For a product manager, it’s important to understand the various stages that products go through during their lifecycle. The following four broadly-defined stages constitute the product life-cycle:

1. Introduction
2. Growth
3. Maturity
4. Decline /read that parttt/

This article will introduce you to each of these stages as well as examples of products in each to help you better identify them moving forward.

Introduction

The introduction phase of a product’s life-cycle is defined by the following:

• There have only been a few iterations of t...

In this tutorial we will cover the following:

• What is a product?
• What is product management?
• The different kinds of product management roles — internal, B2B, and B2C
• What does a product manager’s average day entail?
• The differences between product and project management

What is a product?

Products are all around us. Keyboards, laptops, t-shirts, and web browsers are all examples of products. From the perspect...