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Team alignment is the secret sauce for success in strategy and product development. Here’s why: 🔍 Unified Vision: Everyone works towards the same goals, reducing conflicts and driving synergy. 🤝 Better Collaboration: Clear alignment fosters effective communication and faster decision-making. 🚀 Efficiency: Prioritized tasks mean less redundancy and more productivity. ⚡ Quick Problem-Solving: Shared understanding leads to faster issue resolution. 💡 Improved Morale: Knowing how their work impacts the big picture boosts team motivation. 📈 Consistent Products: Aligned teams deliver cohesive, market-ready products. 🔄 Adaptability: Easier pivots and quicker responses to market changes. 😊 Customer Satisfaction: Deliver solutions that truly resonate with your customers. Aligned teams are the backbone of successful strategy execution and impactful product development. Let's ensure our teams are always in sync!

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Here's a Venn Diagram illustrating the key areas of focus for Product Managers (PM) and Product Marketing Managers (PMM). Follow us for more Insights on being a Product Manager. #productmanager #productmarketing #pmillustration #pmknows

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❓ Do you need #product mentorship in these areas? ☑️ Finding product-market fit ☑️ Product strategy ☑️ Positioning and storytelling ☑️ Making new/complex things simple ☑️ Commercial & GTM strategy Request mentorship from mentor Sam Favager today: https://lnkd.in/eJWd-DKM #productmanagement

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Tired of vanity metrics? Time to measure your PLG success like a pro! Forget downloads and signups that don't tell the real story. In the world of product-led growth (PLG), understanding user behavior is key. This post dives deep into actionable metrics across the entire user journey, from initial awareness to loyal advocacy. (Think AAARRR: Awareness, Acquisition, Activation, Revenue, Retention, Referral). Dezy It, Inc. #productledgrowth #PLG #metrics #growthhacking #startups #dezyit #growthsprint

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I am increasingly worried that instead of addressing systemic challenges we're choosing to direct our ire on personas (e.g., zero-interest PMs). I understand Casey Winters's statement (and have spoken with him about it), and I understand Ed Biden's sentiment. But... Someone hired those PMs. Someone funded those companies. Someone set expectations for those PMs. A leader benefitted (or didn't from their work). Someone had the job to mentor those PMs, and share business context and the strategy (assuming one even existed). Zero-interest rates impacted their companies, and may have in turn set expectations for their roles. This makes it about the PMs vs. the perverse incentives in companies during zero interest rates. Also creeping into these descriptions are character judgements on individuals ("Don't feel accountable"). Do we really believe there is some epidemic of people who don't feel accountable vs. environments where accountability is increasingly unsafe, unhealthy, or otherwise? These statements are giving a get-out-of-jail card to people presiding over (and shaping) these environments.

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🚀 100+ Product Teardown Decks [Proven to Land Top PM Jobs] 💼💥 We have been doing Product Teardown for the last 30+ months. During this time, we've hosted leading companies, providing a platform where 5,000+ community members have come together to deconstruct and rebuild products in ways that are nothing short of extraordinary. But here's the real magic: 100+ of our community members landed their dream jobs by crafting insightful decks that showcased their ability to tackle real-world product challenges. These decks weren’t just presentations; they were powerful demonstrations of skill, creativity, and strategic thinking. They opened doors, secured interviews, and ultimately led to job offers from top companies. We've put together an exclusive resource just for you 🫵—a comprehensive collection of in-depth product teardowns from the industry's leading companies. This guide is designed to help you excel in Product Management by understanding how top products are built and optimized. What's Inside This Exclusive Collection? We've carefully curated the top 100 decks out of the 5,000+ we’ve collected. These aren’t just any decks—they’re the ones that set a new standard, the ones that turned ideas into offers. This collection includes deep dives into products from some of the biggest names in the industry: - Dhan - Hyperverge - Meesho - Plum - INDMoney - Simpl And many more!  Why You Need This Resource? This isn't just a download; it's a game-changer for your career. Here’s what you’ll get: 🤹 Skill Mastery: Understand the core of product management by dissecting how top products are designed and optimized. 📚 Guided Framework: Use these decks as a blueprint for your own teardowns, giving you a head start on solving case studies. 📄 Portfolio Power: Showcase your work in a way that resonates with hiring managers and recruiters. 📈 Career Advancement: Follow in the footsteps of those who have gone before you and land your next job through your own insightful decks. Ready to level up your career? Access this invaluable resource for ✨FREE✨ and gain the edge you need in your next role. Get your copy here: link- https://lnkd.in/g8B3FvaD #ProductManagement #ProductTeardowns #CareerGrowth

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Want to gauge your SaaS product's performance and make informed decisions? Look no further than Userpilot's Product Metrics Benchmark Report 2024! Get key insights for product teams and compare your company's performance to others. #SaaS #productmetrics #productteams #productgrowth

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Level Up Your PM Game: The Portfolio Platform Built For You (Pre-Launch Sign-Ups Open!) https://lnkd.in/g3hzbBX6 Tired of resumes that blend in? It's time to showcase your product management skills in a way that gets you noticed. 🚀 Introducing the all-new product management portfolio platform designed by PMs, for PMs! 💼 Here's what makes us different: Stand Out From the Crowd: Craft a dynamic portfolio that highlights your experience, achievements, your blogs and case studies. 🌟 Effortless Storytelling: Showcase your skills and projects in a visually stunning and organized way. 🎨 Become a PM Powerhouse: Connect with a network of fellow product managers, share knowledge, and land your dream job. 💡 Don't just tell them you're a great PM, show them! 💪 Be among the first to build your winning portfolio and unlock exclusive launch benefits. Sign up to get notified! 📩 https://lnkd.in/g3hzbBX6 #productmanagement #portfolio #careeropportunities #prelaunch #PortfolioPlatform #StandOut #DynamicPortfolio #EffortlessStorytelling #PMCommunity #DreamJob #LaunchBenefits

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Hack Your Growth: A PM's Guide to Growth Hacking ✨ Want your product to take off? Growth hacking isn't magic - it's about strategic experimentation! This post explores user acquisition strategies like content marketing & SEO, plus growth frameworks like AARRR to identify opportunities. 🔎 Learn how A/B testing helps you optimize features & messaging for maximum impact. Remember, growth hacking is about data-driven decisions and continuous learning. 💡 #productchallenge #productmanagement #pmschool #productmanager #hiring #tech #pm #b2c #b2b #fintech #startup

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Wanna learn how to talk dirty in Product Management? I gotcha. Here are some of my favorite “Dirty Words in Product Management." https://lnkd.in/e4nutCDx #ProductManagement #profit #sustainability

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Most product leaders I speak to are feeling stuck—managing endless project lists handed down from the top. (With no say in product vision.) 😤 Why? Because companies (sadly) aren't ready for a problem-solving approach in product mgmt. They see R&D as a cost center—a group that serves the business rather than drives it. If you push too hard, it backfires. So how can leaders transform their product team from task executors to strategic problem solvers, without losing influence and pissing leadership off? Here are 4 levers we teach at Product Leadership Edge: ↳ Reframe transformation as a business need - It’s not about giving PMs more autonomy, it's about improving critical KPIs like customer retention or speeding up time-to-market. ↳ Assemble your Avengers - Moving from task execution to strategic thinking is a skill leap. PMs need to learn stakeholder influence, and leaders need to bridge high-level strategy with messy realities on the ground. ↳ Adapt to your context: Copy-pasting what worked at Spotify or Amazon won’t cut it. Understand your company’s unique dynamics and tailor the approach. ↳ Know when to push (and when to pause): Not every company is ready for this transformation. Timing matters. Have a business case prepped for whenever lightning strikes. PMDojo for Teams is helping organizations create an army of high-impact product managers to lead innovation in an ever-changing scenario. If you'd like to chat to understand how companies are leveling up their product departments to build a competitive edge, shoot me a DM. ——— 🔔 Follow me, Bosky Mukherjee, for more insights on breaking barriers for women in product and tech leadership. #productmanagement #productgrowth #womeninproduct #leadership

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🚀 “The Lean Product Playbook” by Dan Olsen is a must-read for startups! 📘 It lays out a step-by-step approach to finding product-market fit with customer insights, iterative development, and the Lean Product Process. Perfect for building products people love! 🔥 Check out the summary: https://lnkd.in/gghRyGqZ #LeanStartup #ProductDevelopment #Entrepreneurship

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There is a common, fatal mistake that most product managers make without realizing it. The other day, I spoke with an accomplished product group product manager who was looking to advance to the director level. He possessed all the relevant skills and experience. He had the opportunity to participate in numerous interviews, a testament to his marketability and the demand for his skills. But he failed to convert them into offers. He had been through five of his "top tier" target companies and not landed a role. Why was this case? He had joined our program, and after some mock interviews, we dug into the feedback he had received from our coaches [who are often product managers and leaders at these target companies], and I helped him see this pattern. He was interviewing for the job that he had rather than the job he wanted. Interviewing for roles you have held vs. the ones you want is a fundamental mistake that I see many product managers make repeatedly. They are telling the story of their experience, but the framing is entirely wrong. See, the hiring managers and other interviewers really have no interest in your past. They only care about it if it's retold from the perspective of "Why are you a clear fit for the role that you are applying to?" There is no silver bullet to fix this, but there are many lead bullets. Your words matter, as does how you shape the interview and move from one question to another. How you tackle product design, execution, metrics, and leadership interviews also matters. Our coaches understand the difference between the different levels of interviews and can help you reshape them. This approach enabled us to help a Senior Product Manager land a Director role recently (more on that in the next few days). But for now, remember - interview for the job you want, not the job you've had.

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Have you ever used a Story Map to plan out a feature for a product? If so, you have an easy path to creating a Product Road Map. Learn how to create a product roadmap from a story map here: https://lnkd.in/gFUqh4iH

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We meet a lot of PMs who've been hired into early startups without PMF. Tough gig. Here's how I'd think about it. Product Market Fit is not a pure product problem. This is a whole business problem where you need to line up 5 core factors: 𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿 Who are you serving? What visible signals allow you to find them? 𝗡𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 What do they want? What are their alternatives? 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲 What will people pay to solve this problem? What budget are you going after? 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 What are the benefits you can offer that are exciting? How do you deliver these? 𝗚𝗼-𝗧𝗼-𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 How do you tell people about your solution? Both initially for validation, and then in a scalable way (Content / WOM / Paid / Sales)? And PMF isn't a binary thing. It's something that you (hopefully) make stronger over time. The levels might look something like this: 1 - Can you find any customers? 2 - Can you make them stay? 3 - Can you make the pay? 4 - Do they come seek you out? What IS very much like a product problem is how you iterate up these levels. Because product management is often about managing the risks of innovation, and finding PMF is the ultimate example of this. Start by setting an "innovation budget". i.e. the amount of time / effort I wanted to look into this idea. And use something like Matt LeMay's survival / success metrics as goals for this period. • Above success metric: crack on, make next investment • Below success metric: pivot • Below survival metric: kill Within that time, be super focused on answering whatever was keeping me up at night, the really core assumptions or unknowns. That's across all 5 PMF dimensions, so might mean changing customer / problem / pricing / solution / GTM This isn't a sure fire way of finding PMF. It's is still something that's very difficult to do. But this is a way to maximise your odds. It's pretty much what we did for Hustle Badger: Oct '22: invest 1 month speaking to PMs to feel out learning needs and budget Nov '22: invest 4 months getting to 1k subscribers Feb '23: invest 10 months finding conversion rate to paid Dec '23: invest 12 months exploring growth levers ... so far, so good, but it's still early days. ❤️ Like this post? ❤️ Check out Hustle Badger for more practical advice for product leaders and get the support you deserve. Wiki + Courses + Community + Events https://lnkd.in/e9Kq3J_k

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Did you just hire a VP of Growth as a Band-Aid for a broken strategy? 🤔 Here’s the problem: Growth can’t live in a silo. When growth is isolated, teams stop working together. Marketing, product, and engineering focus on their own numbers. Blame goes up. Results go down. The misalignment slows growth and creates confusion. Casey Winters, former growth leader at Pinterest and Chief Product Officer at Eventbrite, knows this all too well. Now a Partner at Reforge, he helps startups break down silos to drive real, sustainable growth. Here’s what he learned along the way: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 At Grubhub, marketing blamed product for bad onboarding; product blamed marketing for poor leads. Sound familiar? Instead of growth, it was just finger-pointing, and nothing moved forward. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 “𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗲𝘇𝗼𝗶𝗱” 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹 𝗮𝘁 Pinterest To drive real alignment, Casey combined product, design, engineering, and analytics into one team focused on growth. The alignment changed everything. 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗽 𝘃𝘀. 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘁 Pinterest Funnels just pass users along. Loops keep users engaged, coming back, and inviting others a sustainable, shared approach. Want real growth? Skip the silos. Here’s how: → 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀-𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 Combine product, engineering, marketing, and data. One team. Shared goals. → 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗽𝘀, 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹𝘀 Design experiences that bring users back, building self-sustaining growth. → 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘀 Give every team the same growth metrics. One focus. One mission. Founders, be honest: Does your team work as one or are you seeing silos form? Drop a 👍 if cross-functional teams are your answer, or a 👎 if silos are still a struggle! Want more insights? Casey’s dropping knowledge on why silos don’t work. Listen to the full episode below! 🎧 #thestartuppodcast #startup #entrepreneur #growth #pmf #productalignment

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A great writeup about Fractional Product Leadership by Jason Knight I think one of my favorite quotes from the article is 1.1.3 Fractional Leaders: Adaptive and Embedded Fractional leadership can combine elements of both interim leadership and consulting. Fractional leaders are adaptive and embedded, filling gaps in the product organization while providing strategic guidance. https://lnkd.in/gQ_pqdrt

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