Product Management University

MARCH 14, 2017

If product management is a contact sport, what’s your organization’s risk of injury? Delivering, marketing and selling products in B2B is a contact sport in many ways. The Body Part: Product Strategy & Planning. Many organizations use the product manager as a one-size-fits-all pad.

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People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Performance is considered at a team, scrum or project level. Introversion or extroversion are irrelevant as its the work of the team that does the talking. On our dream team, there are no brilliant jerks as they are detrimental to great teamwork. We insist on decent human interactions, no matter how brilliant someone may be.

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Under 10 Consulting

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Do you lead a new product management team? Make it easy to start a business, protect our persons and property from harm, provide ways to get products from point a to point b (ie., What is the role of senior leadership, particularly the head of product management? What is the product manager’s role?

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. Teresa Torres, Author of Continuous Discovery Habits.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 2, 2022

If you’re in product marketing or product management, you’re likely familiar with the concept of user personas and buyer personas. These terms might even be used interchangeably in your organization to describe a product’s customers. There are four main types of user personas used in the product development world.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

How does it help modern product management organizations to scale effectively? Similar to the emergence of design ops in the last five years, product operations fulfills a need to streamline a scaling function. What product ops is. How it’s become a critical function for scaling effective product teams.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

How to prepare for a user interview, all the way to sharing the results with your team. The skill of running effective user interviews is key to defining your target users, finding product-market fit , growing your product, figuring out what to build next — or just simply understanding how users perceive your product.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 10, 2022

She cofounded the Radical Product Thinking movement of leaders creating vision-driven change, along with authoring the book Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [1:56] 1:56] What put you on the path to being a product leader?

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Mind the Product

MAY 9, 2019

In March last year, my colleague and Mind the Product’s Director of Training, Rosemary King, wrote about how the company departments working alongside a product team could better work together to meet their common goals and to improve working practices. All product managers love a good test.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In many cases, an economic downturn simply reveals your already existing weaknesses since they now have more impact. When people (and VCs) aren’t spending money easily, you must be super sharp with your value proposition, positioning, product, marketing, and sales. Here is how it works. It usually doesn’t work as expected.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Tough market conditions would cause your sales to dramatically drop or even cease. On one hand, that’s expected in a rough market, but is that really the root cause? In many cases, an economic downturn simply reveals your already existing weaknesses since they now have more impact. Here is how it works.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

I realize not every product person has to navigate sales stakeholders. But if you’re working on a B2B product with a sales force, odds are you know what I mean. I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” Where do your teams agree on low scores?

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 16, 2019

While I did get some rest and relaxation, I’ve also been busy over the past few weeks with lots of exciting news and resources for product management leaders and product management teams. The Four Key Factors That Drive Product Management Excellence. Until now.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 13, 2022

Because over time, the Structured Data group (that I was Head of Product at) developed smarter, AI-based systems, that were meant to replace the back-office work or make it more efficient and create a better product catalog at the same time using things only machines can do. The superpower became a weakness.

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 16, 2019

While I did get some rest and relaxation, I’ve also been busy over the past few weeks with lots of exciting news and resources for product management leaders and product management teams. The Four Key Factors That Drive Product Management Excellence. Until now.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Your first 90 days as a product manager can feel overwhelming. But what should you do in your first 30, 60, or 90 days as a product manager to set you up for success? But what should you do in your first 30, 60, or 90 days as a product manager to set you up for success? Talk to Users & Customers ??

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This means you can save time and money developing features customers really care for and reduce risks of undesirable effects on your customers. In addition, this person works closely with the experimentation teams to ensure that they are aligned with the overall business objectives, measure results objectively and follow best practices.

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Pragmatic Marketing

OCTOBER 18, 2019

A Three-Question Process for Product Team Success. How do managers take what their teams have learned and turn it into something tangible? How do those team members take that knowledge and apply it to their roles? Listen in as we discuss Lori’s three questions that include: What is my market opportunity?

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Pragmatic Marketing

OCTOBER 18, 2019

A Three-Question Process for Product Team Success. How do managers take what their teams have learned and turn it into something tangible? How do those team members take that knowledge and apply it to their roles? Listen in as we discuss Lori’s three questions that include: What is my market opportunity?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

We also share some best practices for product managers on how to pull off a successful product launch. TL;DR A product launch checklist is a list of all the actions to complete before, during, and after releasing a new product , feature , or update. Develop a product that meets customer needs and expectations.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

I understand that they need some cuddling in the morning, and I expect them to manage their time and be ready when needed without my constant reminders. I do it for two reasons: the first is that I want to train my daughters to be responsible and self-manage, and the second is that I like the warm, relaxed atmosphere.

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Userpilot

APRIL 13, 2022

Click tracking is an essential method for uncovering weak spots in the product UX and the user flow by analyzing how users engage with your UI. The main idea of click tracking is watching how users interact with your product to discover friction points. This can be a broken link, poor onboarding , confusing UX, etc.

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Bain Public

MARCH 21, 2020

Within these organizations exist hundreds, perhaps thousands of dedicated product managers. But the product manager is often mistaken for the "project manager." One fosters an "IT mindset," while the other fosters a "Product mindset." Because product managers work at the intersection of many roles?—?marketing,

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Department of Product

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

SaaS Pricing Models for Product Managers 6 ways to price your SaaS product using leading SaaS businesses as inspiration Pricing a product is a critical part of product management; it’s rarely something product teams will or should do themselves and will typically involve a blend of product, marketing and sales.

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Actuation Consulting

MARCH 12, 2018

Last week we considered the benefits and use of the SWOT Matrix that mapped out Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. You can use the information that emerges from this matrix to develop options for addressing issues that were revealed through SWOT. Next week, we’ll consider the development of the Product Concept.

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Actuation Consulting

JULY 22, 2018

Each of these has its own strengths and weaknesses. Used in the right situation, both can help clarify how the product concept will work and get the team nearer its goals. One of the great strengths of Storyboarding is its ability to make an idea instantly understandable to your team.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 1, 2019

Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is just one of the software development frameworks that implement agile and there are many others including Kanban, extreme programming, lean software development and more.

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Mind the Product

JULY 24, 2019

Whether you’re working on a consumer app in Singapore, a SaaS product in San Francisco, or a challenger bank in London, we all struggle with the same challenges – and we can learn how to deal with them by coming together as a community. Brandon Chu on the challenges of managing platforms. Clarity and Focus are Very Important.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Effective journey mapping entails customer research, gathering cross-functional teams, brainstorming sessions, and refining maps based on data and feedback. You can also find areas in your product causing a poor customer experience and needs improving. Register here for FREE to get an inside scoop!

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

APM programs or Associate Product Manager programs are roles designed for graduates, to introduce them to the world of PM. Their main goal is to provide mentorship for young talent, and for some, it serves as a good alternative to non-existent Product Management bachelor’s degrees.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Businesses also win if, as a result of AI, teams are able to create more white-glove moments that turn users into customers for life. Rick started Guru in 2013, after successfully founding Boomi (a cloud integration and data management company) and selling it to Dell. How did you all get to product-market fit ?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

APM programs or Associate Product Manager programs are roles designed for graduates, to introduce them to the world of PM. Their main goal is to provide mentorship for young talent, and for some, it serves as a good alternative to non-existent Product Management bachelor’s degrees. link] How mature is the program?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The STEP (Student Training in Engineering Program) is for those engineering and tech-related roles. The BOLD (Build Opportunities for Leadership & Development) is meant for those business and marketing-related roles. This is not necessarily a bad thing by any means. Many internship roles last between 12-16 weeks.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

As a design studio that often works with international companies, we’ve developed a remote collaboration process that lets us work effectively with our clients. Apart from designing impactful digital solutions for our clients, we develop our products at UX studio — UX folio and Copyfolio.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Lackluster sales and/or poor adoption shouldn’t come as a surprise. For sure, but let’s not stop with the product value story. The intent of that design and development changes a lot. Here’s the bigger picture and the whole point of this post and the strategic focus of the entire series.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2020

A pattern I’ve seen 4 or 5 times seems worth describing, since other folks may be experiencing it: a very early-stage B2B/enterprise company brings on a full sales team before finding product/market fit. First, let’s recapping the basics of why we hire enterprise sales teams and what they do.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Effective journey mapping entails customer research, gathering cross-functional teams, brainstorming sessions, and refining maps based on data and feedback. You can also find areas in your product causing a poor customer experience and needs improving. Register here for FREE to get an inside scoop!

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