Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2017

Judging by what product managers have told us , my guess is that it sounds familiar to a good chunk of you reading this. So how do we all get to that point where we have caveats against multiple items on the product roadmap – and more importantly what do we do to mitigate it? Managing the “Shadow Product Team”.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

A product manager just stopped by the desk of the designer on a lazy Thursday afternoon. The manager used wide gestures to show where he wanted to move certain elements. The developers sitting nearby just watched the show for the first time, but after a while they stood up to join the party one by one.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 31, 2021

How to align your organization and product management team with the voice of your customer. In this discussion we address what it means to properly incorporate UX (user experience) into your product work. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [1:37] 10:15] What tools are helpful in UX?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. State objective and agenda. Stay present.

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The Product Guy

JULY 18, 2019

Guest Post by: Sean Raftery (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Jordan Bergtraum]. Product development roles and “product” as a discipline are rapidly evolving within technology companies. Product Management at scale has also evolved but at a slower pace.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

Second, a learning roadmap allows you to leverage your product roadmapping skills and use them to create an actionable learning plan. For example, the guidelines I have developed for the GO product roadmap template directly apply to the roadmap in figure 1. If that’s the case, then don’t feel bad.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Tools for planning and executing product projects Today we are talking about the skills product managers need to grow their careers. Before joining Google, Neha worked as a Management Consultant at Essex Product Consulting, where she helped organizations build products. To help us, Neha Bansal is with us.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

The Scrum Guide released in November 2020 states that “the product goal describes a future state of the product … [It] is the long-term objective for the Scrum team.” It also suggests that “the product goal is in the product backlog. The entire Scrum team is “focused on one … product goal” at a time.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2018

How do you best lead the stakeholders and development team as the person in charge of the product? Two of these styles, feature broker and product dictator, are shown in the picture below. Such a product typically has a weak value proposition, offers a poor user experience, and is therefore unlikely to become a success.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Instead, you should engage the stakeholders, leverage their expertise, and generate as much buy-in as possible , as I explain in more detail in my article “ Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People.” ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 10, 2022

She cofounded the Radical Product Thinking movement of leaders creating vision-driven change, along with authoring the book Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [1:56] 1:56] What put you on the path to being a product leader?

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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 Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Innovation accounting for teams, managers, and strategy – for product managers. the development of new business models. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [1:59] In the first level, tactical innovation, what metrics should teams use to measure innovation?

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Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Strategic Product Management: Sunset Decisions, Platform Benefits, and Team Structures Introduction Strategic decisions around product lifecycle management, platform integration, and team structures are critical for product managers in established tech companies.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A healthy relationship between product management and engineering is critical to building successful products. It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to work. Here are some of the ways I’ve found for product managers to ensure they have a great relationship with the engineering team.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. This is how we did it.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

While common sense suggests that managing a product without the right measurements is not a sensible approach, I’ve seen product teams who did not use any KPIs. Consequently, these teams relied on: Anecdotal feedback : “Customers love our product, they told me so.”

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. Continue the discovery and strategy work while the product is being developed. But don’t stop there.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 14, 2016

“What is your Product Strategy? When I replay this scene in my head, I can hear the CTO very audibly yelling (slash pleading) with our product team. We often say our Product Strategy are things like: “To create a platform that allows music producers to upload and share their music.” “To YOU NEED A STRATEGY.”

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

A platform owner who manages a platform as a collection of shared software assets. The SAFe product owner who owns the product details. A portfolio owner who manages a group of (related) products. None is per se better or worse.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

I first heard of Bob when he was the president of Sequent Learning, the product management training company. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [2:09] What is product strategy? Product strategy is doing that at a product level. The P&L owner varies from business to business.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

How to Achieve Success in Your Product Strategy In today’s rapidly evolving market, having a clear product vision and a well-defined strategy is essential for the success of any tech product. A compelling product vision is a guiding light, providing direction and purpose to the development process.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2019

Guest Post by: Gregory Rakovsky (Mentee, Session 10, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Nis Frome ]. Finding the right product management job can be tough, as product management is a multi-faceted discipline that doesn’t lend itself well to classification. So what do you gravitate to? .

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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? Answering this question requires you to understand the strengths and weaknesses of your business and the competition you face.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

How to solve common dysfunctions in product management Today’s guest is Ben Foster, the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at Prodify. He is also the co-author of Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management. It’s not because they’re bad at what they do.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Anyone familiar with Product Management will recognize the immortal phrase ‘influence without authority.’ As a Product Manager, you’re a team player who guides product development along its chartered course, but you have to do that without being the literal captain of the ship.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2020

The Product <> Design relationship is one of the most important when it comes to building products without friction. Product Management vs Product Design To those outside of tech, and even to some within, the meaning of different job roles can be confusing. Is a Product Manager not some kind of designer?

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

How marketing and product management work together. That is what our guest did to investigate what people think about marketing and how it fits into the work product managers do. Our guest is Jill Soley, a Silicon Valley strategic product and marketing executive. The Creative Cloud was a definite risk.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Lackluster sales and/or poor adoption shouldn’t come as a surprise. For sure, but let’s not stop with the product value story. The intent of that design and development changes a lot. Here’s the bigger picture and the whole point of this post and the strategic focus of the entire series. Here’s the bottom line.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2019

As product managers our job description is pretty simple: to make all of our software development projects succeed. In fact, I would go so far as to say any failures or successes of the team are failures or successes of product management. What are your KPIs for the product post-launch?

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

A good product experience is the primary driver behind product differentiation and ultimately, lasting customer satisfaction (measured through CSAT and NPS ) and loyalty. Beforehand, make sure your team is aligned on: Their definition of product experience. The goals you hope to achieve by investing in product experience.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

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. For instance, you might show the individuals how they can make effective strategic product decisions, create an actionable product roadmap, and effectively use the right KPIs.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in mobile product management or find top talent for your team? This article shares exciting mobile product manager roles and showcases standout candidates in the field. Recommended product manager job openings in data-driven companies Looking for a job in mobile product management?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

Photo by Denise Jans on Unsplash There is a misconception that building a roadmap will define a product’s future. Your vision of the future should bring clarity to your roadmap. That approach works fine until your sales team gets on the phone to tell a customer about the Next Big Thing. So why build a roadmap at all?

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. It put all the activities I do as a product manager into perspective. You Might Be Surprised Which Product Management Activity Is Most Important. Breakthrough!

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 28, 2022

I stumbled upon a bunch of product management memes while preparing for a talk. I think one of the ways to minimize the chance of this happening is to have an always on routine of talking to customers e.g. standing time to talk to customers that almost gets backed into the operating rhythm of the team. Of course?—?the

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