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So how do you scale Product Management within start-ups and other organisations? Kent Weathers , Head of Product at Leadbolt, explains, “one of the negative signs is when the start-up founder’s time is not being spent enough on the product. Product People. MORE
One of the lures when I joined Intercom in 2014 was that it sold itself as a product-first company. But, there’s a hidden arrogance inside that product-first mindset, and traps that await those who adopt it. This led to an era of marketing-driven companies. Good product? MORE
Product management teams often ask themselves if third-party integration is right for their software product roadmap. Senior/director integration positions are usually expected to own a product roadmap strategy. Director of Product Management, Prysm. MORE
How would you assess your own roadmapping process? A new book, Product Roadmaps Relaunched, could help you re-think and re-launch your approach to Product Roadmapping. It’s a real practitioners’ book, written by four Boston-based leaders in Product Management: C. The 11-chapters are a master class on product roadmapping, and is supported by 65+ interviews from real practitioners. What do people struggle with most developing roadmaps? “A MORE
Products live within markets that are constantly changing, making planning a difficult process. I believe this constant change is the reason that people have become frustrated with roadmaps, and in some cases have even went so far as to declare the roadmap dead. MORE
A few members of our Marketing team recently attended HubSpot’s Inbound 2017 conference in Boston, one of the year’s largest events for marketing professionals. As product managers, we may sometimes feel as though communicating our roadmap strategies and recommendations to those who sit outside of the immediate team – sales, marketing, and other executive stakeholders – resembles Catmull’s first characterization of the unhealthy culture. MORE
And some tips to building your own :) Having some years of experience working with product teams, I’m pretty sure that this multidisciplinary and agile approach is the right one for developing innovative and customer-centric solutions that really make users’ lives easier. MORE
The B2B Product Manager Magazine August 2018 is now available. This month we explore the value of a product marketing roadmap to sales. It’s not a staple in most B2B organizations but it’s just as important to your near-term revenue as a product roadmap is to your longer-term growth. In This Issue: Blog: High-Octane Product Management. The Value of a Product Marketing Roadmap: It’s Like Deep-Sea Fishing for Sales. MORE
The Agile Product Manager works closely with the engineering and technical teams working with in an agile framework such as scrum. How do you best communicate product information to outside audiences in an agile way ? Contribute to the product backlog. MORE
Any half-decent marketing is essentially storytelling. As a marketer, everything you create needs to tell the story of your product and the value it offers your users. That’s why roadmaps are such a natural fit for marketing teams. The theme-based marketing roadmap. MORE
As Intercom’s customer base moved upmarket, it became increasingly obvious to us in Sales that what worked well in our product for early-stage startups didn’t for larger companies. To fix it, we had to change how we worked with our product team. We created our first sales function in 2014 and in the busyness of building out the team, we had little time to reflect on how our experiences on the frontline of sales could add value to our product roadmap. MORE
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. Creating a Focused Product Roadmap. MORE
While product managers puppeteer a product journey end-to-end, product marketing managers tend to be the masterminds behind releasing said product to market. Each product marketing leader walks us through a typical product launch. MORE
The product team I managed was responsible for the integration, product management, and transition. In this case, my team had responsibility for four to five smaller acquisition company products and portfolios. I understand that the CEO has identified this as a strategic product. MORE
By Don Stoddard – In the very best companies, roadmaps support key objectives with very specific measures impacting the business. Roadmaps are great at showing a direction, but they often don’t tell the story of “why.” product/features/strategy. MORE
SiriusDecisions SiriusView: Product Planning, Prioritization and Roadmapping 2017. I’m pleased to announce the release of the SiriusView “Product Planning, Prioritization and Roadmapping 2017.” ” This SiriusView covers seven vendors whose offerings are designed to assist product managers with developing product plans, prioritizing features and enhancements, and maintaining and communicating product roadmaps. MORE
In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. From there we put together a basic roadmap and started writing user stories. MORE
There was something for everyone at Mind the Product’s annual conference in San Francisco this week. MORE
The job titles product marketing manager and product manager are confusing enough to start raging debates about who does what. From a product perspective, we can simplify this as current products, next products and future products. Roles Before Titles. MORE
so my investor said that I need a product manager to do our product roadmap?”. When I worked as a product management consultant clients would often talk about “needing a product roadmap ASAP”. Roman Pichler’s product vision board. MORE
The job titles product marketing manager and product manager are confusing enough to start raging debates about who does what. From a product perspective, we can simplify this as current products, next products and future products. Roles Before Titles. MORE
I joined Setapp as a product manager in January last year, at the same time as the company was launching its main product. Yaroslav Stepanenko, Product Marketing Manager at Setapp.com in front of our early customer acquisition funnel performance stats. MORE
In this talk, Alan Chiu pulls from his experience in product management and as a seed-stage venture capitalist to showcase a variety of case studies on companies who have perfected product/market fit. What are upstream and downstream products? What is your data roadmap? MORE
A product marketing roadmap for sales is like a popular technique used in deep sea fishing. Has product marketing taken your salesforce deep sea fishing this year? Your product marketing roadmap is the equivalent to sonar on a fishing boat. If product marketing considers sales it’s primary customer, here are three things it should do every year to boost their success rate. MORE
A product roadmap is a guide that lets you communicate your vision for your product’s future. Some roadmaps show short-term visions of a product, while others show the life cycle of a product over a longer time. This is where a product roadmap software comes in handy. But there is a solution to help you create a customized product roadmap that captures everything about your product from inception to launch— roadmap software. MORE
One of the lures when I joined Intercom in 2014 was that it sold itself as a product-first company. But, there’s a hidden arrogance inside that product-first mindset, and traps that await those who adopt it. This led to an era of marketing-driven companies. Good product? MORE
Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. 6 steps to product-market fit. (1) Liberal arts as a path to product management. Interviews for Product Managers and Innovators. MORE
If you’re in a product company the chances are that you’ve developed some process of informing your users about new features. Spending a bit more effort on the process can help you turn your release notes into effective content marketing. Market Your Release. MORE
This will change the way that a lot of people think about product market fit, BS metrics, understanding the needs of the people that really matter. Jared Spool’s excoriation of the use of NPS by marketing departments had struck a chord earlier in the week. MORE
A Certain Success Product-Market Fit, as made popular by the great Sean Ellis , is a concept that revolves around a simple assumption. The assumption is that if you can create a product that fits perfectly with a specific market, then you’re onto a winner. MORE
Strategic Portfolio Roadmapping Workshop. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to develop a strategic portfolio roadmap that drives new growth by shifting your inside-out product vision to an outside-in customer vision. Instead of constantly wrangling over competing product visions that no one can ever agree on, you’ll learn how to craft a short and long-term portfolio roadmap that mirrors the vision and business goals of your target customers. MORE
SiriusDecisions SiriusView: Product Planning, Prioritization and Roadmapping 2017. I’m pleased to announce the release of the SiriusView “Product Planning, Prioritization and Roadmapping 2017.” ” This SiriusView covers seven vendors whose offerings are designed to assist product managers with developing product plans, prioritizing features and enhancements, and maintaining and communicating product roadmaps. MORE
I just wrapped up teaching a 10-week Product Management course at General Assembly in Boston, and it was an amazing experience. The 24-student class had people in Product Management roles, people launching products of their own and people hoping to get into Product Management. MORE
The job titles product marketing manager and product manager are confusing enough to start raging debates about who does what. From a product perspective, we can simplify this as current products, next products and future products. Roles Before Titles. MORE
Is your roadmap stuck chasing feature parity? How do you position your product & feature set in a way that allows you to uniquely meet your customer’s needs and stay ahead of the competition? The concepts presented in CEB’s book “The Challenger Customer” are gaining a lot of traction in the marketing world. How you can apply these principles to your product and more will be addressed at February’s BPMA event! Product Marketing MORE
In today’s article, we’ll discuss the agile roadmapping process. We’ll start by reviewing the objectives of roadmaps and planning for agile teams, then share some special considerations for agile roadmaps. Why Agile Teams Need A Product Roadmap. MORE
All products start with one thing in common: teams face a certain degree of uncertainty about the market they’re targeting. Reducing uncertainty, therefore, comes as a result of learning cycles, and will ultimately allow a product to grow. Product. MORE
That is the question faced by B2B product leaders Courtesy of Street Smart Product Manager Product roadmaps and I have a complicated relationship. Tweet this ) WHY is our roadmap relationship so complicated? Roadmaps change and evolve frequently. MORE
Major elements of our sales and marketing plan, designed with companies like this one in mind, needed to be revisited at the least. Among other things, it was soon clear that we’d fallen into a common trap for startups and new products. We’d responded to market traction without properly understanding our users. That’s because when Merck decided to market the exact same drug’s baldness-prevention properties too, they created a new campaign and brand. MORE
Building an MVP and launching a product is actually the easy part. – How to use your roadmap to drive experimentation to hit company objectives. The Product Lifecycle. We all know the product lifecycle chart. Product Lifecycle. I blame the roadmap. MORE
It is meant for certain use-cases and audiences, largely those who are not a key part of the decision-making process, but who are affected by it and by leadership, who don’t have the time to dive deep into the how and why of products and features. product-management roadmaps product-roadmap MORE
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 10, 2018
In this talk, Alan Chiu pulls from his experience in product management and as a seed-stage venture capitalist to showcase a variety of case studies on companies who have perfected product/market fit. What are upstream and downstream products? What is your data roadmap?
Pragmatic Marketing
JULY 16, 2018
The job titles product marketing manager and product manager are confusing enough to start raging debates about who does what. From a product perspective, we can simplify this as current products, next products and future products. Roles Before Titles.
Pragmatic Marketing
JULY 16, 2018
The job titles product marketing manager and product manager are confusing enough to start raging debates about who does what. From a product perspective, we can simplify this as current products, next products and future products. Roles Before Titles.
Proficientz – Product Management University
AUGUST 20, 2018
A product marketing roadmap for sales is like a popular technique used in deep sea fishing. Has product marketing taken your salesforce deep sea fishing this year? Your product marketing roadmap is the equivalent to sonar on a fishing boat. If product marketing considers sales it’s primary customer, here are three things it should do every year to boost their success rate.
bpma ProductHub
APRIL 17, 2017
By Don Stoddard – In the very best companies, roadmaps support key objectives with very specific measures impacting the business. Roadmaps are great at showing a direction, but they often don’t tell the story of “why.” product/features/strategy.
Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
so my investor said that I need a product manager to do our product roadmap?”. When I worked as a product management consultant clients would often talk about “needing a product roadmap ASAP”. Roman Pichler’s product vision board.
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Proficientz – Product Management University
AUGUST 23, 2018
The B2B Product Manager Magazine August 2018 is now available. This month we explore the value of a product marketing roadmap to sales. It’s not a staple in most B2B organizations but it’s just as important to your near-term revenue as a product roadmap is to your longer-term growth. In This Issue: Blog: High-Octane Product Management. The Value of a Product Marketing Roadmap: It’s Like Deep-Sea Fishing for Sales.
ProductPlan
JANUARY 8, 2019
In today’s article, we’ll discuss the agile roadmapping process. We’ll start by reviewing the objectives of roadmaps and planning for agile teams, then share some special considerations for agile roadmaps. Why Agile Teams Need A Product Roadmap.
Business of Software Conference
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
This will change the way that a lot of people think about product market fit, BS metrics, understanding the needs of the people that really matter. Jared Spool’s excoriation of the use of NPS by marketing departments had struck a chord earlier in the week.
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. Creating a Focused Product Roadmap.
Roadmunk
AUGUST 31, 2017
Any half-decent marketing is essentially storytelling. As a marketer, everything you create needs to tell the story of your product and the value it offers your users. That’s why roadmaps are such a natural fit for marketing teams. The theme-based marketing roadmap.
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Mind the Product
APRIL 24, 2018
I joined Setapp as a product manager in January last year, at the same time as the company was launching its main product. Yaroslav Stepanenko, Product Marketing Manager at Setapp.com in front of our early customer acquisition funnel performance stats.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 4, 2017
All products start with one thing in common: teams face a certain degree of uncertainty about the market they’re targeting. Reducing uncertainty, therefore, comes as a result of learning cycles, and will ultimately allow a product to grow. Product.
Roadmunk
OCTOBER 5, 2017
While product managers puppeteer a product journey end-to-end, product marketing managers tend to be the masterminds behind releasing said product to market. Each product marketing leader walks us through a typical product launch.
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 28, 2018
It is meant for certain use-cases and audiences, largely those who are not a key part of the decision-making process, but who are affected by it and by leadership, who don’t have the time to dive deep into the how and why of products and features. product-management roadmaps product-roadmap
The Product Coalition
SEPTEMBER 23, 2018
And some tips to building your own :) Having some years of experience working with product teams, I’m pretty sure that this multidisciplinary and agile approach is the right one for developing innovative and customer-centric solutions that really make users’ lives easier.
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 21, 2018
Products live within markets that are constantly changing, making planning a difficult process. I believe this constant change is the reason that people have become frustrated with roadmaps, and in some cases have even went so far as to declare the roadmap dead.
Hutwork
APRIL 15, 2018
A product roadmap is a guide that lets you communicate your vision for your product’s future. Some roadmaps show short-term visions of a product, while others show the life cycle of a product over a longer time. This is where a product roadmap software comes in handy. But there is a solution to help you create a customized product roadmap that captures everything about your product from inception to launch— roadmap software.
Proficientz – Product Management University
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
Strategic Portfolio Roadmapping Workshop. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to develop a strategic portfolio roadmap that drives new growth by shifting your inside-out product vision to an outside-in customer vision. Instead of constantly wrangling over competing product visions that no one can ever agree on, you’ll learn how to craft a short and long-term portfolio roadmap that mirrors the vision and business goals of your target customers.
Pragmatic Marketing
JULY 16, 2018
The job titles product marketing manager and product manager are confusing enough to start raging debates about who does what. From a product perspective, we can simplify this as current products, next products and future products. Roles Before Titles.
The Product Coalition
APRIL 25, 2018
A Certain Success Product-Market Fit, as made popular by the great Sean Ellis , is a concept that revolves around a simple assumption. The assumption is that if you can create a product that fits perfectly with a specific market, then you’re onto a winner.
The Product Coalition
APRIL 17, 2018
That is the question faced by B2B product leaders Courtesy of Street Smart Product Manager Product roadmaps and I have a complicated relationship. Tweet this ) WHY is our roadmap relationship so complicated? Roadmaps change and evolve frequently.
Revulytics
OCTOBER 19, 2017
A few members of our Marketing team recently attended HubSpot’s Inbound 2017 conference in Boston, one of the year’s largest events for marketing professionals. As product managers, we may sometimes feel as though communicating our roadmap strategies and recommendations to those who sit outside of the immediate team – sales, marketing, and other executive stakeholders – resembles Catmull’s first characterization of the unhealthy culture.
Product Innovation Educators
OCTOBER 20, 2017
Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. 6 steps to product-market fit. (1) Liberal arts as a path to product management. Interviews for Product Managers and Innovators.
Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
If you’re in a product company the chances are that you’ve developed some process of informing your users about new features. Spending a bit more effort on the process can help you turn your release notes into effective content marketing. Market Your Release.
bpma ProductHub
FEBRUARY 17, 2018
Is your roadmap stuck chasing feature parity? How do you position your product & feature set in a way that allows you to uniquely meet your customer’s needs and stay ahead of the competition? The concepts presented in CEB’s book “The Challenger Customer” are gaining a lot of traction in the marketing world. How you can apply these principles to your product and more will be addressed at February’s BPMA event! Product Marketing
Mind the Product
MARCH 20, 2018
Building an MVP and launching a product is actually the easy part. – How to use your roadmap to drive experimentation to hit company objectives. The Product Lifecycle. We all know the product lifecycle chart. Product Lifecycle. I blame the roadmap.
Product Manager in Heels
APRIL 7, 2016
I just wrapped up teaching a 10-week Product Management course at General Assembly in Boston, and it was an amazing experience. The 24-student class had people in Product Management roles, people launching products of their own and people hoping to get into Product Management.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
Major elements of our sales and marketing plan, designed with companies like this one in mind, needed to be revisited at the least. Among other things, it was soon clear that we’d fallen into a common trap for startups and new products. We’d responded to market traction without properly understanding our users. That’s because when Merck decided to market the exact same drug’s baldness-prevention properties too, they created a new campaign and brand.
All About Product Management
JULY 22, 2007
The Agile Product Manager works closely with the engineering and technical teams working with in an agile framework such as scrum. How do you best communicate product information to outside audiences in an agile way ? Contribute to the product backlog.
Good Product Manager
JUNE 7, 2017
SiriusDecisions SiriusView: Product Planning, Prioritization and Roadmapping 2017. I’m pleased to announce the release of the SiriusView “Product Planning, Prioritization and Roadmapping 2017.” ” This SiriusView covers seven vendors whose offerings are designed to assist product managers with developing product plans, prioritizing features and enhancements, and maintaining and communicating product roadmaps.
Good Product Manager
JUNE 7, 2017
SiriusDecisions SiriusView: Product Planning, Prioritization and Roadmapping 2017. I’m pleased to announce the release of the SiriusView “Product Planning, Prioritization and Roadmapping 2017.” ” This SiriusView covers seven vendors whose offerings are designed to assist product managers with developing product plans, prioritizing features and enhancements, and maintaining and communicating product roadmaps.
Mind the Product
APRIL 12, 2017
Product management teams often ask themselves if third-party integration is right for their software product roadmap. Senior/director integration positions are usually expected to own a product roadmap strategy. Director of Product Management, Prysm.
Mind the Product
MAY 25, 2018
In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. From there we put together a basic roadmap and started writing user stories.
Inside Intercom
JULY 4, 2018
One of the lures when I joined Intercom in 2014 was that it sold itself as a product-first company. But, there’s a hidden arrogance inside that product-first mindset, and traps that await those who adopt it. This led to an era of marketing-driven companies. Good product?
Inside Intercom
JULY 4, 2018
One of the lures when I joined Intercom in 2014 was that it sold itself as a product-first company. But, there’s a hidden arrogance inside that product-first mindset, and traps that await those who adopt it. This led to an era of marketing-driven companies. Good product?
Inside Intercom
JUNE 20, 2018
As Intercom’s customer base moved upmarket, it became increasingly obvious to us in Sales that what worked well in our product for early-stage startups didn’t for larger companies. To fix it, we had to change how we worked with our product team. We created our first sales function in 2014 and in the busyness of building out the team, we had little time to reflect on how our experiences on the frontline of sales could add value to our product roadmap.
Product Beautiful
JUNE 8, 2014
The product team I managed was responsible for the integration, product management, and transition. In this case, my team had responsibility for four to five smaller acquisition company products and portfolios. I understand that the CEO has identified this as a strategic product.
BrainMates
SEPTEMBER 27, 2018
So how do you scale Product Management within start-ups and other organisations? Kent Weathers , Head of Product at Leadbolt, explains, “one of the negative signs is when the start-up founder’s time is not being spent enough on the product. Product People.
ProductCraft
JULY 20, 2018
There was something for everyone at Mind the Product’s annual conference in San Francisco this week.
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