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.
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.
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
Product Management Today brings together the best content for product management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
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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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!
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.
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
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.
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.
Lenny Rachitsky
JANUARY 7, 2024
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Innovation varies widely across sectors and organizations, creating value in diverse forms. Understanding different types is crucial for R&D teams to foster creativity and uncover missed opportunities. This guide explores 25 key types of innovation in management frameworks.
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
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.
Gocious Blog
JANUARY 9, 2024
Innovation in technology and product development is the key driver of progress in today's fast-paced world. It involves creating and implementing new ideas, processes, and products to improve efficiency, solve problems, and meet the evolving needs of society. From artificial intelligence (AI) and renewable energy to smart devices and biotechnology, product development innovation impacts nearly every aspect of our lives.
ProductPlan
JANUARY 11, 2024
What is a GQM? Goal-Question-Metrics (GQMs) is a strategic framework used to define goals, ask relevant questions, and improve metrics. The GQM framework was originally created while evaluating project defects in NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Forty years later, GQMs continue to serve as a valuable tool to set comprehensive goals and monitor progress.
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.
The Product Coalition
JANUARY 12, 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.
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 12, 2024
OpenAI recently released a long-awaited store for GPTs. Now, ChatGPT Plus subscribers can access a collection of GPTs created by different users. In this article, I want to review the downsides of the current version of the store. This review is also available in a video format: [link] GPTs home page When we navigate to the Explore GPTs section, we will see a page that invites us to discover GPTs that suit our needs.
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