First Round Review
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
Nonobvious markets can lead to hypergrowth, but they’re hard to spot in the moment. Leaning on his experience as a seasoned investor and operator, Elad Gil shares four principles to help uncover the three types of opportunities that others are overlooking.
Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Over the years I’ve worked alongside a number of enterprise product managers in many companies. Those who have stood out to me as particularly customer-centric have had two qualities in common. The first quality is about laying foundations and the second is about finishing touches. I’m a product manager at Adobe, a company with a long product management tradition and which has produced some of the best products in the history of software.
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Roman Pichler
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
Come Prepared. Make sure you carry out the necessary prep work prior to the sprint planning meeting. Be clear on what you want the sprint to achieve, ensure that the product backlog is appropriately refined (or groomed) , and have its high-priority items ready. This is necessary for the following two reasons: First, if you start sprint planning without a properly prepared product backlog, you are likely to perform backlog and planning work in a comparatively short, time-boxed meeting.
Product Management Lessons from the Trenches
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
Your Teams Don’t Talk with Customers Enough - Here is an Easy Fix Do you ever feel like your teams don’t have the pulse of the market? Like they don’t get enough time with real users/customers? Especially the product and marketing teams focused on building products that people will love and on communicating to customers in a way that will resonate?—?
Technical Product Manager at GPC Global Technology Center in Krakow. She has extensive experience in the area of Product Delivery and close cooperation with development teams. In her work, she tries to implement the scrum approach.
bpma ProductHub
SEPTEMBER 9, 2018
By Bruce McCarthy – I was completely wrong about the Business of Software conference.
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The Product Bistro
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
Revenues are softening, some long term decline is suddenly accelerating, and you are missing plan. Senior management wants to know why, and – more importantly – what are you doing about it. They point their fingers to Product Management to right the ship. The Problem – Product Management has many tools in its bag that […].
Alchemer Mobile
SEPTEMBER 27, 2018
Customers have endless options when it comes to choosing new brands and services, which means their expectations are high. Immediacy, personalization, responsiveness, and product quality are a handful of the primary reasons customers will choose to be loyal to one brand over another. But one major component holds the key to earning and solidifying customer loyalty: correctly leveraging customer feedback.
Intercom, Inc.
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018
In the world of recurring revenue, SaaS companies realize they need engaged customers if they are to grow a healthy, sustainable business. This is where having a solid customer engagement strategy comes in. Remember those halcyon days when software was sold through licenses and you only had to win over each customer once to stay profitable? Those days are over.
Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
When Brant Cooper typically speaks to innovation practitioners, he usually tells them to “stop innovating”. He says this because they typically fail to define what they mean by the word innovation. At #mtpcon San Francisco, he helped product practitioners to understand what innovation is, why innovation programs fail, and how we can help to change the conversation.
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
bpma ProductHub
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
Seth Godin on Making Software Seth Godin spoke at Business of Software Conference USA last year to share some of the many lessons that he has learned in his 33 years in the software industry. You can watch the talk or read a transcript here.
The Product Guy
SEPTEMBER 28, 2018
It’s time you took your product management processes to the next level. Join us as we learn how from product management expert, Jordan Bergtraum.
The Product Bistro
SEPTEMBER 24, 2018
In my more than two decades of product management experience, with many different engineering and development organizations. Regardless of how great the teams are/were, there are always slips in schedule. I am puzzled by this. Even when with a great team, populated with hugely talented, and highly productive engineers, programs take longer than planned.
Product Talk
SEPTEMBER 12, 2018
Back in March, I shared a case study about one of the product teams I worked with at Snagajob (now Snag). I’m excited to share another one with you today. This case study is about a team at CarMax that I just finished working with. You’ll see that they already had good discovery skills before I worked with them, and that allowed us to really dive deep into what it means to be a continuous discovery team.
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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 Innovation Educators
SEPTEMBER 24, 2018
Looking to the past to drive future innovation. I am on a road trip through the northeast of the U.S., talking with innovators and product managers. At the encouragement of a friend, I took my two kids to visit The Henry Ford, a museum of innovation near Detroit. It was created by Henry Ford as a tribute to his friend Thomas Edison. It’s an amazing place to learn about things I love — inventions and innovations.
Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
Product managers have a unique view on what’s happening across the business, provided the relationships are working well. They work at the intersection of the User Experience, Business, and Technical teams, and have the opportunity to tap into the collective knowledge of these teams, in addition to their own interactions with the market. Source: Martin Eriksson, Mind the Product.
Product Management Lessons from the Trenches
SEPTEMBER 11, 2018
It’s Monday morning and you just launched a marketing campaign to promote a new feature. As the PM, your job is to find out how the campaign is performing, how the feature is working, how users are reacting to the new feature, what impact has the feature had your engagement and business KPIs, etc. You reach out to all department heads and request to get data for your analysis: Marketing team for data on campaign conversion, customer support for data on call volumes, account team for data on cust
The Product Guy
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
Politics will always be a part of the product manager job. You will need to manage your “reputation” in the organization. You will need to be a peace keeper. You will need to say “maybe later” without making people mad. You will be challenged by other people and you will need to hold your ground while not making people mad. The PM role is one of the hardest roles to do at an “A” level because: It’s a broad role.
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The Product Bistro
SEPTEMBER 8, 2018
Transparency – (noun), an image, text, or positive transparent photograph printed on transparent plastic or glass, able to be viewed using a projector. If you are as old as I am, you remember printing your powerpoint slides to transparency film to be used on an overhead projector during presentations. It was a dark time. However, […].
The Secret PM Handbook
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
Take Action Today With These Product Management Tips. I love lists, and the Internet loves lists. And I love immediately actionable product management tips that I can start using today to become better at my job. It just so happens that I include tons of immediately actionable guidelines in my articles on this site. There are over 50 at last count. 10 of the most powerful actions you can start doing today to become a better product manager, get your sales people to love you, win more deals, and
Intercom, Inc.
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
The ideal onboarding experience is an easy and frictionless path to finding value. Consumer products perfected this by building onboarding experiences with maniacal focus on a single metric: Facebook’s 7-friends-in-10-days, or Pinterest’s 1rc7 (percentage of new signups that repinned a pin or clicked on a pin in the week following signup). But some products include irreducible complexity.
Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
so my investor said that I need a product manager to do our product roadmap?”. When I worked as a product management consultant clients would often talk about “needing a product roadmap ASAP”. So I’d dig a little deeper to find out what they really needed, and it was often a return to the first principles of their value proposition and business model.
Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System
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Product Innovation Educators
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
Product managers can move the wheel forward without reinventing it. I’m currently on a tour through the northeast of the US, visiting product managers and innovators. On my way, I stopped in Minneapolis and found an incredible innovation case study at Deluxe Corporation. You’ll hear from Chris Clausen, Executive Director, how this company that is more than a century old is avoiding being disrupted by embracing innovation.
The Product Guy
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2017, Melissa Perri. > What is the best career advice you received as you entered product management? To win over my team. When I was first starting out, I had “Steve Jobs Syndrome”. I saw myself as the all-knowing hero who was going to have the best ideas about what to build. This mindset led to a lot of struggles with my development team.
The Product Bistro
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
During a calorie laden splurge for lunch, I stopped in at the local Five Guys franchise. While waiting for my grilled gut-bomb (which was delicious) I watched the Coke Freestyle machine. It was an illuminating experience. The machines weren’t new to me, having seen a couple in the past, I figured out what I wanted, […].
Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
In this post, I present an IoT framework to help Product Managers tackle the complexity of IoT products. This framework provides an easy-to-follow structure to uncover requirements at each layer of the IoT stack, including business decisions, technical decisions, and more. Product Management for an Internet of Things product can be very daunting and confusing, even for […].
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Intercom, Inc.
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
As a human being, storytelling is one of the most powerful tools in your arsenal. It works in just about every situation where other human beings are involved and, contrary to what you might think, it’s actually surprisingly simple to construct a compelling story. In my talk for Intercom’s tour last year, I walked the audience through a simple structure for building strong stories and spoke to several experiences I’ve had where a story made all the difference to the outcome.
Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 28, 2018
How do you maximize your chances of building an enduring, consumer product? This is the big question for consumer companies, and in her #mtpcon San Francisco talk, Sarah Tavel , General Partner at Benchmark, says it comes down to understanding how to maximize engagement. Tavel’s Hierarchy of Engagement. Throughout her career, Sarah has spent a lot of time thinking about how to understand engagement in products.
Product Innovation Educators
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
Insights for new product managers and people who want to be product managers. Being a good product manager requires a diverse set of skills, including communicating, influencing, design, technology, product process, and business acumen. New product managers and not-so new product managers have lots of opportunities to make mistakes. When you can, it is better to learn from the mistakes of others.
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