Product Management University

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Product experience is a vital part of product design and development. Your product should be able to make customers measurably better at specific job tasks that are critical to their success, for sure, but does it do so easily and efficiently, and even more importantly, do those customers actually enjoy using it? Product experience takes into account how your product delivers ideal customer outcomes and the manner in which it eliminates obstacles.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link]. The Need for Guidance and the Lack of Transactional Power. Product success is not something you can achieve on your own as a product manager or Scrum product owner. Instead, you rely on the contributions and the support of the key stakeholders , the development team members, and possibly other product people who help you manage a large product.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I recently sat down with fellow Product Talk coach and instructor Hope Gurion to discuss some of the common mistakes we see teams make when it comes to defining outcomes. You can watch the video of our conversation or check out a lightly edited version of the transcript below. Full Transcript. Teresa Torres: Hi, I’m Teresa Torres. Hope Gurion: And I’m Hope Gurion.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Have you ever been looking for a recipe online but have to scroll all the way through a long, drawn-out story about the author’s family to get to the actual recipe? We won’t do that to you today. Instead, let’s cut right to the chase: Retargeting the right customers at the right time and in the right place is the ultimate key to driving mobile customer engagement.

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Speaker: John Mansour

If you're looking to advance your career in product management, there are more options than just climbing the management ladder. Join our upcoming webinar to learn about highly rewarding career paths that don't involve management responsibilities. We'll cover both career tracks and provide tips on how to position yourself for success in the one that's right for you.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In this guest post, Saikiran Chandha, CEO and founder of SciSpace provides an overview of hypothesis-design testing and why it is quintessential to building new product features. [.] Read more » The post Hypothesis-driven product management appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Ask them what they do, when they do what they do, what challenges are they running to, and how are they solving those challenges today. One of the biggest challenges that business owners or product managers (PM) face is figuring out what their customers want. Too often, we ask customers what they want, instead of asking what they do. Instead of asking customers what they want, ask them what they do.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Lately it feels like no matter where you look, there’s always someone talking about Product Ops. But few people are asking: Does it actually need to exist? Antonia Landi, Product Operations Leader dives deep into this emerging role. [.] Read more » The post Whose job is it anyway? The rise of Product Ops and why it deserves to be an independent function appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 8, 2022

If you’re reading this in December, that means you’re already in the thick of it with holiday campaigns and chaos. But if you have a breather, we’re excited to share some data-backed mobile engagement findings, specifically surrounding how seasonality impacts customer sentiment! Bookmark this page for next year’s insanity (and to remind yourself not to get down when your app store ratings look a little less-than-happy in the winter months).

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In a recent episode, our Director of Machine Learning, Fergal Reid , shed some light on the latest breakthroughs in neural network technology. We chatted about DALL-E, GPT-3, and if the hype surrounding AI is just that or if there was something to it. He told us things were starting to scale. And just like that, we’re at it again. ChatGPT , OpenAI’s prototype artificial intelligence chatbot, launched last week and it has been making the rounds in the halls of the internet, inspiring amazed react

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Nir Eyal

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Productivity has many enemies: too many meetings, external triggers like interruptions from coworkers, whether virtual or in person, and multitasking the wrong way, to name a few. But more often than not, it’s mental traps that trip us up. The post 4 Mental Traps That Kill Productivity appeared first on Nir and Far.

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svpg

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Most people today know that when we refer to “product” we mean that in a very holistic sense. It’s not just the code. It’s not just the user interface. It’s not just the app. It is meant to reflect the full customer experience. Online and offline. Customer facing and customer enabling. That said, I don’t. The post Product vs. Policy appeared first on Silicon Valley Product Group.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Food tech is transforming the food industry by using cutting-edge technology to manage production, distribution, and consumption. Explore the article below for more. When discussing food, technology is not the first thing that comes to our minds. Nevertheless, technology has altered every aspect of our life. It is altering the global operation of various industries, including the food industry.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In this adapted excerpt from his recent book Sweet Stakeholder Love: Powerful Insights and Tactics to Deal with Stakeholder Issues Better and Achieve More Success at Work Sigi Osagie discusses stakeholder management. [.] Read more » The post Dear product stakeholder, please show me some love appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 27, 2022

If you’re not tracking metrics, analyzing them, and tweaking your app accordingly, you’re missing out on potential optimizations that could dramatically improve customer experience. Setting mobile app KPIs (key performance indicators) for revenue, performance, and CX is an important first step toward accomplishing this. But there are tons of KPIs to choose from.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 14, 2022

. There were quite a few memorable scenes from The Social Network, the 2010 movie that chronicles the inception of Facebook – and the lawsuits that followed. There’s the initial whirlwind of a breakup that leads to the highly problematic Facemash.com, the moment Saverin confronts Zuckerberg for being cheated out of his shares, the perfectly delivered “drop the ‘the.’ Just Facebook.” But it was none of those scenes that lingered on Harry Stebbings ’ mind.

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Mixpanel

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Data is complicated, and interpreting it correctly requires skill, an open mind, and—most importantly—a large amount of self-awareness. Why self-awareness? Because the only way to combat bias, a big enemy of data work, is to be consciously aware of the attachments and attitudes that lead to erroneous conclusions. Here are five questions you can ask yourself that will materially increase your ability to mitigate the effects of your own biases in data-informed product development.

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First Round Review

DECEMBER 1, 2022

David Nunez, an early hire at Stripe and Uber, shares his step-by-step playbook for establishing good internal documentation habits at your startup. He unpacks his tested tactics for creating a culture of documentation, setting the quality bar and keeping things organized.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 2, 2022

I’ve had some dark days as a Product Manager. Here are a few tricks I’ve learned to help with the toughest days. Simplify You can’t pull a rabbit out of your hat, work miracles and have the perfect information available out of nowhere. All you can ever do is make the best decision in light of available information. If you need new information, work out what you can and can’t reasonably acquire.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 6, 2022

What does a product manager actually do? And what role do they have to play in tech ethics, delivery management, and coaching? This week we go straight back into our conversation with Marty Cagan to find all of the answers by the godfather of product. Okay enough chatting, let's dive straight back in. [.] Read more » The post The role of a product manager — Marty Cagan on The Product Experience – Part 2 of 2 appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 27, 2022

If you’re not tracking metrics, analyzing them, and tweaking your app accordingly, you’re missing out on potential optimizations that could dramatically improve customer experience. Setting mobile app KPIs (key performance indicators) for revenue, performance, and CX is an important first step toward accomplishing this. But there are tons of KPIs to choose from.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 14, 2022

We’re fast approaching a new year, with major changes in customer support trends and customer expectations. So what does “good customer support” look like for 2023? We conducted a major survey to find out what people want and expect from customer service, and made some fascinating discoveries. Our latest study contacted 1,000 US customers across generations, to learn more about what they want and expect from businesses as we enter 2023.

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The product management job market in 2024 reflects the fast-growing and ever-evolving nature of the field. For product managers looking to future-proof their careers and take advantage of new opportunities, staying informed about the professional landscape is a smart move. In this comprehensive career guide from Regis College, you’ll learn about: The current job outlook for product managers in 2024 Six professional pathways and the average salaries for these roles in the U.S.

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AB Tasty

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Sign-up forms are where business happens, but even the smallest mistake in designing your forms can have huge consequences on your conversions. Here, we cover 10 best practices to designing powerful sign-up forms that convert.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Almost every week, I have a conversation with executives at B2B software companies who don’t see a bright-line distinction between software license revenue and customization/implementation revenue.  Or why this distinction is essential to their investors.  But when I do product due diligence for SaaS-focused PE/VC firms, it's the very first thing I look at.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Have you ever showed up to lead a workshop and found that all the whiteboard markers were dried out? Or nobody brought pens? Or there wasn’t any paper on hand for sketching exercises? With the return of more in-person work comes the return of more in-person workshops, and that means that we facilitators need to be prepared with the right toolkit for live gatherings.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In this guest post, Product Manager, Arfan Ismail, explains why what has worked in one company—even if it worked spectacularly well—may not necessarily work in another one, and employs an example from World War II to help illustrate his point. [.] Read more » The post The cargo-cult in product management appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Have you ever been looking for a recipe online but have to scroll all the way through a long, drawn-out story about the author’s family to get to the actual recipe? We won’t do that to you today. Instead, let’s cut right to the chase: Retargeting the right customers at the right time and in the right place is the ultimate key to driving mobile customer engagement.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Our mission – the change we want to create – is to make internet business personal. Whether we’re creating tools that improve personalization or strengthening our privacy and security, Intercom has always been committed to bringing a personal touch to every change we make to our product. This is the ninth post in a series exploring our product principles.

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First Round Review

DECEMBER 20, 2022

10 tactical tips and guiding principles for a new Chief of Staff to lean on as they scale their impact at a startup — from building better systems, not just booking more meetings and finding an executive's superpower.

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