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Promoting a Metrics-Driven Product and Company Culture

The Product Guy

But the world of product management often lacks structure. Customers are dissatisfied with your current product and churn at a high rate. And software developers and testers want to know that their time spent writing and testing code is purposeful. As product managers, these issues come to you ad-hoc.

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What Does a Software Product Manager Do?

The Product HQ

That’s why they also have to take in feedback and requests regarding the product strategy and product development process. Strategy Software product managers also have to work on the product strategy by bringing the product vision to light.

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From Sketchpad to Strategy: Design Alchemy in Product Management

UX Planet

Understanding the end-users’ pain points allowed me to shape the product roadmap in a way that addressed real-world needs, ultimately enhancing the product’s market success. It required navigating a diverse landscape of stakeholders, including software developers, marketing teams, and end-users with varied technical backgrounds.

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Overengineering 101: What Is It and How Can Product Managers Avoid It?

Userpilot

Overengineering leads to longer development times, higher costs, technical debt, and problems achieving the PMF. To avoid falling into the trap, set clear and realistic objectives that are aligned with the product vision. Use opportunity solutions trees to align the problems you try to solve with product goals.

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Cross-Functional Collaboration: A Real-World Guide

The Product Coalition

Real World Example: During a product launch, the marketing team’s push for an early release clashed with the engineering team’s need for more testing, leading to division in the cross-functional group. ? ❌ Common Wrong Strategy: Appointing a single decision-maker to resolve disagreements.

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Product Leaders: Influence, Service & Patience—Saeed Khan, Transformation Labs

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

In this Path to PM post, Saeed shares his advice if he were applying for product management careers all over again, and why great product leadership is about influence, service, and patience. How did you break into product management? I started my career as a software developer, working on database applications.

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Product Manager Career Path: A Guide for Growing in Product Management

Userpilot

TL;DR A product manager leads the product management team and is responsible for overseeing all stages of the product development process. Typically, product managers are responsible for market and user research, product discovery , feature prioritization , and roadmapping. They earn around $156k per annum.