Product Talk
MARCH 30, 2016
I recently asked a woman what factors she considered when buying a new pair of jeans. She didn’t hesitate in her answer. She said, “Fit is my number one factor.” That seems reasonable. It’s hard to find a pair of jeans that fit well. I then asked her to tell me about the last time she bought a pair of jeans. She said, “I bought them on Amazon.”.
Nir Eyal
MARCH 17, 2016
Nir’s Note: My friend Jake Knapp just published a fantastic book titled, Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days. The book details a process he and his colleagues at Google Ventures use to quickly go from idea, to prototype, to live test. Jake put together an exclusive excerpt from the book for NirAndFar.com […].
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Street Smart Product Manager
MARCH 14, 2016
In order to pursue any product idea — a new product, or a new feature for an existing product — you must make sure it’s a problem worth solving. If it doesn’t solve a tangible, real problem that lots of people are facing, and are willing to pay to have solved, it’s not worth spending … Continue reading "Do You Have A Problem Worth Solving?".
Good Product Manager
MARCH 29, 2016
How Product Teams Understand Customer Needs for Innovation. My colleague Rachel Young and I have been conducting research for the past year on how b-to-b organizations understand customer needs and apply them to product innovation. We will be unveiling this research at SiriusDecisions Summit in May as part of our presentation The Art and Science of Identifying and Prioritizing Customer Needs.
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Sachin Rekhi
MARCH 1, 2016
Video: The Hunt for Product/Market Fit. Slides: The Hunt for Product/Market Fit. Last month I was asked to come by Pivotal Labs to share my learnings on finding product/market fit. The team recorded the video and I wanted to share that here for those interested. The hunt for finding product/market fit in an early-stage startup is an elusive one, often fraught with chaos, and certainly never easy.
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Product Talk
MARCH 2, 2016
I love that Marty Cagan and Jeff Patton have long been advocates of dual-track development. Their efforts have helped to shape the ongoing conversation about the evolution of product discovery. If you aren’t familiar with dual-track development, it’s the separation of product discovery from product delivery. Cagan defines discovery as “figuring out what to build” and delivery as “then building it.” – Tweet This.
Nir Eyal
MARCH 28, 2016
Last week’s Habit Summit was amazing! It was wonderful to see so many blog readers and friends enjoying the keynotes — not to mention the Stanford sunshine. Below is my opening presentation highlighting examples of companies changing user behavior for good. Let me know if you can think of more examples in the comments section below. BTW – […].
dscout People Nerds
MARCH 3, 2016
A People Nerds interview with Catherine Lovazzano.
Good Product Manager
MARCH 6, 2016
Survey: Understanding and Prioritizing Customer Needs for Innovation. One of the most important things that product managers need to do is understand customer needs in order to drive new products and enhance existing offerings. However, we know that that’s often a major area where companies and product teams struggle. We’ve been conducting research for some time now at SiriusDecisions on this topic and I’d appreciate if you can take 5 minutes to fill out this short survey and p
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Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog
MARCH 13, 2016
Internal tools are one of the most overlooked parts of any robust IoT solution. Product Managers usually focus on the customer-facing parts of the solution and leave internal tools as an afterthought. However, IoT solutions typically require a significant amount of monitoring, controlling, and behind-the-scenes operation. Related article: Internet of Things: A Primer for Product Managers If you don’t plan ahead and build […] The post How Internal Tools Can Make or Break Your IoT Solu
Ken Norton
MARCH 30, 2016
How do you keep your email under control? -. Click for larger version A friend once joked that product management is 20% talking and 80% email. Even with modern collaboration tools like Slack, most PMs I know still send and receive lots of email. In my years at Google, I’ve developed a system that works for me. Several have.
Product Talk
MARCH 23, 2016
I continue to be surprised by how many product managers aren’t familiar with dual-track development. I don’t care if you know the buzzwords or if you can define the difference between product discovery and product delivery. But if you work in product management, you should know that a fundamental shift has been happening in our field for years. And it’s time you start exploring that shift.
svpg
MARCH 10, 2016
In my last article on Discovery Sprints I mentioned the concept of Discovery Coaches and several people asked me about that, so I thought I’d describe more about what this role is and when it’s helpful. For many years, as teams move to Agile methods (they usually start with Scrum), many companies decide to contract with or hire an Agile Coach.
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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.
The Product Coalition
MARCH 25, 2016
Can the world live without loyalty programs? To the business this means more loyal customers, more repeat purchases and more transactions to understand customer behavior so that the shopping experience can be improved. So everyone wins, doesn’t it? Certain businesses believe loyalty program is the dynamo behind higher customer life-time value. However, creating this loyalty requires a form of “customer retention” spend.
Good Product Manager
MARCH 29, 2016
How Product Teams Understand Customer Needs for Innovation. My colleague Rachel Young and I have been conducting research for the past year on how b-to-b organizations understand customer needs and apply them to product innovation. We will be unveiling this research at SiriusDecisions Summit in May as part of our presentation The Art and Science of Identifying and Prioritizing Customer Needs.
Andrew Chen
MARCH 21, 2016
[Hi readers, I recently met some amazing folks at Mixpanel – Justin Megahan and Amelia Salyers – who interviewed me for their “Grow and Tell” series. This was originally published on the Mixpanel blog , and I’m excited to re-publish it here too. Thanks to Suhail , founder/ceo of Mixpanel, for helping set this up. Hope you enjoy the interview.
Ken Norton
MARCH 16, 2016
How do you make sure your new PM is successful? -. After much discussion, your startup – or division at a larger company – has decided it’s time to hire its first product manager. You can finally breathe a sigh of relief. How do you make sure they’re successful? I’ve written about the first days at a new company from the.
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Product Bookshelf
MARCH 6, 2016
Even the best products cannot overcome a poor sales process. Match your sales culture to your customer’s buying culture to successfully introduce your product and close opportunities. Identify your product’s sales needs and select the right approach to one of four buying cultures. Why Killer Products Don’t Sell by Ian Gotts and Dominic Roswell.
Bryce York
MARCH 30, 2016
The IRS email sequence is one of the fastest and easiest campaigns to create – in this post you’ll be walked through the exact formula step-by-step. Email marketing is something I always ending talking about with online and eCommerce entrepreneurs. Email marketing is probably the single most powerful and high-ROI marketing tool available today – it’s cheap to get started and it’s virtually free to send an email to a subscriber.
DISQO
MARCH 18, 2016
It’s a pressing question for many product managers within large organizations: how do you deftly navigate the thorny landscape of internal politics to get stuff done? That was the topic of a recent panel we hosted featuring Mark Hurst, Founder and CEO of Creative Good and author of “Customers Included”; Jeremy Horn, former Head of Product, Data Strategy, Content Management and Distribution at Viacom; and Ed Jen, Head of Product for NeoCare Solutions, an Aetna company.
Good Product Manager
MARCH 6, 2016
Survey: Understanding and Prioritizing Customer Needs for Innovation. One of the most important things that product managers need to do is understand customer needs in order to drive new products and enhance existing offerings. However, we know that that’s often a major area where companies and product teams struggle. We’ve been conducting research for some time now at SiriusDecisions on this topic and I’d appreciate if you can take 5 minutes to fill out this short survey and p
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UserTesting
MARCH 8, 2016
When you’re conducting a user research study with the UserTesting platform, it’s easy to get excited about getting your video results back. And while you may get them back quickly, preparing your research plans and combing through all that footage … The post 6 ways to speed up your UserTesting research appeared first on UserTesting Blog.
TSIA
MARCH 31, 2016
As adoption becomes the most important objective for education services organizations, it's important to keep in mind that not all adoption is created equal. Adoption falls along a gradient consisting of low, to high, to effective consumption of a product or service. When it comes to education services, the best way to gauge where someone is on the adoption gradient is to think about it in terms of the content you're providing, and how it's being consumed by your learners.
Roy Madden
MARCH 30, 2016
You, our users, use feedly for such a wide range of jobs. Today we’d like to showcase a member of the feedly community who uses it as a curator of digital art, a burgeoning sector. Ryan Cowdrey, of the young startup 23VIVI.com , shows us how you can use feedly to leverage content as an art curator. He provides a guest post for us today. My name is Ryan Cowdrey and I’m the Director of Curation at 23VIVI.com , an online marketplace that offers rare and limited edition digital art.
Product Management 2.0
MARCH 30, 2016
Product managers always feel the pressure to grow their business through innovation. When they can successfully create competitive differentiation, fill a gap in product technology or offer a more complete solution, they can drive business growth and gain market share. While innovation is key to business growth, so is time-to-market. That’s why smart product managers consider all their options for their innovation strategy.
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
Tyner Blain
MARCH 30, 2016
Product owners are likely to find themselves alone in the organizational wilderness. Their organizations expect them to connect the towers of long-term strategic planning with the frontiers of great new products. Iterative and incremental development of solutions can bring these two worlds together. There’s always a gap between strategy and execution – and product owners are ideally positioned to help fill that gap.
TIBCO - Thought Leadership
MARCH 29, 2016
Big data drives the modern enterprise. It is now routinely collected, shaped, and deployed to power applications spanning all aspects of operation—from production to ERP to supply chain to CRM, the list can go on and on. And the speed at which all of this transpires is astounding: Fast Data now drives near real-time customer interactions, instantaneously adjusts processes for optimization, and curbs security breaches automatically.
dscout People Nerds
MARCH 25, 2016
A dscout People Nerds interview with Dan Makoski.
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