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This article dives into the history of tech and the current state of consumer disillusionment using Apple's release of the Vision Pro as a case study to highlight the gap between the industry's lofty assurances and the actual user experience. Tech giants have lost touch with consumers due to growth-focused business strategies and a lack of meaningful innovation.
It is crucial for PMs in B2B to understand market and customer needs independently, beyond just feature delivery. A strong market knowledge foundation is essential to making informed decisions, impacting the product lifecycle, and guiding sales teams effectively.
The key source of waste in companies is the untapped potential of skilled pragmatists - employees who possess valuable skills but work within the system without seeking recognition or challenging the status quo. Companies often overlook this pool of talent, focusing on more visible issues or rewarding those more deft at maximizing optics.
Job hopping can significantly enhance a PM’s market value and skill set by exposing them to diverse industries and practices. This article emphasizes growth over comfort while explaining the benefits of gaining broader expertise and becoming more marketable through changing jobs, despite the risk of being perceived negatively by some employers.
This article highlights the strategic advantages of outsourcing UX design, emphasizing cost savings, operational efficiency, and access to specialized expertise. It covers the benefits of partnering with external UX agencies, including domain knowledge, cost-effectiveness, scalability, and the flexibility of team augmentation, making it an insightful read for product leaders seeking to optimize resources and enhance product development.
There may be a potential shift in product management in the next few years. AI advancements may be able to automate up to 80% of current tasks and potentially redefine the PM role within five years. Strategic, creative, and human-centric aspects of product management will gain prominence, while AI takes over data analysis and predictive tasks.
This framework helps define, deliver, and ensure the perception of value in products, emphasizing the variation in customer needs based on their profile and product maturity. It details how to create a value table for different customer profiles, assessing value definition, delivery, and perception, and highlights the importance of honest assessment in addressing gaps.
How to think about a brand pre-launch, covering hypotheses, minimum viable brands, and how to spend just enough to scale post-launch.
This post shares a DIY MBA program for PMs, providing a structured curriculum with recommended readings, online resources, and downloadable product management diagrams. It also highlights new PM resources to consider.
A now/next/later roadmap emphasizes the limitations of deadline-driven development and advocates for short-term, prioritized commitments, planned upcoming work, and potential future priorities. It allows for flexibility and adaptation based on evolving data.
This guide details how to identify popular features, measure their value and ROI, and decide which to optimize, monetize, or remove. There is a need for detailed data tracking, mature analytics, and adapting to product uniqueness.
Pricing adjustments, such as modifying plan prices, usage limits, or introducing new tiers, can yield high ROI with minimal engineering effort. These changes, often less time-consuming than major feature developments, can significantly boost conversion rates and average revenue and reduce churn.
A rant about product management spotted on Reddit.
What it means to be high agency.