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Serve Fewer Markets. Win More Deals.

bpma ProductHub

The sales team is providing feedback and advising that the product is missing features preventing them from penetrating market A, and if only they had those features, they could be very successful selling. In a recent exercise with a product team, I challenged them to list the markets where the company could potentially sell.

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Structured Visits – Cross Functional Team

The Product Bistro

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. Having them in the planning process, and at some level, participating in the exercise is a big help with buy in. Visit Team(s).

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Decode A Job Posting from Spotify: Senior Product Manager?—?Playlist Platform

The Product Coalition

What technical knowledge does Spotify expect from a candidate? explains that we need not just a “techie” who will monitor technical indicators but a product manager who will combine knowledge of the technical world with an understanding of customers' desires and main company metrics. Know what our users want?

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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

Some fundamental principles I found helpful when starting this exercise, Keep it short and sweet so that you can quickly memorize the core message. I advise every product managers to focus on the customer outcome rather than the technical implementation. Make a list of the scope and the challenges to your product. First Attempt.

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How to be a Great Product Manager According to Experts at Dropbox, Stripe, and Concur

Alchemer Mobile

How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? I’ve been kind of actively running away from management roles, and mostly that’s just a factor of the things that I really wanna learn or I just really wanna learn how to be a really, like, kick-ass technical PM. So that’s me.

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The Making of Product Managers: Negar’s Story

The Product Coalition

Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. She had many ideas about how to improve marketing tactics but did not have the technical skills to either make the necessary changes on the web or create better solutions using technology. Unfortunately, there were none.

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Build Strong Product Teams by Hiring Graduates

Mind the Product

It’s partly because few companies that hire PMs attend university careers fairs and so careers advisers and tutors are not aware of or familiar with the role. It had become clear to me that there is little awareness of Product Management as a role among students in the UK. I think this has come about through a combination of factors.