Mind the Product
MAY 25, 2020
What are the qualities that make up a great product? It pays to analyse them and consider how they all work together to make a product successful. I remember once being asked in an interview: “Could you name a product you think is great?” I put on my “thinking deep thoughts” face and stare at [.]. Read More. The post What Qualities Make a Product Great?
Roman Pichler
MAY 5, 2020
Overview. The term product owner is commonly used to refer to six different product roles in my experience. These are: The original Scrum product owner who owns a product in its entirety and is responsible for maximising the value it creates. A feature owner who manages a major capability with which end users interact like search and navigation on an online retailer’s website.
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Mixpanel
MAY 27, 2020
This post is written by Semetis , a data-driven marketing agency located in Brussels, Belgium. Semetis works with different types of businesses, from start- and scale-ups to blue-chip clients, to help them grow and accelerate the digital side of their business. Here’s what you’ll learn: To be successful, organizations need more data. More importantly, they need the right kind of solutions to interpret that data, and drive actionable innovation across their organization.
Product Talk
MAY 13, 2020
I’m excited to add Hope Gurion as an official author on Product Talk. She has guest posted here before and has worked with me for years. She coaches teams using my Continuous Discovery Habits curriculum and is helping me bring the Continuous Discovery Habits workshop to more companies. Help me in welcoming Hope as an official author. You’ll see she’s starting with a great contribution below and I’m excited to read more from her in the coming months.
Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage
When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m
The Product Coalition
MAY 28, 2020
Inspire Top Product Talent to Grow Their Career at Your Organization | Photo by Kolleen Gladden on Unsplash To motivate product managers to grow their career with your organization, a transparent and documented process for roles and promotions is critical. Build your own development program with these templates: Job Description Hierarchy Template , Product Manager Baseline Expectations Template , and Promotion Packet Checklist Template Background: As your product organization evolves, high perf
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ProductCraft
MAY 21, 2020
In 2017, I came across GlassDoor’s top 50 jobs. Like we all do, I first looked for my own role. I scrolled to “product manager” and was happy to see the job on the list next to a nice six-figure average salary. But then I saw the job satisfaction: 3.4. As I scrolled through the. Read more » The post How to Reduce Stress as a Product Manager appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.
Agile Velocity
MAY 19, 2020
A free, 1-hour webinar on the Path to Agility® – Introducing a simple yet powerful way to profoundly better outcomes. See firsthand how Path to Agility makes sense of Agile transformations. Get specific answers to your chronic transformation challenges. See potential impediments that have been stealing your momentum. Uncover capabilities to accelerate your progress.
Mironov Consulting
MAY 16, 2020
A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results. Said another way, if you’re running a team of 4 or 11 or 23 product managers, you have a lot to do that’s different from their direct work so you’ll need to delegate decision-making as well as execution.
The Product Coalition
MAY 21, 2020
Research suggests that generalists are more creative, better problem solvers and lateral thinkers — aka ideal Product Managers Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».
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Split
MAY 11, 2020
As companies start implementing more innovative practices, they are realizing the faults of using an imperfect environment like staging. Staging environments are expensive, they do not match the behavior of production, leading to faulty test results, and they don’t provide any confidence that your features are working before launch. The only way to know that your features are working in production is to test them in production.
Mind the Product
MAY 22, 2020
I’m sure you’ve heard about strategic or value-based pricing, where price is determined according to the value it creates for the customer. It sounds great, we all want to avoid overpricing or underpricing our product and any subsequent revenue loss, but how do we do it? I’m a product coach at Founders Factory. We’ve found [.]. Read More. The post How to Price Your Product in a Startup appeared first on Mind the Product.
Mind the Product
MAY 27, 2020
This year doesn’t just mark the start of a new decade, but also the 10th anniversary of the first ever #ProductTank (and my 20th as a Product Manager). What started as a simple meetup in London has evolved into the world’s largest product community, with chapters in over 200 cities around the world and 200,000 [.]. Read More. The post A Decade in Product – a Retrospective appeared first on Mind the Product.
ProductCraft
MAY 12, 2020
Congratulations on entering the next phase of your product management journey. Whether this is your first PM job or you’ve been in the field for a decade, it’s important to get off to a strong start in your new role. Over my own seven-plus years in the product management industry, I’ve started my fair share. Read more » The post Six Must-Dos for Your First Month in a New Product Role appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.
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Product Management Unpacked
MAY 26, 2020
A look into healthcare product management in the time of Coronavirus. Ever wonder what it’s like to be a product manager for a leading healthcare provider and insurer in the middle of a world health pandemic? Meet Claire Marcus, senior product manager at UPMC Health Plan. Claire is helping to manage a product that’s playing a critical role in Western Pennsylvania’s healthcare system.
Product Management University
MAY 11, 2020
The initial stages of product paralysis begin the moment your company has its second product. Two products, two markets, two sets of users, two sets of priorities, etc. Enter product management into the equation. Assuming your company deems the function of product management as something more than “the enhancement list department,” product management should be leading the charge to not only prevent product priority paralysis but condition the company to avoid it.
Strategyzer
MAY 29, 2020
One of the key attributes of an invincible company is the ability to manage the Explore and Exploit portfolio with an equal amount of strategic focus and energy. But Explore and Exploit are very different. The same practices you use to exploit existing businesses cannot be used to explore new ideas. You can read more about the differences between Explore and Exploit here.
The Product Guy
MAY 21, 2020
Guest Post by: Nikola Mojic (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Yogesh Sharma ]. This is a story about why taking a pint of beer has no alternative. This is also a story of how to find a like-minded person to take that pint with. On top of those things, this is a story that shows you how that pint helped me, and how it most definitely can help you, on your path of learning and growing as a Product Manager.
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Piyanka Jain
MAY 26, 2020
Pretty much all AI/ML customer and transactional models have been on pause for the last few months. As we speak, history is being written… Continue reading on Becoming Human: Artificial Intelligence Magazine ».
Product Innovation Educators
MAY 18, 2020
Lessons Learned from launching The Everyday Innovator Virtual Summit. After hosting the 2020 virtual summit for product managers and product VPs, I’ve been asked many times for my lessons learned: what made it great, what would I do differently, what advice I have, what I learned about launching a product, etc. Consequently, after answering several of these questions individually, I realized others would find value in the lessons learned as well.
Intercom, Inc.
MAY 19, 2020
As a product-led company, we have put great thought, time, and energy into how we organize our product teams. . After all, excellent design and engineering can only come from product teams that are empowered to solve hard problems and build great software. In our model, product teams effectively own a piece of the product, and consist of a Product Manager, Designer, and a few Product Engineers. “We have written a lot about the alchemy of great product teams, the ingredients that make them
Mind the Product
MAY 20, 2020
In previous roles, Julia Whitney led teams at WGBH and the BBC, so she’s familiar with rooms full of people in meetings where decisions not only don’t get made, they’re sometimes actively avoided. Now an executive and leadership coach, she’s devoted a lot of time over the last few years to working with teams on [.]. Read More.
Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System
Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.
The Product Coalition
MAY 25, 2020
Mental Models and Ideas for product managers Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».
The Product Guy
MAY 18, 2020
Start looking for problems to solve, then look for that product management job. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Meghan Nesta.
Piyanka Jain
MAY 13, 2020
Marketers often equate growth hacking with driving user acquisition. Continue reading on The Startup ».
Product Innovation Educators
MAY 4, 2020
How to make experimentation work for product managers. If you work in a medium to large company, your CEO wants the organization to be more innovative. All the surveys about such things tell us this is the case. If you are in a smaller organization or on your own, you still care about innovation. But, how can you bring about more innovation, or let’s face it, in some cases, anything that looks like innovation?
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Intercom, Inc.
MAY 6, 2020
Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT) is by far the most popular customer service quality metric used across all industries and teams of all sizes. But CSAT alone is actually a poor indicator of support quality. This is a guest post from Martin Kõiva, the CEO of Klaus , a conversation review tool for support teams that aims to improve customer service quality by making internal feedback easy and systematic. .
Mind the Product
MAY 4, 2020
Wondering what a “one-pager” is? In this ProductTank San Francisco talk, John Cutler (Product Evangelist at Amplitude ) explained to a packed house at NextRoll why one-pagers are a “forcing function”. John covered: What is a one-pager? What outcomes should you expect from your one-pagers? How do one-pagers fit into the overall product puzzle? Watch the video to see John’s full talk.
The Product Coalition
MAY 22, 2020
The misconception is PM’s come up with product ideas. We don’t. We manage other people’s ideas. Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».
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