Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

If you thought there were a million ways to define product management, product strategy might have it beat by a longshot. Just think about how many ways product strategy is defined within your own organization. It’s the number one thing that makes product strategy both challenging and frustrating at the same time.

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The Product Guy

JULY 2, 2017

You want to be the product that is useable, feasible and valuable to the target audience/customer ie you’re selling yourself as the solution to some specific company’s specific problem. You can stand out from other product managers by applying these skills to yourself. Do you have a Product Roadmap? What is your product vision?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Crafting a winning product strategy is crucial for SaaS success, and finding the right product strategy example can provide all the inspiration you need. This article provides concrete examples of different product strategies employed by SaaS companies. Book a demo to learn more.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Supply-Side Innovation: Creates new products or technologies based on the company’s expertise Often results in “new-to-world” products Usually needs a lot of R&D investment Can lead to big breakthroughs but carries higher risk Demand-Side Innovation: Starts with customer needs and market research Aims to solve existing customer (..)

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

12:33] What marketing roles and resources can help us in our job? Resource number one is market research. Too often, we start with an idea for a product and build it without doing real market research. Bonus Questions: What do you enjoy doing as Chief Product Officer at Obo?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 1 — Seed) A good product strategy is something every company needs. Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. Product strategy is such a vague term for most people.

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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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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

You have this grand vision. I know in a lot of feature factories, product teams don’t engage with customers that often. What’s the vision? How is that researcher working with your teams? I think teams often struggle to connect the dots between vision, strategy, and execution or opportunity space , right?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In order to answer the questions above, you may want to use techniques such as direct observation, user interviews, prototyping, creating a strategy canvas or E-R-R-C grid , and you may capture some of them using a tool like my product vision board.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Whether you’re a seasoned product leader or still sharpening your skills, mastering stakeholder dynamics requires an understanding of influence, expectation management, and alignment across teams and departments. Expectation Management : Different stakeholders will have different expectations of the product and the roadmap.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Jordan Bergtraum is a management consultant with over ten years of experience in the B2B SaaS industry, mostly as a head of product for various organizations in the legal, education, facilities management, and pharmaceutical spaces. He has been responsible for product strategy, UX, and teams consisting of product and project managers.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 9, 2018

To get your focus right, consider using a tool like my Product Vision Board to capture your idea, and identify assumptions and risks. Do Just-Enough Product Discovery Work. Minimise the amount of time you spend on product discovery in order to accelerate time-to-market.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In the article, we’re looking at the responsibilities of strategic product managers and how they can use data effectively to shape product strategy and deliver delightful experiences to users! Product strategy defines who we are building for, what to build, and how to build it. What is product strategy?

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UserVoice

JULY 28, 2017

So even after your to-do list is organized nicely and you’ve prioritized tasks, you’ll still want to consider delegating some of your projects–for both your sanity, and your product’s sake. ” Bad product managers feel best about themselves when they figure out “how.””. ””. .”

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

A strategic product manager (PM) is responsible for shaping and sharing a strategic vision for a product, and yet—oddly enough—finding time for strategic activities can be a very real challenge. So, how does a product manager take ownership of more than just backlog management? Developing a Product Strategy.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 24, 2021

This company has already won some early adopters that try the solution but now wants to cross the chasm to enter the mainstream market. Therefore, the product management team collected several ‘Target Customer Scenarios’ by interviewing internal employees and some available market research.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 12, 2024

Prioritization : Prioritizing problems based on a customer-centric vision and insight-driven strategy. Now, let’s explore 5 product concepts of the Product Operating Model: Product culture : The collective mindset focused on customer feedback , innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement for product excellence.

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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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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

TPMs are responsible for market and customer research , but their main focus is on satisfying market needs from a technical point of view. Tech PMs work actively with product teams on the product vision and strategy. Regular product managers are more customer-centric in their approach.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

The main difference between product management and project management is the focus. A project manager is focused on the completion of a specific project, whereas product managers focus primarily on the long-term vision and evolving a product to deliver value over time. Drives product success.

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Userpilot

JULY 16, 2024

Technical product manager responsibilities include: Conduct user and market research to understand user pain points. Develop the product vision and expand on the strategy. Create a product roadmap so you can prioritize features more easily. Product vision benefits.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

TL;DR Product managers define the overall product direction and oversee the entire product lifecycle. Their responsibilities include product discovery, developing product vision, prioritization , roadmapping , analyzing product performance and its iterative development, and leading the product team.

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Userpilot

JULY 25, 2024

Here’s a breakdown of your core responsibilities: Product Strategy Development : Assist in crafting and executing product strategies aligned with company goals and market needs. Read more on product strategy. Learn how to conduct effective market research.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Extensive market research is essential to assess the competitive landscape, identify opportunities, and shape the product vision. PMs need to know how to use product analytics tools to gain actionable insights. Hard product management skills Let’s start with the hard skills.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

A product manager is a strategic role focused on ‘building the right product’ and ‘building the product right’ Product management is a multi-faceted discipline. A product manager is responsible for building and maintaining products. Analyze and report on product success.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

They have more responsibilities and independence in setting strategy and making product decisions. Senior Product Managers are in charge of strategic decisions – they set the long-term product vision and strategy. The average salary of a product director in the US is around $268k.

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DISQO

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Surprisingly, 28% of respondents admitted that their best product ideas come from copying competitors. Cross-functional collaboration can play an important role for product teams in 2020: 51% of respondents collaborate with market research on less than half their product projects.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

That’s why they also have to take in feedback and requests regarding the product strategy and product development process. Strategy Software product managers also have to work on the product strategy by bringing the product vision to light.

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Product Management Unpacked

AUGUST 17, 2018

• Conduct market research on user needs. Communicate your product’s business case. Provide direction to product development team and oversee progress. Provide marketing support to sales. Build the strategic vision for your product. Monitor and report on product performance.

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Userpilot

JULY 31, 2024

A well-developed strategy sets the direction and focus for the product development process and facilitates a seamless public launch. A typical product development process follows seven stages: idea generation , market research, technical specifications, roadmapping, product development, MVP release , and continuous iteration.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 27, 2022

Whether it’s staying on the same page as the development team during a sprint or creating buy-in on the product strategy and roadmap, these solutions streamline communication, minimize confusion, and provide centralized repositories for crucial information. Moreover, they strengthen work relationships and facilitate alignment.

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Userpilot

MAY 5, 2022

Product managers monitor and control the product lifecycle while ensuring there is the right corporate environment for its development. Generally, the product manager is responsible for the product strategy while the project manager – for its implementation. What is the product management process?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 7, 2021

The company provides Web & Mobile Development (Frontend, Backend, Android, iOS and Cross-platform apps), Artificial Intelligence (Data Science, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, NLP), Product Design & Strategy (Product strategy), Workshops, Market research, Prototyping & Usability Testing, and UX/UI Design.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

Associate Product Manager. In terms of day-to-day work, associate product managers do everything a product manager does, but on a smaller scale. In other words, you may not set the product strategy or own the product roadmap , but you will set priorities for your projects. That they can lead by example.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A robust UX strategy is also a valuable differentiator helping you stand out in competitive markets. According to Jamie Levy, the main tenets of a UX strategy are business strategy, value innovation, validated user research , and frictionless UX. Start designing your strategy by clarifying the business goals.

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