Three Tips for Aligning Product Management and Product Marketing
Over the past several months, I’ve led several roundtables in different cities on the topic of how to align product management and product marketing – as the subject has attracted a lot of interest from both product management and portfolio marketing (including product, solution, segment and services marketing) leaders. These roundtables are intimate, invite-only events for SiriusDecisions clients where we facilitate open discussion between functional leaders from different b-to-b organizations on a chosen topic of interest. In this post on the SiriusDecisions blog — Three Tips for Aligning Product Management and Product Marketing — I share three practical tips for aligning product management and product marketing that came up in these sessions.
Join me in Austin and San Francisco this Fall
There are two exciting events that I’ll be presenting at in the coming months — hopefully you’ll be able to join me at one of them (if not both!).
- SiriusDecisions Technology Exchange — November 16-17 in Austin. This second-annual event focuses specifically on how technology is used within b-to-b sales, marketing and product organizations, and provides methods for organizations to determine what technology they actually need and understand how to weave technology into their strategies and business processes. I’ll be presenting on Applying Agile: How It Can Help and When It Doesn’t.
- Product Marketing Community — December 9 in San Francisco. This day-long conference focuses specifically on product marketing and includes a nice mix of presenters, including a lot of practitioners from a range of different size companies. I’ll be delivering a keynote on “Sorting out Product Marketing and Product Management.” This is the second “edition” of the conference; I presented at the inaugural conference in Toronto in April 2016 and it was a great event, so I’m looking forward to experience it again in the Bay Area.
What’s Hot on Twitter
Here are a few of my tweets (and retweets) that have generated the most interest recently; to get these in real-time, join the 7000+ others who follow me at @jefflash:
You'll get more out of 1 in-depth conversation w/a customer than 100 customers responding to a poorly written survey. #prodmgmt #prodmktg
— Jeff Lash (@jefflash) October 28, 2016
Thanks @jefflash @ralphytown and @johncutlefish . Your tweets inspired us to write this blog post https://t.co/lZmxzeDlYT #prodmgmt
— ProductMantra (@ProductMantra) October 27, 2016
Telling #prodmgmt to "talk w/customers & learn their needs" works ONLY if they know who to talk to, about what & how https://t.co/cWSGqOH0er
— Jeff Lash (@jefflash) October 18, 2016
Should I be glad or upset that #prodmgmt isn't mentioned specifically here? pic.twitter.com/JEgMHFDJ7K
— Jeff Lash (@jefflash) October 17, 2016
“Our target segments are small, medium and large companies in NA, EMEA and APAC.†Well, that narrows it down a bit 🙄 #prodmgmt #prodmktg
— Jeff Lash (@jefflash) October 5, 2016
A good #prodmktg & #prodmgmt process recognizes that not every idea should make it to market. –@AmyCPerras #SDSummit
— Jeff Lash (@jefflash) September 27, 2016
If #sales says a lead is sales-generated, ask them for the source, and you may find that it was actually marketing-generated. #SDSummit
— Jeff Lash (@jefflash) September 27, 2016
Product Managers who think their job is to worry about UX & development but not marketing and sales are not product managers. #prodmgmt
— Jeff Lash (@jefflash) September 26, 2016
Translation is putting the words in a different language; localization is using different pictures in different countries/cultures #sdsummit
— Jeff Lash (@jefflash) September 26, 2016
This talk of removing headphone jacks reminds me of my Good #ProdMgmt blog post: Don't be afraid to remove features https://t.co/8Eb59PbGkF
— Jeff Lash (@jefflash) September 19, 2016
4x more #prodmgmt spend most time on scrum/#projmgmt vs. on #market research. Yikes! https://t.co/TQlFyeSdAC pic.twitter.com/uPgwnsJPGW
— Jeff Lash (@jefflash) September 16, 2016
Found this link today: https://t.co/CGtwYtUqVG. Hard to believe I've been involved in blogs/blogging for almost 2 decades now (cc @keaggy)
— Jeff Lash (@jefflash) September 15, 2016