Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

This article is based on information provided in our webinar, Customer Validation for Product Managers , with Centercode CEO Luke Freiler. This article originally appeared on Centercode.com. If you are reading this, it probably won’t surprise you that 47% of product managers have run Beta Tests as part of their job. In last week’s webinar with Pragmatic Marketing , Centercode CEO Luke Freiler shared Beta Testing tips for product managers so they can, even with limited time and resour

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Once upon a time, designers were convinced that they were doing the right thing. They didn’t question outcomes because they thought their motives were sound. Recently the conversation has shifted to become much more focused on user safety, trust and ethics. While this is progress, it has led people to feel they work in an age of distrust. Data, opinions and industry voices are checked, rechecked and validated, creating a heavy sense of pressure to do the right thing, without a lot to work with.

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The Product Bistro

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

A while back, I read a blog that got me thinking. Its premise was that developers should always have the fastest, best hardware to minimize down time. Waiting 12 seconds to compile a module was too long, and encouraged the developer’s attention to stray to Reddit, or some other time suck, and then they would lose a half hour. To reduce this tendency, developers should have wicked awesome machines to reduce this tendency.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Apps are ubiquitous tools to our modern lives. Smartphone browsing has officially taken over PC browsing by a pretty impressive margin: 63% vs 37% worldwide , and Google has adapted their search to prioritize sites which are mobile compatible. Smartphone users open their favorite apps more than 15 times a month and use up to 40 apps regularly overall.

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Speaker: Johanna Rothman - Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

Senior leaders often want to see months - or years - long product roadmaps. But these predictions often do not create products your customers will love. While customers aren’t fickle, they often do not know what they want until you give them something to try. That means product leaders need to integrate experiments and options into their roadmaps. In this presentation, Johanna Rothman will explain: How to limit the duration of a roadmap and show possible options.

Customer Experience

bpma ProductHub

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

By “Daniel Faggella – This article was originally listed on TechEmergence. This post breaks the original post into 2 Parts. Stay tuned for Part 2 in upcoming weeks.

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The Product Bistro

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

A while back, I read a blog that got me thinking. Its premise was that developers should always have the fastest, best hardware to minimize down time. Waiting 12 seconds to compile a module was too long, and encouraged the developer’s attention to stray to Reddit, or some other time suck, and then they would […].

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Speaker diversity is an important discussion to have when organising a conference. We all work and live in international and diverse communities, so our conferences should reflect this reality. These days, everyone checks the gender ratio when they scroll through the speakers list. I’ve been part of the curation team for the first two MTP Engage conferences in Hamburg.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Guest Post by: Lee Atkins (Mentee, Session 7, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Jordan Bergtraum]. Truly understanding your customers and finding ways to improve your product is an overwhelmingly daunting task. Customer discovery is key to informing product strategy and there is a mountain of techniques and methods available for conducting customer discovery.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. This makes sense given the likely resource constraints and the value to be gained from getting in front of customers from day one. As Jason Lemkin puts it , “The CEO/founder should close at least the first 10 (or 20 or whatever) customers.

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Advertiser: Aggregage

The objective of this research is to dispel misunderstandings about crucial project management terms and their definitions. It aims to accurately place these terms and facilitate a comprehensive global understanding of their meanings.

Management

Sachin Rekhi

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Video: Successfully Navigating Today's Career Maze. Slides: Successfully Navigating Today's Career Maze. In August I got invited back to LinkedIn to give a talk. But what was surprising is they were interested in me giving a very different type of talk than I've normally done. Instead of sharing best practices on product management or entrepreneurship, they were most interested in me sharing my career journey, the risks I took and trade-offs I made along the way, and the lessons I've learned in

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Modern corporate culture is slowly coming to understand the benefits of highly diverse teams, stretching from gender to personality types. But where does product management stand with embracing that same diversity and complexity in our users? At this year’s MTP Engage, product director at Xing, Mirja Bester, shared how she thinks that by taking the subject of diversity more seriously, product managers can help to increase their company’s business value.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2017, Melissa Perri. Watch now and see why she is counted amongst the ranks of the best in product management. More to Come. The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

The days of waiting several hours on hold to speak with a support or sales representative are now (mostly) over. The monotone “Please hold the line, your call is very important to us” message has now be replaced by real-time messaging. You can message companies on social media just like you’d message your friends. You can resolve complex issues through live chat in a matter of minutes.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

If I could pick one thing to kill because of the problems it causes, roadmaps might very well be at the top of the list. And it’s not that I don’t like roadmaps, or at least the principle of a product roadmaps. It’s the misunderstandings that they bring. Sometimes the misinterpretation of a roadmap actually causes far more problems than the roadmap sets out to solve.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

The Mind the Product training curriculum is written in collaboration with dozens of expert product managers from countries and companies around the world. One the most consistent and frequent lessons that we teach in different workshops is “test early, test often”, also known as lean methodologies. Two years ago, when I started as Director of Training Products, I knew that we wanted to create the world’s most comprehensive library of training topics for the product development lifecycle and a

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Take your product to the next level. Some simple and awesome tips for all product managers, from finding new opportunities to differentiating analysis. Watch as we learn more from product management expert, Jordan Bergtraum.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

I just read an interesting article about Waymo and their driverless vehicles. It got me thinking about pricing (though pretty much everything gets me thinking about pricing). Most of us are familiar with Uber. Imagine that Uber buys a fleet of driverless vehicles. Now, when you open the Uber app to request a ride, in addition to Uber X, Uber Black and Uber Pool, it also says Uber Empty (the name I just made up).

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Birst BI

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

When you hear about Data Science, Big Data, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or Deep Learning, you may end up feeling a bit confused about what these terms mean. And it doesn’t help reduce the confusion when every tech vendor rebrands their products as AI. So, what do these terms really mean? What are overlaps and differences? And most importantly, what can this do for your business?

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First Round Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

This online outdoor gear and clothing company blends service and sales to craft a customer experiences that wows. VP of Sales and Customer Service Chris Purkey walks us through how startups can learn from Backcountry's approach to beat the scale of more established competitors with authentic, white glove customer service.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

If you are a great product person looking for a great product job, or vice versa, check out our job board. Thousands of employers across all areas of product, from management to design, from digital to physical, are looking to fill positions from our community. Each week we highlight some of the recently posted openings. Check out this week’s newest, below….

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

(This post isn’t specific to product management, but a manager’s view of problematic communications. Not everyone on our teams expresses themselves clearly.). Over the years, I’ve had a handful of direct reports come to me with employment ultimatums: “I’ll quit unless…” That’s a high-stakes way to open a conversation, something hard to un-say. As someone who tries to communicate clearly and encourages coworkers to do the same, I take these folks at their word: if I’m unable to deliver what’s req

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ProductCraft

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Your ideas could be messing up your product roadmap. Yes, you read that right. Wait, aren’t great ideas the fuel of a good product roadmap? Sure, to some extent. But are you suffering from challenges like having a hard time sticking to your roadmap and delivering against it? Half-done or low-quality features? Constantly switching priorities, The post Ideas are Screwing Up your Product Roadmap appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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First Round Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

This online outdoor gear and clothing company blends service and sales to craft a customer experiences that wows. VP of Sales and Customer Service Chris Purkey walks us through how startups can learn from Backcountry's approach to beat the scale of more established competitors with authentic, white glove customer service.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

When we think about the skills required for just about any role, it’s only natural to first think about technical abilities. A musician must know how to play an instrument. A translator must be fluent in at least two languages. Most of the time, these so-called “hard skills” really do paint the picture for what any given role is all about.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

This blog is about a couple of Product Management truths and trends. In November 2018, Brainmates hosted eight Product Management leaders for a round table discussion to tease out their insights and beliefs on the state of Product Management in Australia. Here are the highlights… Product Management Truth: People pleasers aren’t good Product Managers.

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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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Miro

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Getting everyone on the same page: How LookFar Labs optimizes product development and collaboration with remote clients TODAY, EVERY ORGANIZATION NEEDS TO BECOME A TECH COMPANY. But how can leaders of these organizations go through this transformation if they don’t have the expertise to start developing digital products and services and leverage this new possibility […].

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

When we manage product development for organizations, we work for hire. The company hires you, pays you a wage, and in return, your intellectual property belongs to them. When you’re creating a product larger than one person can create, this is an excellent proposition. While “one person” may have had the original idea, we need many people to refine the idea and bring that product to market.

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Revulytics

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

According to Gartner , analytics enables software providers to improve retention and revenue by “tracking how often and when the software (including specific modules) is being used, allowing identification of licensing compliance gaps.” Let’s consider how compliance analytics data can help ensure that your software license audits are more efficient and effective - while helping customers to view these engagements with a collaborative attitude. 1.

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