The Secret PM Handbook

JANUARY 7, 2018

It’s exciting to see the first review of The Secret Product Manager Handbook ! Geoff Anderson says: “While it isn’t strictly targeted at newbies, or folks who are interested in joining the ranks of Product Management, it is both a great introduction, and a guide that even very experienced members of the Product Management community can find value in, even if it is just to re-focus them on the basics.”.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 9, 2018

Bring the Right People Together. Product discovery is a team sport. You should therefore involve the right people in the discovery work and secure enough of their time. I find it helpful to form a product discovery team that consists of: Development team members: user experience (UX) designer, developer, tester; Key stakeholders , for example, people from marketing, sales, and support; A ScrumMaster or agile coach.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 10, 2018

Qualitative versus quantitative data: we’ve all been involved in a conversation debating their respective merits at some point in our careers. We’re often flipping backwards and forwards between letting feedback from a handful of customers drive all our product decisions or requiring everything to be backed up by statistically significant data. So which type of data is better?

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 11, 2018

Guest Post by: Jen Hau (Mentee, Session 5, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Ladislav Bartos]. Setting Yourself Up For Success. Product managers tend to be maximizers – always looking for the best possible choices and outcomes for their product. It’s no wonder then that product managers also tend to apply the same outlook to their own careers, often wondering whether there is another company or role that would be more optimal than the current.

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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.

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First Round Review

JANUARY 11, 2018

Whitnie Narcisse runs First Round's Mentorship Program and has learned exactly what it takes to make mentor-mentee relationships truly transformative.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 8, 2018

As a product manager, it’s easy to get caught up doing the wrong job. With so much time and energy going into shipping great products, the project management demands of it all often create a center of gravity that’s hard for even the most veteran product managers to escape. But the most successful product managers know how to stay focused on what matters most.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 10, 2018

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2017, Melissa Perri. Getting to Here. > What key people helped shape you into the product manager you are today? The first person who really started me on the path to where I am today was my VP of Product at OpenSky, Chris Keane. He inspired me to try new things and learn as much as I could.

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Generation Focus

JANUARY 11, 2018

The United States is a great place to market products. The massive marketplace is a virtual candy shop for new ideas and the plentiful advertising possibilities make it a haven for new businesses. People in the US are always looking for the next best thing on the market, which gives you a hungry audience ready to accept your new innovation. On top of that, the US makes it easy to sell online and the convenience of doing business on the web may cut down on overhead costs.

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Clever PM

JANUARY 11, 2018

One of the most important part of our jobs as Product Managers is setting goals — goals for ourselves, goals for our teams, and goals for our products. Goals are important — they set the North Star for us to know where we’re going, why we’re going there, and how we know whether or not […].

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 11, 2018

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 8, 2018

I’m completely psyched to have made this year’s list of Top 40 Product Management Influencers of 2017 for the THIRD CONSECUTIVE YEAR! The list exists to recognize the many influencers who helped to establish best practices and enlighten the industry this year. Following are a few of my excerpted Influencer highlights from the list…. Julie Zhuo // Facebook Julie is the VP of Product Design at Facebook where she manages the design team responsible for the core Facebook experience.

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UX Studio

JANUARY 8, 2018

In November I attended the Web Summit Conference in Lisbon for the first time, where I heard a lot of great stories and interesting presentations on topics about voice-enabled design, from self-driving cars to smart healthcare apps. One little one stuck especially in my mind. On the second day, I went to a talk by x.ai CEO Dennis Mortensen about conversational interfaces.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JANUARY 9, 2018

I love pricing. I love the fact that this is a measure of how well a company designs, builds and markets a product. I love the fact that it’s a number. It’s not squishy. I love the fact that you can measure the effects of changes. But what I love most of all is the power pricing has to drive increased profitability. Pricing is amazingly powerful … when there’s a champion.

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Amplitude

JANUARY 9, 2018

How we set product performance metrics at Amplitude, and why you should start doing it too. One of my most favorite books related to product management is Lean Analytics. Most famously, it outlines the role of data in the build –> measure –> learn product development cycle, and what makes a good metric. A less well known concept discussed in Lean Analytics is a process in product development that they call ‘drawing a line in the sand’.

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UserInterviews

JANUARY 10, 2018

We had product design thought leader Nicola Rushton do a user interview on us so we could learn from the best. Here, she shares her best tips and tricks for getting incredibly useful product ideas fast.

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Generation Focus

JANUARY 11, 2018

The United States is a great place to market products. The massive marketplace is a virtual candy shop for new ideas and the plentiful advertising possibilities make it a haven for new businesses. People in the US are always looking for the next best thing on the market, which gives you a hungry audience ready to accept your new innovation. On top of that, the US makes it easy to sell online and the convenience of doing business on the web may cut down on overhead costs.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 8, 2018

How should product managers use email? Image Credit: William Iven. Note: this post was written by Jackie. Being able to communicate with coworkers and clients face-to-face is the best way to get your message across, but it is also time consuming. When there is a lot to get done during the day, email communication is often the quickest, easiest and most cost-effective way of getting in contact.

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Amplitude

JANUARY 8, 2018

We’re thrilled to feature this guest post from Andrew Ofstad, Chief Product Officer at Airtable. Humans are preternaturally skilled at amplifying their inherent abilities through tools. We chisel rocks, we ride bicycles, we use computers. Most products out there today, however, aren’t working to expand or amplify the range of our abilities or creative potential.

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dscout People Nerds

JANUARY 10, 2018

Themes from our conversations with People Nerds about where user research has been and where it’s headed this year.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 9, 2018

Ryan Ripley interviewed me on his podcast, Agile for Humans 83 about Create Your Successful Agile Project. We had a blast. I didn’t stint on my opinions or on my experience with agile teams. One of those opinions was about teambuilding, which I wrote about in Creating an Environment of Teamwork. The other opinion (based on my experience) was that of using ROI to predict which product, project, or feature a team should do first.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 12, 2018

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. First principles of product management. Two key principles exist that organize our work. (1) Maximize impact to the mission and (2) Accomplish everything through others. Get the insightful details at [link]. Product management is not project management.

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Miro

JANUARY 12, 2018

Meet the new RealtimeBoard the ultimate platform that’s customizable for any collaboration activity. We are lucky to witness a global transformation in the world, where anyone can do awesome creative work with the best pros, regardless of the circumstances. And RealtimeBoard is here to help you find a common ground and achieve a shared understanding […].

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Generation Focus

JANUARY 11, 2018

The United States is a great place to market products. The massive marketplace is a virtual candy shop for new ideas and the plentiful advertising possibilities make it a haven for new businesses. People in the US are always looking for the next best thing on the market, which gives you a hungry audience ready to accept your new innovation. On top of that, the US makes it easy to sell online and the convenience of doing business on the web may cut down on overhead costs.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 8, 2018

A colleague asked my opinion on the various teambuilding activities she was considering for a new-to-agile team, to help them get to know each other and work together. All the activities she considered were simulations of various kinds. I suggested she reconsider the simulations and focus on the work to help people learn to work together. I’m not against teambuilding.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 8, 2018

Six steps to run a productive meeting and build a team that gets things done. Every week I’m involved in virtual meetings and the same is true for many Everyday Innovators. If it’s not yet true for you, virtual meetings are almost certainly in your future as more teams become virtual. Facilitating virtual meetings and making them productive takes specific skills that product managers should know.

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Rahul Abhyankar

JANUARY 6, 2018

Just before 2017 came to an end, a Google Internet connectivity balloon crashed in Kenya and landed in a farm. As the article states, it caused a little panic. Fortunately, there was no damage to life or property.

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Generation Focus

JANUARY 11, 2018

,The United States is a great place to market products. The massive marketplace is a virtual candy shop for new ideas and the plentiful advertising possibilities make it a haven for new businesses. People in the US are always looking for the next best thing on the market, which gives you a hungry audience ready to accept your new innovation. On top of that, the US makes it easy to sell online and the convenience of doing business on the web may cut down on overhead costs.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 8, 2018

I had a great time recording with two of the guys from the Agile Uprising Podcast. See Create Your Successful Agile Project with Johanna Rothman. We discussed the book. I had an opportunity to rant and rave about many things: agile project managers (no, the term is not an oxymoron). a little about why the titles of master, chief, and uber make me nuts. and why managers don’t know enough about flow efficiency.

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