Lenny Rachitsky
JANUARY 9, 2024
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Product Management University
JANUARY 10, 2024
I learned a lot about product positioning long before I ever stepped into a product marketing role. For the first four years of my software career, I was a pre-sales solution consultant, a.k.a. demo guy! I think of demos as verbal product positioning. The difference is demos are a two-way dialogue with buyers whereas product positioning in a pure marketing sense is typically a one-way monologue where potential customers are reading, viewing or listening to something you’ve published.
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TurnKey Labs
JANUARY 6, 2024
Disclaimer: This post about Elixir Performance was written by a ghostwriter who is not affiliated with our company. The writer has significant expertise in the field of big tech and has provided this content for informational purposes only. Our company has not reviewed, edited, or endorsed the content of this post.
airfocus
JANUARY 9, 2024
Explore the top 5 product management trends for 2024, from customer-centric approaches to AI integration, data-driven strategies, superior UX design, and the importance of up-skilling PMs.
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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
Userpilot
JANUARY 9, 2024
In the market for product design tools to support your workflows and help your team work better? A quick Google search will show you heaps of tools, and you may even experience decision fatigue trying to choose the best. In this article, we distilled it to just 15 tools, showing each product’s strengths and weaknesses. TL;DR Best product design tools for design research: Userpilot – Best for identifying user personas Google Analytics 4 – Best free tool for user journeys Hotjar
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Mind the Product
JANUARY 9, 2024
In this exclusive episode of The Product Experience podcast, we bring together a diverse panel of product experts from around the world to share their invaluable insights on the essential aspects of recruiting top-notch product managers. Additionally, we delve into actionable tips for candidates seeking to distinguish themselves in the competitive landscape of the product job market.
Roadmunk
JANUARY 8, 2024
Learn how incorporating a decision log into your project management process can smooth stakeholder communication and build alignment behind your choices.
UX Planet
JANUARY 11, 2024
This article delves into grid systems, outlining their anatomy, types, and responsive layouts to help you in crafting consistent and cohesive designs. What it is? A grid system is a structure of columns and lines that dictates where design elements should be placed on a page. Why use it? To maintain consistency in layout, create visual hierarchy, and establish predictable design patterns.
TurnKey Labs
JANUARY 8, 2024
In the tech world, speed is more than a goal; it’s a necessity. This sector moves at a breathtaking pace, where today’s breakthroughs are tomorrow’s old news. In this high-speed environment, the key to staying ahead is not just rapid development but the right team powering it.
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Effective risk management in product development balances safety, compliance, and opportunity. Risks can't be eliminated, but they can be mitigated through structured assessments, clear documentation, and expert guidance. Engaging specialists ensures efficiency, regulatory adherence, and product security while reducing costly oversights. A well-executed risk management plan includes frequent evaluations, defined assessment criteria, and a structured decision-making process.
Product Talk
JANUARY 10, 2024
Image created by ChatGPT 4 using DALL-E 2 Happy New Year! Every year, I kick off January with an update on how the year went and I share my plans for the upcoming year. This year is going to look a little different. You might remember that at the start of 2023 , I announced that I wasn’t setting any goals for the year. I had been pushing hard for several years (writing a book, promoting the book, launching courses) and was tired.
Mind the Product
JANUARY 11, 2024
This article covers how to unlock the potential of your product with strategic tech stack presentations as a technical product manager (TPM). Read more » The post How to present a tech stack appeared first on Mind the Product.
Product Management University
JANUARY 8, 2024
For all of you pre-sales solution consultants and sales engineers looking for new ways to differentiate your demos, step away from your products for a quick minute. Sure, the product is what prospects are buying in the literal sense, but with few exceptions, the biggest thing that’ll differentiate your products and your organization in the sales process is…YOU!
The Product Coalition
JANUARY 12, 2024
In our previous article , we presented some key basic notions related to prioritization in product development. Next, we’ll focus on specific frameworks that are often used to boost the process of prioritization. Today let’s talk about the Eisenhower matrix. A backlog is a list of tasks that a product team completes during a time period. This list is linear, and its most urgent tasks are located at the top of it.
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Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.
Alchemer Mobile
JANUARY 12, 2024
Tips and Tricks to Turn Your Feedback into Gold When it comes to creating surveys and soliciting feedback, many people overlook the logical options to build relevant, personal, and quick surveys that let you dig deeper without fatiguing the respondent. There are different varieties of survey logic that allow you to direct respondents to different parts of the survey automatically.
Mind the Product
JANUARY 8, 2024
With InVision shutting up shop by the end of this year, we reflect on what went wrong at the UX design and software company. Read more » The post What product teams can learn from InVision appeared first on Mind the Product.
Lenny Rachitsky
JANUARY 7, 2024
Brought to you by DX —A platform for measuring and improving developer productivity | OneSchema —Import CSV data 10x faster | Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security. — Will Larson is Chief Technology Officer at Carta. Prior to joining Carta, he was the CTO at Calm and held engineering leadership roles at Stripe, Uber, and Digg.
The Product Coalition
JANUARY 11, 2024
Reporters and Educators — Not Pundits and Commentators If you value what Product Coalition does as an education community, learn about the types of writers we support. By Tremis Skeete , for Product Coalition Product Coalition as a community, strives to understand how product management works, and depending on the industry, business, product or service, or context — the real reasons why.
Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System
Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, 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 Innovation Educators
JANUARY 8, 2024
Mastering the art of customer conversations – for product managers As a product person, you know or at least have heard how important it is to talk with customers. Also, if you are not a complete newb, you also know you can’t simply ask the customer what they want. Instead, what do you ask them—how do you conduct a customer interview? We are about to find out from the go-to person on customer interviews, Steve Portigal.
Mind the Product
JANUARY 10, 2024
We dive into the experiences and insight of Neha Bansal, a seasoned Product Leader at Meta. In this illuminating exploration, Neha unveils the secrets behind launching products at a big tech company. Read more » The post Launching products at Meta: Neha Bansal (Product Leader) appeared first on Mind the Product.
Lenny Rachitsky
JANUARY 11, 2024
Brought to you by Teal —Your personal career growth platform | Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security | Ahrefs —Improve your website’s SEO for free — Sam Schillace is deputy CTO and corporate vice president at Microsoft. Prior to working at Microsoft, Sam started a company called Writely, which was acquired by Google and became the foundation of what today is Google Docs.
The Product Coalition
JANUARY 6, 2024
When you are asked to provide competitive analysis, don’t treat it as a chore. If you imagine diving into endless lists of feature comparisons, think again. The competitive analysis itself is a major part of your product strategy efforts, and here is how to do it at the right level. Photo by Andre Moura from Pexels When I was Head of Product at eBay, over 10 years ago, I had the opportunity to listen to Heather Gordon Friedland , then the VP of Product for Consumer Selling at eBay, talk about ou
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As your company grows and your product matures, so too should your product strategy. Drawing from their decades of experience as product leaders, Stanford Online instructors Donna Novitsky and Laura Marino share best practices for defining your product strategy at each stage of company growth. Get practical, real-world product strategy tips from experts who have lived through the same challenges you’re currently facing.
Userpilot
JANUARY 12, 2024
There are more types of charts and graphs than ever before. Graphs and charts are a great way to display statistics and visualize data points. As we move deeper into the era of data, data visualization is even more important. It helps product managers motivate teams to action, impress stakeholders, and quickly derive actionable insights. But as any data visualization expert will tell you, few things are as annoying as the wrong use of visualizations.
Mind the Product
JANUARY 7, 2024
In this week’s Sunday Rewind, Michael Morris offers a few tricks and tips to help you accomplish a day-one mindset and perform at your best. Read more » The post SUNDAY REWIND: How can you nurture a day-one mindset? appeared first on Mind the Product.
Gocious Blog
JANUARY 11, 2024
Ever since the launch of the first iPhone in 2007 , consumers have grown accustomed to physical devices containing software systems. Every year, we're introduced to various new products with astonishing capabilities that directly impact our everyday lives. In addition to the products people use in their daily lives, there are many more products that we benefit from, even if the average person never interacts with them directly.
The Product Coalition
JANUARY 11, 2024
If business answers the who, what, and where, science answers the how and when. Product answers the why in this short story.
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
Userpilot
JANUARY 11, 2024
With so many options out there for consumers, the FinTech onboarding process is crucial for any FinTech company looking to set itself apart. As with every digital product, the first few minutes on your app will determine whether the user sticks with it or abandons it. A seamless onboarding experience , thus, creates the right first impression, setting you up for success.
Mind the Product
JANUARY 8, 2024
How to optimise your B2B product roadmap with a 360-degree approach, merging customer feedback, internal stakeholder insights, and market trends. Read more » The post Taking a 360 degree approach to roadmaps appeared first on Mind the Product.
UX Planet
JANUARY 9, 2024
This is the continuation of “UX of Onboarding: PLG Series” where I do teardowns and discuss user onboarding onboaring UX. As a fitness enthusiast, I tried Asana Rebel onboarding and loved the initial visuals and personalization! It felt engaging and tailored to my needs. However, I found the body fat percentage question using a slider and illustrations (15–40%) a bit off and risky more to say.
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