The Product Coalition
JULY 17, 2018
In a time of unprecedented upheaval, the role of the traditional mobile product manager has evolved to cover an organisations entire digital strategy across multiple devices. Consumers have moved beyond mobile and product managers need to face this reality and develop products that are functional, delighting users across the whole digital ecosystem.
Nir Eyal
JULY 23, 2018
Nir’s Note: This guest post is by Patricio O’Gorman, technology consultant and professor at Universidad de Palermo. If you have kids, you’ve likely heard about Fortnite. The wildly popular online battle game has amassed over 125 million players and hosts more than 3 million concurrent players. The game “has brought in more revenue in a […]. The post Here’s How Fortnite ‘Hooked’ Millions appeared first on Nir and Far.
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Mind the Product
JULY 6, 2018
Failing is an eventuality in software development. Not only do we fail, we are encouraged to fail iteratively. Let’s do it over and over again! And yet, the job of the product manager comes with a level of accountability and scrutiny that is unique. Product managers are asked to look after all facets of a product’s development, from conception to launch.
The Product Guy
JULY 16, 2018
How to thoughtfully include everyone’s experience to build the most effective product. “Absorbing what is useful, discarding what is not, adding what is uniquely your own. ” In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Andrew Hsu’s, lead a conversation around “Agile across the Business”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world.
Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage
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The Product Bistro
JULY 21, 2018
Every product development project has a crucial milestone, the official demonstration. A recent story about the original iPhone demo at Moscone center in SF, in early 2007 from the point of view of the engineers in the audience is particularly illuminating. Sitting here on Memorial Day, watching Robocop, I realized that the demonstration of the ED 209 was like a lot of my own demonstrations.
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The Secret PM Handbook
JULY 13, 2018
What are your goals? A product organization has three overarching goals: Deliver great value to our customers. Do it quickly, efficiently, and with high quality. Do it better over time. A product organization that achieves those goals is much more likely to be successful. Your methodology, your process, is a means to an end. It's not the end in itself.
bpma ProductHub
JULY 3, 2018
By Saikrishna Chavali – You learn the power of status quo, and the challenges our power users face within their own firms. Product teams at vendors are tripping over themselves trying to get customers to use the latest products and features. But not everybody thinks as such. Not because customers don’t want the “best experience”.
Mind the Product
JULY 9, 2018
Since it’s still a relatively new role, there’s a lot of confusion around product management job titles, seniority, and hierarchy. This makes it hard to compare jobs, plan your career, and attract the right talent to your team. While there is still no one-size-fits-all solution, a standard is emerging from most successful product teams and organisations that can serve as a template for your own: Product Management Career Ladder.
The Product Guy
JULY 12, 2018
Guest Post by: Eric Kiang (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Paul Hurwitz]. A product manager has a tough role, there are many responsibilities and arguably all of them are important. However there is one thing every product manager must do, but often times it gets overlooked or forgotten. A product manager needs to talk to their customers, period.
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UserVoice
JULY 10, 2018
The latest generation of entrepreneurs has contributed its share of buzzwords and mantras to the business lexicon with mixed results. We all now know “unicorns” aren’t just mythical horses. “Disruption” is a legitimate strategy for a company trying to break into a new market… and a legitimate fear for those already making money there. And, of course, we know the best way to hone your business.
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 2, 2018
Technology firms have a long and storied history with commercials. Just reading that sentence you’re probably already thinking about half-time Super Bowl commercials. Or annoying YouTube pre-rolls that leave you puzzled as to what the company actually does. In fact there’s a whole genre of tech company videos that are so clichéd – fast edits, shiny happy people, repeated lines of script, emotional cues and images of bakers (think about it) – it’s become easy to poke fun at them.
The Secret PM Handbook
JULY 30, 2018
After a few well-received presentations to senior executives, a few colleagues at my new company asked me, based on the positive effect I got, “Can you give us some tips on persuasion?”. I’ve been doing product management a long time, and over time my presentation skills have just naturally gotten more polished. A lot of it seems like second nature to me.
The Product Bistro
JULY 23, 2018
One thing that is crucial to success in Product Management is the ability to communicate. A common perception is that you must be an extrovert to be a good communicator. Yet, as a solid introvert, who hates crowds, and large gatherings, I have been quite successful in Product Management. I will admit that it isn’t […].
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Product Innovation Educators
JULY 2, 2018
Don’t let your calendar get in the way of doing what’s important as a product manager. Experienced product managers benefit from what they learned from previous successes and failures. That experience is valuable. However, they can also pick up some bad habits along the way. Some bad habits may be from a lack of knowing better but others come from routine and a “this is how we do it”-sort of mentality that too often develops over time in many organizations.
The Product Guy
JULY 19, 2018
Creating digital health applications requires product managers employ a unique and specific skill set, one that is often only learned by effective collaboration with clinical and administrative personnel. The learning curve can be very steep! Everything from how medical usability studies are conducted to best practices developing front-end requirements that conform to the FHIR data model for interoperability are nuances that can make or break your product development lifecycle.
Roman Pichler
JULY 3, 2018
Embrace a Growth Mindset. Learning something new requires the right mindset or attitude. If you believe that you lack talent or are not smart enough, then you make it hard—if not impossible—for yourself to acquire new knowledge, skills, and behaviours. For example, I never used to think myself as somebody who is good at writing, and I wasn’t particularly good at it at school.
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 6, 2018
If you’ve ever looked at your diary, notebook, sticky notes and email inbox in the middle of a busy sales period and thought, “This isn’t working,” you’re not alone. For years, I used to try to organize my thoughts and ideas without structure, missing sales opportunities and forecasts as a result. Then, I found the answer – the concept of a sales pipeline.
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The Secret PM Handbook
JULY 20, 2018
In some earlier articles and in a talk I gave at a local product management meetup , I’ve shared about the importance of having a toolkit of mental models. They help with decision making, problem solving, communication, plus every other thing we do as product managers. A good mental model can help you see things in a different way. Click To Tweet.
Mind the Product
JULY 27, 2018
Opening #mtpcon in San Francisco, Christina Wodtke turned our focus to our teams. Among the many jobs product managers perform, team coordinator is often added to the list. This isn’t a job that product managers should have to do, but like many other tasks, “if it ain’t happening, you’ve gotta fix it.” Christina told us how to reboot the team you have, or build a healthy one from the ground up. ?.
The Product Bistro
JULY 30, 2018
Watching a British Police Procedural – Line of Duty, and at the end of a “Season” they did a run down of the investigating team, and one statement caught my attention, that one DC (Detective Constable), had passed her test and was now a DS (Detective Sergeant). This caught my ear, because it is a […].
The Product Guy
JULY 5, 2018
Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2017, Melissa Perri. Watch now and see why she is counted amongst the ranks of the best in product management. More to Come. The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group.
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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches
JULY 24, 2018
My passion for building businesses and products started years ago when I had the opportunity to co-found my own start-up. We had all the right ingredients for success; a unique idea, and committed team, and right amount of funding to make it a runaway success. We built a product that many loved and could see the potential in, but at the end couldn’t scale it into a successful business.
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 4, 2018
One of the lures when I joined Intercom in 2014 was that it sold itself as a product-first company. We continue to repeat that mantra to ourselves today, and we say it to anyone who’ll listen. We thump our chests when we say that. It’s a badge of honor – a badge of legitimacy – a badge of a new, better way of building a company. But, there’s a hidden arrogance inside that product-first mindset, and traps that await those who adopt it.
bpma ProductHub
JULY 24, 2018
By Daniel Wu’ – An ideal PRD discusses users, shows features in a visual prototype, and includes key hypotheses. Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) are documents product managers use to achieve several important objectives. They (1) create purpose and context for the teams they work with, allowing key stakeholders to feel heard; and (2) clearly communicate the vision.
Mind the Product
JULY 25, 2018
I’ve always been keen on learning from other people. And one way of doing this is by interviewing professionals and experts and asking them about their experiences. This year, I travelled from Berlin to Silicon Valley and interviewed 15 product management experts from Google, LinkedIn, Salesforce, eBay, and other companies, to learn about how they build successful products that serve millions of people every day.
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The Product Bistro
JULY 25, 2018
There are many paths into product management, as Steven Haines says so eloquently in his Product manager’s Desk Reference, most product managers don’t start there. I thought it was time to add in the path I took, that of Applications engineer. Instead of a list of traits and attributes, I will probably go a little […].
The Product Guy
JULY 2, 2018
Being in product management can have its ups and downs. But when you really dig in there can be found the BEST. See what product expert, Jordan Bergtraum, has to say on this topic.
Product Management Lessons from the Trenches
JULY 17, 2018
Let’s say that you work for a beer company and are trying to figure out how to increase revenues. Sales is pitching to distributors that the beer is “Less Filling”, while Marketing is advertising that the beer “Tastes Great” and Operations is delivering “the Lowest Cost Light Beer.” If you could get everyone aligned around a common understanding of the product’s value proposition, each team’s actions would reinforce (rather than contradict) one another for maximum impact.
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