Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

How to achieve product-market fit – for product managers This episode is sponsored by PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. PDMA is also the longest-running professional association for product managers, leaders, and innovators, having started in 1976. Feature set 5.

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People-First Product Leadership

JUNE 11, 2023

Arsenal was a local club and top of the league at that time. He stood out from the other managers as he didn’t come across as a hot head, prima donna or just a total jerk. The article “ 5 ways that Ted Lasso creates psychological safety for his athletes ”, provides a great starting point.

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Modus Create

MARCH 17, 2022

So, for example, we are not discussing the principles of Scrum, which is just one of several frameworks of Agile project management. . 5 Principles of Agile Leadership. If your team feels fear of retaliation at every instance of failure, they’ll brush mistakes under the carpet rather than expose areas of improvement.

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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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Gainsight

APRIL 21, 2022

Since 2021, we have seen more product-led hypergrowth than in years past. Though the past two years were some of the most challenging times for businesses, it did not stop one of the most difficult seasons from producing hypergrowth for product-led companies. Product Experience . Creating a Product Roadmap?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. We discuss how we’ve approached it historically at Intercom and how this process has evolved with us to make room for a wider audience. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. We discuss how we’ve approached it historically at Intercom and how this process has evolved with us to make room for a wider audience. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Usersnap

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Five wild predictions, two true stories and some solid solutions for product leaders. Building great products is a complex, challenging, and exhilarating job. It requires product leaders to be strategic thinkers and forward-thinking by nature, as well as to see product opportunities when others are “lost” in ambiguity.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The crazy-busy product manager (PM) runs from meeting to meeting without breaking a sweat. How to Escape the Misguided Glory of the Product Manager Hustle Culture. While people around them might see this as a sign of elevated productivity, the crazy-busy PM isn’t fooling anyone. They might as well don a cape.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2019

Integrations also expose the depth and breadth of an SaaS product that may not be immediately apparent. This gives added incentive for a user to open the product, and use it for a longer period of time. Mailchimp, for example, has leveraged this strategy aggressively, and arguably was ahead of its competitors in pushing integration.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 11, 2022

Since customer success roles are relatively new, companies don’t always have a clear idea of what responsibilities are appropriate for a customer success manager (CSM). As a result, customer success managers end up with more tasks than they can handle—making it harder to focus on helping users engage with the product and achieve success.

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Userpilot

MARCH 23, 2023

And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? As a SaaS company, your ultimate goal is to retain customers and keep them happy with your product. Reasons why customers churn: #1: Customers churn when there is a bad product-customer fit and your product’s features don’t align with their needs.

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ProductPlan

MAY 5, 2020

Here at the ProductPlan blog, we advocate strategic roadmapping for product managers in every field. But for the video game industry, in particular, product roadmaps take on added importance. In this post, we’ll offer several strategic reasons that you should embrace your roadmap as a gaming product manager.

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Mind the Product

MAY 23, 2017

The long awaited book Product Leadership is finally about to hit our Kindles, iPads and possibly even our hands. Anticipation has been building given the high-profile nature of the authors, including Mind the Product’s very own Martin Eriksson. This is a book that shows Product Management has come of age.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A knowledge base is a self-serve repository of information about a product, service, or specific topics, created to guide users effectively. A knowledge base is a self-serve repository of information about a product, service, or specific topics, created to guide users effectively. Results in higher team productivity.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 28, 2019

What No One Tells You About Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup Over a year ago, I asked around, searched for books or articles, went to several talks but found very little advice on being a product manager at an early-stage startup. And we were hardly able to stay on top of the growing customer demands.

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People-First Product Leadership

AUGUST 13, 2023

Managers who took “empowerment” to imply they “empowered” others by telling them what to do. Caveat being, I’m a product manager not a doctor. I’ve worked with a lot of people who must be right - all the time! Execs who could not stand having their opinions questioned.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 26, 2019

Credit Henrik Kniberg & Crisp When you start to scale and have multiple products and/or teams, alignment becomes paramount. But there is another way, a way to keep teams and product aligned whilst still allowing for the speed of autonomy. A common mistake is describing an output rather than an outcome as your OKR?—?something

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ProductPlan

APRIL 17, 2020

5 Key Responsibilities of Intentional Leadership of a Remote Product Team. Along the way, we’ve made our fair share of mistakes. 5 Key Responsibilities of Intentional Leadership of a Remote Product Team. The upside is that newly remote teams can learn quite a lot from seasoned remote-work pioneers.

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Mind the Product

MAY 23, 2017

The long awaited book Product Leadership is finally about to hit our Kindles, iPads and possibly even our hands. Anticipation has been building given the high-profile nature of the authors, including Mind the Product’s very own Martin Eriksson. This is a book that shows Product Management has come of age.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. Each functional group has its own product priorities, so each wants a different roadmap.

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Userpilot

JUNE 13, 2022

We covered the best blogs on SaaS growth, product marketing , UX analytics, venture capital, and sales. The Userpilot blog provides well-researched, in-depth articles on user onboarding, product growth, product growth, user experience, and so much more. Are you looking for the best SaaS blogs and influencers to follow in 2022?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Wondering what the best product conferences of 2021 are? We’ve collected the best events for product folks that you can attend online or in-person. February Product Conferences. Product World. Product Marketing Rendezvous. Source: Product Marketing Alliance. Table of contents. Source: Productworld.co.

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Revulytics

JULY 1, 2019

Revulytics sponsors a series of Product Management Today webinars featuring innovative ideas from top software product management thought leaders. Teresa Torres , Product Discovery Coach at Product Talk , presented The Top 5 Most Common Rapid Prototyping Mistakes.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The best product launches are like the cream cheese frosting on a decadent chocolate cake! enabled product or feature set and everyone’s totally energized over the upcoming announcement and marketing launch activities. The new product is going to boost your differentiation in the competitive space. All good, right?

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Throughout my career as both a product manager and startup founder, there’s been one severely underrated skill I credit for much of my success—and that’s reading. I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 16, 2019

Integrations also expose the depth and breadth of an SaaS product that may not be immediately apparent. This gives added incentive for a user to open the product, and use it for a longer period of time. Mailchimp, for example, has leveraged this strategy aggressively, and arguably was ahead of its competitors in pushing integration.

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Bain Public

MAY 24, 2019

It is no secret that a product manager needs momentum in areas such as product development, product sales and customer adoption in order to succeed. Without support from stakeholders to access the resources you need, your product could fail. As a product manager, you can only build momentum by getting started.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 9, 2019

For a product manager to be successful, they must be viewed as both credible and trustworthy. Without that confidence, product managers can get stuck in an ongoing cycle of attempting to quash doubts by revisiting topics over and over again because they haven’t secured buy in on various ideas, projects and initiatives.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

Is your B2B product easy to sell and easy to renew? I realize not every product person has to navigate sales stakeholders. But if you’re working on a B2B product with a sales force, odds are you know what I mean. But if you’re working on a B2B product with a sales force, odds are you know what I mean.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Say ‘Product Roadmap’ and every product person knows what you mean. But Product Adoption Roadmap (or Product Adoption Strategy ) and you get people scratching their heads. This is exactly what I wanted to tackle in today’s post: how to build an effective product adoption strategy for your SaaS.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

It was launched in 2011 and went broke in 2013 because people didn’t buy the product. The authors relied on their intuition or professionalism, and didn’t account for the most important factor in product creation?—?the the product/market fit. There’s always a chance the product will fail. How about Google Wave?

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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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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

In the perfect world, product managers have all the time, resources, and skills to do impeccable, in-depth market and user research. In the real world, product managers may have to start from scratch and quickly find something meaningful to work on. The perfect world does not exist, though. There is only the real world.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

How to solve common dysfunctions in product management Today’s guest is Ben Foster, the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at Prodify. Ben has led successful technology products for the last 25 years. He  He is also the co-author of Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Growing your startup’s users and revenue is so critical that it makes sense to hire someone to run it, and to potentially add a team underneath them to support this goal. Network effects emerge when products, like marketplaces, social apps, B2B collaboration tools, and so on, get more useful the more users that are on them.In

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Why is product failure such a common feature of the SaaS landscape? We’re also looking at what product managers do to increase the survival chances of their products. We talk about product failure when the product doesn’t meet its objectives or goals. Product failure is often attributed to poor UI/UX.

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