January, 2020

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The results are in: State of Feature Delivery

Split

Over the past few months we’ve been out in the field, chatting with development and operations teams from more than 100 different organizations around the U.S. We wanted to know how they get software to market. How often do they release new features to their users? How often do they run into problems in the release process? What does great look like for continuous delivery?

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Release Planning Advice

Roman Pichler

What Release Planning Entails and Why It Matters. While release and release planning are common terms, I find that different individuals attribute different meanings to them. I regard a release as a version of a product , for example, Mac OS X Catalina and Windows 10. Releases come in two flavours: major releases, like iOS 13, and minor releases, such as iOS 13.3.

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Talk the Walk

Ask Benny

Express your thoughts and beliefs to become a better professional When people are thinking about self-branding, many times they imagine only the “external” benefits. A person investing in self-branding is considered sometimes investing only in being more known, extending their network, and extending their value in the market. Some people are not feeling comfortable with all of the above.

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What You Need to Know When Visualizing Your Goals

Nir Eyal

The post What You Need to Know When Visualizing Your Goals appeared first on Nir and Far.

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

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, 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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Overcoming Cognitive Biases That Reduce Feature Adoption

Mind the Product

In this blog post, I’ll explore how momentum behavior, loss aversion, and the default effect can influence the adoption rates of product features and give examples of how you can address these hurdles. We humans are resistant to change, which can be an obstacle when introducing new product features to the marketplace. App developers, marketers, and designers often have to overcome psychological barriers that prevent users from changing their habits and adopting new behaviors.

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The ABCs of data: how to make sense of your company’s data as a product manager

Mixpanel

In the age of data and analytics, we’ve come to believe that, with enough data, we can make smart decisions and become truly data-driven. But as the global data volume has gone from big to enormous, many businesses today find themselves thinking: What do we do with it? Collectively, we’ll be generating 175 zetabytes of data by 2025. And yours is among all that data—data about and produced by your customers as well as data that’s central to your day-to-day business operations.

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Not just support on steroids: How to build a Customer Success team

Intercom, Inc.

Customer Success teams arise out of the need to provide high-touch guidance to your most valuable customers – without disrupting your Sales and Support teams. In Intercom’s early years, it wasn’t uncommon to find a support rep looped into a deal or asked to assist with onboarding. With only our Support team available as product experts, our sales reps relied heavily on them, and whatever product knowledge the reps already had, to troubleshoot customers’ problems. “Our customers neede

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Efficiency Innovation vs Tranformational Innovation

Strategyzer

Efficiency innovation is easier to do, it's about management. Where it gets hard is transformational innovation. So what can you do as a leader?

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Three Strategies for Being Successfully Transparent

ProductCraft

It’s a scenario that would make any product manager sweat: A Skype call with senior executives to review the pricing model for your brand-new product. In advance of this meeting, I met with dozens of target prospects and several relevant analysts to validate the pricing model. I captured and synthesized competitive pricing information. Then I. Read more » The post Three Strategies for Being Successfully Transparent appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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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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A Leader's Guide to Implementing OKRs (Part 2)

Sachin Rekhi

It has been incredible to see such a positive response to my OKRs post. So many of you reached out telling me how valuable it was to hear about the details of implementing a successful OKR program. Many of you also reached out with follow-up questions asking me to dive deeper into aspects you were struggling with in your own implementation. I thought I would share the most frequently asked questions as a follow-up post for those interested.

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The High Cost of Context Switching for Product Managers

ProductPlan

In computer programming, context switching refers to storing an active process in its current state so the system’s CPU can shift its resources to other tasks. A user can then instruct the CPU at any time to resume the process from the same point. Context switches consume a lot of resources, and system designers try to reduce the need for them. But these switches are necessary to allow operating systems to multitask.

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A Decade of Product Management

Melissa Perri

I've been reflecting on the last decade in Product Management. We've come a long way but we still have far to go. These are a few of my observations and personal experiences. Not every company has seen all these changes, but by and large I think it's been a positive push forward and I'm proud of where we've come from and where we have gotten to. -- 2014: "I do not need Product Managers, I can run my company myself,I have the strategy." 2019: "How do I hire a Chief Product Officer?

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Wireframes Aren’t Just for Designers

Mind the Product

Wireframes are often underused in the product development process but, as I’ll explain in this post, they can be invaluable in facilitating communication and knowledge transfer. Using pen and paper to sketch out concepts and designs for software began with the birth of the graphical user interface (GUI) in the 1980s. It was a simple yet powerful technique used by visionaries, makers, and salespeople to communicate ideas for products and features that didn’t yet exist.

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Usage-Based Monetization Musts: A Roadmap for Sustainable Revenue Growth

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

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Why 36% is the magic number: Finding the right amount of text in mobile apps

Intercom, Inc.

I studied the first screen of 25 popular iOS apps to determine how much text they use. The results shows us the value of taking a principled approach to writing text for mobile apps – because product design is still all about the words. Mobile apps dominate our digital experiences. People downloaded a record 204 billion of them from the Google and Apple app stores in 2019.

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The Two Most Impactful 2020 Product Management Trends

Alchemer Mobile

With digital transformation and customer experience at the forefront of most enterprise brand strategies in 2020 , product-focused roles are changing drastically. Executive teams recognize the critical role product and road mapping can play in the overall customer experience. Therefore, product managers and product leaders have seen a large increase in responsibility and potential company-wide impact.

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A Leader's Guide to Implementing OKRs

Sachin Rekhi

I'm a firm believer that Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), the goal-setting framework invented at Intel and popularized by Google and John Doerr , can be a highly effective leadership tool for a team of any size. When done right, they help drive focus, alignment, accountability, and an outcome-orientation throughout the organization. However, too often, OKRs are implemented poorly, resulting in the promised benefits never being realized.

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The Solutions Manager Role In Its Purest Form. Consider It!

Product Management University

The solutions manager role in its purest form mirrors one or more customer business functions. It feeds product management, product marketing, sales and customer success teams, and has no intended alignment to any products. Its mission is to deliver pure, unbiased customer business requirements to all customer-facing functions, especially product management, product marketing and sales.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

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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Product Owner vs. Product Manager

The Product Guy

The Product Management role is very broad. It requires an incredible variety of skills and can consume a human life. Is it time to break the role down into different functions? In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Jordan Bergtraum, lead a conversation on this topic. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world.

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Keeping Track Of Your HEART – Tomer Sharon on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

There’s a lot of debate in the product and research communities about quantitative vs qualitative approaches to metrics, so we sat down with Tomer Sharon (MD/Head of User Research and Metrics at Goldman Sachs) to talk about how he uses Google’s HEART approach to track what matters. Formerly of Google and WeWork, Tomer talks about all five parts of the model – Happiness, Engagement, Adoption, Retention and Task – and also shares his take on NPS.

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Miro’s Andrey Khusid on the art of distributed teamwork

Intercom, Inc.

?. Andrey Khusid, founder and CEO of Miro , hasn’t done many interviews. In fact this is his first podcast appearance, so we were delighted late last year when he agreed to join us in the studio. We chatted about the company’s evolution from RealtimeBoard, a tool beloved by the UX community, to Miro – a rapidly growing SaaS innovator that boasts Dell, Netflix, Ikea, and Spotify amongst their steadily growing roster of clients.

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Voice of the Customer Technology Buying: Turn Fear Into Power

Alchemer Mobile

In Gartner’s November 2019 “ Accelerate Buying Decisions ” article, analysts make an important distinction: “Technology buying is typically an act of change.” No matter your business, change and investment in new Voice of the Customer (VoC) technology can be scary. In order to make the decision, enterprise teams typically answer three primary questions during their buying journey: Why should we change?

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The 25 Types of Innovation Dominating R&D Today

Innovation varies widely across sectors and organizations, creating value in diverse forms. Understanding different types is crucial for R&D teams to foster creativity and uncover missed opportunities. This guide explores 25 key types of innovation in management frameworks.

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What I’m Saying Yes to in 2020 (With 2 Big Announcements)

Product Talk

For many of us, the beginning of the year is a fresh start. It’s an opportunity to recommit to the things that matter most to us. Last year, I wrote “ What I’m Saying No to This Year—And Why ” to clearly outline what I wanted to focus on in 2019. Over the course of the year, I reread that post at least a dozen times to help me stay focused on my priorities.

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Managing Products or Managing Products to Deliver Solutions

Product Management University

If we’re managing products versus managing products to deliver solutions, three staples of product management take on completely new meaning. Start with this concept. Products are what we build. Solutions are what customers do. If we just make them better at doing things that improve their business success, our success is all but guaranteed. To get there though, we need to recalibrate our V , our O and our C.

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Overcoming Bias

The Product Guy

Product management is difficult world to enter. How have you been able to overcome the various hurdles and open the right doors? Watch and learn more from product management expert, Tanya Koshy.

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How AI Is Changing The Product Management Job Description by Mayukh Bhaowal

Mind the Product

In this MTP Engage Manchester talk, Mayukh Bhaowal, Director of Product Management at Salesforce Einstein , takes us through how product managers must adjust in the era of artificial intelligence and what they must do to build successful AI products. Mayukh outlines five new skillsets that product managers must acquire. Problem Mapping. Data is the New UI.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

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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Proper botiquette – five rules for designing impactful chatbots

Intercom, Inc.

More and more companies are reaching the tipping point where their human teams can’t keep up with their growing volume of support conversations. Chatbots are supposed to be the fix – providing basic help to customers while taking pressure off the team behind the scenes. But there’s some tension at play. We need these chatbot interactions to be frequent enough to make a real impact on team capacity but thoughtful enough that they protect our hard-won customer relationships.

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How Customer Emotion Impacts Customer Sentiment

Alchemer Mobile

Experts suggest understanding customer emotion and customer sentiment is the key to unlocking customer experience over the next decade. Forrester recently reported that when it comes to stand-out customer experiences, leading brands rely on emotion to build loyalty. But many marketers and product managers often use “emotion” and “sentiment” interchangeably, even though they are very different.

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How do you Find Enterprise Product/Market fit?

The Product Coalition

It’s never easy to create enterprise-grade products. They are inherently expensive. You need them to meet exacting standards, and you also… Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».