Product Management in the Enterprise is different First, Ben and Blair explain what a Product Manager (PM) is. “…the To execute well a Product Manager “ harnesses incentives built into all of the other teams and aligns them toward a single destination ”, Ben and Blair describe. Establish clear metrics of success.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

If you’re looking to move forward from a product manager position, you need to have a formal degree. At times, tech companies that require a master’s degree also accept people who are in the process of completing their master’s program. At times, it also shows your potential for a product leadership role.

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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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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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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The Product Owner is also accountable for effective Product Backlog management, which includes: a) Developing and explicitly communicating the Product Goal; b) Creating and clearly communicating Product Backlog items; c) Ordering Product Backlog items; and, d) Ensuring that the Product Backlog is transparent, visible and understood. (All

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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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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

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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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. This is what we did. The Approach (the Frameworks).

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

Effective product managers create a light amount of processes to save time further down the road. Having more time to dedicate to making strategic decisions than reactionary ones due to being stuck in a crazy busy state will pay dividends in your product career’s acceleration. Set a vision. Obsess over customers.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

Effective product managers create a light amount of processes to save time further down the road. Having more time to dedicate to making strategic decisions than reactionary ones due to being stuck in a crazy busy state will pay dividends in your product career’s acceleration. Set a vision. Obsess over customers.

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Userpilot

MARCH 13, 2024

It helps you meet user needs, enhance user experience , improve product value, and gain a competitive advantage. The first stage of an ideation technique involves gathering ideas from different sources such as feature usage trends, feature requests , customer reviews, user behavior, and competitor analysis. What resources (e.g.,

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Userpilot

APRIL 23, 2023

The GAME framework helps you choose the right Metrics by aligning them with Goals and user Actions, and by providing ways to Evaluate their effectiveness. Impact Mapping is a visual way of presenting the connections between product goals , user persona , and different solutions. HEART product metrics framework.

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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. Plan Releases: Use your prioritized user story map to plan product releases. Remember, a user story map is a living document.

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BrainMates

MAY 7, 2019

Further, The Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing & Management Review (2013) outlines that leadership is much more than instincts and skills. The Product Manager is often seen as the leader of a single product. Consistently evangelise the strategic value of Product Management – top to bottom of the organisation.

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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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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

When entering a new market with an existing product. Think successful US-based SaaS product expanding into the European market. When entering a new market with a new product. Think tech startup launches their first app. According to a study by Havard Business School , 95% of the new products launched each year fail.

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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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BrainMates

MAY 7, 2019

The Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing & Management Review (2013) outlines that leadership is much more than instincts and skills. The Product Manager role is a cross-functional leadership role, often managing a single product. Whose conversations are so varied – from customer to tech to finance.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

In this post, we'll review a case study submission from one of our Exponent members. Question : Design a product that solves user pain points around owning a pet. If you want to brush up on the basics of answering Product Design Questions, check out Exponent’s lesson on how to ace the product design interview question.

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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 that’s really useful.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 29, 2022

We were joined by more than 2,500 customers, partners, and others who wanted to learn more about our product, goals, and the path ahead. Des Traynor laid out the six unique beliefs that guide our vision, mission, and roadmap here at Intercom. You’ve seen our vision for the Engagement OS from Karen.

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