Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2022

Collaboration comes in many flavors, from small informal working sessions and group critiques to full-blown workshops. What are product design workshops? Product design workshops are an opportunity for a team to untangle a problem together by going through a series of group exercises designed to get to a specific outcome.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Listen to this article: [link]. 1 Set an Objective. Stay present.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2023

It is time to evolve from design sprints to the customer workshop. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Meghan Nesta.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

A product manager just stopped by the desk of the designer on a lazy Thursday afternoon. The manager used wide gestures to show where he wanted to move certain elements. In an agile product team everyone is aware of the customer’s problem we solve, and everyone can make decision and react on issues.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 16, 2022

Imagine that John is a sales rep and a key stakeholder who hardly ever attends the product strategy workshops you’ve invited him to. Instead, he requests product roadmap changes by talking directly to you. Why is Empathy Important in Product Management? At the same time, be frank. What did I learn?

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Discover insights from top industry experts with a variety of workshops covering product management, strategy, and leadership skills. Read more » The post A Q&A with our #mtpcon workshop leaders appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 29, 2020

Learn the qualities of a successful product manager and leader. Part of the path to becoming a product master is developing as a leader. Leaders of product management need agility, influence, trust, empathy, and motivating vision. Roman is a product management expert specializing in digital products.

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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

“What is the difference between a Product Owner and a Product Manager?”. Honestly, I did very little of what I teach as Product Management now either. I wasn’t called a Product Manager until I bailed out of that and landed in a startup. You are teaching us to talk to users, but I am a Product Owner.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 15, 2025

Watch Pedros episode: [link] Joni Hoadley : #HowIPM Ideate in Less than a Day Joni Hoadley, Product Manager Coach & Consultant, shares a 5-step workshop framework to go from sticky-note chaos to aligned priorities and test-ready ideasin a single afternoon. Dont just ask. Thats where the roadmap reveals itself.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Product leaders provide valuable career advice Read more » The post Career advice from our #mtpcon workshop leaders appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

Guest Post by: Lamia Benhaddou (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Amanda Ralph]. Amanda had 18 years of product management experience and was able to clearly foresee the obstacles I might encounter in my new role. Indeed the role of a product leader is different to that of a product manager.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

How to achieve product-market fit – for product managers This episode is sponsored by PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. PDMA is also the longest-running professional association for product managers, leaders, and innovators, having started in 1976.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

Recognise the Importance of Product Management. That’s often the case in my experience for businesses in finance, media, travel, insurance, and other verticals that traditionally don’t have product management groups, and where product management is not represented at the executive level.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2024

How product managers should use the five-step model for creating team culture Watch on YouTube TLDR Product managers often face the challenge of significant responsibilities without formal authority. As product managers, we must navigate both these realms.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

For the past eight years, I’ve been working with C-Suite leaders at companies big and small to set up their Product Management organizations. At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management. Having a dedicated career ladder for product managers allows them to see their path to the C-Suite.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 19, 2020

Building a product is a huge responsibility, each feature you release takes time, focus and ongoing love. Sharing experiences with the larger Product community. Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Product Management University

MAY 24, 2021

Your product management maturity model isn’t so much about what your team can do. But if customer value is always the end game, make quantifiable customer outcomes the driving force in your product management maturity model and the path becomes shorter, faster and easier to measure. Tier 1: User Value.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The product manager’s path to influence Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Francesca Cortesi, CPO, we explored why the popular phrase “CEO of the product” can be misleading for product managers.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

As a consequence, a product roadmap is no longer exclusively directed by the corresponding product strategy. A question I often get asked in my workshops is, How detailed should a portfolio roadmap be? Generally speaking, thats the job of a product portfolio manager. It is also guided by the portfolio roadmap.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 24, 2020

Five steps to securing success in product management in an uncertain world. Arguably, all the topics we address on this podcast are about career development, helping you improve in product management and innovation. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [5:37] 10:40] Plant a flag.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

And if you’re really excited about an idea, you might look for opportunities to share it outside your company with the broader product community. Today’s Product in Practice features a continuous discovery champion who did all three. Do you have your own Product in Practice you’d like to share?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Product strategy workshops are facilitated sessions where key stakeholders come together to define the vision, goals, and roadmap for a product. The workshops help align the team on strategic…

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Guest Post by: Tofi Buzali (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Andy Wadhwa]. As a product manager, it can be quite daunting to start a new software product from scratch. You should think about including designers, developers, and even potential users to this workshop to encourage collaboration.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 17, 2022

What product managers need to know about the Product Development and Management Association. Most of us haven’t known about product management for more than 10 or 20 years, yet PDMA has been improving the discipline of product management for nearly five decades. .

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

For example, a product manager might determine the product strategy and one or more development teams might be tasked with executing it. If you work on a larger product and in a scaled environment, include the product people who work with you, for example, the feature owners. Enter the Cycle. Final Thoughts.

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Product Management University

MARCH 5, 2025

Product Management Every feature, every roadmap decision, every investmenttied directly to user jobs that, when improved, create measurable benefits for the customer. Don’t be so anxious to bring products into the discussion. Listen long enough to create a clear value target for your products.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Product discovery + delivery: Clarifying role of PMs and PDs Setting up a new role to deal with day-to-day Training the team to embrace Product Discovery: Several workshops with PMs and PDs Small experiment with the process and some tools (e.g. More About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2022

Last month I had the privilege of participating in SVPG’s ‘Coach the Coaches’ workshop in Europe. I soon found out that I was going to be the only one from Israel attending the workshop. The Importance of Discovery The first day of the workshop was dedicated almost solely to discovery.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

A great way to ensure that your vision is shared is to create it together with the stakeholders and dev team members in a collaborative workshop, be it online or onsite. Encourage the participants to describe the purpose that they associate with the product. Then look for a product vision that everyone can support.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 24, 2024

How to successfully transition to a product management role Watch on YouTube TLDR Transitioning from one career to another is full of challenges, especially when the two fields seem vastly different. While confident in her nonprofit expertise, Mary wasn’t sure if her skills would translate to a product management role.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 3, 2023

“I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.” — Laurie Helgoe When I first started working as a Product Manager, the number of meetings on my calendar jumped from a few to a few hundred. It might seem like introverts aren’t suited for the life of product managers, but that’s not true.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Think of product management as the window to your organization’s soul. Everything about how your organization builds, markets, sells and onboards customers starts and ends with your products. As product management goes, so goes the rest of the organization. A team that leads far more than it reacts.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

Involve people in product decisions but don’t make the mistake of trying to please them. Increase your product management expertise. This starts by inviting them to a kick-of workshop for a brand-new product or a major product update and asking them to contribute to the product discovery and strategy validation work.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Tools for planning and executing product projects Today we are talking about the skills product managers need to grow their careers. Before joining Google, Neha worked as a Management Consultant at Essex Product Consulting, where she helped organizations build products. To help us, Neha Bansal is with us.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Opportunity-solution trees, three C’s, and user journey maps Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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