May, 2021

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Five Product Owner Myths Busted

Roman Pichler

Myth #1: The product owner must ensure that the stakeholders are satisfied. Stakeholders can be powerful and influential individuals. But the value a product creates is ultimately determined by its users: No product will be successful in the long run if it does not solve a specific user problem, create a tangible benefit, or help the users achieve a specific goal.

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My journey from Software Engineer to Product Manager

Mind the Product

ADVERTORIAL Throughout my career, I’ve met many people looking to make a jump into product management from a variety of other roles. I try to give them whatever advice I can, but the transition I can speak to the best is that of Software Engineer to Product Manager, as it’s the career move I made [.] Read more » The post My journey from Software Engineer to Product Manager appeared first on Mind the Product.

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User Experience in Product

The Product Coalition

How User Research and Analysis can Help our Products Deliver Value Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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TEI 337: An expanded perspective on UX to make better products – with Mark Baldino

Product Innovation Educators

How to align your organization and product management team with the voice of your customer. In this discussion we address what it means to properly incorporate UX (user experience) into your product work. This is not merely making things look right. This is deeply understanding the user experience that creates greater value, beating competitors and delighting customers.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

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

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Core Concept: The Product Trio

Product Talk

One of my goals for 2021 is to create short explainer videos for key concepts related to continuous discovery. This is my first one. I’d love to hear what you think. Is this helpful? Are there other core concepts you’d like to see me explore? You can share your comments on Twitter or YouTube. Watch the video above or read a lightly edited transcript of it below.

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Talking Product Inspiration

The Product Guy

Get inspired for your product by talking to customers and perspective customers. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Meghan Nesta.

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3 Tiers of Customer Value in the Product Management Maturity Model

Product Management University

Your product management maturity model isn’t so much about what your team can do. It’s what your team can do for the customer. From either perspective, it’s the skill level and proficiency of your team as it matures. But if customer value is always the end game, make quantifiable customer outcomes the driving force in your product management maturity model and the path becomes shorter, faster and easier to measure.

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Beyond NPS: Impactful Mobile Survey Questions and Use Cases

Alchemer Mobile

Surveys notoriously have low response rates, especially when using a legacy channel such as email. However, in-app surveys present an entirely unique opportunity to engage with customers and gather feedback in real time. One of the most common surveys brands deploy is the NPS survey. We know NPS can be a powerful tool if used correctly, and recognize the value in having one metric to provide a holistic pulse on your customer experience.

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How product leaders can make better decisions with iterative analytics

Mind the Product

When we ask questions about our data, we rarely walk in a straight line to the answer. Instead, data analysis often follows a more circuitous, creative process: we ask a question, discover our first effort to answer it is incomplete, reshape our data, bring in new data, consult a domain expert to rework our hypothesis, [.] Read more » The post How product leaders can make better decisions with iterative analytics appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Your Guide to Product Management Interviews: Top Questions with Answers

Stand out in your product management interview with guidance from Priyanka Upadhyay, an experienced product leader and Stanford Online program coach. In this guide, Upadhay dives into five key competencies interviewers will likely want to assess. She provides sample questions with detailed answers spanning: Product strategy Product design Execution Market estimation Teamwork Confidently land the product management role you want by pre-empting what interviewers are looking for and demonstrating y

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Continuous Discovery Habits (the Book) is Finally Here!

Product Talk

I am so excited to announce Continuous Discovery Habits is finally here! This book is designed to be a product trio’s guide to a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery. It’s the culmination of my work over the past eight years helping hundreds of product teams adopt successful continuous discovery habits. Continuous Discovery Habits (the book) is the culmination of my work over the past eight years helping hundreds of product teams adopt successful continuous discovery habit

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Building high-performing teams through continuous improvement

Intercom, Inc.

At Intercom, we’ve always focused on building excellent products which our customers value and love. Continuing to meet this goal as we scale means constantly re-evaluating how our teams work to keep performing at our very best. There is no “one size fits all” approach to building high-performing teams. Once you find a winning formula, it doesn’t stay relevant for long.

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Product Led Organization

The Product Guy

Transitioning from a sales/marketing lead company to a product lead company will be great for recruitment. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Amin Bashi.

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TEI 336: Pricing software products right – with Ajit Ghuman

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can solve positioning, packaging, and pricing for their products. Today we are discussing how to price products, helping you avoid common mistakes and sharing steps to make your pricing smarter. Our guest is Ajit Ghuman. He is the Head of Product Marketing at Narvar, an enterprise-grade customer engagement platform for retailers.

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Effective Risk Management: Balancing Safety, Compliance, and Opportunity

Effective risk management in product development balances safety, compliance, and opportunity. Risks can't be eliminated, but they can be mitigated through structured assessments, clear documentation, and expert guidance. Engaging specialists ensures efficiency, regulatory adherence, and product security while reducing costly oversights. A well-executed risk management plan includes frequent evaluations, defined assessment criteria, and a structured decision-making process.

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The Top Mobile In-App Feedback Tools of 2021

Alchemer Mobile

Now, more than ever, your customers want to be heard. They’re itching to give you feedback. Do you have the right tools to capture that voice? If you don’t, you need to get those in place – and fast. To help you with this, we compiled a list of the top mobile in-app feedback tools of 2021. Incorporating these tools into your customer experience tech stack will drive more engagement, gather high-quality customer feedback, and help inform your product roadmap.

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How will you get involved this World Product Day?

Mind the Product

Next Wednesday (26th May) product managers around the world will celebrate World Product Day — now’s the time to explore our timetable of events and see how you can get involved. What is World Product Day? In 2018 when we celebrated the eight-year anniversary of the first ProductTank meetup — ProductTank communities from across the [.] Read more » The post How will you get involved this World Product Day?

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The Significant Roles of Artificial Intelligence in The Education Sector

The Product Coalition

Artificial intelligence is the most suitable choice to succeed in all challenges in learning different things. AI technology in education develops your learning method properly. It supports teachers or coaches to implement better, acquainted, and customized help to students. AI-powered learning techniques help teachers to examine the grasping power of learners.

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Core responsibility: How we scaled our core technologies team

Intercom, Inc.

It’s a familiar problem for all companies that scale fast – how do you keep your core technologies manageable for the increasing number of teams that depend on them? As Intercom’s product matured, our product teams needed to expand the depth and breadth of their technology expertise in order to support the features we were building for our customers.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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Product Manager Managers

The Product Guy

It is really important for product manager managers to have a really good sense of the IC product manager work. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Tanya Koshy.

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TEI 334: Making product management effective regardless of the product emphasis in an organization – with Monika Murugesan

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can excel in both supportive and challenging organizational environments. In this discussion we share ideas and experiences for getting more benefits from product management and how you can help with that, regardless of whether your organization supports product management or not. To help us with that is someone who has made it happen, increasing the visibility and effectiveness of product management, in different types of organizations.

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How Mobile Product Managers Can Increase Productivity

Alchemer Mobile

Mobile product managers handle an extremely long list of competing tasks—sometimes resulting in progress paralysis. When you’re able to get clear about how to tackle your long list of to-dos, the result is more efficiency, more effectiveness, and ultimately, a more productive product planning process. If you feel like you have too much to do and need a new method for quick, effective prioritization, our new guide The Mobile Product Manager’s Productivity Quadrant is here to help.

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Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres

Mind the Product

How do you know that you’re making a product or service that your customers want? How do you ensure that you are improving it over time? How do you guarantee that your team is creating value for your customers in a way that creates value for your business? In my new book, Continuous Discovery Habits: [.] Read more » The post Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

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.

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What do You Want to Know About Product Marketing Management?

The Product Coalition

Product marketing sits at the intersection of marketing, growth, product and sales. It is the department responsible for evangelising the… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Conversations with friends: 6 highlights from behind the mic

Intercom, Inc.

This week’s episode is almost my last for the podcast, as I’ll be finishing up today after 2 years and over 100 episodes. So, with that in mind I’d like to share a compilation of some of my favorite guests, hosts, and interviews from my time here. In this period, I’ve been fortunate enough to chat to a really wide range of interesting people from across the world of tech, SaaS, and beyond.

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Bringing Diverse Experience

The Product Guy

Greatness in product management comes from varied experiences and perspectives. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Kirsten Jepson.

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Solving the right problem — The importance of design thinking in product management.

Product Management Unpacked

“The manager who comes up with the right solution to the wrong problem is more dangerous than the manager who comes up with the wrong solution to the right problem” – Peter Drucker. Nobody wants their product to be received as a source of frustration. Still, we see it all the time. Look around. There is almost certainly a product within arm’s reach that isn’t designed to fit your needs.

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B2B eCommerce, Self-Service Portals, and PIM Trends for 2024

In 2024, B2B customers expect better quality and service with streamlined experiences that match consumer-grade simplicity—no long calls or meetings required. Our B2B eCommerce Trends Report, surveying 400+ B2B professionals in the US and Europe, reveals how eCommerce has become vital to top companies’ strategies. The report shows how leaders are leveraging eCommerce to break data silos, unify channels, and deliver the personalized experiences that customers demand.

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TEI 335: JTBD tips from a veteran practitioner – with Bob Moesta

Product Innovation Educators

Dive deep into a valuable tool for product managers. In this discussion we are learning more about the power and use of Jobs-to-be-Done with Bob Moesta. Bob is an innovator, entrepreneur, and the co-creator of the Jobs-to-be-Done Theory to investigate consumers’ motivations and decision-making processes. He also co-founded the Re-Wired Group, which helps companies repeatedly innovate and reliably predict success.

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How to deliver digital products in complex non-digital organisations by Keith Merriman

Mind the Product

What constitutes real product experience? In this ProductTank London talk, Keith Merriman, Senior Product Owner at The AA, explains how to deliver complex products and three things that helped him during his career as a product manager. Watch the video to see Keith’s talk in full or read on for an overview of his key [.] Read more » The post How to deliver digital products in complex non-digital organisations by Keith Merriman appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Four Things as a Head of Product, I Learned from Leading a Team Remotely

The Product Coalition

In March 2020, due to the covid outbreak, Aircall’s employees started working remotely. Two weeks later, I joined the company as Head of Product and manager of a team of 15 people I have never met before and I would not meet in person for at least the next 3 months. In this article I’m sharing three challenges and learnings from joining a new company remotely as Head of Product. 1.