Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

A strong product strategy is often neglected because of the absence of any strategic thinking in product teams. What can product managers do to make sure they give their product strategy the attention it warrants? But today many, if not most, product teams fail this very first test. The result?

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 8, 2024

Essential strategy tools and frameworks for product managers Watch on YouTube TLDR Want to level up your product management game? This guide dives into the world of product strategy, sharing insights from expert Andreas Maihoefer. They need to line up with the corporate strategy above.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Shipping product to 500 million users without knowing what strategy was? Sam Odio found himself in this position early in his career while working at Facebook Photos. How to create a good strategy. What Is Good Strategy? Product strategy also doesn’t need to focus on product vision.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

According to Ant Murphy, the reason is simple, you don’t have a prioritization problem, you have a strategy problem. We explain how to create a successful product strategy, the role of product strategy in prioritization, and how to align your prioritization efforts with your strategy.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2020

In this talk from #MTP Engage Manchester consultant Itamar Gilad takes us through his GIST (goals, ideas, steps, tasks) framework. Itamar has over 20 years of product management experience working with industry leaders such as Google and Microsoft. At Google and Bing, only 10-20% of experiments generate positive results.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). I admit that in the past, I have been soured on “strategy” as a discipline.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The value assessment framework allows you to identify gaps in any of the value layers — definition, delivery, and perception. Photo by Iain Kennedy on Unsplash When I was a product lead at Imperva, there was a feature that engineering kept telling me required a rewrite. This concludes the value assessment framework.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 7, 2020

People who do this well are not only great at strategy and would make sharp executives, but also tend to ace Product Strategy interviews like the one in Google’s Product Management Interviews (for Facebook’s Product Sense interviews, read How to 10x Your Product Intuition ). How can Tesla sell more cars?

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 7, 2019

Positioning, while classically considered part of the marketing world, is absolutely essential for every product manager to understand. Positioning refers to the place that a brand occupies in the minds of customers and its perceived differentiation from its competitors.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 3, 2023

You should be aware of new trends, be able to make an informed guess if they are likely to impact your market and product, and decide if a technology needs to be further investigated. This usually doesn’t require in-depth technical skills like being able to write code or understand how a specific machine learning framework is used.

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Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2024

In SaaS, a product experience strategy provides the building blocks for making customers stay, engage with your app, and eventually become loyal advocates for your product. So what strategies can help you elevate the user experience? Define strategic goals using the SMART framework to align with business needs.

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Lenny Rachitsky

AUGUST 11, 2024

To improve vision and strategy: Acknowledge your personality type: If you are low in openness, recognize that big, abstract ideas may be challenging for you. After meetings, evaluate their effectiveness: Ask for feedback on whether the priming was sufficient and if the decision-making process was clear.

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Amplitude

JULY 29, 2020

When it comes to product strategy, there is so much conflicting advice that getting started can be confusing. Some companies’ strategies are so generic that they could mean anything, or nothing at all—as perfectly illustrated in this product strategy madlibs , which fills in the blanks with buzzwords and jargon and calls it a strategy.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

While it has since been updated many times, this is the body of knowledge I discovered in 2007 that led to many ah-ha moments for me as a product manager. It gave me a framework for integrating what a product manager does, and I have since taught it to many other product managers. . Today we are discussing strategy.

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Department of Product

JULY 29, 2022

Product Positioning for Product Managers Why an understanding of how your product is positioned is critical A key responsibility for Product Managers is to define how their products are positioned in the market. This is the result of unique product positioning.

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Usersnap

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Positive UX differentiates products, prevents dissatisfaction-driven churn, and validates decisions through data-driven insights. Proactive issue detection , enhanced collaboration, design validation, and iterative progress contribute to effective, user-centered product management. What is Google’s HEART Framework ?

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 27, 2024

When I mention Porter's Five Forces Analysis, which is one of Michael Porter's most famous strategy frameworks, some product managers remember learning about it during business school, but most haven't used it since. To use the framework for this purpose, follow these steps: 1) Define the relevant industry for analysis.

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Dear Strategy

OCTOBER 6, 2021

On this episode of Dear Strategy, we talk about the difference between a product strategy and a go-to-market plan, and why it’s important to have both of these key planning tools working together in harmony. That’s really all a strategy is – an overarching plan that provides context and meaning to a set of actions.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 14, 2024

Userpilot Product Drive is an annual conference for product folks organized by Userpilot. It features known and respected speakers from the SaaS industry who share insights, strategies, and best practices to help product teams build and grow successful products. 8 October, 2024, 6 PM BST. Sign up for the talk.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? We also look at: What a UX design strategy is Why it’s important Its core principles and elements A practical example of a company with well-established UX strategies Let’s dive right in! The strategy should also have information about the UX team, processes, and guidelines.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2021

At its most basic level, a customer-led product strategy means that your customers are the top priority at all times. You don’t have to copy their approach, but you can tease out the best bits and blend them into the perfect strategy for you. Start with the product vision statement, then set out your goals and initiatives.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 20, 2020

Melissa begins by describing how there are over 11,000 open Head of Product positions available in the EU today – one of which could be yours. This idea might leave you asking what skills you need to work on to become a product leader, and what companies look for when hiring. Portfolio and product strategy.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2021

At its most basic level, a customer-led product strategy means that your customers are the top priority at all times. You don’t have to copy their approach, but you can tease out the best bits and blend them into the perfect strategy for you. Start with the product vision statement, then set out your goals and initiatives.

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Product Management University

APRIL 8, 2024

The other 80% will be aligned to products and users in traditional product manager roles. Here’s why this structure is so critical to a stronger leadership position. Short of corporate strategy roles, it’s not! Becoming a $1 billion company is a financial “goal” not a strategy. On to strategy.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 7, 2021

If, for example, developing the product requires the application of advanced machine learning algorithms, then you’d have to explore if appropriate machine-learning frameworks exist, or if it’s possible to develop the algorithms in house. Viability means that developing and providing the product is viable from a business perspective.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Its sustainable, repeatable planning & prioritization framework SOAP™ will be deployed making sure everyone is aligned, motivated, inspired, and ready to innovate. "We Our mission is to increase the potential already offered by Montréal’s startup ecosystem, in two ways: by extending its outreach and by multiplying its positive impact.

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Userpilot

JULY 23, 2024

It helps organizations focus on the Determining which features to include in a product roadmap can be challenging with constantly evolving customer needs and several opportunities chasing scarce resources. This article will dive deep into the concept of feature prioritization and introduce the top frameworks for successful product management.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

In this article, we will outline the typical journey for head of products, covering educational requirements, entry-level positions, potential advancements, and long-term opportunities. They play a crucial role in defining the product strategy, setting the product vision , and ensuring the successful execution of product initiatives.

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Userpilot

JULY 24, 2024

This guide will introduce you to the best resources available for associate product managers, providing you with a curated selection of valuable materials to enhance your skills and knowledge. An associate product manager focuses on understanding customer needs, analyzing market trends, and aiding in developing and improving product features.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Bain Public’s SOAP™ methodology and tool offers a full picture of your product strategy, tactics, metrics and roadmap all in one place. SOAP™ is a methodology that Bain Public created for product planning and roadmap prioritization based on principles of Product Strategy, Lean Startup, User-centered design, Data Science and more.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 28, 2024

TL;DR A head of product is a leadership role responsible for overseeing the development and management of a product or a portfolio of products within a company. They play a crucial role in defining the product strategy, setting the product vision , and ensuring the successful execution of product initiatives.

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BrainMates

MAY 28, 2019

SnapComms adopted Brainmates’ Product Management framework to facilitate a market-driven way of thinking company-wide, and to equip their Product Team with a repeatable process to take the most valuable ideas to market fast. The 10 steps we followed to embed the Product Management framework. Where do you start?

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Principal product managers are among the most senior roles in the product development process. Therefore, the expected salary increase inspires many junior product managers to climb up the corporate ladder and land this position. The demand for technical and product management positions is high.

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Product Management Unpacked

MAY 26, 2020

UPMC’s ability to respond quickly to market demands boils down to how its teams are aligned with its enterprise-level strategies – a primary focus of Claire’s role. Unlike traditional product managers, Claire is less involved with the technical aspects of product management. From marketer to product management leader.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

TL;DR The UX research process is a sequence of steps to collect and analyze data on user interactions with the product to better understand their needs and preferences. It’s essential to build user-friendly products that satisfy their needs and offer a positive customer experience.

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Userpilot

JULY 20, 2024

This guide will provide you with a comprehensive overview of the path to becoming a successful associate product manager. TL;DR An associate product manager, or a junior product manager, is an entry-level position for people who are starting out in product management. Read more on product strategy.

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