The Product Bistro
AUGUST 20, 2018
Recently, I was asked a relatively benign question: “How long should I stay in a Product Management role?” While the person asking it was relatively new in a position and another, more attractive offer is in the works, it caused me to pause and reflect. Not to make light of the young lady’s concern that […].
Mind the Product
AUGUST 23, 2018
I’ve worked for more than a decade in product management with Fortune 500 companies and startups, and I realize I’m seeing a scary pattern. Product managers are only hired after the innovation or startup teams get concepts or funding approved. This means that product managers are thrust into developing a product or service concept they had no part in creating.
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Clever PM
AUGUST 23, 2018
I’m often asked what the key to being “agile” really is, and over the years I’ve managed to come up with a clear and concise answer: accepting uncertainty is the key to agility. It is perhaps the single most fundamental culture change that companies must go through when making a true transition to Agile development, […].
Lead on Purpose
AUGUST 20, 2018
Whether you are a small startup or an international corporation, HR management and organization presents an equally important matter. Choosing a proper team structure for your hierarchy and management isn’t as simple as it seems.
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.
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 24, 2018
For all the time and money we spend attracting customers to our website, isn’t it odd how little we spend trying to convert them? These live chat stats will show you the conversion power of messaging. According to an eConsultancy report , for every $92 spent acquiring prospects only $1 is spent converting them. Sure, that dollar could give you returns in spades, but in reality the odds of that are no better than a craps table in Las Vegas.
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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches
AUGUST 21, 2018
Finding Your Product’s Critical Event(s) By now you have most likely heard the phrase “build it, they will come”. This was introduced in the 1989 movie Field of Dreams but gained popularity in tech in the early days of the dotcom boom when the players were limited and early adopters eager to experience all the web had to offer. Back then, entrepreneurs would regularly receive this terrible advice (myself included).
UserVoice
AUGUST 21, 2018
You’re building the wrong product, and that’s leading to some pretty dire consequences. While that’s not the most uplifting thing you can hear as someone working in product management, it’s also essential to both your individual success and the viability of your entire company. Got your attention yet? These words of warning are courtesy of Price Intelligently’s CEO and co-founder Patrick Campbell.
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 21, 2018
Chatbots push salespeople and marketers past the physical limitations of being human: our need to sleep, our loathe of repetitive tasks, our inability to multitask conversations. Modern-day chatbots, like our recently launched Custom Bots , are completely customizable and can automate all sorts of user journeys, while maintaining a positive consumer experience.
Mind the Product
AUGUST 24, 2018
The term Product/Market Fit was coined by Marc Andreesen back in 2007 and it’s been a key goal for any new product or startup ever since. But like any buzzword, it is often oversimplified and misunderstood. In this talk from Mind the Product San Francisco, Dan Olsen, the author of The Lean Product Playbook , tackles the key components of product/market fit and how to achieve it.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Product Management University
AUGUST 20, 2018
A product marketing roadmap for sales is like a popular technique used in deep sea fishing. The captain turns on the sonar to locate schools of fish, you put the appropriate bait on your line, drop it and start reeling in fish. Has product marketing taken your salesforce deep sea fishing this year? Your product marketing roadmap is the equivalent to sonar on a fishing boat.
The Product Guy
AUGUST 20, 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.
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 20, 2018
The phrase “cross-functional” is most commonly used to describe a team made up of of people with different functions or skills. At Intercom for example, our product teams include designers, programmers and product managers , unique roles working together as one. Or you might hear the term used when teams from different parts of a business work together on a big project, like the launch of a new product or release.
Mironov Consulting
AUGUST 23, 2018
I got a lot of good responses from this recent post about the need to frequently talk directly with real customers , especially at B2B/enterprise companies. More than a few folks raised an important concern: with so much to do as product managers, how do we consistently make time for customer interviews? Scott Sehlhorst and Rob McGrorty shared some thoughts that I’ve extended here.
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.
Product Management University
AUGUST 23, 2018
The B2B Product Manager Magazine August 2018 is now available. This month we explore the value of a product marketing roadmap to sales. It’s not a staple in most B2B organizations but it’s just as important to your near-term revenue as a product roadmap is to your longer-term growth. We also look in the rear-view mirror at Agile and discuss what’s changed and what hasn’t along with tips for dealing with flat growth and shifting market conditions.
The Product Guy
AUGUST 24, 2018
Reverse Game Theory or Mechanism design is about constructing a game with payoffs, in order to maximize utility. Atma discusses how to use behavioral and psychological levers (rules) to design teams with a higher probability of success. In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Atma Degeyndt, lead a conversation on this topic.
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 22, 2018
“We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.”. – Peter Thiel. People in tech commonly overestimate the impact of big things and underestimate the power of small things. We constantly talk about the next big thing that will change everything, the next revolution that will inevitably happen. In the past few years it has been AI, chatbots, VR, blockchain and whatnot.
Miro
AUGUST 23, 2018
Remote team building activities: the ultimate guide by RealtimeBoard Working with distributed teams adds an additional layer of complexity for a manager. Keeping your remote team involved can be challenging. To be successful, many of us are constantly looking for new ways to engage remote employees. One of the best solutions? Try introducing team-building activities. […].
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Amplitude
AUGUST 21, 2018
Exponential growth is one of the best indicators that you’re nailing product-market fit. It’s among the first trends that investors look for when deciding whether to fund a company. And it’s one of the hardest metric outcomes to achieve. Sustained exponential growth is essentially the golden standard of growth marketing. You can’t fake exponential growth.
Mind the Product
AUGUST 20, 2018
Post-launch, the product manager will be responsible for managing the product lifecycle through its growth, maturity and decline phases. In this final post in my series on managing manufactured products I examine the specific touch points that exist between the operations, engineering, and finance functions when managing the lifecycle of manufactured products.
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 23, 2018
We live in interesting times. Everything is changing rapidly around us, at a faster pace than ever before. This growth has many unintended effects, and when things speed up, they also get more complex and break down. So, how do we break out of this pattern? This was the basis for my talk on the 2017 Inside Intercom world tour. Below you can watch me deliver that talk or read on for a written account.
First Round Review
AUGUST 21, 2018
In under six years, Gusto has grown from three guys in a house in Palo Alto to over 600 employees across two offices. Co-founder and CEO Josh Reeves shares how they've scaled the unscalable parts of hiring, detailing three steps the company has taken to retain its unique culture and ensure its best traditions live on.
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.
Pragmatic Marketing
AUGUST 23, 2018
Question from a reader: Hi Mark, I have been following you on LinkedIn for several months and I really admire your posts and articles. I am wondering if you have given any consideration into writing an article about tariffs from a pricing perspective? There appears to be a real lack of literature available. Please keep the posts coming! And a follow-up question: Hi Mark, if I could add, one of the debates that we are having internally is how transparent we should be in our pricing.
Mind the Product
AUGUST 21, 2018
Michelle Chu began her career in publishing as a sales assistant at Backpacker, before working in advertising, layouts, and packaging design. She then moved to digital products and eventually to her current role as Senior Product Manager and Head of Design at Alpha. Start-up Alpha is a user insights platform for use as a tool in user research. Clients enter their questions or product assumptions into the Alpha platform and get their answers through user insights in 72 hours or less.
TryMyUI
AUGUST 21, 2018
Knowledge of psychological principles can help us design better user experiences – ones that are easier for people to use and understand, that impart positive feelings to users, and that nudge them towards the right pathways or actions. The post 5 psychology principles for better UX design appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.
The Product Coalition
AUGUST 21, 2018
In the past few years, I’ve spoken with scores of folks eager to transition into Product Management and connected with several founders having a hard time finding the right candidate. Below is my synthesis on how transition has become harder for highly experienced people in Silicon Valley. First, the landscape is extremely competitive, each new startup and each new company is carving out a business opportunity in a hyper-crowded space.
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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.
Pragmatic Marketing
AUGUST 23, 2018
Question from a reader: Hi Mark, I have been following you on LinkedIn for several months and I really admire your posts and articles. I am wondering if you have given any consideration into writing an article about tariffs from a pricing perspective? There appears to be a real lack of literature available. Please keep the posts coming! And a follow-up question: Hi Mark, if I could add, one of the debates that we are having internally is how transparent we should be in our pricing.
Mind the Product
AUGUST 22, 2018
True to the “Engage” of our conference title we always look for formats that go beyond brilliant presentations and that give our attendees opportunities to interact with each other and grow their network within the product community. But we also wanted to try something new at this year’s MTP Engage conference in order to create a more personal experience for all attendees while they were seated in the auditorium.
Birst BI
AUGUST 23, 2018
How many times have you wished for more hours in the day so you can complete more tasks? A key goal of AI or machine learning automation is to have machines complete tasks for you, freeing up time so you can focus on the more complex, higher-value tasks. However, there are simply not enough data scientists in the world to deliver on the AI potential.
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