Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

I attended the conference to represent product.careers , a project I launched last year to raise awareness of Product Management as a career path, with a particular focus on undergraduates and graduates. I started the project in response to challenges I had recruiting entry-level product managers for Crowdcube.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 27, 2013

The role of product management in technology firms is a critically important one that is often misunderstood. Product management boils down to owning the vision, design, and execution of your product. Or it could be ensuring open product, design, and technical decisions get resolved in an efficient manner.

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Ask Benny

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

How to enter into a new product management position in a new company. You just landed into a new product management position. Whether it’s a VP product or a product manager, whether it’s a small or big company, you are expected to get fast into the role, and many times you are expected to do it by yourself.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

As someone who’s been fortunate enough to have coached dozens of Product Leaders and have walked in their shoes, I have found that there are several under-appreciated ways things change when you move into a product leader role. How do I cultivate the right product culture for the product teams to succeed?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This happens when teams solve today’s problems without considering how those needs might change by the time their product actually launches. As I’ve seen in my own product management experience, the traditional product development cycle can take months or even years.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

For example, a local startup team I consult for are developing their web app in-house while outsourcing their mobile development team of 12 to Poland. I would recommend this model if you have no technical or product management background. That’s fairly straightforward. Ship Features Like mad With the Right Process.

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Amplitude

JUNE 8, 2017

Hailing from a tenured career in product management, she was just super passionate about working with startups. “I I had become pretty active as a mentor and advisor to various startups and really enjoyed it! From Product Manager to Partner: An Interview with Ashley Carroll of @SocialCapital Click To Tweet.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2023

If You Don’t Know What a Product Manager Is — Don’t Hire Me. If you really want me to be your product manager, then this is explicitly the kind of product manager I will be in our company. Let’s work together on your amazing product! Still, we have a duty to advise what’s best for the product.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

As an aside, I think that much-cited startup maxim “fail fast, fail often” makes the wrong emphasis. Technical Feasibility. I would advise that you don’t invest in digitization until the cost of handling processes manually is higher than the cost of developing a digitized solution.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

One signal I’ve been giving much thought too of late is the collision of two roles, Product Management and Product Ownership. A topic of hot debate in the agile and product circles but with very few answers. Credit: DataKitchen Since its inception, Scrum and the Product Owner role has become widely adopted.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2021

Bevy’s product was unintentionally incubated through a sister organization, Startup Grind. Startup Grind is a global community that helps to inform, support, and bring together entrepreneurs through local chapters and events. Startup Grind created a product to facilitate and manage the Startup Grind community.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

The position of Product Manager has been one of the fastest-growing roles in tech in recent years, with a 30 percent growth in job openings year over year. The trouble is, candidates who possess the varied skill set needed for Product Management are elusive and highly sought-after. Do Some Soul-Searching.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

How to enter a new product management position in a new company. Congratulations, you just landed a new product management position. Whether it’s a VP product or a product manager or it’s a small or big company, you are expected to adjust quickly to the role. I would advise you differently.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

This wasn’t Elad’s first experience with hyper growth – Google grew headcount 10x during his time as a product manager there – nor the last. He’s also co-founded Color Genomics and invested in and been an adviser to companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Instacart, Square, Stripe and more.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

It is a known fact that startups which are accompanied or coached, view their chances of success as being much higher compared to those that are not. of accompanied startups assess their chances of survival as strong, especially during the current uncertain climate. of startups rate their chances of survival as high, 13.5%

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Entrepreneur and has over 20 years experience helping companies bring high-growth products to market. His startup career includes Tumbleweed, Timestamp, WildPackets, inCode, and many others. He has experienced IPO, acquisition, rapid growth, and crushing failure.

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The Product HQ

JULY 1, 2024

Looking to know the average B2B product manager’s salary? According to Glassdoor, the average B2B product manager salary in the US is $161,935 , with the average product manager salary range being between $100,000 and $267,000. Well, you’re in the right place! Let’s get started.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 26, 2020

Considering a career in management consulting or product management? What Each Role Does Day To Day Product Manager Product managers (PM) lead and influence teams to build enticing products. PMs live and breathe their product as they work iteratively to improve the experience for the end user.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 29, 2018

He has created products and led product teams for Fortune 500 companies including Cisco and Capital One, advised several small and medium businesses, and founded a Product Innovation, Design Thinking and Agile coaching practice called 5D Vision. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:46]

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

And, you know, sometimes such a request is better than a 75-pages technical requirement. Hey, my name is Kristina Spiridonova, I’m an account manager at Purrweb. Of course, only after you share business goals, limitations, and pain points that the product is expected to cover. There were no other details.

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers Decide when to care about trends and when to sit back and watch what happens next Trends and the product lifecycle Imagine your product strategy stayed exactly the same for the next 10 years. What would happen? It’s impossible for one person to do.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

Book your place in the summit today to learn more about these prioritization layers and get actionable steps for creating an effective product strategy. Ant Murphy is a product coach and founder of Product Pathways. A sample product manager persona for Userpilot. Who is Ant Murphy?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

” But I work in startups. 30 days is a long time at a startup, so I would dispute that you should wait and do nothing for 30 days. In a startup environment, the clock’s is ticking. The best managers understand that it’s about aligning people’s passion with what the business needs. Nick: Totally.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

Collect information and work with your cross-functional partners to be an effective product manager. Your company will rely on you to be the most knowledgeable about your product so never take your eye off the market and establish an objective framework to guide your decisions. Take Charge Product Management by Greg Geracie.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

An inside look at product management at IBM and the interview process. Kevin Wei is an Offering Manager at IBM managing Watson Knowledge Catalog and DataStage. In this Path to PM blog post, Kevin shares his journey breaking into a product role as a new grad hire at IBM. What is an IBM offering manager?

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 28, 2022

If you want to know what the culture is like in a product team, you should visit one of their product meetings. Is it technical details, customer insights or revenue and money? In this blogpost I will share how we run product meetings at UXfolio. The way they do the meeting will tell you everything.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sachin Rekhi is the founder and CEO of Notejoy , and a prolific blogger on product management. In this Path to PM post, Sachin and I discuss five practical paths to product management. How did you first break into product management? How do I take on that product work or ask for it in the first place?

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

OKRs were brought from Intel to Google by John Doerr where the method gained popularity within the high tech and startup communities. The first part of Radical Focus is a story about a startup which sells tea. The story begins with the struggling founders meeting with their top advisor and board member who recommends OKRs.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

TalkTalk was fined £400,000 in 2016 for failing to have appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to secure its customers’ personal data, and for keeping their personal data for longer than necessary. Under the GDPR this fine could have risen to £35 million. A DPIA can be used in a variety of situations.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

As a design thinking consulting firm , we advise on product strategy, lead workshops, and offer customized training to equip your business with the best UX practices. Design thinking companies aim to understand users’ pain points before developing a technically feasible solution that addresses their needs. Mindmapping.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Building a powerful SaaS product takes way more than just an idea. Without a systematic approach to your product management process and clear roadmap, you’ll likely face several hurdles like lack of direction, unclear priorities, wasted resources, missed deadlines, difficulty in scaling, and more.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

The position of Product Manager has been one of the fastest-growing roles in tech in recent years, with a 30 percent growth in job openings year over year. The trouble is, candidates who possess the varied skill set needed for Product Management are elusive and highly sought-after. Speak to a Learning Advisor.

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The Product Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2024

Hello, all you product-loving folks! 💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, AI, and more. ☕ Thanks for reading Product Café Newsletter ☕️! Don’t miss it!

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

An interactive walkthrough is a step-by-step, interactive guide to your product that will ultimately lead your users to activation. Exactly what constitutes activation will vary for different use cases of your product. Your non-technical product managers and product marketing managers will certainly thank you!

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