280 Group
OCTOBER 13, 2020
Congratulations! You’re on the verge of one of the most exciting and fastest-growing careers today. Over the past several decades, I’ve interviewed hundreds and hired dozens of Product Managers at companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and burgeoning startups.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 20, 2020
As a product leader, you’ve likely been in this situation. The sales team needs one specific feature to close a new opportunity with a large new prospect. Your gut instinct tells you that you’ve done right through customer interviews and competitor research. You have a solid roadmap to execute, and you wonder if maybe the [.]. Read More. The post Negotiating with Sales: A Guide for Product Managers appeared first on Mind the Product.
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Nir Eyal
OCTOBER 26, 2020
The post Be a Schedule Builder, Not a To-Do List Maker appeared first on Nir and Far.
Product Management Today Submitted Articles
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Everyone on your team has personal responsibilities beyond their jobs. If they’re parents, they’ve likely become full-time caretakers to their children. They might also be navigating a spouse’s unemployment or a family member’s illness.
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.
Product Talk
OCTOBER 14, 2020
For this month’s Product Talk post, I recorded a video where I consider the difference between product managers and product owners. You can watch the video or read an edited version of the transcript below. I want to talk about product managers and product owners. This is a topic that’s come up quite a bit for me in the last few weeks. I’ve had several companies ask me if they should be hiring product managers or product owners.
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Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 13, 2020
We are at the start of a revolution in customer communication, powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. At Intercom, we have taken advantage of these technologies relatively early. Our Custom Bots and Resolution Bot already work for thousands of businesses every day. These bots help businesses deliver both radical efficiencies and better, faster support experiences.
Alchemer Mobile
OCTOBER 13, 2020
Surveying your mobile customers is a great way to find out more about who they are, what drives them back to your app, how they feel about your app, and what they’d like improved. Every customer has unique preferences, tastes, likes, and dislikes. Intuitively, customer individuality makes perfect sense. We’re all different. Yet at the end of the day, many brands know little about their customers on an individual, human level.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 12, 2020
In this ProductTank London talk, John Pagonis – then UX Lead at ‘The Mortgage Works’/Founder of Zanshin labs, shares his experience of creating an evidence-based backlog. Watch the video to see the talk in full, or read on for an overview of his key points: Product Waste – Do you really have time and money to waste [.]. Read More. The post Evidence-Based Product Backlogs, by John Pagonis appeared first on Mind the Product.
Product Management Today Submitted Articles
OCTOBER 12, 2020
A business analyst will tell you that funnels are a crucial part of understanding a customer’s journey from their first site visit to revenue generation.
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The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 5, 2020
Many teams and organisations jump into build mode too early. Then they build something that customers reject, they miss the mark, or they need extra budget to get it there. When you suggest a Product Discovery as a way to help get better results it gets rejected. This article is a way to answer the question: “Why do Product Discovery?” In its simplest form, the core reason for doing a Product Discovery is to increase your level of certainty that you’re addressing the right problem, for the right
Product Management University
OCTOBER 6, 2020
In theory, and I emphasize in theory, the impact of a product led growth model should be very minimal on product management. For product marketing, it pretty much changes everything. What is Product Led Growth? Product led growth is a business model for taking a product-as-a-service (PaaS) or software-as-a-service (SaaS) to market and gaining market share.
Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 15, 2020
This week’s guest is no stranger to this podcast in fact, today’s episode will be his third time appearing as a profiled guest with us. Bob is the President & CEO of The Re-Wired Group and serves as a Fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute. As a visual thinker, teacher, and creator, Moesta has worked on and helped launch more than 3,500 new products, services, and businesses across nearly every industry.
Alchemer Mobile
OCTOBER 8, 2020
Google recently announced big changes to its Play Store in-app review API. The changes will have a sweeping impact on how app publishers prompt for ratings and feedback, as well as changes in what consumers expect from experiences with their favorite Android apps. This post outlines the four main changes app publishers need to be aware of, along with how the shifts will impact existing cross-industry ratings and reviews strategies.
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
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 27, 2020
When you have questions about roadmaps, it pays to talk to someone who has spent way too much of her life thinking about them. Janna Bastow – co-founder of both Mind the Product and ProdPad – has been trying to fix the problems of roadmaps for most of her professional life. She hacked together the [.]. Read More. The post Roadmaps Are Dead.
First Round Review
OCTOBER 20, 2020
Top startup leaders shared their favorite thought-provoking questions for candidates to ask during an interview to stand out from the crowd and gain in-depth knowledge about the company, the team, and the role.
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Product Management | Websites Best practices checklist from a Fortune 10 product manager Remember this version of yahoo? Remember how funny the early web was? Sites were packed with never-ending links, popping icons, and offers that looked more like spam. But bless them UX designers, we have come a long way. Sites and apps feel like a seamless extension to our mental and physical abilities.
Amplitude
OCTOBER 4, 2020
At Amplitude, I facilitate lots of workshops. Many of these workshops center around deciding what to measure. This starts, of course, with asking good questions. Good questions help teams focus their measurement/telemetry efforts, and increase the likelihood that what they measure will enable valuable insights. A couple of well chosen events and event properties beat out a firehose of data and/or an autotrack solution any day.
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.
Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 6, 2020
Our work lives are riddled with anxieties. Many of them are natural and fleeting, and we deal with them. One that can haunt people, however, is impostor syndrome. The belief that we are a fraud, doubting our accomplishments and talents. “If you’re anxious about your abilities a lot of the time anyway, you’re 1,000x more so when performance review period comes around” Each year (twice a year in my case), that feeling is amplified considerably by the dreaded performance rev
Indicative
OCTOBER 8, 2020
Gaming data is one of the most valuable sources of information out there. . With 2.7 billion video gamers around the world — and 16% of U.S. gamers’ weekly leisure time going to playing games as of 2018 — companies are sitting on treasure troves of insight. You need an analytics solution and data strategy that can help make that information useful. .
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Libby was new to backpacking. Her first trip was a 4-day trek through the Sierras with a good friend who was far more experienced. Before setting off, they downloaded an app that tracked their speed, elevation gain and miles. At the end of the first day, they were eager to see how far and fast [.]. Read More. The post The Biggest Missing Element in Most Product Experiences, According to Behavioural Science (Does Yours Have It?
First Round Review
OCTOBER 6, 2020
In Dan Hockenmaier's and Lenny Rachitsky's experience, founders are often surprised to learn that there are very few routes to scalable new customer acquisition. Here, this duo unpacks the three ways drive consumer startup growth, offering a detailed framework and set of case studies for accelerating in each lane.
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The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 8, 2020
“adaptable CEOs spent significantly more of their time — as much as 50% — thinking about the long term.” — HBR, ‘What Sets Successful CEOs… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».
Amplitude
OCTOBER 4, 2020
At Amplitude, I facilitate lots of workshops. Many of these workshops center around deciding what to measure. This starts, of course, with asking good questions. Good questions help teams focus their measurement/telemetry efforts, and increase the likelihood that what they measure will enable valuable insights. A couple of well chosen events and event properties beat out a firehose of data and/or an autotrack solution any day.
Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 28, 2020
Today, we’re excited to unveil the newest message type in Intercom, Banners. The name suggests how simple this new message type really is – you can now create a message that occupies that prime real estate at the top or bottom of your website, on desktop or mobile, where it can capture the attention of visitors and customers with announcements , promotions, proactive support , you name it.
Indicative
OCTOBER 23, 2020
Every company, of every size — even organizations of just one person — are navigating a data avalanche problem. There’s more information on hand than organizations know how to use or manage. Every team — from product to marketing, and IT to engineering — is generating data. A strong analytics stack is foundational to being able to make sense of it all.
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.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 13, 2020
Talking to users is easy. Talking to them in a way that gets you useful information is hard. Using that information in a way that helps align stakeholders and teams on the path to building great products? That’s the hardest of all. Lucky for us, our guest on the podcast this week is Robert Chokr, [.]. Read More. The post User Research Interviews – Robert Chokr on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.
ProductCraft
OCTOBER 13, 2020
In just five days, a design sprint can give you a sneak peek into the future of your product. But what if you are being blinkered by a lack of perspectives? Then that future cannot be bright. Design sprints, like other workshops, get better the more perspectives you can gather. And that’s why diversity is. Read more » The post How to Make Your Design Sprint More Inclusive appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 12, 2020
In mid-May 2020, we were just closing our seed round after an 8-week-long fundraising process. Two weeks later, we started to have concerns over our product and vision. After a full month of interviews and explorations, we understood we needed to hard pivot. This article is about how we came to understand the shortcomings of our vision, and why we eventually decided to pivot.
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