The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Guest Post by: Julian Dunn (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Vikas Batra]. I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. Thus, I arrived at the Product Mentor program with ambitions to learn strategy development from a seasoned product mentor.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 9, 2020

Emerging Product Strategy Product Management in the Time of COVID Part I: Stopgaps & Scaled Retention Strategies This first article in the series highlights customer retention strategies for products adapting to changes in customer behavior. What are we going to do next?

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. But this didn’t seem to matter much as everybody was in great spirits and had high hopes for the new product.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. But this didn’t seem to matter much as everybody was in great spirits and had high hopes for the new product.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2021

An excellent user engagement strategy can have a ripple effect on what product marketers’ care the most about: Make your users see the value of your product and its features during the free trial. Stop users from only signing up and then never using the product. No matter how fast you run, you will never reach it.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 8, 2018

Whether you’re in product, marketing, engineering, or other, our world-class speaker lineup will have something for everyone working to make the mobile world a friendlier, more impactful place for all. I am currently a Director of Product Management at GoDaddy and the mother of two children (age 20 and 16). See you there!

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

While some may say that a Product Manager is ‘the CEO of the product’, that’s not entirely true. As a Product Manager, you have very little authority. While the buck stops with you when it comes to product decision making, the overall health of the company doesn’t rest on your shoulders.

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Dear Strategy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Dear Strategy: “How do we best handle having the Engineering and Innovation groups working in different locations than the Manufacturing groups? How do we manage the long-term strategy for Manufacturing and Engineering in two different locations?)”. Traveling is expensive. Dear Strategy: Episode 095. ###.

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Dear Strategy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Dear Strategy: “How do we best handle having the Engineering and Innovation groups working in different locations than the Manufacturing groups? How do we manage the long-term strategy for Manufacturing and Engineering in two different locations?)”. Traveling is expensive. Dear Strategy: Episode 095. ###.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

I wholeheartedly believe that you need to be adaptable to survive today but the further I travel on my own journey the more I wonder if we as an industry are moving past agile. As a result, like many others I too have started to think of myself as more of a “product person” these days? Confused and loss of a sense of identity, many?—?including

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2019

When I started my first business 6 years ago (which has miraculously survived until this day) I didn’t even have a clue what “market or product positioning or product positioning strategies” were. The most Affordable Social Media Scheduling Tool for Marketing Agencies. If you’re wondering where’s SaaS?

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Becoming a director of product requires years of experience managing products and working with other product managers. That gives you the experience and expertise to get to the next level, where you start managing other product managers. Let’s get started.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2022

My parents love traveling and we traveled a lot as a family over the years. I couldn’t imagine traveling this way, and potentially missing on things that we could have done had we just planned ahead of time. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an I freaked out.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 31, 2018

As someone who has experienced the highs and lows that accompany life as a Product Manager, I am keenly aware of the challenges this important role plays in the technology industry [and so many others]. It is the department, when run well, ensures a comprehensive approach to strategy and decision making.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 19, 2021

I know you’re probably wondering: what does this have to do with your product roadmap strategies ? When it comes to your product, a MOAT is about building defences to break away from the competition. It’s about setting broad goals for your product and defending your company against current or future competitors.

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NextBigWhat

AUGUST 2, 2019

We launched the first cohort of the product management course last year, did a bunch of experiments on the content, format and the process – ranging from offline-only course, online-only, recorded to live sessions and we are now happy to have found the high impacting format + content + process. . Get Brochure. Marshall, Zeta.

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bpma ProductHub

JUNE 12, 2017

A Boston Women in Product Event Recap. By Garmia Painuly – No matter what the product, our goal as product managers is to deliver value to customers. How do we quantify and measure the value, and incorporate the findings into our product plans and roadmaps? Hub Recruiting. Garima has an M.S.

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DISQO

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Any company that wants to survive the current consumer revolution had better strive for perfect product/market fit — their competition definitely will. Business leaders are in a race to get to market faster with products tailored to the wants and needs of customers. Is the solution simply to innovate?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Photo by Steven Lelham on Unsplash “I am in a new product lead role and I am stopping a launch because there is no strategy. I’m having to manage upwards to get the support to take the team on the journey towards accelerated product strategizing but I am creating enemies.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 28, 2019

What No One Tells You About Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup Over a year ago, I asked around, searched for books or articles, went to several talks but found very little advice on being a product manager at an early-stage startup. Finally, make sure to focus on the highest value product initiatives.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2020

While there’s no joy in watching a well-intentioned product fail, it’s important to examine why a seemingly sure-fire recipe for success still managed to be dead on arrival. Here, we’re going to take a close look at what went wrong with Quibi , and what the moral of the story is for Product Managers. What Was Quibi?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Big names like the Product Marketing Alliance, Product World, and Product Con are still going through with virtual versions of their flagship conferences. Product World. Product Marketing Rendezvous. Source: Product Marketing Alliance. Product Con. Source: Productworld.co.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

Skills a Product Manager Need Analytical Skills In your current role as a consultant, you will have developed and honed your analytical skills. This is what you should frame your resume around as this is likely the closest experience you have to being a product manager.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

Skills a Product Manager Need Analytical Skills In your current role as a consultant, you will have developed and honed your analytical skills. This is what you should frame your resume around as this is likely the closest experience you have to being a product manager.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

To survive and succeed, your product leadership must be sharper than ever. The World Health Organization just removed the travel warning for the area. You need to have a product strategy. As I said in the past, a product strategy has to make sense to you before you invest anyone else’s work in it.

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Under 10 Consulting

MAY 10, 2020

Common job titles and responsibilities for successful product management and marketing teams. The most successful teams are comprised of three roles: a strategic product manager, one or more technical product owners, and a market-facing product marketing manager. Description.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 12, 2020

Yes this does relate to Product Management, bear with me!) Product Management involves so many different things, it can be easy to get sidetracked and forget just what it is you’re trying to do! You may have heard the phrase ‘north star’ thrown around in relation to product. What Does ‘North Star’ Mean in Product?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2022

Finding product market fit Every product, business, brand, service, or other impactful venture has been successful through product market fit. Marc Andreessen coined this term and defined it as: “B eing in a good market with a product that can satisfy that market.”

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2020

How to Make Fewer Errors During Your Trial-And-Error Journey Reaching product-market fit requires a lot of trial-and-error, but it takes so much more to succeed. The first class I took was “ Foundations of Strategy “. I decided to move into product management, and the rest is history.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

The founders have filled the role of product manager since the company was conceived and it is difficult for them to hand that management over. This is achieved through aligning vision and strategy and communicating that alignment relentlessly. Start at the Top. With Great Responsibility, Comes No Power.

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

Why Product Features Matter Product strategy, features and the value chain What outcomes are you trying to achieve? How does what we’re building align with the wider strategy of the business? Product managers and product leaders should have an inherent sense of what’s valuable to customers.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 10, 2017

By Garima Painuly- One of the constant challenges a product manager faces is creating a focused product roadmap that is aligned with expectations of all stakeholders, and defending that roadmap against distractions. Garima Painuly is a B2B SaaS Product Manager at PowerAdvocate in downtown Boston. Libby Webb.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Welcome to Day 1 of Pulse for Product, our inaugural event geared towards those in product management roles. With the year 2020 delivering what it has, we can all feel nostalgic about turning back the hands of time to a simpler life of socializing, hugging, and unrestricted travel. . Yes, you read that right.

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The Basics of Product Management

MAY 31, 2020

As a Product Manager, we don’t want our products to fail. Let us analyze some of the biggest technology product failures to see why those products failed. The point is to cover a wide variety of product categories to learn the best lessons from each example. Product Failure Examples – Detailed.

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DISQO

JULY 23, 2019

Any company that wants to survive the current consumer revolution had better strive for perfect product/market fit, because their competition definitely will. Business leaders are in a race to get to market faster with products tailored to the wants and needs of customers. Is the solution simply to innovate?

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DISQO

JULY 23, 2019

Any company that wants to survive the current consumer revolution had better strive for perfect product/market fit, because their competition definitely will. Business leaders are in a race to get to market faster with products tailored to the wants and needs of customers. Is the solution simply to innovate?

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Under 10 Consulting

MARCH 7, 2019

Common job titles and responsibilities for successful product management and marketing teams. The most successful teams are comprised of three roles: a strategic product manager, one or more technical product owners, and a market-facing product marketing manager. Description.

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