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!
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
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.
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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
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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 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 »
Product Innovation Educators
APRIL 1, 2024
How product managers can design their customer experience journey We all want to create products that customers find valuable and even delightful. But accomplishing that is complicated, and some teams lose focus on the real objective or start without a clear vision for what they need to accomplish. How can using the customer experience journey help you make better products?
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.
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 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 16, 2024
Nine recommendations for building the most effective chatbot In the dynamic world of technology, the swift advancement of large language models has captured the attention of companies eager to integrate these innovations into their product strategies. The remarkable rise of ChatGPT has become a focal point, prompting teams to explore integrating chat experiences into their Read more » The post Deep dive: UX best practices for AI chatbots 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.
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The Product Coalition
APRIL 19, 2024
Watching these things can prevent you from following an outdated strategy to failure.
UX Planet
APRIL 12, 2024
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Lenny Rachitsky
APRIL 9, 2024
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