BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Product Managers have the enviable job of taking a product from its roots as an idea and steering its lifecycle through launch and beyond. Often referred to as “mini-CEOs” of a product, these specialists must possess a wide variety of skills and competencies to propel a product to success.

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers Decide when to care about trends and when to sit back and watch what happens next Trends and the product lifecycle Imagine your product strategy stayed exactly the same for the next 10 years. What would happen? It’s impossible for one person to do.

Technical Review 52

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bpma ProductHub

JULY 13, 2016

It is an important resource for the product management community. Each has advised me in different ways and on different aspects of what I can bring to an organization both personally and professionally. In addition to a technology focus, I often need to be more involved in the business or product side.

CTO Coach 150

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

” Two spheres of capabilities are needed for product managers to be successful. One is competency in the processes, practices, and tools of product management. That is where I spend much of my time helping product managers and teams. My passion is inspiring and equipping product managers and leaders.

Technical Advisors 65

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

As someone who’s been fortunate enough to have coached dozens of Product Leaders and have walked in their shoes, I have found that there are several under-appreciated ways things change when you move into a product leader role. How do I cultivate the right product culture for the product teams to succeed?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

I attended the conference to represent product.careers , a project I launched last year to raise awareness of Product Management as a career path, with a particular focus on undergraduates and graduates. I started the project in response to challenges I had recruiting entry-level product managers for Crowdcube.

Technical Advisors 105

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UX Studio

MAY 15, 2018

We recently wrote an ebook, “Product Managers’ Guide to UX Design”. The technicalities of the design handoff also matter, but however nice and neat the specification, it makes little difference if you haven’t actually talked to developers until the design handoff. Click here to download! Speaking the same language.

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Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

As we discussed in the blog post Yes, Product Managers are Superheroes , product management is a combination of both art and science. I have been in product management for about 15 years. Google “storytelling”, and you’ll find numerous posts on how to train a salesforce on storytelling techniques.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

For example, institute regular meetings with each stakeholder or have stakeholders name product ambassadors, who then act as “liaison officers” and train them accordingly. An often promising way to deal with uncooperative stakeholders is to win them over by demonstrating the value of agile product development.

Product Research 97

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 7, 2021

Alex A may have little patience to deal with awkward technical queries, and may be willing to make unrealistic promises to get deals to cross the line. I have one client who trained all their salespeople to write the user cases (or at least contribute to them.) They should be the trusted advisors to your biggest clients.

Research Software 69

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 15, 2016

Product managers often work in diverse teams and need good team management skills to be successful. To explore managing teams, I invited a frequent keynote speaker and coach who companies invite to teach them about improving teams and their work. Practices and Ideas for Product Managers and Innovators.

Technical Advisors 55

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ProductCraft

AUGUST 7, 2018

When his boss noticed his performance, he was asked to train everyone on the team, which ultimately landed him a product manager position. Years later, he created another playbook, this time for creating products, with the mantra that if you can’t do it in under ten steps, you’re making it too hard. . Best Practices.

Technical Advisors 51

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

What is an ecosystem moat and how can product managers build one? These are the key questions that Austin Yang , the Lead Product Manager at Softr , discussed in his presentation at the Product Drive Summit this year. Agencies bring new customers and help with product implementation. Are you intrigued?

Customer Experience 87

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

Even more confusing might be the situation, when both Scrum Master and Product Owner are also actively creating the Product Increment, resulting in the Development Team being identical with the Scrum Team. Finally, the term Development Team seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers. Team leads?

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

As a design thinking consulting firm , we advise on product strategy, lead workshops, and offer customized training to equip your business with the best UX practices. Design thinking companies aim to understand users’ pain points before developing a technically feasible solution that addresses their needs.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

TalkTalk was fined £400,000 in 2016 for failing to have appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to secure its customers’ personal data, and for keeping their personal data for longer than necessary. Under the GDPR this fine could have risen to £35 million. A DPIA can be used in a variety of situations.

Data Visualization 84

Data Visualization Technical Review Reporting Tools Technical Advisors 84

Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Brant previously authored The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development, the first purpose-written book to discuss Lean Startup and Customer Development concepts and he is the Co-Founder of Moves the Needle, which has advised the innovation practices of such leading companies as GE, Intuit, Capital One, ING and Cisco.

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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

In most cases, you should pretend that design and product are part of the team. Embed a designer and product manager on each team. Define what type of Engineering Manager you have (company expectations vary significantly). Who does technical leadership? Who does project management?

Weak Development Team 52

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We generally advise against linear, top-down product tours. Instead, you should opt for an interactive walkthrough type of product tour. Product tours generally include a welcome screen , a survey to segment users, a checklist , and experience flows for each of the key activation points. Get a demo today!

Analytic Tools 83

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Userpilot

JANUARY 5, 2022

Onboarding software is typically used to educate new users , demonstrate new features to advanced users, or train new hires. If you want good onboarding software, look for a tool that lets you build tooltips , modals , checklists , product tours , and help centers without requiring any code at all. Let’s get into it.

Analytic Tools 52

Analytic Tools Software Review Data Visualization User Testing 52

All About Product Management

MAY 13, 2008

It’s been over a year since the product management team went on a series of agile/scrum training courses. Product Management Prior to Scrum Before agile working practices where adopted the Product Managers role consisted of a lot of short term tactical wins coupled with continual fire fighting.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

An interactive walkthrough is a step-by-step product guide leading to activation. SaaS companies use walkthroughs to onboard new users, highlight secondary features , and train new staff. A walkthrough is not a linear, blow-by-blow account of all of your product features. Get a demo today! But this price is somewhat deceptive.

Analytic Tools 98

Analytic Tools Onboarding KPIs Customer Experience Data Visualization 98

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

But I’ll always caution: sometimes people are just good in their particular lane, and you want to be careful as a manager not to force people out of their lane unnecessarily. I would strongly advise you to make sure that people’s interests and passion are lined up with what you are trying to get them to do as a manager.

Engineering 141

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2020

And that can leave product managers feeling a little bit like visitors to this town in Ireland. All successful product managers are concerned about retention. On the one hand, it requires technical resources to deploy; and on the other, all the events you want to track have to be defined and set up.

Analytic Tools 104

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Userzoom

AUGUST 24, 2017

Executives, Marketers, Designers, and Product Managers all want to make an informed decision and manage risk intelligently. I know, I know – it’s not the technical definition, but this has served me well for 2 decades. How you can make your next research project more actionable and valuable.

Data Visualization 55

Data Visualization Customer Feedback Customer Experience Technical Advisors 55

Roadmunk

DECEMBER 7, 2017

This is the latest episode of Product to Product —a product management podcast for / by product people. You may know her as the VP of Product at Lola , a former product manager at Kickstarter , or as a previous PM at Microsoft. I’ve spent most of my career in product management.

Startups 53

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Aptrinsic

JANUARY 2, 2018

According to Jeetu, one mistake on the product management side has ripple effects for years to come. Teams of engineers get misdirected, product marketing goes out with the wrong message, sales sells the wrong thing and customer success faces escalation issues. You need to first fix the product problem.

User Testing 40

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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Barbara Nelson said in The Politics of Agile , “When product managers weren’t looking, the developers went agile.” ” Indeed, many Product Managers were taken by surprise at the speed of Agile’s adoption. Ultimately, we are responsible for the success of the product and, thus, the company.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2020

And that can leave product managers feeling a little bit like visitors to this town in Ireland. All successful product managers are concerned about retention. On the one hand, it requires technical resources to deploy; and on the other, all the events you want to track have to be defined and set up.

Analytic Tools 61

Analytic Tools Feedback Software User Testing Data Visualization 61

Product Talk

APRIL 7, 2021

I am a former chief product officer and now coach and advise product leaders and teams. The idea is to have a product trio —a product manager, a designer, and a tech lead—working and owning product decisions together. Is it technically feasible?” I’m joined today by Hope Gurion.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

So what Dewey is advising us to do. Now I get that like there might be different technical architect implementations for fast forwarding commercials, but there’s one feature that’s going to solve this need. You have to train your teams on how to use this visual. These are the essentials of thinking.

User Testing 59

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