Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Product management is a challenging role, no matter what industry you work in. But with great challenges come great opportunities, and most product managers thrive on taking on new tasks and solving difficult problems. Product managers must live and breathe their product. My team is too small.

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

These leaders understand that bringing effective products, solutions, and services to market requires consensus building and engaging cross-functional teams in the journey. After all, the partner teams build products, not the product manager alone. Product management is inherently awe-inspiring.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The Product Backlog is Too Big. A few years ago, I was asked to help a healthcare company with their agile transition and its impact on product management. One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me.

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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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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 25, 2023

Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model.  Last

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. Provide guidance on the product, including its market, value proposition, business goals, and key features. Treat the Team as an Equal Partner.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 2, 2023

A process for improving product roadmapping using Objectives and Key Results – for product managers. Today we are talking about roadmaps. Some product people love roadmaps, while a lot hate them. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:11]

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Product Bookshelf

APRIL 15, 2024

Martin Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumels Product strategy is a set of choices informed by product vision and company objectives. Strategy development requires imagination and creativity ; a good strategy is not the result of detailed analysis. Why is product strategy so hard? Playing to Win by A.G.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 28, 2022

I stumbled upon a bunch of product management memes while preparing for a talk. clearly, all of us know the importance of truly understanding the customer problem before we ship a product, testing something with customers perhaps in a lab setting or in a pilot before scaling. Of course?—?the this is also a dangerous myth.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

In this ultimate list of product manager interview questions, we have tried to simplify the process of hiring great product managers. Product management encompasses the entire SaaS lifecycle from ideation to launch and everything that follows. What to look for in product managers? Leadership.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 27, 2023

This post will focus on the last example, product roadmaps. Why does roadmap inconsistency matter? What are the problems that arise from having inconsistent roadmaps, starting with the most consequential? What are the problems that arise from having inconsistent roadmaps, starting with the most consequential?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 27, 2022

What is iterative testing? How can it help product managers build products that drive value for their customers? Iterative testing involves running repeated experiments on your product features to evaluate their effectiveness and identify improvement opportunities. What is iterative testing?

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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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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Instead, you should engage the stakeholders, leverage their expertise, and generate as much buy-in as possible , as I explain in more detail in my article “ Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People.” ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2023

And What You Can Do to Avoid Them Disclaimer: I don’t really believe you can ‘teach’ Product Management. That’s what I did in 2022 and doing so, I also got to dig into a lot of clients’ products. Product Managers I work with often tell me that “the purpose” has been decided by top management “a while ago”.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Startup Product managers are in charge of setting up the foundation for product management at a new company. Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. According to Airfocus , an optimized product manager boosts profitability and sales, by 34.2

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2023

Dark periods are when a product team knows what to design and develop and go about doing it, but the work has yet to be exposed to users in any significant way. Product dark periods are when a product team’s commitment and culture are tested. Developers will be knocking out cards.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. Overengineered products are difficult to use, filled with bugs, and instead of improving your users’ lives, they make them unnecessarily complicated. Why do developers overengineer software products?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. For instance, you might show the individuals how they can make effective strategic product decisions, create an actionable product roadmap, and effectively use the right KPIs.

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Userpilot

MAY 5, 2022

What does the product management process involve? Why is it important for product managers to follow them? Product managers lead interdisciplinary product teams to deliver products that bring value to customers. Next, you define Technical Specifications and design product prototypes.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. It put all the activities I do as a product manager into perspective. One test of a new framework is how well it explains “previous observations.” Breakthrough!

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

Every time I navigate the ocean of Product Management frameworks, we are not tackling one essential part of our role: People and Ourselves. There is a framework for almost every stage of our Product development lifecycle, but one of the only transversal things is that we need people to make things happen.

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BrainMates

AUGUST 22, 2019

If you work in Product Management and you haven’t heard of Rich Mironov, then best keep this to yourself, and jump onto his blog, pronto, where he’s been blogging about software product management for 18 years. Don’t tolerate bad management if it’s making you miserable. This is a great division of labour.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively. As a result, the team struggled with how to prepare. Why was this prioritized?”

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 15, 2022

that products always require roadmaps. My mentor and I started in our usual spot, talking start-ups, and new products in the healthcare industry. Do you think every company and product needs a roadmap?” I’m sure this was not a question as much as a test of my ability to think critically. “Of he asked.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 29, 2019

What’s a partial product manager? We’ve all met one, and many of us have been one – a partial product manager is someone who holds the product manager title, but isn’t doing the full job. It can happen really easily, because great product management encompasses a great deal and is constantly evolving.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2023

I picked this headline ‘Mistakes That Every Newbie Product Manager Made’ but please don’t feel bad, because even experienced PMs do these mistakes. It’s okay to be shy when you’re at a new company, new team, or a new role but every one of us goes through this and we feel the same way. We’re learning this way.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

While sales teams stereotypically rally around contests, talk sports and drink coffee (which is for closers)… development teams may sit silently side-by-side-side most of the day engaging in multiple Slack conversations, taking breaks for air hockey or exchanging giphys , and critiquing each other’s code indents.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In his talk, Jason talked about how product managers can upskill to meet the challenges in their daily work and how to make sure that their organizations value their work. How to upskill as a product manager. Measuring the value of product management is difficult too. Let’s dive in! Book the demo!

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. It put all the activities I do as a product manager into perspective. One test of a new framework is how well it explains “previous observations.” Breakthrough!

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. It put all the activities I do as a product manager into perspective. One test of a new framework is how well it explains “previous observations.” Breakthrough!

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    “ How hard could it be? 

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Janna starts by looking at some of the roles she’s had and the lenses they required; as a product manager she would ask, “what problem are you trying to solve?”, While we might think of all debt as bad, Janna says this isn’t the case. A product manager can’t build a perfect product without debt.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2019

I recently tweeted about timeline roadmaps saying they had to go. I even wrote about it in my Mind the Product blog post, Lean Strategies for Maturing Products. When I saw the results I thought it was worth saying on Twitter what I’ve said before: the timeline roadmap simply has to go (said Twitter thread caught fire!).

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

Guest Post by: Merziyah Poonawala (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Joni Hoadley]. What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? THE CAUSE.

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Userpilot

APRIL 25, 2022

Are you using a friction log to track and prioritize what to improve in your product? In this guide, our aim is to help savvy product managers understand what friction logs are, where you might use them, and how to create them. Not all friction is bad. Friction logs can be created by the whole team.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Instead, you should engage the stakeholders, leverage their expertise, and generate as much buy-in as possible , as I explain in more detail in my article “ Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People.” ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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