Mind the Product
APRIL 23, 2024
7 lessons learnt from trialling the Shape Up product development methodology Read more » The post 7 lessons from trialling Basecamp’s ‘Shape Up’ methodology appeared first on Mind the Product.
The Product Coalition
APRIL 8, 2024
Product management is an attractive career path, and getting into the field is harder than ever. Does a tech support agent even have a shot? Why is product management an attractive career? For starters, product Managers generally have attractive salaries. Built In lists the average Product Manager salary at $128,820. An article on Product School’s blog claims it may be slightly less than that, but it’s still a significant increase for many technical roles, especially support roles.
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Nir Eyal
APRIL 22, 2024
Forget prestige and corner offices, forget gentle parenting—the real power of effective leaders and parents is their behavior. It’s no secret that our behavior influences those around us. It gives us the power to make a difference—to influence the behavior of others and shape environments. The post Referent Power: The Ultimate Form of Influence appeared first on Nir and Far.
The Product Cafe
APRIL 14, 2024
Hello, all you product-loving folks! 💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, and more. ☕ The Next Step You have landed your dream job. You are managing products well and pushing out successful products, and your customers are happy, too. Life is good!
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Mind the Product
APRIL 2, 2024
In this article, Dave Martin, Product Leadership Coach and Co-Founder of Right to Left, shares his take on the state of product management in wake of bold claims made by Marty Cagan in his latest book, Transformed. Read more » The post The truth hurts, but in many companies, product management is broken appeared first on Mind the Product.
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Agile Velocity
APRIL 1, 2024
In the dynamic world of business, leaders and teams face evolving challenges that demand innovative, flexible, and efficient solutions. Agile training and transformation offer a beacon of hope, guiding organizations through these turbulent times with practices that enhance adaptability, customer satisfaction, and team morale. Here’s a look at the top 10 challenges business leaders and teams face today and how Agile principles can address them. 1.
People-First Product Leadership
APRIL 5, 2024
I’m co-facilitating a circle for Women in Product. The focus is career clarity and development. I was reminded of a question I often receive while coaching - what do I need to do to be promoted? It’s a tricky question to answer as each organization and manager has different criteria, some written and some in their head. I recommend taking any career competencies framework as the starting point.
Mixpanel
APRIL 12, 2024
You are a builder. And what makes you a builder is not just your ability to code, sketch an illustration, or write copy for a marketing campaign; it’s that you handle everything involved in taking an idea to a finished product. It’s agonizing over moving targets, considering new data, and even changing your mind on what you think is good. Building is decision-making.
Product Bookshelf
APRIL 15, 2024
Playing to Win by A.G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumels Product strategy is a set of choices informed by product vision and company objectives. A good strategy consists of a diagnosis, guiding policy, and coherent actions. Strategy development requires imagination and creativity ; a good strategy is not the result of detailed analysis.
Speaker: David Warren and Kevin O’Neill Stoll
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
The Product Manager
APRIL 17, 2024
Is the juice worth the squeeze? A rigorous feasibility analysis can rescue you from investing resources into a product that shouldn't—or can't —be developed. Here's how to do it, step-by-step. The post How to Do a Feasibility Study: To Build, or Not To Build? appeared first on The Product Manager.
Ronke PM
APRIL 11, 2024
Table of Contents What is Customer Feedback? Why is Customer Feedback Important? Types of Customer Feedback Final Thoughts Customer feedback provides cross-functional teams with confirmation that they are on the right path, which leads to the development of products that bring value to customers. Products that impact their lives for the better. What makes a product great?
Lenny Rachitsky
APRIL 2, 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. Subscribe now P.S. Check out my recruiting service (helping you hire Sr. PMs and VPs of Product), Lennybot (an AI chatbot trained on my newsletter posts, podcast interviews, and more), and my swag store (great gifts for your favorite PM, or yourself!
ProductPlan
APRIL 17, 2024
As a product manager, attending conferences is not just a part of professional development but an invaluable source of inspiration and learning. Recently, I had the opportunity to attend the Product-Led Summit hosted by the Product-Led Alliance in New York. During the conference, I immersed myself in the world of product and attended various sessions that provided me with unique perspectives.
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Split
APRIL 24, 2024
Managing numerous testing environments poses a significant hurdle in the complex sphere of software development. Each environment, while important, requires effort, precision, and resources to maintain effectively. Test environments are where code becomes a reality. They are the birthplace of features and the hunting ground for bugs. These environments provide a controlled space for testing and refinement before a product is released to end users.
Roman Pichler
APRIL 15, 2024
Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] What are OKRs? OKRs are a method for setting and tracking goals. The acronym stands for objectives and key results. The objective is the goal, which describes what you want to achieve. The key results state the specific criteria that have to be fulfilled to meet the objective. To make this more concrete, let’s look at an example: Objective : Grow the product management team.
Product Talk
APRIL 17, 2024
Leading a product team (or several teams) comes with its own set of challenges that’s often similar to but distinct from the hurdles individual product contributors face. There’s pressure coming from all directions—your company leaders expect you to deliver business results while your product teams may be working in silos, misaligned with their peers, or unclear on core product skills and concepts.
Mind the Product
APRIL 17, 2024
Listen to our conversation with Ipsita Basu, Senior Group Product Manager at BILL, about rediscovering our passion for the product. In this episode, Ipsita shares practical advice for product managers looking to get out of a rut and build innovative products that customers love. Featured Links: Follow Ipsita on LinkedIn | Bill | Read Ipsita’s ‘Product managers, stop being jaded’ article at Read more » The post Product managers, stop being jaded – Ipsita Ba
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.
Product Management University
APRIL 17, 2024
If you want to create a revenue plan with sales that gives you a more realistic chance of hitting your revenue targets, give some thought to a broader market strategy where each product plays a role versus a marketing plan for each product. If you’re in product marketing, you know all too well how this works. Sales signs up for a number and then everyone does whatever’s necessary to hit the number.
The Product Coalition
APRIL 24, 2024
Product management is one of those rare disciplines that entails huge fulfillment, but not without the stress and pressure that comes with… Continue reading on Product Coalition »
Lenny Rachitsky
APRIL 30, 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: The secret to Duolingo’s exponential growth How to accelerate growth by focusing on the features you already have How AI will impact product management How to make an impact in your first 90 days
Product Innovation Educators
APRIL 15, 2024
The habits that set apart transformational product leaders Today we are talking about why organizations are increasingly facing the need to transform and how to navigate those changes. If you have experienced a big change, you already know firsthand how challenging it is. All of us need to know the principles that make transformations successful, and that is what we’ll takeaway from this discussion.
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Product Talk
APRIL 3, 2024
Customer interviews are one of the most impactful activities a product team can do. But only if we use the right methods. Customer interviews are one of the most impactful activities a product team can do. But only if we use the right methods. – Tweet This An early customer interviewing mistake is to spend your interview time exploring your solution ideas.
Mind the Product
APRIL 12, 2024
Customer feedback provides cross-functional teams with confirmation that they are on the right path, which leads to the development of products that bring value to customers - products that impact their lives for the better. Ronke Majekodunmi dives in. Read more » The post Customer feedback is product management appeared first on Mind the Product.
Product Management University
APRIL 8, 2024
There are a million and one things that go into creating a market leading company. But products are the nucleus, and that means market leadership starts with product management. There are the obvious things product management does. Everyone knows what they are, so there’s no need to rehash them. A simple ChatGPT inquiry will give you everything you need.
The Product Coalition
APRIL 3, 2024
Theodore Levitt’s ‘ Marketing Imagination ’ is a significant example of how to inspire innovation with a customer-centric mindset. In my last post I shared the visual notes from “Marketing Myopia” by Theodore Levitt. Since then, my wife and I have moved back to Utah and got hold of our possessions, of which a few hundred books represented a major part.
Speaker: Paul Heller
Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. As a result, the products that arrive in the market are not well aligned with the company’s goals. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots. In this session, we will discuss why innovation in large companies is so often not aligned with the company’s strategy and what innovation leaders, pro
Lenny Rachitsky
APRIL 9, 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. Subscribe now P.S. Check out my PM recruiting service (helping you hire Sr. PMs and VPs), Lennybot (an AI chatbot trained on my newsletter posts, podcast interviews, and more), and my swag store (great gifts for your favorite PM, or yourself!).
ProductPlan
APRIL 25, 2024
The product management function in higher education is in a unique spot in its industry. At first glance, higher education may not seem like an industry that needs a product team filled with product managers. However, universities and colleges are the perfect places to employ product management principles. Consider it more deeply: educational institutions provide many products and services.
Gocious Blog
APRIL 25, 2024
Agile product development may have originated in the software world, accelerating the speed at which digital products are developed, tested, launched, and improved, but this doesn't mean that Agile only works for software products. Many manufacturers have adopted agile methods or a hybrid approach for developing complex cyber-physical goods, with Tesla leading the way as an innovative and pioneering company.
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