Roman Pichler
JUNE 14, 2016
Product. What is a product ? It might be tempting to say, something we can market or sell. But when it comes to digital products, this definition has only limited applicability. Take the search function on your company’s website. Is that a product? Or is the entire website the product? And how would others, including people from development, marketing, and sales, answer this question?
The Product Bistro
JUNE 23, 2016
Completely unrelated to my usual posting, I had an interesting discussion on Facebook today about the changes that consumers are experiencing. This discussion was about how some items prices remain the same, but the quantity you receive is less. Case in point: Toilet paper. On the right we see how the roll used to be. Smaller cardboard core, and more paper wrapped around it.
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Sachin Rekhi
JUNE 20, 2016
As the product management role has become far more popular here in Silicon Valley and at technology firms in general, we’ve started to see specialization in the role begin to emerge. While these specific product roles rarely have differentiated titles or formal separate requirements, savvy hiring managers are certainly looking for product managers with specific skill-sets and passion areas depending on the specific product stage and challenges they are solving for.
Haines-Group
JUNE 8, 2016
Customers evaluate your products relative to competing products. So use a structured approach to assess competitors. (Hint, it’s not just a feature matrix.) Pick the top 2 competitors and analyze each using this stack. (Don’t forget that a key competitor may not be a competitor at all, but rather, a non-product substitute for the value that your product would provide.
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Ken Norton
JUNE 1, 2016
How do you launch a product management career? -. “Nothing early in your career is more important than achieving success — and nothing signals success more than working for a successful company.” – Andy Rachleff It’s June, and freshly-minted graduates are just beginning their careers in product management. In many ways, I consider them fortunate—when I was in college.
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Roman Pichler
JUNE 28, 2016
Scaling and the Product Life Cycle. To understand if and when the product owner role should be scaled, I find it helpful to consider the product’s life cycle stage. As long as a product is young and hasn’t reached product-market fit—or is close to achieving it—I recommend having a single person in charge of the product. Here is why: Young products tend to require a significant amount of experimentation and rework in order to get the product launched, adapt it to the feedback of the early market,
The Product Bistro
JUNE 14, 2016
Our last post was an overview of what is a structured series of customer visits, and a high level overview. This next post in the series will dive deeper, and discuss the importance of structured customer visits being cross functional. Even though structured customer visits are technically “ marketing ” research, for them to be valuable requires that many of the key groups in the organization are involved.
Sachin Rekhi
JUNE 7, 2016
Slides: Product Management Career Ladders. One of the areas I often mentor product managers on are the career paths available to them within the profession. Since there isn’t a lot of discussion about this out there, I wanted to share what the career ladders look like for product managers at 8 top technology firms as well as some of the key dimensions upon which advancement in the profession occur.
Good Product Manager
JUNE 9, 2016
SiriusDecisions 2016 Summit Recap. I’ve mentioned the annual SiriusDecisions Summit a few times previously here on this blog. Well, if you missed it this year, it was held May 24-27 in Nashville and it was a fantastic event. We had 2500+ sales, marketing and product leaders together for 4 days of sharing of new research, practitioner case studies, lots of networking and some fantastic evening events.
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The Product Coalition
JUNE 4, 2016
Spectacular & Dangerous Road on Earth- Tianmen Mountain Road, Zhangjiajie, China ( [link] ) When we talk about product management in tech, usually we don’t explicitly distinguish between B2C and B2B. What we often hear people say is “Product management is very vaguely defined and varies a lot in different companies depending on the type of product, the size, stage, and culture of the company.
svpg
JUNE 1, 2016
This has been a tough year for the technology industry. In March we lost Andy Grove, and in April we lost Bill Campbell. Sadly, in May we lost Bruce Williams. Bruce had been fighting Pancreatic Cancer for the past year and a half. He had been in an experimental program at UCSF, which extended his life at least a year. While I learned much from Andy Grove and Bill Campbell, Bruce had an even bigger impact on me, both personally and professionally, probably more than any other single person.
Product Innovation Educators
JUNE 6, 2016
This episode is about the product lifecycle and developing products customers want. As the pressure to get products to market faster increases, little room is left for learning through mistakes. My guest knows this well and has helped numerous companies improve their processes and results developing products. She has worked all over the US, Europe and Asia, including traveling to Japan more than 100 times to help Japanese companies globalize.
The Product Bistro
JUNE 7, 2016
The lifeblood of product management is customer interaction. Getting out of the office, and sitting down with customers is a powerful aphrodisiac, and allows you to get unalloyed feedback. We do this as often as possible, hence why the typical product manager job description specifies 25 – 30% travel. However, left to our own devices, much of this travel is less effective than it could be.
Speaker: David Warren and Kevin O’Neill Stoll
Transitioning to a usage-based business model offers powerful growth opportunities but comes with unique challenges. How do you validate strategies, reduce risks, and ensure alignment with customer value? Join us for a deep dive into designing effective pilots that test the waters and drive success in usage-based revenue. Discover how to develop a pilot that captures real customer feedback, aligns internal teams with usage metrics, and rethinks sales incentives to prioritize lasting customer eng
Sachin Rekhi
JUNE 13, 2016
We all woke up this morning to incredible news on Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn for $26.2B, or $196 per share, a 50% premium over the previous LinkedIn stock price. While many have already remarked on this bold move by Satya Nadella and what this could mean for both Microsoft and LinkedIn’s respective businesses, I wanted to share three observations on larger trends this embodies across our industry.
Good Product Manager
JUNE 9, 2016
SiriusDecisions 2016 Summit Recap. I’ve mentioned the annual SiriusDecisions Summit a few times previously here on this blog. Well, if you missed it this year, it was held May 24-27 in Nashville and it was a fantastic event. We had 2500+ sales, marketing and product leaders together for 4 days of sharing of new research, practitioner case studies, lots of networking and some fantastic evening events.
Tyner Blain
JUNE 3, 2016
How do you work with professional services, consulting, field engineers, etc. to make your product better? Do you just treat their inputs as yet another channel for feature requests , or do you engage them as an incredibly potent market-sensing capability? Conversation Starter. I received an excellent and insightful question from one of my former students in DIT’s product management degree program (enrollment for the next cohort closes in a month).
Product Club
JUNE 23, 2016
Hi, I love the light bulb visual you used and would like to use it for an article I’m publishing. Is it ok to reuse? And if so, how do you prefer it be cited to provide due attribution? Is the source URL (www.productmanagerclub.com) ok?
Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin
As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.
Product Innovation Educators
JUNE 20, 2016
I’m bringing back an incredible guest who I first interviewed way back in episode 10 – one of the first interviews I did. He wrote the step-by-step guide for implementing Lean startup practices, titled Running Lean , created the Lean Canvas tool, and blogs regularly about these topics at www.leanstack.com. His name is Ash Maurya. Now he has a new book about applying Lean Startup principles to go from new product concept to a product that is achieving predictable success with customer
Ken Norton
JUNE 7, 2016
Is “being authentic” easier said than done? -. In a recent newsletter I encouraged you to be authentic in the workplace, to make sure your work self is a reflection of your true self. The newsletter was generally well-received, with a lot of positive feedback. I also got some heartfelt responses that helped me realize how difficult it.
TSIA
JUNE 30, 2016
Customer health scores are a great way to get an indicator of potential customer churn. While every company calculates theirs differently, the important thing is to have a health score methodology that helps your company align your customer success processes with the outcomes you're trying to drive with your customer base. However, if you're not using a health score calculation method that uses predictive analytics, you're falling behind many customer success pacesetters.
nulab
JUNE 21, 2016
Dynamic diagramming is a powerful tool that can help you build a better foundation for any project. Designers, developers, marketers, and project managers alike can learn by diagramming their ideas and collaborating with others. Optimum Communication. From flowcharts to mind maps, diagrams are a powerful way to communicate macro and micro details of a project to all of those involved in its creation.
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SidsAvenue
JUNE 18, 2016
Believe in yourself It's not about what we do but how we do It ain't how hard you can hit, it's about how hard u can get hit and keep moving Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens Knowing what to do is important knowing what not to do is critical Help others think instead of thinking for others People who are intent on proving they are right are usually the same people that are not particularly curious.
TIBCO - Thought Leadership
JUNE 13, 2016
Fans of the UK Channel 4’s “IT crowd,” will be familiar with the IT department of the fictional Reynholm Industries, buried deep in the company’s basement with a pre-recorded message to turn the computer off and on again as a default response to anyone who bothers them with an IT query. As with all the best comedy, it’s a scenario grounded in reality, highlighting the shortfall in visibility and communication around IT, which has done little to promote broader understanding and engagement across
Product Innovation Educators
JUNE 13, 2016
The 2016 Annual Product Management and Marketing Survey identified four skills that are responsible for a significant increase in personal income. Product managers that excel in these four areas earn 25% more than product managers who don’t. One of these skills is called “pitch artist” and is defined as, “the ability to stand up to peers, managers and executives and sell them your ideas and conclusions.” When it comes to being a pitch artist — effectively comm
Product Manager in Heels
JUNE 13, 2016
I spoke at the State of Innovation conference in Boston on the importance of talking to your customers when building products. The talk covered three things: The role of the Product Manager How to identify the problems your users are having Leveraging the power of influencing without authority I'm going to be posting a three-part blog series on each of these topics.
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TSIA
JUNE 28, 2016
We could tell you how a TSIA membership can add value to your business, but why not hear it directly from one of our members? In this video clip, Kurt Kuelz of Camstar Systems, Inc., a Siemens business , talks about how a TSIA membership has helped Camstar accelerate their education offerings and grow their revenue. Here's what he had to say!
DISQO
JUNE 12, 2016
Building great product teams begins with hiring great product people. But who are product professionals and what exactly do they do? Sometimes even. product pros find this a difficult question to answer because their scope is wide and they wear many different hats. Ken Yeung, a reporter for The Next Web , defines them as, “the unsung heroes of the industry, these skilled professionals are the people who manage every movement of the product’s lifecycle, taking the idea and guiding it through deve
Ken Norton
JUNE 7, 2016
Is “being authentic” easier said than done? -. In a recent newsletter I encouraged you to be authentic in the workplace, to make sure your work self is a reflection of your true self. The newsletter was generally well-received, with a lot of positive feedback. I also got some heartfelt responses that helped me realize how difficult it.
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