VR Product Manager Best Practices

Working as a VR product manager requires balance between emerging consumer preferences and traditional best practices in product design.

Team Building: Evangelize (E) Data Culture

Team building requires organizations to have several champions to ensure that data is integrated into daily activities.

Stitch Fix Product VP on Product Roadmap

Learn the fundamentals of building a product roadmap to get your team from point A to B in developing effective product design.

Team Building: Collaborate (C), Distribute (D)

Collaboration through team building provides critical insights and sets the stage for implementation of new business practices.

Treat your PM Career as a Product

Gaurav Hardikar formerly of Trulia, Zillow Group, Shopkick, and now Brilliant, breaks down Execution, Strategy, and Emotional Intelligence .

Challenges For Every VR Product Manager

Content availability, interface limitations and first impressions are common challenges facing today's VR product manager.

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Creating Culture Through People Management

Core values are essential to set the direction for people management practices and leadership team effectiveness to support great culture.

Technical Debt in Product Development

Ziad Ishmail leads the product team at Convoy, using cutting-edge data science and product design to optimize freight delivery. Over the course of the product development process, your decisions create technical debt that factors into the profitability of a product initiative. As Ziad outlines, product teams must be mindful of technical debt to prioritize projects and involve cross-functional teams to mitigate its effects.

Quartz Product Head on Team Building

Team building around data creates a culture-based framework for improved business practices to drive your business forward.

Mastering Voice and Conversational User Experiences

Eduardo Olvera breaks down the 3 things you need to know as a PM to master “voice” technologies in this Products That Count blog post.

Product Efficiency Makes An Impact At Best Scale

Driving efficiency and keeping things simple is key for delivering high value to maximize impact at best scale.

Building Teams With People Management

People management is most effective with leadership teams that are built to drive results and enhance career development.

Wevr VR Product Manager on Virtual Reality

Being a VR product manager puts you at the forefront of the tech world's most exciting innovations and consumer experiences.

Word of Mouth for Growth Products

Word of mouth drives adoption for growth products with authenticity and acquires new users with minimal cost to sustain success.

Evaluating Product Development Costs

Ziad Ishmail leads the product team at Convoy, using cutting-edge data science and product design to optimize freight delivery. Every business decision carries costs – some of which are obvious in the present, but less obvious in the future. As Ziad explains, product managers must have a clear picture of the costs associated with decisions made throughout the product development process.

Culture Drives Impact At Best Scale

Building culture drives effective product management, focused on making an impact at best scale with contributions across teams.

HR Leader on People Management

Effective people management and HR leadership is driven by understanding culture and creating space for employees to tell the truth.

Land and Expand Your Growth Products

The “land and expand” model for growth products provides a roadmap for finding opportunities and seeding them for long-term adoption.

How to Organize Your Product Team Around Your North Star

Justin Bauer breaks down "pods" and how they developed team processes that work best for them and reduces communication overhead.

Brand Positioning: Evolution of Netflix

From managing teams at Netflix to launching education solutions, Gibson Biddle is an innovative product leader with years of experience with building brands. From its beginnings as DVD-first service to its current position into a streaming-first service, Netflix has evolved significantly over the past 20 years. As Gibson explains, these changes in service also impacted the brand’s presentation and overall identity for its customers.

Convoy CPO on Product Development

Product development teams must evaluate the potential impact of a product with a commitment to experimentation and risk assessment.

Setting Your Career Path For The C-Suite

Xiaodi Zhang is a product executive who has climbed the product ladder from project manager to CPO. Before you reach the top of your career path, you need to set a foundation for success. Drawing from personal experience, Xiaodi provides insight into the daily routine of a CPO – along with words of wisdom about not getting too carried away with receiving a promotion.

Box CPO on Impact at Best Scale

Your work in product management reaches millions of people, solving problems and making an impact at best scale on a daily basis.

Resetting Your Career Path: Finding A New Job

Xiaodi Zhang is a product executive who has climbed the product ladder from project manager to CPO. To advance your career, it’s important to recognize when it’s time to move on to new opportunities. As Xiaodi explains, there are a number of factors that determine how to take on new challenges – from learning new skills to working with leaders who share your values.

Brand Positioning Models

From managing teams at Netflix to launching education solutions, Gibson Biddle is an innovative product leader with years of experience with building brands. Defining attributes for your brand is a critical process to help it stand out from the crowd. As Gibson explains, two models help to identify the essential features and emotions that your brand should communicate with its customers.

Atlassian fmr Head of Growth on Growth Products

Growth products for positioned for success by evaluating market size and the value of available services in order to maximize profitability.

Create an Unforgettable Road Map

Everyone must understand what is being built, packaged, and sold. This is a cultural and organizational effort that transcends teams

Product Manager Launch Plan: New Features

Planning the launch for new features presents many challenges, from identifying new opportunities to measuring impact for customers.

Expanding The Footprint of Virtual Products

Adam Sheppard is a leading expert in virtual technology – leading one of the most successful VR/AR agencies with cutting-edge products across industries. Daily use for virtual products continues to increase in our personal and professional lives. As Adam outlines, near-term enhancements to VR/AR capabilities will provide enriched content on several platforms – and “sci-fi” innovations are not too far behind.

Netflix fmr VP on Brand Positioning

Brand positioning must be clearly established to launch successful products and instantly connect with customers in a meaningful way.

1stdibs CPO on Career Path

Building your career path starts with finding jobs that provide a roadmap for enhancing skills and developing as a professional.

AR Virtual Products: The Future Is Now

Adam Sheppard is a leading expert in virtual technology – leading one of the most successful VR/AR agencies with cutting-edge products across industries. Augmented reality (AR) is the fastest-growing segment within the virtual products space. As Adam explains, the increase in mobile-first experiences has expanded the application for AR – from fun-first games to everyday tasks.

Growth Products For Engagement

Mike Grishaver is a leader in building growth products to drive new revenue and engagement at category leaders. Outside of direct revenue plays, increasing engagement is a perfect opportunity for growth products to make an impact with users. Mike outlines his experience at Pandora that introduced a new way for users to listen to music that increased usage and provided an unexpected surprise.

8Ninths CEO on Virtual Products

Virtual products provide a range of immersive experiences across platforms to reach users with a variety of interactive content.

Building Trust With Product Design

Ryan Walsh brings a fresh perspective to product management, rooted in building innovative products at Beats and investing in startups with Floodgate. Every product is positioned to provide specific needs for customers. As Ryan explains, successful products build trust with users by delivering on a unique promise that resonates with people in meaningful ways.

Growth Products That Drive New Revenue

Mike Grishaver is a leader in building growth products to drive new revenue and engagement at category leaders. Growth products are developed to create new revenue streams, but they need to be tailored for the needs of target audiences. Mike shares his experience with developing LinkedIn’s advertising business to illustrate how its design was optimized for user engagement on the platform.

Product Design: Storytelling With a Promise

Ryan Walsh brings a fresh perspective to product management, rooted in building innovative products at Beats and investing in startups with Floodgate. In today’s crowded digital environment, it’s difficult to stand out and grab users’ attention. As Ryan explains, great products are best positioned with a crafted story and well-defined promise to connect with customers in providing unique value.

Etsy fmr CPO on Growth Products

Growth products are created through a comprehensive review of target customers in order to create a successful product roadmap.

Product Market Challenges For The Middleman

The most sustainable product market balances the needs of buyers and sellers with help from middlemen to host easier transactions.

Driving Revenue Through Product Design

With years of experience at leading news organizations, Julia Beizer is an expert in developing engaging content for today’s readers. Traditional advertising remains the primary revenue stream for news organizations, but the methods for integrating ads into news content have completely changed. Furthermore, leveraging user subscriptions through free trials have turned everyday users into customers. Julia discusses creative ways in which news organizations are optimizing content to drive revenue.

Apple Music fmr VP on Product Design

Product design requires being able to analyze data, find a strategic edge for your product that stands out from the crowd.

The Middleman & The Online Product Market

The “middleman” plays an integral part in today's online product market, making transactions easier and faster than ever.

Increasing News Reach With Product Design

With years of experience at leading news organizations, Julia Beizer is an expert in developing engaging content for today’s readers. To access daily news updates, users are not actively typing in one specific news source or website. As Julia explains, the introduction of sophisticated online search and increasing engagement on social channels has completely changed the ways in which people access news content.

HuffPo Fmr Product Head on Product Design

Product design at news outlets has moved beyond text to incorporate video and interactive content to drive engagement with more readers.

Economics Expert on Product Market

The middleman has provided significant value in today’s product market, but is often viewed with negativity and suspicion.

Go Soft: How to Get Ahead in Product Management

Johnathan Lucky discusses empathy and why he wanted to immerse himself in the user experience and help improve the product.

LinkedIn Fmr Product Head on 5 Lessons to Fast Track your Career

LinkedIn fmr Product VP Joff Redfern shares over 20 years of product leadership experience to help you fast track your career.

Box Changes The Game For Enterprise Software

With 30 years of product experience, Chris Yeh is a leading expert in enterprise software products and product development. From its early beginnings with a single server to its current leadership position, the history of Box has been defined by making file sharing easier and more exciting. As Chris explains, there are a number of business factors and key features that propelled Box to where it is today.

It’s a New Age for Product Managers

There's a shift in product management mentality as we move from depending on intuition only vs. the large breadth of data we have accessible.

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