The Product Guy

JUNE 21, 2024

Empathy is a critical skill for product managers, as it enables them to deeply understand and connect with the users they are designing for. By putting themselves in the users’ shoes, product managers can gain valuable insights into their needs, motivations, frustrations, and goals.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 25, 2021

Product management requires you to master so many different skills, that there always seems to be a gap between what you do well and what you need to do well to succeed. As a manager of product people, it is your job to help them with this continuous growth, but it’s not always easy. The answer is, of course, yes?—?most

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2022

If you’re looking to improve your team's work, a product management framework can be an excellent starting point. A framework is a set of guidelines or principles that can help guide your team’s decisions and provide a common understanding for all team members. The testable product is the fastest way to get data on an idea.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The first product manager in a startup is a critical role with immense impact on the startup’s success?—?both Photo by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash When I joined Twiggle as their first VP Product I was the thirteenth employee. Shortly after I started, the CEO surprised me by saying I should hire a product manager.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 12, 2022

Here I have tried to reveal the most common cases when the cooperation between the development team and the entrepreneur fails for reasons beyond the control of all parties involved. At times it’s just our [product team] issue, in other words— we don’t have the specific experience required to meet the client’s needs. you don’t need it.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The range of work we do as product managers is so broad that we inevitably end up finding inspiration from all sorts of sources, whether it’s books on business strategy or essays on design. Thinking, fast and slow, in product management. What, you might wonder, does this have to do with product management?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2021

But before you debut the product of your efforts, there are some important considerations to make before your drop date. Here, we’ll take a look at the product development questions you must ask yourself before launching any new product. What problems do they deal with and how does your product solve them?

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 20, 2024

How product managers can master product process Watch on YouTube TLDR – The Product Innovation Charter (PIC) is a short document that provides direction and alignment for a product development project. In this article, we will explore the seven knowledge areas for product mastery.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 16, 2017

As a product manager who has managed offshore development teams, I’ve learned that it’s not easy, and that having engineering teams on the other side of the world is not always congruent with delivering great products. Knowing each developer reaps benefits when a critical release or issue is on the line.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Measuring the performance of product managers is a real challenge for a number of reasons. When planning the product managers’ goals, this challenge can translate into taking the wrong direction altogether. Here is a new way to look at product management goals, and make them a useful tool for both you and your team.

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bpma ProductHub

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The mentorship program at the Boston Product Management Association and how to make the best out of it. Mentors can offer you wisdom distilled out of years of experience, functional know-how and domain expertise either at your everyday job or for your future career development. Mentor – Mentee Guidelines.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Product managers adopt a lo-fi approach to advertising their products Image Credit: nefasth When we think about how we want to present our products to our potential customers, I think that we can all agree that we’d like to make the product look as attractive as possible.

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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Design systems are essential tools for maintaining consistency, scalability, and efficiency in product development. Whether you’re a UX designer, developer, or product manager, this guide will help ensure your design system remains robust, adaptable, and future-proof. However, they’re not a one-time investment.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A mindset of product experimentation is vitally important for product success and growth. In the modern SaaS world, being able to form a solid product experiment hypothesis and execute successful experiments is a key product management skill. Ready to learn more about experimentation? Next, define the end goal.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

Product operations is an emerging function. How does it help modern product management organizations to scale effectively? Similar to the emergence of design ops in the last five years, product operations fulfills a need to streamline a scaling function. What Product Managers do. What is Product Operations?

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

Second, a learning roadmap allows you to leverage your product roadmapping skills and use them to create an actionable learning plan. For example, the guidelines I have developed for the GO product roadmap template directly apply to the roadmap in figure 1. Creating the Learning Roadmap.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

They speed up the design process and help designers and developers deliver solutions faster. Today, Designers use AI to generate feature ideas, improve UX writing, and write better explanations when handing designs to developers. Their goal is to facilitate the creation of screens and code faster for designers and developers.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 21, 2015

If you want to read the story behind the Lean Product Management Manifesto, you can find it here. Over the past few months I have been working with people in the Lean and Agile community to figure out how we can communicate the benefits of a Lean approach to Product Management. The Lean Product Management Manifesto.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

How to build connection and empower product management teams Tami Reiss is with us. She is an experienced product executive who works with tech product leaders and teams to realize their potential by focusing on their strengths to advance toward their goals. 18:23] How can product managers build those relationships?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 12, 2022

After creating your product manager resume , it’s well worth writing your product manager cover letter if your prospective employer wants one. The proper format for a product manager cover letter The last thing you want is your cover letter to look just like any other.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JUNE 12, 2023

That’s why being a cruise line product manager can be a very good job. Now that they have once again been granted permission to sail, how are their product managers going to go about finding ways to get their customers to come back and travel the high seas with them? Clearly passengers are willing to climb aboard.

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Product Management University

JULY 1, 2024

Here’s the big dilemma if you’re leading a product marketing team. You’re sandwiched right between product management and sales. Your success highly depends on having products that first and foremost deliver measurable value to the market. For more technical products, 70/30 still works.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 3, 2020

What All Industries Expect from Their Product Managers. Whether the industry is pharmaceuticals, furniture, or food, product managers representing all types of products share a few common high-level responsibilities. They develop a strategic direction and drive the development of their companies’ products.

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UX Studio

MAY 15, 2018

By definition, design handoff takes place when the finished design has reached the stage for the developers to implement it. Let’s look at the basics and some suggestions to get the best out of the designer-developer collaboration. First of all, I must state that a “finished design” of a digital product does not exist.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In today’s Product in Practice , we’ll hear from Christophe as well as from Senior Product Designer Claire Laboissette. Do you have a Product in Practice you’d like to share? How Product Worked at Botify Before Adopting Product Trios Initially, there were only developers working on the Botify product.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 4, 2024

Yet this is what the life of a product manager often feels like. These conditions only exist in the ‘lab’ where the recipe is developed. The best practice for managing product roadmaps is the same as the ‘lab’ created recipe for the five-star dish. Thankfully, this is a metaphor. The same is true for roadmaps.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2021

At UX Studio , while we develop our products, uxfol.io In this article, we’ll give some examples of how to increase the success of product development by improving the collaboration between the UX team and the developers. However, these tips may come in handy for developers and product managers as well. .

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Userpilot

JULY 28, 2024

The specific requirements for this role will vary depending on the company size, industry, and the product’s target audience. Here are the main responsibilities and duties of a UI Designer: Design User Interfaces : Develop visually appealing and user-friendly interfaces. 3+ years of experience in UI design.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Another downfall of this situation is that even when you do have someone who can excel at both roles, more often than not, the project management takes priority over the product management. Product strategy often lacks “urgency” and gets pushed back to make room for urgent tactical matters like on-time product delivery.

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Userpilot

JUNE 17, 2024

In this guide, we’ll delve into the core responsibilities, salary insights, essential skills, and more, providing you with the knowledge and tools you need to excel as a product owner. TL;DR In SaaS companies, a product owner is responsible for developing the product’s vision and navigating the product roadmap to maximize value.

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UX Studio: Product Management

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

With a decade-long experience, we have always been creating and adapting design systems to help companies along the way – including our own business and products. Thus, the design and development of a product can be effective. This is inevitable for creating a lucrative product. How have we been doing this?

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Product Club

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

Applying the 3 Horizons Framework to Product Management | Michael Rutledge from Michael Rutledge. First presented at Product Tank, a division of Mind the Product, February 2019. This balance is critical not only for product success but also to inspire and motivate teams.

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UX Studio

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

In this post we created a guide on the steps to take in developing your brand strategy. How to develop your brand strategy? The ideas you’ve generated in previous workshops and the research you conduct will form the starting point of the guidelines you’ll have to create. Voice and tone guidelines. Brand guidelines.

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2024

Map out a vision for your user interfaces : Develop a style guide, ensure consistency, and create mood boards or design mockups to visualize the end product. Add UI components : Choose UI components that align with the design vision, maintain consistent design patterns, and follow accessibility guidelines.

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Userpilot

JULY 25, 2024

TL;DR An interaction designer focuses on creating intuitive and engaging product interfaces that enhance user experiences. They optimize user flows , develop interactive prototypes, and collaborate with UX designers, developers, and product managers to ensure cohesive design implementation.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

What is product operations (ops)? How is it different from product management ? And what role does it play in a product-led organization? In this article, we’ll go over what the product ops function is, the responsibilities of a product ops manager, and why it’s important for your product team.

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Userpilot

JULY 28, 2024

Conversely, a UX designer at a company developing an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system might prioritize creating streamlined data entry workflows, customizable dashboards, and efficient reporting tools to optimize complex business processes.

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