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About Brian Lawley
Brian Lawley is recognized as a thought-leader and authority on the profession of Product Management and Product Marketing. He is the CEO and Founder of the 280 Group (https://280group.com), author of five best-selling Product Management books and one of the creators of the Optimal Product Process™. He is also the former President of the Silicon Valley Product Management Association (SVPMA), was awarded the AIPMM Award for Thought Leadership in Product Management, and has been featured on World Business Review and the Silicon Valley Business Report.
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Blog postFor our next installment of the Women in Product Management Series I interviewed Monika Murugesan, Vice President of Product Management and Strategy at Schneider Electric. To read the entire series on Women in Product Management make sure to sign up for our newsletter. How did you get into product management? When I was in college, […]
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Blog postA Product Manager’s experience, along with education, can indicate what they know and what they have done. However, the best way to understand a Product Manager’s abilities and level of proficiency is through a skills assessment.
What Is a Skills Assessment? A skills assessment is an evaluation of an individual’s ability to perform a specific skill or set of skills, as they pertain to a job or role. Ideally, the assessment captures the level of proficiency for each skill,1 month ago Read more -
Blog postFor this featured interview from our Consultant Interviews Series we have Todd Blaquiere, who shares with us his valuable advice on how a Product Management organization can be more strategic and up-level its team.
How and why did you break into Product Management? Like most Product Managers, I didn’t determine a clear path into Product Management. My career started in creative media, specifically, in online video. I owned a start-up and after that, I transitioned into Marketing2 months ago Read more -
Blog postFor our next installment of the Women in Product Management Series I interviewed Xochitl Javier, Director, Product Management & Strategic Marketing at Thermo Fisher Scientific. To read the entire series on Women in Product Management make sure to sign up for our newsletter.
How did you get into product management? I have a degree in cellular biology and had every intention of going to medical school. After I graduated, I applied for a job at a laboratory supply company. Within mon2 months ago Read more -
Blog postThis article details general Product Marketing Manager salary data based on salary information reported by Salary.com in January 2022. Status of the Job 2022: Product Marketing Manager If we learned anything from the past two years, we learned to expect the unexpected. The pandemic turned the business world on its head, leaving Product teams scrambling […]
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Blog postThe Product Management Skills – Benchmark Report identifies 15 skill sets that individual Product Managers and entire Product Management teams need to be able to excel at their jobs.
Companies that want to help their product managers grow more effectively through the first 10 years of their career should provide support in these critical skill areas with focused training and workshops.
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Blog postFor our next installment of the Women in Product Management Series I interviewed Michelle Lance: Head of Product Management, Western Alliance Bank. To read the entire series on Women in Product Management make sure to sign up for our newsletter.
How did you get into product management? I’ve been in commercial banking for 30 years and, specifically, in treasury management for over 25 years. I started as a branch teller and went into treasury management customer service before college.3 months ago Read more -
Blog postIn the past 20 years, corporate buying decisions have shifted from a strictly top-down approach to one that is heavily influenced by internal users. Today’s B2B users are looking to get experience with the product they are actually buying – even before they buy or upgrade it. Rarely do they want to interact with salespeople […]
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Blog post“What if?” That’s the thought behind every product innovation, from software platforms to mobile devices, food products, furniture or any consumer product you can imagine. It’s the spark that gives rise to innovative, ground-breaking product development.
But bringing a new product to market involves all departments within an organization. Using a phased approach ensures that critical decisions are made at the appropriate times throughout the product process (also referred3 months ago Read more -
Blog postOn this month’s featured interview from our Consultant Interviews Series, we have Ryan Cantwell candidly talking about the path that lead him to start a Product Management career and the importance of including role clarity in Product organizations.
How and why did you break into Product Management? I found a career in product management by complete chance! The happy accident occurred a couple of years out of business school as I was working my way up to a field sales role3 months ago Read more
Titles By Brian Lawley
Product management plays a pivotal role in organizations. In fact, it's now considered the fourth most important title in corporate America—yet only a tiny fraction of product managers have been trained for this vital position. If you're one of the hundreds of thousands of people who hold this essential job—or simply aspire to break into a new role—Product Management For Dummies gives you the tools to increase your skill level and manage products like a pro.
From defining what product management is—and isn't—to exploring the rising importance of product management in the corporate world, this friendly and accessible guide quickly gets you up to speed on everything it takes to thrive in this growing field. It offers plain-English explanations of the product life cycle, market research, competitive analysis, market and pricing strategy, product roadmaps, the people skills it takes to effectively influence and negotiate, and so much more.
- Create a winning strategy for your product
- Gather and analyze customer and market feedback
- Prioritize and convey requirements to engineering teams effectively
- Maximize revenues and profitability
Product managers are responsible for so much more than meets the eye—and this friendly, authoritative guide lifts the curtain on what it takes to succeed.
The contributors each share one rule they think is critical to succeed in product management based on their hands-on product management and product marketing experience with companies such as Apple, eBay, Intuit, SAP, and Yahoo!.
Packed with pearls of product management wisdom, this book has something for everyone. You will learn:
How to focus on market needs, not just individual requests
How to clarify your product positioning before your next big decision
How to align your product strategy with company strategy -- and then sell it
Why agility is the key to product management success
Why great execution trumps a great product idea
Best of all, it was written with the busy product manager in mind. Each rule is kept to two pages and designed to stand-on its own. The rules can be read in any order. In less than five minutes a day, you can learn from forty of the best product managers in the world. Whether you are a seasoned and experienced product manager or are just starting out, the '42 Rules of Product Management (2nd Edition)' will help you lead with greater effectiveness and influence.
Learn four of the most critical elements in ensuring product success, and take-away practical strategies, insights, tips and techniques that Brian has learned from hands-on experience defining, launching and marketing over fifty products during the last twenty years of his career.
The book covers how to prioritize features and build product roadmaps, which is absolutely critical for getting your team and company on the same page and for delivering the right features in your product at the right time.
It also covers how to run effective Beta programs, which oftentimes mean the difference between shipping a poor-quality product and shipping a product that you have a high degree of confidence in.
Learn how to plan and execute an effective product launch. Short of building a great product, product launches are one of the most (if not THE most) critical factors for achieving success.
Finally, learn how to get phenomenal reviews for your products. Oftentimes this is an area that is an afterthought, and is not dealt with until or unless the product receives poor reviews. With a well-managed review program you can turn press and analysts into one of your most powerful marketing weapons, further accelerating the success of your product.
'The Phenomenal Product Manager' goes beyond the basics and teaches you how to work more effectively with your teams, how to influence when you have no formal authority, how to get the most important work done in less time and how to manage and accelerate your career. Based on the author's twenty years of product management experience as well as perspectives from the world's leading product management experts, 'The Phenomenal Product Manager' is a must-read for every product manager who wants to be more successful and enjoy their job more.
An effective beta program can provide valuable information that can be used to gauge readiness to ship, customer satisfaction and features to include in future releases. A timeline to help you plan and execute a successful and comprehensive beta plan is included in this white paper.
In this book, you’ll learn ways to:
Craft the right positioning and messaging for your prospective customers.
Communicate with your customers in terms that are meaningful to them.
Use the web and social media to have two-way conversations with your customers.
Use web analytics to understand customer interest.
Work effectively with sales and sales channels to manage leads and drive revenue.
Become recognized in your company or organization.
Discern a prospect’s digital body language from web interactions.
Understand the new rules of public relations.
Best of all, it was written with the busy product marketer in mind. Each rule is kept to two pages and designed to stand on its own. The rules can be read in any order. In less than five minutes a day, you can learn from forty two of the best marketing managers in the world. Whether you are a seasoned, experienced product marketing manager or are just starting out, the 42 Rules of Product Marketing will help you to work more effectively and produce greater returns for your company.
Whitepaper: How to bring better products to market faster.
Many companies have no product process in place for new products, making each new release a firedrill where the wheel gets revinvented time after time. Yet others have product processes that are documented with hundreds of pages of content that no one ever reads or pays attention to. This whitepaper provides ideas for how to implement a lightweight but effective product process at your company so that you deliver better products and reduce the stress level and number of mistakes at the same time.
This white paper includes 10 common errors made in program development alongside guidelines and advice based on years of experience to help you avoid these mistakes. Also included is an example of an effective program development timeline.
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