Innovatemap

MARCH 17, 2021

I’ve been fortunate to work with countless technology companies in my career, and while I met with an incredible number of women executives, CEOs, marketers and more, I most often saw myself in a room among men. According to AnitaB.org’s Top Companies for Women Technologists Report , women technologists made up 28.8 percent in 2019.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

And we can do all of this with the help of our ‘Explore, Evolve, Execute’ service package. How Are You Managing Your Products? So how are you managing your products exactly? Do you have a solid strategy, focus and vision in place? At Bain Public, we’ve done hundreds of product roadmaps. Book your slot ?.

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The Product Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Hello, all you product-loving folks! 💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, and more. Outcomes Over Outputs You know how much love and care you put into making your products, right? 😎 And guess what?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Scrum’s Achilles Heel: Product Discovery In the attempt to fill Scrum’s product discovery void, product delivery organizations regularly turn to other agile frameworks like lean UX, jobs-to-be-done, lean startup, design thinking, design sprint?—?just software is eating the world?—?, just to name a few.

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Antwak Blog

APRIL 8, 2021

It helps you to design a successful Product Roadmap. A PR organizes and conveys a products’ vision to all stakeholders. Let’s learn how to design a product roadmap from square one. What is a product roadmap and is the significance The kinds of product roadmaps. Product roadmaps are always evolving.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

And as a product manager finding out how others made a strategy work, whether it was implementing a road-map software or avoiding other’s pitfalls can make or break your product’s success. As a successful product manager reading is a must. Product managers for the digital world. The data backs it up.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

You play in a sandpit with technology and other talented professionals. Product Manager career options. Product Management is growing up. The Chief Product Officer (CPO) or Vice President of Product Management (VP of Product) roles are more common in larger organisations, and usually report directly to the CEO.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

JustGiving’s goal is to grow the world of giving, enabling more money to be raised for good causes through the use of technology. Initially JustGiving supported only registered charities on its website, but the founders’ vision was to support all good causes. The initial vision was to. This vision gave us something to aim for.

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BrainMates

DECEMBER 12, 2019

They included the Australian Red Cross , World Vision Australia , Northcott , RSL NSW as well as the founders of new social impact startups – Humanitix and Communiteer. As a group we attempted to define what effective mission-driven Product Management is. Mission-driven Product Management is just good Product Management.

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ProductBoard

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In this climate of rapid change, heightened competition and customer expectations, the role of the product manager — your role — has to keep up with the times. Product Management Is Stuck In The Past Technology has changed a lot in the past few decades, and with it people have changed as well. But product managers?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

although important at least for the Product Leaders I work with it’s seldom where I see them struggle or where I spend the majority of my time coaching them. Shift #2: A coach One of the big ways the role shifts when you move into a product leadership role is that you now have direct reports. product strategy, A&M, etc?—?but

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes. No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. The best product managers are in a continuous state of discovery and know that?—? neither the product nor roadmap are ever static.

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Roadmunk

JUNE 15, 2017

I say peculiar for a couple of reasons: I joined a product organization as a product manager for a tool for other product managers. Roadmunk is a small product organization, so every day I report to and work with our CEO, Latif Nanji. As PMs, we should be a wealth of product knowledge—especially at startups.

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Radical Product

JUNE 25, 2020

Photo by Jeremy Perkins on Unsplash Many years ago, I was excited to join a tech company to lead product management. The product and its underlying technology was complex and promised immense intellectual satisfaction. My manager recruited me saying he had never led a product organization before and would give me autonomy.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Ultimately, it all boils down to product managers owning the results of the product like a CEO owns the results of the company. Similarities Between CEOs and Product Managers In technology companies, product management is oftentimes the most influential area across an organization, with the least amount of direct control.

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UX Planet

APRIL 30, 2024

Avoiding the 7 most common mistakes founders make when building a design team and culture in their startups. Regardless of your industry, fostering a great design culture will play a pivotal role in reshaping your product or service into something truly delightful as well as propelling you ahead of the competition in many ways.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

What’s important to remember: If this shift creates the need to pivot or adjust the strategy, product managers need to report it to leadership for them to decide whether to act. The strategy remains a mystery and offers no guidance or direction to product managers and the cross-functional teams they support.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

The book starts with Sean agreeing to be the first product manager at Alpha Technology Ventures. He is initially overwhelmed but quickly falls back on his product and customer knowledge along with building relationships with his new peers in Engineering and Project Management.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 12, 2017

Product management teams often ask themselves if third-party integration is right for their software product roadmap. The thinking is that you should integrate with products such as Salesforce and Slack, because you never would want to try to build those sorts of products by yourselves. Mike Knoop. CPO, Zapier.

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Sequent Learning

AUGUST 26, 2019

Organize weekly meetings that would metaphorically represent a “venn diagram” to steer the direction of your product. Ask yourself: What is the opportunity cost of going down that product path? Kevin Wonder is the senior director of product at Loveland Innovations. 00:02:35] Kevin: Sure thing, JJ.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

As you well know, repeating your product strategy often leads to better recall later on and prevents any misalignment in the future. And while keeping everything in a task management tool (i.e. So what’s our product document ecosystem solution? The Benefits of Using the SOAP™ Digital Platform.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2020

How Heineken and xDesign Applied Customer Research and User Testing Techniques to Build Digital Services Heineken N.V. They are well known for their marketing campaigns that resonate with consumers worldwide, and the company has reported revenues of 2.17 is a multinational company that develops and manufactures beverages.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

They’re in charge of driving the entire product management process themselves. Nevertheless, some core roles and responsibilities of a product manager are: Develop product strategy and vision. Gather and prioritize product requests. Conduct market and competitive research.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

As with many roles in the tech industry, there’s been a stubborn gap in female representation in product. According to TechTalent Charter , women make up only 19% of the tech industry and only 37% of UX and product roles. Another report by ProductPlan independently confirms women account for just 37% of product manager roles.

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DISQO

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Today, we published the findings from our 2020 Product Management Insights Report , which highlighted the growing influence the product management discipline has over the toughest challenges facing organizations today, such as digital and strategic transformation.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 20, 2018

It’s when your product is mature that churn really starts to bite back. And yet if you look at what you typically read on Medium and other startup-savvy publications, you’ll mostly read about launching products and optimising for growth. This all makes for sad product managers. Result: Lean Product Roadmap.

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Department of Product

AUGUST 22, 2022

How to Conduct a Product Health Check Why gathering health indicators helps you make better product decisions I was chatting to a friend the other day who had just taken on a senior product director level role at a venture backed startup. They remarked that one of their biggest challenges was figuring out where to start.

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BrainMates

APRIL 2, 2019

However, if you find it constantly challenging to say ‘no’ to your sales team, customers or Customer Service team, perhaps it’s time to re-evaluate your suitability for Product Management. Being a Product Manager is a leadership role, not an order-taker role. A Product vision is key to delivering great products.

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BrainStation Product Management

JANUARY 29, 2020

For this reason, many people describe Product Managers as “mini CEOs” that sit at the intersection of business, technology, and user experience. . Like Project Managers, Product Managers have to contend with the often messy politics of stakeholder disagreements. A new startup on the block might directly compete or (gasp!)

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Instead, product teams are experimenting their way to viable solutions. We are putting our customers first, taking the time to discover unmet needs, and developing solutions that address those needs. Last fall, I spoke at Productized, a product conference in Lisbon, Portugal, on this very topic. The Lean Startup.

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DISQO

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Today, we published the findings from our 2020 Product Management Insights Report , which highlights the growing impact that product management has on organizational growth. The survey of more than 550 product leaders and managers from startups and large organizations in the U.S.

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DISQO

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Today, we published the findings from our 2020 Product Management Insights Report , which highlights the growing impact that product management has on organizational growth. The survey of more than 550 product leaders and managers from startups and large organizations in the U.S.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

When a product team is communicating to the larger organization, the subject matter falls into three main buckets: Where we’ve been —Quantitative analysis and reporting on how the product is being used, with consistent metrics that show progress toward goals. Transparency and visibility across the organization.

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

For this reason, many people describe Product Managers as “mini CEOs” that sit at the intersection of business, technology, and user experience. . Like Project Managers, Product Managers have to contend with the often messy politics of stakeholder disagreements. A new startup on the block might directly compete or (gasp!)

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

There’s a delicate balance any product strategy needs to master: On the one hand, to build a successful business, you need to design features that set your company apart — your core of innovation. On the other, no customer will sign up for a product if there isn’t a solid foundation on which to innovate on.

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

The product manager’s responsibilities include conducting market and customer research using primary and secondary sources like interviews, surveys , or industry publications. Based on the research, PMs develop the long-term product vision and product strategy that are aligned with the overall business strategy.

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