Mind the Product

OCTOBER 2, 2024

With the move to subscription-based licensing, it’s more important than ever for users to see the value of a product. The best product managers use feature adoption to measure and improve their product’s value. Our benchmarking survey set out to evaluate how features are being received by users. What is feature adoption? Feature adoption aims Read more » The post Users engage with only 6% of product features: Product benchmark findings appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Spice Catalyst

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Summary This article discusses the differences between Meta (formerly Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp) and Apple in their approach to product development and core values. It criticizes Mark Zuckerberg’s “move fast and break things” approach, contrasting it with Apple’s “Design Thinking” approach, which focuses on understanding users and creating innovative solutions.

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Melissa Perri

OCTOBER 22, 2024

“Our vision is to be the best!” Cue awkward silence in the conference room. “Best at… what exactly?” “Everything!” If you’ve ever sat through a company strategy meeting and left with your head spinning, you’re experiencing a common problem. It usually unfolds in layers of confusion. First, there’s the vision – those sweeping statements that try to inspire but end up saying nothing.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Working as a product trio is the foundation for discovery. Without input from a product manager, a designer, and an engineer, it’s difficult for us to account for the cross-functional perspectives we need to build successful products. However, most companies tend to have more engineers than product managers or designers. This creates some confusion when it comes to forming product trios.

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280 Group

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Introduction Imagine trying to build a skyscraper without blueprints. Chaos, right? That’s exactly what it’s like managing a product without a solid framework. While everyone knows they need a plan, too many product teams are still winging it, hoping their products don’t come crashing down. Let’s talk about how a product management framework can save.

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Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 22, 2024

👋 Hey, Lenny here! Welcome to this month’s ✨ free edition ✨ of Lenny’s Newsletter. Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. If you’re not a subscriber, here’s what you missed this month: Why no productivity hack will solve your overwhelm A PM’s guide to influence State of the product job market, part 2 Why cash is king Subscribe to get access to these posts, and every post from th

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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Imagine you’re delivering a crucial sales presentation. Suddenly, your potential client raises an objection. Instead of being caught off guard, you respond with a perfectly tailored answer that addresses their concerns head-on. This isn’t a matter of luck or guesswork – it’s the power of Voice of the Customer (VoC) data in action. Customer experience initiatives offer invaluable insight into your customers’ preferences, pain points, and expectations.

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UX Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Tips and insights to make your portfolio journey Photo by Hal Gatewood on Unsplash Love them. Hate them. Or just disagree with them. There’s no denying that portfolios have become an active part of the recruitment process. I’ve seen more and more recruiters and job applications ask for them. At our Content Design and UX meetups , more and more folks have asked what to include in their portfolios and if they need one.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In all of our Product Talk Academy courses , we ask students, “What’s your biggest hurdle to adopting continuous discovery?” Overwhelmingly, the #1 response is: access to customers. This doesn’t surprise me. In Continuous Discovery Habits , I wrote that the only way to make continuous discovery sustainable is to automate your customer recruiting process.

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Speaker: David Warren

Transitioning to a usage-based business model offers powerful growth opportunities but comes with unique challenges. How do you validate strategies, reduce risks, and ensure alignment with customer value? Join us for a deep dive into designing effective pilots that test the waters and drive success in usage-based revenue. Discover how to develop a pilot that captures real customer feedback, aligns internal teams with usage metrics, and rethinks sales incentives to prioritize lasting customer eng

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Your user stories are killing product usability because they’re missing two critical components. Not only is product usability suffering, the absence of these two components is making product design all the more difficult. Here are two things you won’t find in any agile book or agile training course that’ll complete your user stories, simplify design and improve product usability.

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280 Group

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The Out-of-Control Episode Good evening, my dear product managers… Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the backlog… (sinister chuckle) they’ve returned. Yes, our product management nightmares are back, and this time, they’ve spiraled deliciously out of control. Welcome, brave souls, to another collection of tales that haunt our noble profession.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Learn how leadership coaching can enhance your career, with tips on finding the right coach and maximising your sessions. Read more » The post Leadership coaching: 5 reasons why you should do it appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Surveys are one of the most effective ways to get valuable feedback from your target audience. Whether you’re surveying your customers, employees, or performing market research, surveys enable you to easily gather quantitative and qualitative feedback at scale. Of course, to provide value to your business, surveys need to be completed. Obvious yet true: if people don’t respond to your surveys, they’re not doing you much good.

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2024

While home assignments are a lot to take in, they also give you an opportunity to shine and make sure the job is right for you. Here’s how. Most candidates hate home assignments. They view them as a chore, an unfair or unnecessary request from the potential employer. But it doesn’t have to be this way. I’ll never forget my first product management home assignment.

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Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 29, 2024

👋 Hey, I’m Lenny, and welcome to a 🔒 subscriber-only edition 🔒 of my weekly newsletter. Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. For more: Hire your next product leader | Favorite Maven courses | Lennybot | Podcast | Swag Subscribe now ❤️‍🔥 A quick note on the Lenny and Friends Summit The inaugural Lenny and Friends Summit was a smashing success.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Learn how Amplitude Web Experimentation brings self-service experimentation to growth teams, web product managers, and marketers to maximize conversion rates.

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280 Group

OCTOBER 28, 2024

For our next installment of our Women in Product Management Series, I interviewed Angela Fleming, VP Product at FreeAgent. Nicole: Welcome, Angela, thank you so much for sharing your insights and journey through the world of Product Management. Laura: Thank you, Nicole, for having me. It’s a real pleasure to join you. I’d love to. The post Trailblazing Women in Product Management: Angela Fleming, VP Product at FreeAgent appeared first on Product Management Courses | Productside.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 9, 2024

For the first time ever, we teamed up with our friends at Pendo for the eighth Pendomonium! With over 1,300 attendees in the room, it was a great occasion to take in the bright skies, connect with coworkers old and new, and soak in some product goodness. Read on for some of our key learnings Read more » The post What we learned at Pendomonium and #mtpcon: Day 1 appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Product innovation lessons from social media content creation Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode of Product Mastery Now, I’m interviewing Leah and Philip Abraham, a creative duo with expertise in songwriting, acting, music production, and filmmaking. Their diverse background offers valuable lessons for product managers looking to improve their innovative thinking techniques.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Stefan Röse breaks down how Quantilope is pushing forward customer development and the consumer research field. By Jon Matheson for Product Coalition Have you ever wondered how much a consumer is worth? Depending on who you ask, the answer will vary depending on what they genuinely know or understand about consumers. Perhaps that’s why some research experts say, “Data is the new currency.

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Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Listen now on Apple , Spotify , and YouTube. Brought to you by: • Explo — Embed customer-facing analytics in your product • Sprig ⁠⁠ — Build products for people, not data points • Sidebar — Accelerate your career by surrounding yourself with extraordinary peers — Raiza Martin is a senior product manager for AI at Google Labs, where she leads the team behind NotebookLM, an AI-powered research tool that includes a delightful podcast-on-demand f

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Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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The Product Manager

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Data is, like, kind of a big deal. These product analytics courses are designed to help you build critical skills in data management, interpretation, and storytelling. The post 13 Best Product Analytics Courses for Upskilling In 2024 appeared first on The Product Manager.

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280 Group

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Productside Stories S2 Ep5: Angela Fleming In this Productside Stories episode, we chat with Angela Fleming, VP of Product at Free Agent, about her unique journey from the world of marketing into product management. Angela shares how her passion for solving customer challenges led her to product leadership and offers practical advice for professionals looking to pivot into product roles.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Discover the top product management tools: including Jira, Pendo, Notion AI, and more, based on feedback from over 500 product people. Read more » The post Poll results: What tools are product managers using the most? appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Insights for product managers from a professor teaching engineering design and prototyping Watch on YouTube TLDR The value of starting with simple, low-fidelity prototypes The importance of focusing on the problem before jumping to solutions The need for making well-supported decisions throughout product development Real-world examples of how prototyping leads to innovative solutions Introduction In this episode of Product Mastery Now, I’m talking with Dr.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Here are three reasons not to give up and stick to the important principle of working with outcomes. Photo by AP Vibes Outcome-based roadmaps are considered the best practice; however, they are not as common as you would expect. While the idea is nice, implementation is much trickier, and many companies revert to simple feature stacking instead. When I was Head of Product at eBay, one of my primary responsibilities was to lead and build eBay’s new catalog system.

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Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Listen now on Apple , Spotify , and YouTube. Brought to you by: • Pendo —The only all-in-one product experience platform for any type of application • WorkOS —Modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, free up to 1 million MAUs • Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security — JM Nickels is a Senior Director of Product Management at Uber.

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Dragonboat

OCTOBER 25, 2024

We are pleased to share that Dragonboat has been awarded the 2024 Proddy Award for ‘Top Product to Watch’ by Product School. This prestigious recognition was unveiled live at ProductCon San Francisco by Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, Founder and CEO of Product School. It marks Dragonboat’s second accolade from Product School where in 2023 it […] The post Dragonboat Wins 2024 Proddy Award for ‘Top Product to Watch’ appeared first on Dragonboat.

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