Zach Heller — January 3, 2019 Follow @zheller — January 3, 2019 In most successful businesses you will find the same dilemma. It occurs at a specific time in the company’s lifecycle. The story usually goes something like this: A successful product hits the market. People love it. Initial growth attracts new investment. A brand … Continue reading How the Product Manager Can Drive Growth
Ashley Sefferman — December 11, 2018 — December 11, 2018 When Ben Horowitz published his thoughts on the idea that product managers are the CEO of their products in “Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager” nearly two decades ago, the concept was profound, but divisive. Should PMs be tasked with such a heavy assignment? Does viewing … Continue reading Product Managers, Are You the CEO of your Product?
Yuval Yeret — December 8, 2018 Follow @yuvalyeret — December 8, 2018 Clker-Free-Vector-Images / Pixabay Marketing Backlogs in the Trenches When I work with my clients on Scrum in a Marketing context the discussion about the Marketing Backlog and how to move from a big bang marketing campaign to a more iterative approach via smaller … Continue reading User Stories Don’t Belong in the Marketing Product Backlog
Robbin Schuurman — November 13, 2018 — November 13, 2018 The Product Owner role is implemented in organizations in various different ways. The responsibilities and authorities of Product Owners vary across organizations, departments, teams, and Product Owners. This can be explained to some extent because it is a role that people need to grow into. … Continue reading Growing as a Product Owner: 5 Product Owner Maturity Levels
Yuval Yeret — November 13, 2018 Follow @yuvalyeret — November 13, 2018 “There’s no predictability/commitment in Agile/Scrum” Over the years I’ve heard my share of these kinds of statements from various levels of executives: “When my guys run a product development release I really want to know what I will get at the end so … Continue reading Risk-Aware Product Development (a.k.a. Scrum)
Derek Gleason — November 7, 2018 — November 7, 2018 It’s the early 1980s. You’re in charge of a fledgling ESPN, and you have two choices: Add more college basketball—you’re highest-rated programming—to the schedule. Stick with the skiing and billiards you’ve aired for years (because you couldn’t afford anything else). Which creates the more profitable … Continue reading Product Bundling Strategy: How to Get It Right
Thomas Griffin — October 12, 2018 Follow @jthomasgriffin — October 12, 2018 You’ve put your blood, sweat, and tears into creating a product that you’re sure is going to be “the next big thing”. But you can’t just put up your website, write a press release, and expect people to flock to your business to … Continue reading 4 Steps for the Perfect Product Launch
Yair Leshem — September 25, 2018 — September 25, 2018 Add failure to Product Management, the same way it is built into Sales Failure is built into sales. The sales person reaches out to ten prospective customers, three of them come back to her with some sort of answer, two actually engage in a meaningful … Continue reading 3 Things Product Managers Can Learn From Sales
George Mathew — July 22, 2018 — July 22, 2018 Are your product pages not converting at the rate you want? The goal of a product page is to provide enough information to guide the visitor to a purchase decision. To make this happen, the page copy, images used, and user experience must tell a … Continue reading How to Optimize Product Pages for Conversions
Christopher Moore — June 28, 2018 Follow @cjmoore — June 28, 2018 Are you prioritizing the product listings optimization opportunities on your website? If not, you should be aware that it is one of the keys to eCommerce success. From building out content to A/B split testing landing pages, you have to test everything to … Continue reading Maximize Fulfillment By Optimizing Your Product Listing
