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What is the Product Operations Career Path?

ProductPlan

A product operations manager at a smaller technology company may engage in different activities than someone at a larger firm. Meanwhile, smaller companies need more tactical support around managing data, tools, and communications. The cadence of reporting and informational updates play a key part in the representation.

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Sustainable Product Strategy: How to Move from Outputs to Outcomes

Amplitude

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. Output-focused product roadmaps provide a false sense of certainty, all while limiting product work to a few big bets, which may or may not pan out. We broke into pairs and then each pair developed a feature roadmap along a particular area of focus.

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How to Survive the Hardest Part of Product Management by Janna Bastow

Mind the Product

But the training was intense! This sales training laid the foundation for the survival tactics Janna still uses today to manage people. One of the hardest challenges in product management is getting people aligned – especially if they have different reporting lines and objectives. Roadmaps are stories.

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Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams

Mironov Consulting

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and the go-to-market side (sales, marketing, customer success) of tech firms, especially at B2B/enterprise software companies.  That  Plus frequent updates on everything for the C-suite.

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Intercom on Product: Accelerating your strategy after COVID-19

Intercom, Inc.

There’s no use in taking a few months to build an epic 40-page report on the next move when the idea is to be fast and agile. In terms of research and development or generally the product and engineering functions, the people who produce your software, this really is a question of investability. Should we sink bigger?

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The Seven-Part Guide to Portfolio Product Management & Marketing

Product Management University

Portfolio level business requirements deliver three primary benefits: Through the Eyes of the Customer – They force product management teams to see their target customers holistically, without product bias, which leads to better product decisions and more valuable solutions. Sales Training on Customers vs. Products. DON’T PANIC!

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The Great Silence

The Product Coalition

One particular example, UpBank, I’d argue one of the most underrated and successful software companies in Australia, only has Product Designers with one single product leadership role. The issue feels a little more systemic. Using these ideological tools for your own sanity is great. almost nobody talks about customer needs.