bpma ProductHub

JANUARY 2, 2018

Every month, subscribers to Ask a Tech Teacher get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. January 1st-15th: Spend $28 or more on Structured Learning , get a free copy of the. Martin Luther King Day Bundle. Click to view slideshow. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 18 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Lead on Purpose

JANUARY 1, 2018

“The future is in your hands, but only if you act today.” Today starts a new year with new opportunities ahead.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Out of the hundreds of nominations, and amazing finalists, the 8th annual winner of The Best Product Person is … Melissa Perri. 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. Take a moment and congratulate The Best Product Person of 2017: Melissa Perri. ( tweet ).

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 4, 2018

You may have a great idea and polished advertising to go with it, but, for some reason, millennials don’t seem to click with your product. Do you ever wonder why? What can you do about it? Millennials are one of the largest generations by number, and will soon make up 50% of the global workforce according to PWC. But when it comes to customer loyalty, millennials are different.

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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.

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 1, 2018

Web based inventory management is the monitoring and maintenance of a business’ inventory levels using online software. Moving away from the errors and issues that arise with traditional methods of measuring stock levels, web based inventory management seamlessly keeps track of inventory coming in and going out of your business.

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Nir Eyal

JANUARY 5, 2018

What are the ethical responsibilities of companies that are able to manipulate human behavior on a massive scale? It’s a question one hopes technologists and designers ask themselves when building world-changing products — but one that hasn’t been asked often enough. Operant conditioning, intermittent reinforcement, the search for self-actualization — the techniques used by product […].

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Clever PM

JANUARY 4, 2018

So, another year is starting up, and we’re just now starting to unpack ourselves from the holiday break that so many of us take time to enjoy with our families and friends. The best thing about a new year is that the future really is a blank slate, 365 days to make of them what […].

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2018

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ladislav Bartos, lead a conversation around “The Future of Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Check it out… About The Product Mentor. The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better D

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. These discussions often get very technical or theoretical: treating roadmapping as a purely intellectual exercise, where our secret ambition is for the world to admire our brilliant algorithms and decision criteria.

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Nir Eyal

JANUARY 5, 2018

What are the ethical responsibilities of companies that are able to manipulate human behavior on a massive scale? It’s a question one hopes technologists and designers ask themselves when building world-changing products — but one that hasn’t been asked often enough. Operant conditioning, intermittent reinforcement, the search for self-actualization — the techniques used by product […] The post Want to Design User Behavior?

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 1, 2018

The right product begins with a validated user need and a market. In this episode you’ll learn about some of the big ideas in product management to help you make the move to product master, specifically: The difference between building the product right vs. building the right product, Challenges of working with development teams, How to assemble a roadmap, Release planning, and.

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 2, 2018

Our oldest child recently graduated from college with dual undergraduate degrees in Biology and Music Performance. He worked hard to accomplish this in 4 years with a high GPA and we look forward to celebrating his future successes. He was successful, in part, by establishing a reachable goal. Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), first introduced more than 30 years ago, has many documented examples of success.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Data is a product manager’s best friend. However, just like friends in real life, you need to know when to phone a friend and who to call upon. In search of a problem – going broad Finding the right problem to solve with a product is often the hardest problem in itself. This is when you are in the “unknown unknown” zone because you don’t live the customer’s life day in and day out.

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UserInterviews

JANUARY 2, 2018

Erik Zahnlecker, Co-founder and COO at Allocate, on finding participants, prioritizing the effort, and more on managing user research at an early stage startup.

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Userzoom

JANUARY 5, 2018

Friday in 5 – interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, served up in one spot to keep you up to date. This week: Our increasing demand to buy gadgets, groceries and other goods online is actually driving up the price of land on which to store those items, U.S. private employers added 250,000 jobs in December, marking the biggest monthly increase since March, traditional grocers are preparing to harness technology in new ways, ready to unleash a new, more likely to succeed, tech re

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 1, 2018

Allan Neill’s Product Management Show podcast ( TPMS episode 43 ) has md humorously debating Steve Johnson , with Neeha Tummala as referee and Saeed Khan as guest host. Steve represents the algorithmic approach to prioritization, and I stump for stakeholder consensus. We don’t take ourselves serious, but do reach for some colorful analogies.

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The Accidental Product Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Happy New Year! It’s still the holiday season and I’m still on vacation! This is the time of the year that we all make plans for what we want to accomplish in the upcoming year. This time around, take your time and give some thought to what you can do to make this your best year ever…! Here’s hoping that you’ll have peace, love, happiness, and success in the upcoming year.

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Sequent Learning

JANUARY 5, 2018

For the past few years, the business world has suffered from “growing pains” and the corporate community is certainly enduring its share of turbulence and disorder. Among the many causative issues, mergers and downsizing are creating conflicts over strategies, roles and responsibilities, and corporate culture clashes. Recently, a product manager lamented that he was stuck […].

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 5, 2018

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. 12 observations after 10 years as a product manager. This is a good list providing perspective on the role of a product manager. And it’s a quick read at [link]. The way we build products has fundamentally changed.

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DISQO

DECEMBER 30, 2017

The company revolutionizing the American healthcare industry uses Alpha to gain empathy for consumers and bring desperately-needed products to market. Background. Amidst skyrocketing healthcare costs, one of the nation’s oldest and largest insurers decided to take bold action. In 2016, Aetna announced its commitment to transparency. With the mission to enable employers to help their employees make more informed decisions, Aetna set out to provide access to information about benefits, estimate c

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TryMyUI

JANUARY 4, 2018

Happy New Year! As we roll into 2018, many of us are refreshing and reevaluating some of the personal goals that we set and perhaps struggled to keep last year. What kind of resolutions can we make as User Experience practitioners? The post 6 UX New Year’s resolutions appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.

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Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 2, 2018

Topic: Building & Scaling Product Teams. How Do We Make Them Work? Where: Sydney , AU (location TBD). When: Thursday, 1 March, 6:00pm – 8:00pm. Registration page. Hosted by Product Talks Sydney and Brainmates. Building and scaling a product team is a challenge that every successful product company faces. We’ll tackle it in a few steps, time permitting, with lots of audience participation: When and how does a startup hire its first product manager?

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TSIA

JANUARY 4, 2018

For Services organizations, capturing crucial Voice of the Customer (VoC) data can be a challenge. They must strike the right balance between avoiding “survey fatigue” and not asking too much of their customers, while at the same time gathering the most detailed information that can be used to improve processes and the customer experience.

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DISQO

DECEMBER 30, 2017

The company revolutionizing the American healthcare industry uses Alpha to gain empathy for consumers and bring desperately-needed products to market. Background. Amidst skyrocketing healthcare costs, one of the nation’s oldest and largest insurers decided to take bold action. In 2016, Aetna announced its commitment to transparency. With the mission to enable employers to help their employees make more informed decisions, Aetna set out to provide access to information about benefits, estimate c

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UserInterviews

JANUARY 2, 2018

Erik Zahnlecker, Co-founder and COO at Allocate, on finding participants, prioritizing the effort, and more on managing user research at an early stage startup.

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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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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 2, 2018

Managing Upward: A One Day Workshop for Experienced Product Managers. Cohosted by Brainmates and Rich Mironov. Where: Brainmates, Level 6 / 100 Clarence St, Sydney, Australia. When: 1 March 2018, 8:45am – 5:00 pm. Cost: $995 AUD, register here. This interactive workshop on managing upward will help product managers improve their understanding and skills for working (upward) with their executives.

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TSIA

JANUARY 2, 2018

In my role as head of TSIA’s Expand Selling line of research , I’ve talked to dozens of companies who have tried to more tightly integrate their Services and Sales efforts. In some cases, they have attempted to utilize their Support or Customer Success teams to capture low-cost leads. In other cases, they’ve tried to involve their Professional Services or Managed Services delivery teams in the pre-sales process in order to more effectively sell services or increase margins.

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DISQO

DECEMBER 30, 2017

The company revolutionizing the American healthcare industry uses Alpha to gain empathy for consumers and bring desperately-needed products to market. Background. Amidst skyrocketing healthcare costs, one of the nation’s oldest and largest insurers decided to take bold action. In 2016, Aetna announced its commitment to transparency. With the mission to enable employers to help their employees make more informed decisions, Aetna set out to provide access to information about benefits, estimate c

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