Mind the Product

JANUARY 3, 2017

Every week we curate the best product content from across the web into our weekly product management newsletter Prioritised. Planning Product Discovery. Rich Mironov highlights some mistakes most first-time product managers make – even after coursework, certificates, and online tutorials. MIND THE PRODUCT].

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Sachin Rekhi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Video: Developing a Continuous Feedback Loop. Slides: Developing a Continuous Feedback Loop. Essay: Designing Your Product's Continuous Feedback Loop. When embarking on a new project, teams too often treat customer feedback as a one-time effort.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 29, 2016

2016 was a year when the product management community grew significantly and continued to mature. I think what marks out the following is that they all deliver practical and actionable advice – advice which can be applied by anyone at any stage in their product career. But what did you all want to read and learn about?

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

I am thoroughly humbled to have made this year’s list of Top 40 Product Management Influencers of 2016 for the SECOND CONSECUTIVE YEAR! Nir Eyal // Author Nir is the author of the bestselling book Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. User Engagement is Product Management. Building Products.

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Mind the Product

JULY 18, 2017

This is the first of two posts that deep dive on A/B testing, expanding on a talk I gave at Google Playtime 2016 in London. In this post I share some of the learnings we’ve had after running 60+ A/B tests at Peak , looking at each step of the A/B testing cycle in turn. Brainstorm your A/B tests.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 14, 2018

For instance, the fundamentals of good marketing haven’t changed: crisp writing, a compelling story, strong brand, and of course, a great product to market. You could say we’re biased, but the evidence became clearer than ever when messaging apps surpassed social networks in popularity in 2016: Reach. Engagement. Engagement.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Mastering the craft of product management is no easy task. I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables. Vision: Vision Narrative.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

to run its Product organisation. Ken has also been a keynote speaker, giving inspiring talks at Mind the Product conferences in both London ( 10x not 10% , 2015) and San Francisco ( Please Make Yourself Uncomfortable , 2016). Listen if you’d like to learn more about: When should you hire your first product manager?

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Product Management Unpacked

MARCH 12, 2019

Marty Cagan, founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group , delivered the opening keynote to the 2016 Mind the Product Conference. His keynote, “Behind Every Great Product,” highlights professionals involved in some of the most iconic technology products of our time, including Netflix, iTunes and Word for Mac.

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Mind the Product

JULY 27, 2017

This is the second of two posts that deep dive on A/B tests, expanding on a talk I gave at Google Playtime 2016 in London. In the first post I explained how to step up your A/B testing , and in this post I’ll look at how using a tracker spreadsheet can help you manage your A/B tests and better retain learnings from past ones.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Product management is evolving quickly. The days of gathering requirements from business stakeholders and documenting them in long product requirements documents are vanishing. Instead, product teams are experimenting their way to viable solutions. into context and help product teams know what to use when. David Farber.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

In 2016 we released Smart Campaigns , which addressed the same problem of message orchestration. This has led to customer feedback that they don’t know what’s being sent, when, how, or why – it turned out the “black box” of logic hid too much, so we resolved to avoid that risk. Look outside your product. Test your assumptions.

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Product Takeoff

MARCH 19, 2019

Every product has a lifecycle of Introduction, growth , maturity and decline.With digital disruption in the market place it is very critical that we design products that stay in the growth phase for a longer period of time. Strategy: A Strategy of the company can be implemented in various forms.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 8, 2016

More than 1,200 of you took part in this year’s Product Manager survey, double the number who took part in our survey three years ago. And like any other expanded community this year’s survey results bear witness to a greater diversity. There now look to be more women in a product management role. More seniority.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 14, 2020

The report is meant to serve as a yardstick for companies seeking to understand how their customer feedback and engagement metrics stack up against the market. This is our fifth consecutive year conducting this research. In-app survey response rates. Average app rating for Media apps. Average app review volume.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

It might be the same core product, but it’s a completely different strategy. In 2019 research firm IDC found them to deliver 869% ROI (??) along with time savings and higher productivity. When Yvonne joined in 2016, the business unit consisted of just 10 people across product, engineering, sales, and marketing.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Guest Post by: Valia Lekka (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Felix Sargent]. I was hired to become the product manager for the company’s mobile products. We left automation testing behind. That team was trying to cover two years’ of main product’s functionality in six months.

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 11, 2016

Improving Product Management in 2016: Strategy vs. Technique. Certainly improving technique will have an impact on product management performance, but often product management leaders focus on upskilling on technique and neglect the strategic elements. and the SiriusDecisions Product Ownership Decision Framework.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

What is concept testing and how can it help accelerate your product-led growth ? In this article, we’ll go over some concept testing examples from some of the best B2B and B2C brands to help you get started with your strategy. Get feedback on different messaging and ads to find which resonates.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Nandini Jammi started out in product marketing and growth, but after the US elections in 2016 her career took an unexpected turn when she joined Sleeping Giants, an organisation that aims to make bigotry and sexism less profitable. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Quote of the Episode.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 9, 2020

This is our fifth consecutive year conducting this research. Data from our 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , and 2019 reports is included to show shifts in brand focus and engagement over time. Below are the averages for Food and Drink app interaction and response rates, surveys, and in-app messages. Key Strategies for Food & Drink Apps.

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bpma ProductHub

AUGUST 1, 2016

In 2016, Glassdoor identified Product Management as the #8 best job to have in America, with a job score of 4.5 Unlike many of those jobs, product management is known for its nebulous career pathing and ambiguity. For new and aspiring product managers, that can be a challenge. Contributed by Cynthia Andre.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 8, 2020

Doing one of my favorite things—presenting at Mind the Product. Over the past six years, I’ve developed and honed my Continuous Discovery Habits curriculum by reading and writing about the best research on problem-solving , decision-making , and critical thinking. I run a 12-week coaching program for product trios (i.e.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 28, 2017

For the past two months, I’ve been conducting research and discovery to help establish some ground rules for the Mind the Product Training Program. These are: To offer the same best in class experience that our Mind the Product conference attendees get when they come to our events. What do I mean by this?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2019

How do you decide what to prioritize or whether to believe what customers and prospects are telling you about your product? Here, I’ll explain how applying the hierarchy of value certainty, shown below, can help you to answer these questions and make your product profitable. A core skill of product management is prioritization.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2022

Before solving the case, let’s first understand the fundamentals of product-led growth, something that is not complete without mentioning a few best-of-breed products. Grammarly, DropBox, Slack, Zoom are synonyms of product lead growth. Hence, innovation is an important factor to drive product-led growth.

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The Product Bistro

JANUARY 25, 2021

In the way back time, before Agile, before OKRs and other fads, product managers wrote MRDs, or Market Requirement Documents. This was the artifact the began the process of developing a new product, or a variant of a product. A recent project, a complete re-do of one of our flagship products was needed.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 9, 2017

While the Amazon Echo Show is an impressive addition to the repertoire of voice and video monitoring systems in this growing market, it’s not the product features that are drawing attention. Rather, it is Amazon’s smart home product strategy. billion in 2016 and is expected to grow up to $53.45 Hit the right price points.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 24, 2019

I think, by now, we all know that product management is hard. I’m a big believer in taking time to consider personal development – one of the main reasons I started ProductTank in Bristol in 2016. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Lily’s Pick.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2021

We’ve expanded our principles to reflect Brian Balfour’s better-defined “New Age Growth”, and adopted Product Thinking to unlock huge A/B tested conversion, retention and AOV uplifts. We had to stop all our tests indefinitely until we could release more capacity in our factory.

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Mind the Product

JULY 14, 2020

Nandini Jammi started out in product marketing and growth, but after the US elections in 2016, her career took an unexpected turn when she joined Sleeping Giants, an organisation that aims to make bigotry and sexism less profitable. In this episode of The Product Experience, sponsored by Amplitude, learn how to apply this ethos to [.].

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

In 2016 I gave a talk on lean market validation at the opening night of Startup Weekend at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I believe that the tactics can help both entrepreneurs and product managers launch better products with a higher chance of succeeding in the market. 10 Ways to Rapidly Test Your Startup Idea.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 15, 2018

The median product is dying a slow death. If that seems like an overstatement, then the fact of the matter is that if usage rates are declining, a product is probably – not necessarily, but probably – in trouble. You can either try and make changes to your product, or give up on it. Is Usage Actually Down?

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Product Management Unpacked

MARCH 5, 2019

There are many methodologies for feature prioritization in product management. If you are a product manager dealing with this, beware that one size doesn’t fit all. Choosing the right feature for the stage of development your product is in can unlock enhanced market performance. . An Overview of Product Enhancement Requests.

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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 2, 2015

We’ve been busy at SiriusDecisions with a lot of new research and resources for b-to-b product management leaders and product managers: The ABCs of Product Management Technologies. In my first post for the new SiriusDecisions Marketplace, I cover The ABCs of Product Management Technologies.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Nandini Jammi started out in product marketing and growth, but after the US elections in 2016 her career took an unexpected turn when she joined Sleeping Giants, an organisation that aims to make bigotry and sexism less profitable. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Quote of the Episode.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 21, 2020

This information is critical for most product managers and mobile marketers to optimize the mobile customer experience. We published six new research reports today – each industry-specific guide reveals exclusive benchmark data gathered from more than 800 mobile apps with 5,000+ active users. Average app review volume.

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