Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 24, 2024

However, as Mary Baird’s inspiring story shows, a successful pivot from nonprofit leadership to product management is not only possible but also incredibly rewarding. In this article, we’ll explore Mary’s journey, the strategies she used to reframe her experience, and the valuable lessons she learned along the way.

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Userpilot

JUNE 17, 2024

Blogs : Deepen your knowledge with Userpilot’s blog, The Product Guy Blog, ProductPlan, Product Coalition, and Inside Intercom. Best tool for project management: Jira – The agile platform allows cross-functional teams to plan, monitor, and release top-notch products.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

To be a kick-ass product manager , you need a very diverse skill set. This article explores both hard and soft skills that product managers need in their everyday work, so if you’re curious to learn more, dive right in. Soft skills, like communication or leadership , are more general and can be used in different contexts.

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Userpilot

JUNE 12, 2024

Empower your team : A great product manager empowers their team by delegating decision-making responsibilities. Influence – not force : Effective leadership is about influence, not coercion. Product manager’s main responsibilities Product managers are pivotal in guiding the development and success of software products.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

A product leader not only has to manage products but also to guide and direct the overall product strategy and team, and ensure that products are delivered to market. Holding regular Agile retrospectives can be very useful in this regard and allow a safer communication to happen within the team.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

Listen to this article: [link]. For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. 1 Set an Objective.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

That said, product managers have the same responsibilities. They work with typical product management software and also manage the product roadmap as well as the product team. In this article, we’ll take a closer look into the roles, duties, and abilities of a software product manager.

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ProductPlan

JULY 2, 2021

Our library of content helps thousands upon thousands of product people every month continue their education and understanding of the product space, thought-leadership, best practices, and trends, all for free. Similar to Google Search, you can search for anything product management-related. The Product Strategy Playbook.

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Userpilot

JUNE 12, 2024

The product specialist role offers ample opportunities to advance your career in different functions, such as product management and customer experience. You can even transition into leadership roles in marketing and sales. It takes more than the right degree or certifications to become a product specialist worth your salt.

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

As business advisors and executive coaches, we've worked with dozens of CEOs to help them build and grow their product leadership team as they scale their company. Getting external support, such as product management consulting, can help establish the product leadership team responsible for nurturing and guiding the product team.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

You had to walk a long way before you could enter product management, and when you did — it was a senior role already. As the product management profession matured, additional levels were naturally added to the career ladder, including junior ones. Job titles generally reflect that distinction but not always.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Listen to this article: [link]. Before I discuss how you can help an underachieving team, let’s briefly explore what good performance looks like, assuming that an agile, Scrum-based process is used. What’s more, an agile, self-managing team is collectively responsible for their performance. What is Bad Performance?

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

Do you follow any product manager blogs? Would you like to discover new ones that will give you valuable insights into product management ? In our article, we introduce 20 of our favorite product manager blogs that every product pro should follow, regardless of their experience. If yes, you are in the right place!

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The Product HQ

JUNE 10, 2024

However, it doesn’t mean that product managers don’t become data science PMs. Adopting the role becomes easier if a product manager learns and understands data science. In this article, we look at five typical roles that a data science product manager goes through.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Since finance PMs are responsible for a specific niche of products, recruiters who scout for them look for a particular set of skills in candidates. This article discusses eleven skills that employers look for when hiring finance product managers. As we’ve seen in the last few years, product demand changes.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Here, to help you, are five product management tricks and tools for every product leader. It’s the foundation of our product strategy.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

Product management is equal parts art and science – and it’s vital to the success of your SaaS. Product teams need to have a combination of hard and soft skills to succeed: technical knowledge , communication, leadership, strategic thinking, and empathy. Drives product success. But what’s the difference?

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Userpilot

JUNE 12, 2024

They analyze customer feedback , sales calls, user journeys, and other sources to understand customer needs better and increase product value. Defining user stories – a crucial concept in the Agile methodology that seeks to shift focus from product features to the needs of real people.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Sustainable pace is an important agile principle. The Agile Manifesto defines it in the following way: “The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.” You can find out more about participatory decision-making in my article “ Use Decision Rules to Make Better Decisions ”.).

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

A story of love, hate, oppression and triumph I’ll admit, I’ve started to fall out of love with agile over the past year or so?—?don’t I wholeheartedly believe that you need to be adaptable to survive today but the further I travel on my own journey the more I wonder if we as an industry are moving past agile. Enter agile.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

To thrive in the role, budding platform PMs need to learn technical and softer skill sets, such as effective customer research and road-mapping a product’s route to market. This article describes all of the essential information needed to begin the journey to becoming a platform product manager.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

I am ready to provide business leaders and product managers the information, access, and expert guidance that they wish they had earlier in their product journey. I share my passion for product through workshops, published articles and speaking engagements. Interested in having me speak or attend an event?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

The Product Leader Certificate requires a little more PM experience and demands competence in DevOps, data analytics, and hard technical skills. Key takeaways include product strategy , user research, and the UX/UI design process. It explores product leadership fundamentals and managing growth, among other takeaways.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The Product Management Podcast The Product Manager Podcast is a space to share and talk about the latest tips, tricks and tools to build great products and also make the world a better place. As an agile coach and technologist, Michael enjoys helping teams improve their collaboration to analyze and solve complex problems.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

There is an abundance of product manager jobs and internships from large companies, such as Google , Facebook , Dematic, and Fivestars. However, you’ll find lots of opportunities to become a product management intern at smaller companies, as well. They analyze the data and identify trends to craft workable strategies.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Organise the Team around a Product As the name suggests, a product team is focused on a product. This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. This sounds simple enough.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Mechanisms would be our processes used to translate the company vision into product strategy, prioritize and set each clan’s backlog and to get it done sprint by sprint. Context would be externally the travel industry and travelers in Latam, and internally our vision and mid-term strategy. What, exactly, is a Product Manager?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 9, 2019

While Product Managers and Technical Program Managers often work closely together and share project ownership, they generally have different sets of responsibilities that require different skill sets and ultimately, different strategies for interview prep. In this article, we’ll illuminate some of these similarities and differences.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 6, 2023

The SVPG remains at the forefront of thought leadership in product development. Founded by Marty Cagan, who cut his product leadership teeth at places like eBay, Netscape, and Hewlett-Packard, the SVPG has been sharing best practices and practical insights into product development for more than two decades.

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Modus Create

JUNE 30, 2021

Transformational CMOs Will Own Product Innovation. We had stated that in 2021, transformational CMOs would own product innovation and leverage omnichannel product strategies to not only understand how they fit in the marketplace but transform customer interactions for the better. The future of open source is bright.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 4, 2020

I gave several talks about that article. ” In my experience, when organizations want to use agile approaches or transform in some way, the managers start with the teams. Agile approaches can help teams improve, and many teams do release value faster. On this project, the team looks ahead for the product strategy.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

What’s a feature prioritization matrix and how can product teams leverage it to make better product decisions? These are the key questions we cover in the article. Mistakes to avoid in the feature prioritization process Here are a few common mistakes that product managers make during the prioritization process.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

Depending on how you communicate your product’s vision, this might include competitive and market analysis reports, revenue projections, detailed personas, user journey maps or story maps. Read the article below to learn why you should build story maps: Why Product Managers Need to Run Story Mapping Sessions with Teams “Where?”

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Bain Public

APRIL 13, 2020

As product management influences more high-level decisions and business strategies, partner alignment/collaboration becomes key. The good news is, the day-to-day role of a product manager is becoming more strategic. Also, if you have any feedback or criticism about this article then shoot us an email info@bainpublic.com.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

FUN FACT: It is actually thanks to the coaching service for innovative and technological SMBs (PMEit) administered by MAIN that we’ve been able to work with some of our incredible clients, Wastack , LiveScale , Blaise Transit and Enkidoo , and provide them with product management, consultancy and coaching support. Did you know 16.2%

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The Product Coalition

MAY 17, 2019

The impact you have in the world is all about change: how does your product change people lives? This is not a one way street: how does your customer expectations change your product strategy and direction? This is the most basic need for a product. A product needs to have customers, partners and competitors.

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