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3 Attributes That Make A ‘Great’ Product Manager
What makes a GREAT Product Manager as opposed to GOOD? In Jim Collins noted book, “Good to Great,” he pointed out some of the key characteristics that separate good companies from great, high-performing…
Leveraging Disruptive Thinking to Drive Innovation
Life as a Product Manager It’s time to think about the unthinkable. To differentiate yourself and your business or product, you must build innovative and disruptive thinking techniques into your daily…
Using 17 Golden Rules to Achieve Product Management Success
If there’s anything I care deeply about, is to help product managers be as successful as they can. Whether you’re an aspiring product manager, a newer product manager, or someone who might need a quick…
How Product Managers Get Promoted in 2021
How Product Managers Get Promoted in 2021 A number of years ago, I visited a college campus during freshman orientation. I recall the speaker telling the incoming students about the great opportunities…
INDUSTRY Insights Interview on Coaching Product People with JJ Rorie
INDUSTRY Insights Interview on Coaching Product People The product manager role is one of the most important positions in an organization. When you have great product managers, it makes your job as a leader…
Customer Centricity: The Next Frontier [Webinar & Template]
No customers. No business. Simple. Right? Try this. Ask any product manager in your (B2B) company about the amount of time they spend with customers. Better yet, ask anyone in your engineering group to…
Want a Successful Product? Start With A Vision
Want a Successful Product? Start With A Vision Your success as a product manager is pinned directly to the positive contributions to the firm’s bottom line. That means, your product’s business needs…
Create a Future-Proof Company by Optimizing the “Function” of Product Management
Create a Future-Proof Company by Optimizing the “Function of Product Management” with Sequent’s New Online Self-Paced Workshop: Implementing and Managing Product Management Managers of product managers…
How to Make More Money for Your Company As A Product Manager
The demand for new products and disruptive innovations echoes like a drumbeat through the halls of major corporations around the world. Leaders hunt for sparks from product people and others as they recall…
Best-in-Class Product Management Framework: The Product Management Life Cycle Model
The first and second editions of The Product Manager’s Desk Reference has been a faithful companion to tens of thousands of product managers around the world. I’m refreshing the book for a 3rd edition…
Q&A with Sequent Learning Networks CEO Steven Haines Webinar Walk a Mile in Your Customer’s Shoes
As a sponsor of Product Management Today, Revulytics welcomed Steven Haines into their webinar series. In this blog post, Revulytics has highlighted some of the insights from Steven’s webinar, “Walk A…
Fundamentals of Product Management – For the Last Time
Fundamentals of Product Management – For the Last Time. People often ask me why I write books and articles about product management. Sometimes I write as an outgrowth of my benchmark research with…
6 Questions For Product Managers To Make Effective Decisions
Product Management Decisions Product Managers make decisions every day. Some small decisions, some very large decisions. These decisions impact our products, our customers and our business. But how do…
How To Determine Product Success When You Lack Financial Data
Effectively Managing Product Lines for Product Managers To effectively manage a product line, product managers and the teams they lead need financial data. However, often this data is unavailable. In fact…
Fast vs. Excellent – The Myth of the MVP (Minimum Viable Product)
What is a minimum viable product (MVP)? A minimum viable product (MVP) is a technique Product Managers use to launch a project into market with enough key features to test the product’s impact. Then, through…