One of the product manager skills that fly under the radar, underrated, and never talked about is simply the ability not to forget things easily.
We're exposed to so much craziness, information, feedback, ideas, and it's impossible to write down or record everything. You simply…
@Mrpossidez
But what you ladies & gents have is something that hardly anyone has at that level - incredible self-confidence, self-love & drive to succeed. So inspiring, made me learn so much from you. Never forget how strong you are & you could rise & shine anywhere. Just keep going ✨
Today I interviewed a girl for a product management role in my team and the conversation ended with her interviewing me.
I wanted to make sure she’s a good fit for us, but she also wanted to make sure we’re a good fit for her. This is exactly how it should be, but it happens…
I really read a lot about product management and this piece of information is one of the best summaries I've ever come across.
#productmanagement
@productschool
Product managers, what tools and formats do you use for your product roadmaps?
Sharing our template which might surprise you - it’s a Simple Google sheet.
I have learned that people just want clarity, and as long it gives it - the format doesn’t matter.
We have used it for…
This is the best guide on how ChatGPT can be helpful to product managers that I have seen so far.
Please share to whom it might be useful.
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“The product manager of 2025 will look very different from the product manager of 2020. Your role will become more focused on outcomes & strategic planning, and skills such as storytelling & empathy.”
We seem to be heading in the right direction
@MindsmithsHQ
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Just a product manager checking her suit before hitting the stage and closing the ProductWorld 2024 Conference with the panel discussion 👔👠
I'll fill you in later with more details 😉
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The best advice I can give to product manager beginners & those with no team is - join the
#productmanagement
channel on Reddit.
PMs post real day-to-day challenges, the community suggests solutions & evaluates the results. You won't miss, nor did I ;)
This is the best list of interview questions for anyone applying for a product manager job. Must read. One of my favorites is how you stay user-focused.
#productmanagement
@productschool
Product Management is the art and science of building the right product for the right people. It encompasses understanding what to build, why to build it, and how to position it.
Forty Feels Freaking Fabulous! 4️⃣0️⃣🍾🎂🎉
Another trip around the sun, another year of living to the fullest.
Thanks everyone for being here and sharing this moment in time with me 💜
#productmanagement
#bday
Today I had my first live appearance on Bloomberg Adria TV. Proud to be able to represent
#productmanagement
&
#AI
😎
The key message was that AI will cause layoffs where people can be replaced, but it will also create new, more quality & more exciting jobs, just like mine 😉
“Too many product managers want to spend their time in problem discovery, and not get their hands dirty in solution discovery – the nonsense of “PMs are responsible for the what & not the how.”
Still Steve Jobs. Crazy how much I’ve learned. Everyone ➡️
Product girl, bday girl. Another year around the sun. One of the best ever 💫✨🥂
Grateful for everyone who has my back on this crazy journey, and excited about everything to come.
World, let's go! 💜🦋
#bday
Product management salaries in 2023 across the globe - Europe, USA, Nigeria, India 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
... and the rest:
Wondering what you think 🤑🤑🤑
#prodmgmt
#productmanagement
My 1st lecture at the faculty 👩🏻🏫🤓 About what else than
#productmanagement
, at the largest institution of economics & business in Croatia. Approach - zero theory, only real examples & personal experiences.
I genuinely had so much fun. The students said I inspired them, but the…
❗️PRODUCT HIRING 👈
I'm expanding our team to designing AI assistants. Looking for people into human behavior & career in
#product
&
#AI
. You'll create interactions between assistants & users.
No tech background, no experience required.
CROATIA, ON-SITE, INTERNSHIP, DM me 😉
One of the best takes on why users should not be listened to but only observed.
It's not a small difference - it's the difference between a good and bad product.
#productmanagement
Product management is the art of balancing our own emotions as product managers, user emotions, and other stakeholders’ emotions. Not easy, but it's beautiful.
#ProductManagement
I received over 60 job applications for product internship in designing AI assistants, and 80% are from women.
What a time to be alive 😁
Petra & Paula are with us already, with our product designer Lana (in the middle). Ladies welcome on board! 💜
#womeninai
#womenintech
…
Waiting for the last
#productmanagement
call before leaving the country, on how to make a proper Product Discovery.
Tired, 50 tabs opened, messy hair, in a rush, but you simply have to love this job; there is no other.
Google plans to acquire Photomath, a Croatian math app with 220m downloads.
Photomath is one of the rawest apps you'll come across & proof if we really understand users, we don't need shiny features and dark mode 😉
Feels so great from both
#product
&
#AI
perspectives! 🚀🇭🇷
For all who wonder which product KPIs exist, what are the most important ones & want to have them all in one place, here's an excellent synthesis by
@Clickup
:
Every KPI is a metric, but not every metric is a KPI,
#productmanagement
😉
If you're a product manager and need refreshment on this crazy Monday, feel free to indulge yourself with a picture of Europe today taken by another PM😉
Product managers, I brought 2 top CEOs to our meetup to ask them how it is to work with us. What they said👇🏼
1️⃣ Being CEO is hard, but being a PM is even more
2️⃣ They struggle & don't know how to position us well in the company
3️⃣ Product teams are crucial for company success
4️⃣…
1995, Steve Jobs on product:
1/ “There’s just a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a great idea and a great product.
As you evolve that idea, it changes and grows. It never comes out like it starts, because you learn a lot more as you get into the subtleties of it."
The Product Team returns from a meeting where all stakeholders are aligned, everyone understands the vision, and no one tries to smuggle in a new unnecessary feature.
Good job, guys! 😁🥳🦄☁️💓☁️
#justanordinarymonday
One more product person made it to the very top.
Neal Mohan, who led product mgmt at DoubleClick & was YouTube Chief Product Officer for the last 7 yrs, became YouTube CEO.
The span of skills we have as product people is enormous. We can do it all & the era has just begun.
This is the best overview of what the KPIs for us Product Managers are and what our job really is.
So the next time when Imposter Syndrome hits and you doubt yourself, remember the purpose and that we all can do it - show up, be open & curious. And put it on repeat 😉
In most cases, we don't need new certificates and podcasts for good product management - we need more empathy and understanding for users and colleagues.
#productmanagement
We should love our products, but also ourselves & our people 😉
I traveled a bit to spend a couple of Valentine's days with my soulmate & to get some fresh ideas.
I wanna say a BIG THANKS to my amazing
@Mindsmiths
team for being my support system & making it possible 💜
No, I don't want to talk at conferences about whether AI will take people's jobs 😅 I want to talk about how much better products we can build now that we have AI.
I want to inspire people and share learnings instead of scaring them and trying to predict the future.
#feelings
…
We know that taking a break from work is essential for productivity & happiness at work. Likewise, a break from Twitter is essential for the ability to enjoy & create great content 😉
A little longer
#productmanagement
& Twitter break happened on the beautiful coast of Algarve,…
One crucial thing separates us from being good product managers - understanding that our skills are not in certificates, courses and Jira but in bringing people to the table to talk to each other.
Product management is all about making choices and decisions non-stop, and as frustrating as it may be at times, you have to admit that being the boss isn't bad at all 😎
If you think MVP is a product, you might be wrong.
It’s not a product but a process, and this helped me to understand it fully:
#productmanagement
#prodmgmt
This is us
#productmanagement
and our baby product when we think it's not ready for users, so we polish and polish instead of releasing, and then it becomes too big, clumsy and incapable of life just because we were afraid to let it among people.
Baby isn't a problem, we are ;)
Product management fun facts, Wall Street Journal 2016:
👉“The current crop of MBA students has a new dream job: Product manager.”
👉“7% of Harvard Business School graduates took jobs in product management.”
👉“Harvard Business School is only able to accept 1 in every 3…
Actually there is a shortcut to becoming a great product manager - to expose yourself. To jump & do what we think we can't/don't know yet.
What's the worst that can happen? When a person is on a journey, there are no failures - there is only a confirmation that you're already…
Your product manager hit the stage once again to discuss why just 17% of women are in tech across the EU, and, of course, to make product management seen and heard 😉
It’s interesting - list me as Head of Product, and no questions asked. But introduce me as Product Manager, and…
A new sprint has been announced and its name came from our Twitter community 😎
I'm grateful for all the support you have given me in the last few weeks since I've been active here.
Let the next one begin!
#productmanagement
#womenintech
Wow, my first international podcast is here 😁
I tried to give guidance and tips & tricks to new product managers and those planning to become one, while seniors will probably laugh at some unique methods and approaches I use 😅
Spotify
Apple Podcast…
Thursday is podcast day, this time I had a chat with
@majaverse
She was the first product person at her current company and has gone a very remarkable path. Listen to her journey and get new insights for your Product Management career!
Links in the comment below 👇
Product management is not only operational work, backlog, roadmap & stakeholders but also an influence on the product vision, building the team, and the path to the C-suite.
Whoever tells you differently & wants to diminish it, feel free to 👏🏼 prove 👏🏼 them 👏🏼wrong 👏🏼…
Product managers, if your products aren't successful, maybe you didn't include enough empathy.
Maybe not in the creation process, maybe not in the product itself, and maybe not in both.
"Empathy is about living through the customer's experience during the onboarding &…
If you are a new product manager, this is a pretty accurate list of common traps you can fall into & should avoid. Keep it somewhere visible 😉✅
And it's also an important reminder for all of us seniors.
#productmanagement
I hear very often that product managers & developers are two different worlds, who also don't understand each other or get along well 😅
I don't accept that. The last 2 days I spent at Infobip Shift, the largest developer event in Southeast Europe, mingling with developers,…
Product managers, do you develop your products all by yourself, or you cooperate with other companies?
If you collaborate - I moderated a product meetup on cooperation between product & service companies - what works, what not & what they need from each other.
Conclusions 👇🏼
@yanatweets
Easily. I focus the product vision entirely on the user's life & how I want them to feel. That's all I think and obsess about. And then I throw out all the features that won't support them feeling that way.
Less is more, or to be more precisely, less is everything in product.
Today we celebrate us product managers! 🙌🏼🎉
It is World Product Day, a day that cherishes product management craft and community.
It was started in 2018 by
@producttank
, and today is the 8th anniversary:
#productmanagement
Let’s enjoy and treat…
It is
#worldproductday
🎈 Time to celebrate 🎂
And if you were wondering, why Product Management is so awesome, here are ten reasons why I love working in Product Management:
1️⃣Having the chance to work on something where you can have a real impact on users' lives.
2️⃣The…
I’ve realized that in 2023 I’m still hearing, “You don’t need marketing, people will find you.”
How will they find me if even in my own closet I need to expose my things I’m already familiar with and put them in the first row if I want to see & wear them? 😅
No one’s gonna find…
I notice that we product people mostly talk about our perspective on AI - which tools to introduce in our processes & products, and almost no one talks about the user perspective in the AI era.
It’s interesting how we, who always say that the user is the center of everything,…
For us product folks, a reminder that changing a strategy, market fit, and product isn’t a problem but a necessity.
Popular companies and their first products 👇
This is an important moment in history, we have proof that AI has surpassed humans - it knows to say no when it's overwhelmed 💪🏼🧠 😅😅
#friday
#ai
#ChatGPT
Yes, a product manager needs to know how to communicate and say the right thing at the right time, but it is also important to know what and when not to say 💡
#communication
#productmanagement
How to talk to users?
Talk about their life and how they arrived at the problem - not about what the product could be.
"If we built this feature, would you be interested in using it? And paying for it?" That's wrong.
Amazing guidelines by
@ycombinator
Never in my life have I thought I would see my face on the bus 🚌, especially in Lagos 🇳🇬, but life is all about surprises 😄
Looking forward to the No-Code Tech Summit and my session this Saturday! 🎉
#ProductManagement
@nocodesummit
Mind the Product premium content is now open & free, cool stuff:
* Conference talk videos
* Deep dive guides & articles
* Product leaders interviews
* Recordings panels
Scroll a bit for insights, opinions, ideas... I see some nice pieces:
TOP 3 hardest things for the team lead product managers based on my 4 years of experience doing it:
1. Hiring
2. Leadership
3. Staying calm
Feel free to add more 😉
#productmanagement
OpenAI, 2019
"We've never made any revenue. We've no current plans to make revenue. We've no idea about how we may one day generate revenue. We've made a promise to investors that once we build intelligent system, we'll ask it to figure out a way to generate an investment return"
Engine built to find product market fit, interesting.
"To increase your product/market fit score, spend half your time doubling down on what users already love and the other half on addressing what’s holding others back."
Journey by
@Superhuman
#prodmgmt
Just a gentle reminder that both Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai started as product managers at Microsoft and Google, respectively.
Enjoy the journey,
#productmanagement
!
Magic, magic, can you imagine?
Asake, 2022
New office. New perspectives. Product perspectives.
I wish we always have such an exciting view of the future and everything we do,
#productmanagement
.
I think product people don’t value their role enough.
Imagine the responsibility of creating and delivering products people will use.
We shape the way humans live and interact with the world.
#product
#productmanagement
Nothing can bring more peace to a product manager's life than turning off notifications and controlling our own pace, attention and focus, instead of letting them control it. Definitely worth the risk and giving it a try 😉
#productmanagement
@div_2502
It's not the experience at all, many candidates have zero experience. It's about the way how they approach you:
1) Does it makes sense what they think and write
2) What's their energy & tone of voice
3) The value they brought with that interaction (some idea, proposal, question,…
It’s rare to come across such a life-like, simple and powerful explanation of what Product Market Fit is.
A very very interesting point of view:
#productmanagement
The Role of a Leader - Comfort the Disturbed and Disturb the Comfortable.
Team leaders, what do you think?
It couldn’t be more accurate from my experience. Felt it in my skin from my leader & realized I do the same with the people I lead, subtly and spontaneously.
#leadership