Product Manager You Are

There is no particular daily job of a product manager. It changes from day to day, team to team and company to company.

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Martin Eriksson on product leadership

Good product managers are great communicators and have passion in at least one of the three - business, UX or tech.

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Be a Great Product Leader

Prioritization is key. Know what to do when.

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4 Mistakes New Product Managers Make

Do not be afraid to admit failure. It is a learning opportunity - learn from your failure and improve your solution.

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Great PM's don’t spend their time on solutions

Having a development process can be helpful for everyone to keep up with the schedule. This process can help everyone decide where the most time needs to be spent.

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Top Hacks from a PM Behind Two of Tech's Hottest Products

A good way to explain the product to your team - tell a story and break it down into execution.

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How to Build a Minimum Loveable Product

Solving high-value problems first could benefit your product. These are the problems that are a pain to the customers.

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10 things I learned from Jason Fried about Building Products

Your minimum threshold is your customer feedback from the first time your product goes live.

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Insights and lessons from some of the best people in product

There is really no such thing as new consumption. It is just switching from one existing product to another. Ex: Facebook to Snapchat.

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What is user research

UX design depends on user feedback. Hard decisions have to be made. Remember, you are the designer, not the user.

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Get the most out of your research with storytelling

Best way to convey the problem at hand that needs to be solved is by Storytelling.

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Are You Solving the Right Problems?

Do not expect solutions from other people, expect input.

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Seven tips for lean market research

Market research - sometimes, its ok to start out with existing research before doing your own research.

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How to do Thorough Market Research WITHOUT Going Crazy

Once you narrow down your competition area - dig harder into each business.

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So you’ve decided to take your startup seriously

Walk in the customer's shoes. Feel what they feel. Then find the painkiller for that issue.

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How to Design a Winning Business Model

Build your business model after studying your competition. If not, your business model will fail.

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Know Your Customers’ “Jobs to Be Done”

“Job” is shorthand for what an individual really seeks to accomplish in a given circumstance.

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Creating Personas

Personas are all about building empathy amongst your team.

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Replacing The User Story With The Job Story

Summed up, the problem with user stories is that it’s too many assumptions and doesn’t acknowledge causality.

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How we’ve destroyed user stories

You know there’s a simple way to get engineers to build what you want, and as a bonus you can call it…Shh!

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How to Create a Customer Journey Map

Every interaction a customer has with an organization has an effect on satisfaction, loyalty, and the bottom line.

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Why you shouldn’t skip your wireframing

Wireframe encourages people to comment on how things actually work.

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10 Basic Principles of Visual Design

Pick your fonts carefully and with a purpose, think about how every tiny part of your design.

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Six Steps to Superior Product Prototyping

Prototyping could take some long iterations. You cannot expect to get the final version on the very first try.

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How do you set metrics?

Select a single metric and a time frame for measuring whether you’re on track towards achieving your goal.

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Product Monetization Strategies

Your monetization strategy is linked to the stage of your product’s lifecycle/business.

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What you have to know about conversion optimization

We could test everything, but let’s test the 20% that makes 80% of the difference.

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Before you plan your product roadmap

Every development team on earth has limited resources.

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Ruthless Prioritization

When prioritizing work within a project, you have to make the same decision hundreds of times: is this absolutely necessary to do?

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How to Write a Painless Product Requirements Document

If you do not document your product, it could lead to disasters.

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7 Hacks for Communicating Your Product Roadmap to Stakeholders

While presenting at a meeting, make sure to talk at a higher level. Showing excel sheets does not make it interesting.

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Products should start with what you want to learn, not what you want to build.

Stop falling in love with your ideas. Fall in love with the outcome.

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The First Principles of Product Management

You need to have empathy and respect for all the work individuals on your team undertake.

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How Startups Should Do Customer Discovery

Teams that build continuous customer discovery into their DNA will become smarter than their investors.

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Take on Your Competition with These Lessons from Google Maps

The bottom-line is you have to build a lens to allow users to see a new world rather than features to help them see an old world better.

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The Product Manager vs. The Strategist

Product managers (PMs) and strategists drive decisions and thus shape your world.

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The only thing that matters

If you look at a broad cross-section of startups -- say, 30 or 40 or more;

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How Two Questions Can Change Your Product’s Growth

We needed to refresh the onboarding experience to reduce friction and complications.

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The #1 Growth Metric 86% Of Founders Are NOT Measuring

The problem with NPS, however, is that most businesses look at why their unhappy customers are unhappy — and try to fix their problems.

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