Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 26, 2018

One of the key elements of a successful product management organization is creating the vision for your products—the ‘why’ that drives their purchase and the factors that make them successful in their markets. When you nail the product vision, you’re … Continue reading →

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 30, 2021

Many designers become managers for the wrong reasons. Often, they’re incentivized by their companies to become managers to gain greater impact, influence, and compensation. Certainly that was my own experience a couple of years ago when I decided to dip my toes into management. Strategy and vision.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This month, we’re focusing on all things Product Leadership. Before we start diving into the ins and outs of leadership in Product Management, it’s important to ask and to understand what we mean by Product Leadership. We use Product Leaders to describe a lot of different people in the Product Management world.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

For the past eight years, I’ve been working with C-Suite leaders at companies big and small to set up their Product Management organizations. At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management. Having a dedicated career ladder for product managers allows them to see their path to the C-Suite.

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Productside

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Productside Stories Season 2 Episode 10: Michelle Felice-Steele Join us for Episode 10 of Trailblazing Women in Product Management, where host Nicole Tieche sits down with Michelle Felice-Steele , Vice President of Product Management at Experian Consumer Services.

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Mind the Product

MAY 23, 2022

Read more » The post Build what matters with vision-led product management appeared first on Mind the Product. In this #mtpcon Digital Americas session, CPO at WHOOP and author Ben Foster, explains how to think and operate like a true product leader regardless of your level or title. [.]

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

I talk to a lot of PMs and I ask them (and everyone who subscribes to my newsletter) the same question: what’s your biggest struggle as a Product Manager? However, with the structure described here, it’s possible to quantify and visualize these shifts over time, so that we can show where the problem is and discuss it with leadership.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 18, 2022

The leadership side of product management reaches its pinnacle when you have the complete trust of executives, marketing, sales, engineering, finance, customer success, and customers. Product management leadership comes in two flavors. As an individual contributor, i.e., product manager.

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Alchemer Mobile

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Whether you’re new to the product management field or a seasoned professional, it’s always valuable to learn from your peers’ lived experiences. Meet our product management experts. Ian Hassard , Senior Manager of Product Management at Auth0. Ian Hassard , Senior Manager of Product Management at Auth0.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

This week’s Sunday Rewind is an inspiring ProductTank San Francisco talk from Keela Robison, then CEO at PM Loop and now VP of Product Management at Google. She talks about what vision is, why it matters and how to find it. Vision comprises your values, purpose and envisioned future, says Keela. Your best employees – [.]

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 19, 2021

Photo by Gabriel Tovar on Unsplash So many aspects in our lives are based on other people’s visions coming true. Going through history, visions which became reality changed our lives dramatically, and as technology progresses, this becomes more and more true. From my experience, there are four steps for turning a vision into reality.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 21, 2023

The product CEO analogy for product managers has been around forever, but when you think about it, does it really make sense for B2B software? Every product manager wants to have a reputation for being strategic. What is Strategic Product Management? Before we dive in, let’s define strategic product management.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. Note that including stakeholders on the product team replaces a traditional stakeholder management approach with a much more collaborative one. All self-managing teams I have worked with greatly benefited from an experienced coach.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

Their visions, target groups, needs, standout features , and business goals must comply with the overall portfolio strategy. [1] To get started, create your own Portfolio Vision Board by downloading and adapting the Product Vision Board or by recreating it in your favourite tool.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

For the first two quarters, the area is strategy; for the last two, it is leadership. First, reflect on your current product management skills and determine any gaps and shortcomings in your current skill set. Step 1: Understand the strengths and weaknesses in your product management skill set. Creating the Learning Roadmap.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Mastering the craft of product management is no easy task. I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables. Vision: Vision Narrative.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 3, 2018

What is the company’s vision? Think, for instance, of Google’s vision “to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” Where will you play? Which management systems are required? The answer is simple in my mind: executive management. What is your winning aspiration?

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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] I certainly don’t intend to make anyone feel bad.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 4, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] The Head of Product Role in a Nutshell A head of product manages a group of product people —individuals who look after one or more products and who may be called product managers or product owners. Second, develop the product management team. Third, develop the organisation.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Grow Your Leadership Skills. Ensure that Your Core Product Management Skills are Strong.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership. How do I build alignment?

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Whether you’re new to the product management field or a seasoned professional, it’s always valuable to learn from your peers’ lived experiences. While you can watch the full hour-long interview here , this post breaks down four of the key lessons we learned from Jessi Alva, Director, Technical Product Management at SAP Concur.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

In order to grow your product management team, start by reviewing your product portfolio. Once you’ve identified the products, determine the skills required to manage each asset. Once you have identified your products together with the skills required to manage them, find out how many product people you need.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

In order to grow your product management team, start by reviewing your product portfolio. Once you’ve identified the products, determine the skills required to manage each asset. Once you have identified your products together with the skills required to manage them, find out how many product people you need.

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Product Management University

JUNE 5, 2023

Most product managers know how to create a product vision, but that’s not the hard part. The extent to which stakeholders get behind your product vision has everything to do with how the product vision is articulated. What is a Product Vision? What is a Product Vision? Your product vision shouldn’t.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 13, 2024

Vandegriff recognized for exceptional leadership of technology and teams, positively impacting Alchemer customers LOUISVILLE, COLORADO, March 13, 2024 – Alchemer, a global leader in experience management and enterprise feedback technology, today announced that Brandi Vandegriff has won the Colorado Technology Association’s CIO of the Year Award.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction My first product management job wasn’t exactly what you call a success story: I was part of a team that was called in to help with a new product development effort, and I ended up working with the lead product manager. It also makes it hard to manage and adapt the plan.

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Ronke PM

MAY 8, 2024

Table of Contents What does culture-driven leadership mean? The importance of culture-driven leadership in product management. Product management revolves around human needs, wants, and desires, making it a humbling responsibility. What does culture-driven leadership mean? Final thoughts.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Describe and validate the product strategy —the path to realise your vision—before you create your roadmap and decide how the strategy is best implemented, as the following picture illustrates. I like to use my Product Vision Board to develop a valid product strategy. Use your vision and product strategy to make the right decisions.

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Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Simplify security — JM Nickels is a Senior Director of Product Management at Uber. JM is also a coach and advisor focused on conscious leadership. Conscious leadership involves becoming more aware of your interior world—your thoughts, emotions, and biases. Once you have a solid vision, share it with your team.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

A vision distills a lot of content in a few words, like poetry. A vision is critical to ensuring an organization reaches maximal productivity by keeping its employees aligned and focused on a common goal. Yet, a vision is a thing of few words. The same is true for a vision. Work with those who do.

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Alchemer Mobile

JANUARY 28, 2020

Therefore, product managers and product leaders have seen a large increase in responsibility and potential company-wide impact. While we could chat top product management tools and technologies all day, we believe organizational changes will have the largest impact on this industry in 2020. The role of product manager is changing.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

a time for reflection, community, and gratitude—values that resonate deeply with the dynamics of product management. As product managers, we often focus on metrics, deadlines, and deliverables. Strengthening Relationships Through Gratitude Product managers work closely with engineers, designers, and various other stakeholders.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

Let’s talk about how to define a product vision, and why the lack of a product vision is so detrimental to your team. As I’ll explain below, the “why” and “where” form your product vision, and your product team (especially your engineers), not only want this from you, but need it in order to do their best work. What about 3?

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 20, 2019

One career path leads to management : to running teams and projects, to managing people, to creating impact through others. As a designer on the management path, a large part of my focus has been to help individual contributor (IC) designers to develop in their role. Treat your own time management as a design challenge.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

But from a product management perspective, effectively engaging the stakeholders is crucial to achieve product success. Note that the term product team is used in different ways by different people—much like other product management expressions. That’s understandable, as the framework is focused on the development of complex products.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The travel tech giant just touched down with a brilliant new vision. Did you miss it? It’s arguably their first one ever. Let’s take a look Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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