Product Management University

OCTOBER 28, 2019

That influence is the key to strong leadership. The words vision, leadership, market knowledge and influence are tattooed all over them. Beyond product comparisons, it’s also big-picture things like competitor market strategies, portfolio footprint, etc. Competitive landscape. One last thing.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 25, 2020

In comparison to the growth of the larger job market, the demand for PM roles in the US surpasses the increase in demand for all other roles combined by 5x. With these new leadership roles comes a lot of organization-wide change. So, why the growth?

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Product Management Unpacked

APRIL 3, 2020

The job of a product manager has many elements, but at its core is a responsibility to build relationships, especially with development, engineering, sales and sales leadership, as well as executive management. Be aware of the gravity and ambiguity of written text, which adds seriousness in comparison with water cooler chats.

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Product Management Unpacked

APRIL 25, 2019

This is where you need to establish yourself, your leadership style and your presence. A gap analysis is the comparison of actual performance with potential or desired performance – the current state vs. the desired future state. Your first 100 days in your new product leadership position sets the tone. Gap analysis.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

This guide outlines the key stages of growth from entry-level positions to leadership roles, helping you navigate your journey in the usability testing field and potentially leading to a role as a UX Director. Professionals can advance through various roles by building expertise in testing methodologies and UX design principles.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 28, 2024

This guide outlines the key stages of growth from entry-level positions to leadership roles, helping you navigate your journey in the usability testing field and potentially leading to a role as a UX Director. Professionals can advance through various roles by building expertise in testing methodologies, and UX design principles.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Those years had transformed me — honing new skills, cultivating leadership prowess, and nurturing a deep dedication to enhancing user experiences. The comparison was my enemy, a distraction. The Decision to Leave ⏳ The initial thrill had faded, replaced by burnout, stress, and a sense of being undervalued.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 10, 2020

In this talk from BoS Europe 2019, Ruth shares some of her experience growing up with a severe physical disability that have led her to think very hard about her own goals, values and priorities in comparison to the energy they expend to achieve. Free Q&A with Alex Osterwalder Psychology for UX Masterclass.

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Mind the Product

JULY 5, 2018

Instead Paul makes the point that it’s much more healthy to imagine product management as being one of many spokes of the big wheel (held together by leadership at the core). In comparison to the PM-centric world view, it should make us less likely to be preoccupied, prejudiced, and naive.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 13, 2020

in organizations that lack strong leadership. In these situations, the impediments need to be addressed, and typically this requires the support of the leadership. Conflict Is Inevitable In my experience, speaking truth to power is required in organizations that lack strong leadership. Framing the Situation?—?Conflict

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2021

No matter what makes an individual behave this way, it is a sign of poor leadership qualities. Labeling feature requests as bugs : By comparison to the other maneuvers sneaking features via bug reports is almost a thoughtful approach?—?someone Others think that they know best, probably fueled by a paternalistic mindset.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Industry rank: A comparison to competitors based on factors such as estimated market value, number of customers, customer reviews, potential for growth and other factors. He has also held product leadership roles at Twitter, Google, and Yahoo. Customers can qualify or disqualify products based on integrations with other applications.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 15, 2022

Salary comparison Can I Transition from Business Analyst to Product Manager? Working with a team is part of the product management role, so those interested in transitioning to this position should be either experienced leaders or comfortable in leadership roles. Some, like leadership, may come naturally to some people.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Strategic alignment While this shared scaffolding makes it easy to optimize staffing, it also simplifies things for executive leadership and other stakeholders, getting them strategically aligned instead of critiquing the roadmap’s format or presentation. Yet this exercise shouldn’t be in vain.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Finally, progress reports allow the senior leadership to make informed decisions as to whether to continue the project or pull the plug and divert the resources to another initiative. If you’re writing for senior leadership , appeal to things that matter to them the most, like business goals.

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The Product HQ

JULY 1, 2024

Soft skills focused on team leadership are essential for this job. In cities where there is a high demand for product directors, so too do salary estimates increase in comparison to regions where there is less of a demand. Compare this to the salary estimates in California where product directors earn an average of $184,069 a year.

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Split

JUNE 23, 2022

By setting up an experiment for every new feature delivered, success metrics aren’t just for comparison purposes. Armed with unprecedented data around end-user experiences, development teams will excel as the ultimate knowledge source for senior leadership.

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Earlier last year, before we transitioned to outcome-based planning, the leadership team at Yesware did a thought exercise during an offsite. To reiterate the obvious, the leadership team needs to set the company vision and direction. We broke into pairs and then each pair developed a feature roadmap along a particular area of focus.

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Gainsight

JUNE 9, 2021

By leveraging Gainsight’s technology, library of best practices and thought leadership to enable their Customer Success teams, our customers delivered even more brilliant performance than their peers on the Cloud Index. Figure 1: Performance Comparison: Gainsight Customers vs Non-Gainsight Customers on the Cloud Index.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 12, 2019

At a time when so much of today’s B2B ecosystem is built around software products, I believe it has become incumbent on the people responsible for designing, developing, and building these products to take back leadership of how our companies are run, and lead us all back to a culture of responsible growth. Here I’ll discuss how.

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UX Studio

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It was a milestone, and since then, we’ve had 8 Studio leads in rotating positions, an opportunity for our professionals to try themselves in a leadership role being a bridge between our business and our services.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Within this leadership role, group product managers oversee the development of a group of products from the beginning, to its testing stages and eventual product launch onto the market. From these statistics, we deduce that the group product manager has more earning potential in comparison to the principal product manager.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 5, 2020

Listen First, Talk Later Develop Leadership Skills Influence Without Authority KISS Principle We Before Me Use Management Tools Stay Agile Guide Your Team To Replace You Empathize Always Firmly Support Your Team Communication Skills. Develop Leadership Skills. Here is the full list of necessary leadership skills. Over Excel?

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 16, 2022

This input diversity makes comparisons much more difficult. It’s essential that even though product operations reports to the product management leadership, it’s seen as a distinct discipline requiring staff with a different set of skills. Executives receive various updates, reports, presentations, and other artifacts.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 20, 2019

Here are some specific metrics to measure and compare: Rating changes. Retention changes. Satisfaction score changes. Rating changes. Feedback on functionality. Product leadership. Changes in feedback sentiment. This will give you a side-by-side comparison of happiness before and after the update.

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ProductPlan

MAY 3, 2023

Without a true appreciation for the role and the vital nature of the outputs product teams produce, leadership would be hard-pressed to realize there’s a game-changing tool for the product team that’s worth investigating and investing in. If we’re not spending six hours a day using a tool, do we really need to buy it?

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Include high-level thought leadership and/or industry trends to frame the conversation. This section should be presented by your CS leadership with the goal of conveying the message that you’re in touch with market needs. Companies treasure the ability to see how well they’re doing in comparison to their competitors.

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Agile Velocity

JUNE 4, 2020

We have certainly begun to see a shift in recent years and one key lagging indicator of that shift is executive leadership embracing Agile as a business imperative. In the early stages of an Agile transformation for Company “A”, I was working with C-Suite leadership, as well as their direct reports.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

It helps to track efforts to standardize metrics in your industry, too, so you can fine-tune metrics and create more meaningful comparisons. That starts at the top, with the processes your leadership team builds around your KPIs. Create a Culture of Ownership Turning data into action depends on building a culture of ownership.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

To read more, or get these in real-time, join the 9100+ others who follow me at @jefflash : Every Bad #ProdMgmt Competitive Analysis Comparison Grid I’ve Ever Seen pic.twitter.com/6CXS8z1pFd. Tuesday, October 2: INDUSTRY (Cleveland). — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) August 23, 2018.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 11, 2022

Some soft skills required for a customer success manager position include leadership, problem-solving, communication, empathy, industry knowledge, technical savviness, and collaboration. In comparison, customer success is more proactive in preventing problems and solving them before they happen.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 10, 2019

Stepping away from kung-fu comparisons, navigating plateaus within a business not only helps the company, but also creates a better overall experience for customers. We teach product management, data analytics, coding, digital marketing, UX design and product leadership courses in 18 campuses across the US, UK and Canada and the world.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

To read more, or get these in real-time, join the 9100+ others who follow me at @jefflash : Every Bad #ProdMgmt Competitive Analysis Comparison Grid I’ve Ever Seen pic.twitter.com/6CXS8z1pFd. Tuesday, October 2: INDUSTRY (Cleveland). — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) August 23, 2018.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 10, 2021

When I go to leadership meetings to talk about the product, I’m occasionally asked how long things are taking, or what is stopping us shipping X by Y date, or what is preventing us from reaching a key OKR by the end of the year? Comparisons, of course, are always unfair. days a week.

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Gainsight

APRIL 18, 2022

But the real impetus for buy-in and justification by leadership is with numbers and data that describe value. Knowing what precisely the CS org “owns” in comparison to other teams, like Sales, enables your CS leadership to put actions in place so that the team can adequately measure their success. . Begin with a Charter.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 29, 2022

It’s a balance between standing out and fitting in, getting enough potential buyers interested without alienating too much of the total addressable market with bold claims or disparaging comparisons to established brands. Breaking ground. and AltaVista pioneered search and Internet indexing, but Google’s worn the crown for decades.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Period-over-period comparisons let you see the results of your analysis in the current time range with the previous day, or the same day from the previous week, month, quarter or year. In 2019, we also grew our executive leadership team with three new leaders to take on the new challenges of a growing company.

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