Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
You don’t have to be in a rush to get more done. There’s a bit of a trend for responding with “SO BUSY” when somebody asks you how you are at work. It’s almost as dull as saying you’re tired; the asker is left wishing they hadn’t asked and feeling a little bit like they should maybe have more on their own plate. Research suggests (my own research so really, I suggest!
ProductCraft
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
This article originally appeared on BryceYork.com. As we start a new decade, I took a lot of time to reflect on my nearly ten years working in product. I took a lot of notes on the lessons I’ve learned along the way, and this essay shortlists the top 10, prioritized by practicality and non-obviousness so. Read more » The post Ten Non-Obvious Tips for Product Leaders in 2020 appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.
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Product Talk
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Hello, Product Talk readers! It’s time for another installment of Product in Practice. In this series, we highlight the impressive work that forward-thinking product teams are doing. Want to check out the other people and companies we’ve featured? Find our other Product in Practice posts here. Ask 100 product managers how they ended up in their roles and you’re unlikely to hear the same career trajectory repeated twice.
Sachin Rekhi
FEBRUARY 16, 2020
Mastering the craft of product management is no easy task. Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.
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
Tim Herbig
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Most teams have a hard time breaking the wheel of getting caught-up in delivery work. While Product Discovery focusses on the problem space, a lot of Key Results focus on Delivery and business results (which is another discussion by itself). The biggest problem here is that this draws the attention away from the Discovery activities … Continue reading "Should you use OKR for Product Discovery?
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Piyanka Jain
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
A lesson in behavioral economics will tell you that consumers don’t always practice what they preach. So what better reason is there for product marketers to make testing a key phase in their product lifecycle? Unpeel the Facts Consider the unique predicament of KitchenApplianceCowboy and his Super Peeler. Q : Dear SuperAnalyticsMan , Our new and unique peeler was meant to revolutionize the world!
Nir Eyal
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
The post This is How to be Less Distracted By Having Fun in Tedious Tasks appeared first on Nir and Far.
Roman Pichler
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Be Clear on What a Software Platform Is. Different people have suggested different definitions for the term software platform. Let me briefly share mine: I view such a platform as a collection of software assets that are used by several products, as the following picture illustrates. In the picture above, product A, B, and C are built on the platform and use its assets.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Product managers can encounter no end of contradictions as they drive for good outcomes for their products. What are these contradictions and how can product managers deal with them? Google is a juggling elephant. It serves conflicting needs of large user segments. One is the need of billions of consumers looking for the most accurate answers, another is of millions of companies wanting to introduce new products to consumers who are not necessarily looking for them.
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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
Product Management University
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
Is there a difference between a product release schedule and a product roadmap? In recent years, product release schedule and product roadmap have become synonymous. But they serve two very different purposes. Here’s the difference. A product release schedule is exactly that. It’s a schedule of product features currently planned or in development and the target or committed dates they’ll be released to market.
Johanna Rothman
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Back when I was a manager, my senior management wanted to separate the “new” work from the “maintenance” work. I suggested that every new line after the first line of code was maintenance. The managers poo-poohed me. My concern: How would the “new” developers learn from their mistakes? I lost that discussion and I managed a team called “continuing engineering,” CE.
Nir Eyal
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
The post "Addicted" to Technology? Why You Need To Turn The Tables And Hack Back! appeared first on Nir and Far.
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
How agile software development and country singer Willie Nelson share the same principles Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».
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ProductCraft
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein As a product manager at AvidXchange, a payment automation software company, I have often observed the importance of continuous learning in product management. In fact, success in product management is often due to one’s innate curiosity and desire to learn. Thankfully, the.
Userzoom
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
Influencer marketing is ubiquitous for any online service in the 21st century and the presence of internet celebrities has become part of everyday life. . Recently however, the major social media platforms have been introducing strategies to stamp out the very user champions who bring customers to their platform. I’m going to explain why this is a mistake and how, from a user research and UX point of view, influencers are actually a good thing (or at least a necessary evil) for the development o
The Product Guy
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Guest Post by: Carlos Ruiz (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Nis Frome]. At the end of October, Mr Jeff was announcing a couple of very big hits. Firstly, Jeff as a new umbrella brand for all the new services will be providing to our customers; Secondly, a new business line called Beauty Jeff was opening the very first venue in Argentina.
Product Innovation Educators
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Getting product managers inside the mind of a professional inventor. Do you have a good idea for a product? As an Everyday Innovator, I’d say the chances are pretty good. Do you try to develop it yourself? What about joining forces with the company you work for? Or, a third, and very profitable option, is to license it. To explore licensing from the perspective of an Everyday Innovator with a good idea or from that of a company being pitched, this is the discussion for you.
Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System
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Intercom, Inc.
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
It happens every day. A company you bought something from months ago sends you an email with three immortal words: “We Miss You”. These messages feel icky because the sentiment is belated and insincere. Deep down we know that the business doesn’t really miss us. The business doesn’t know our sparkling personality or understand our unique contribution to the community – the business just misses our money.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
John Cutler is a Product Evangelist at Amplitude who helps product teams to become happier and more effective. Here, in his 2020 MTP Engage Manchester talk, he explains how we must all embrace ‘the beautiful mess’ and learn to navigate change in order to be more successful. Watch the video to see his talk in full. Or read on for an overview of his key points: Product is hard everywhere.
Sachin Rekhi
FEBRUARY 9, 2020
Product managers most often reach out to me for advice when they are in the midst of contemplating their next role. In our discussions, we talk about all the usual things: their ultimate career aspirations; their understanding of their own strengths and weaknesses and the skill gaps they hope to fill; as well as the specifics of each role they are considering, including scope, responsibilities, title & compensation, and manager.
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 9, 2020
Product is hard, sometimes you just need a good laugh ?? #1: The ruthless PM #2: Feature Parity #3: Great idea, let me just write that down… #4: We’ll get around to it one day #5: One does not simply skip discovery #6: Just let me have this one… #7: #darkmode #8: Nice idea, but no! #9: Just book some time in #10: Immovable dates #11: “Responding to change” #12: Decision making 101 #13: But we’re at capacity #14: Goddammit, sales were right!
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The Product Guy
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Guest Post by: Syed Abdullah (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Bryan Postelnek]. I have worked on several products that were built with passion and vigor. At JCDecaux, I led the development of an information kiosk for airport passengers. The kiosks are interactive devices that provide concession, flight, point of interest and flight information to the passenger.
Product Innovation Educators
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
How product managers can generate ideas fast using a Design Sprint and then what to do. Have you been part of a Design Thinking or Design Sprint activity? I’ve used both approaches to explore customer problems, consider solutions, and create early prototypes of solutions. They’re great activities. But what happens after creating prototypes?
Intercom, Inc.
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
An inevitable fact of life is that no matter what team you work on, you’re guaranteed to run into problems you get stuck on. Whether you’re a customer support representative or a product engineer, you will encounter issues and problems that you just don’t have the answer to. In these situations, you essentially have two options: You can try to persevere with the problem until you find a solution.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
At Founders Factory we’ve created and implemented a framework for our product coaching practice based on the hypothesis I wrote about in Mind the Product last year for why product thinking needs to be the future of product management and why product coaching is how we get there. We’ve gathered data from over 20 coachees and started a Slack channel to discuss product coaching with the wider product community.
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Sachin Rekhi
FEBRUARY 23, 2020
This weekend I had the opportunity to read Ashlee Vance's Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future. I've been a huge fan of Elon Musk since the early days of SpaceX and knew I wanted to dive deeper into the story of both SpaceX and Tesla. The book did not disappoint: it was a fascinating history starting from his childhood, to his early startup adventures with Zip2 and PayPal, to a deep dive into how he willed SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity into existence and ultimately to su
Alchemer Mobile
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Emotion is at the heart of understanding, measuring, and improving our relationships. And people are emotionally invested in brands. When you monitor emotion and measure sentiment, you try to gauge the tone, context, and feeling from customer actions. Whether a customer completes a purchase, leaves a review, or mentions your company socially, there is always an emotional state connected to their action.
The Product Guy
FEBRUARY 23, 2020
There are 2 types of challenges with senior leaders. Understanding their perspective and the right communication can help everyone get what they are looking for. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Tanya Koshy.
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