UserVoice
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
What would you say if I told you that your product backlog is hindering your product and engineering teams from building the software your customers actually want? What if I said that by eliminating your backlog entirely and beginning each development cycle with a blank page you will reap tremendous benefits? It turns out, the majority of the time and energy spent in your backlog is wasteful and a.
Nir Eyal
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
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ProductCraft
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
Engineering time is one of your company’s most valuable resources—and as a product manager, it’s on you to use it wisely. Chances are you’re already well versed in the classic build vs. buy dilemma, relying on quantifiable insights about your customers, product, and team to decide when to invest those precious engineering resources in a. Read more » The post To Build, Or To Buy?
Product Talk
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
A few months ago, fellow Product Talk coach Hope Gurion and I sat down to discuss why there’s no single right way to do discovery. In this first conversation in the series, we discussed three guiding principles of continuous discovery: building a collaborative decision-making model with the product trio, externalizing your thinking, and focusing on outcomes.
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Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
Chances are you’re already measuring your product adoption in one way or another. It may be daily or monthly active users, or something more specific for your type of product. After speaking with many SaaS companies we found out that usually when it comes to adoption, many teams don’t take it further than setting up [.]. Read More. The post Why You Should Have a Customer-Centric Goal for Product Adoption appeared first on Mind the Product.
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The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
We’re kicking off a new venture with an enterprise tech product at its core. I’m eager to see the founding team we’ve put together succeed, so I’ve put together a list of books that contain the ideas that I’ve found most useful for a new product venture at this stage (getting from 0.1 to 1). Putting together the list was harder than I thought. I wanted to keep the list short and focused enough that it was digestible and usable as fast as possible, also broad enough to cover the key ideas the tea
Product Management University
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
SWOT analysis is far from a new concept, especially for individual products. In B2B though, assessing your product portfolio’s S trengths, W eaknesses, O pportunities and T hreats should be an annual ritual. Why? It offers a macro view of your portfolio’s performance and provides valuable insights that drive your go-to-market strategy and ultimately impacts your product, marketing and sales investment priorities.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
Goals are important. They can give us a sense of purpose and direction. They aid us in prioritizing where we spend our time. They can empower teams and individuals. They can align us to achieve our most ambitious dreams. Goals can also divide us, be divisive and see people incentivized with conflicting goals and self-serving with individuals fighting [.].
Mixpanel
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
Why do smart product teams often build products with mediocre or no impact? Often, the answer is found in the discipline with which a product team measures the product. . Choosing your metrics: metrics categories. When selecting your metrics, you’ll want to consider a few different categories. These categories cover multiple granularities and perspectives that will help you make rigorous product decisions.
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UserInterviews
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
The third annual State of User Research report uncovers trends in UXR methods, tools, salaries, and remote work. Includes data from 525 user researchers in 44 countries.
Strategyzer
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
2020 has been an incredibly disruptive year for the restaurant industry with losses of over $240B in the US market alone. Supply chains have been cut, the way people consume and order food has been turned upside down by the pandemic. These constraints also represent an opportunity for businesses to rethink how customers engage, how to mobilize people and resources to achieve faster results and how to leverage new technologies to their advantage.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
In this interactive AMA session for Prioritised members, Jackie Bavaro, author of Cracking the PM Career, shares what she knows about effectively managing your career in product. Watch the recording in its entirety or read on for the highlights, including: The Phases of a Product Career Making the Move From Director To VP What People [.]. Read More.
First Round Review
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Former Amazon execs Colin Bryar and Bill Carr helped build the "invention machine" that enabled the company to successfully launch everything from AWS to the Kindle. Here, they share granular advice and concrete takeaways for startups looking to alter their own trajectories.
Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System
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Product Innovation Educators
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Secrets for working with customers to create products they will love. This podcast is getting a new name to better reflect our objective here—helping product managers become product masters. That new name is Product Masters Now. You don’t need to do anything to keep listening, but I want you to know the name change is coming in a few weeks, and it will show in your podcast player not as The Everyday Innovator but as Product Masters Now.
NextBigWhat
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
We all must have heard, read about Amazon’s working backwards principle. But beyond the headline, nothing much has been offered in terms of details. How does Amazon’s working backwards process work? What makes an e-commerce company launch hardware products (like Kindle) or an infrastructural service (AWS) that has no relationship with the core business, yet goes on to become a market leader!
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Four Principles and Six Practices Continue reading on Product Coalition ».
First Round Review
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Former Amazon execs Colin Bryar and Bill Carr helped build the "invention machine" that enabled the company to successfully launch everything from AWS to the Kindle. Here, they share granular advice and concrete takeaways for startups looking to alter their own trajectories.
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ProductPlan
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
Imagine a product team out for dinner and drinks. They’re celebrating a big win. The product manager , development team, product owner, maybe even a couple of company executives are there. They must have achieved something significant, right? A revenue milestone? Important roadmap deadlines? Reaching a target number of customers? A positive product review in a major industry publication?
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
In this November 2020 #mtpcon Digital session, Sara Wood, CEO of Kaluza and ex EVP Product of Farfetch, explained how to use change to your advantage as you progress through your career in Product. Watch the 30-minute session in full, or read on for the highlights. Time Moves Forward Sara explains that time and circumstance are [.]. Read More. The post Embracing Change as a Career Advantage by Sara Wood appeared first on Mind the Product.
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Brent Shares Examples of Six Meaningful Lessons Learned as a Product Leader Continue reading on Product Coalition ».
Mironov Consulting
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
VPs of Product and VPs of Engineering need a strong, trusting, collaborative working relationship so that their teams can succeed. What does that look like?
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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.
Agile Velocity
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Value stream mapping is a common practice in the Agile space because it allows leaders and stakeholders to see where the flow of value delivery is slowing down and exposes opportunities to create better alignment across teams. However, it’s one of those practices commonly exercised after everyone is acutely aware that flow is slow or stagnant. Then it becomes a tool to help diagnose a problem (which is usually when Agile coaches are called in). .
Johanna Rothman
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
I had a terrific time with Scott Hanselman on his podcast, Hanselminutes. Listen to our conversation on Modern Management Made Easy with Johanna Rothman. I started listening to Scott's podcast a couple of years ago. I regularly listen because he: Selects people I've never heard of before. Organizes the interview in ways that clarify the ideas. Makes his guests sound smart.
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
Let’s start by addressing the obvious; businesses are made up of people. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».
Intercom, Inc.
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
A lot has happened in the last 12 months. The world experienced exponential change and began navigating its way towards the “new normal,” and the way that companies support and engage their customers has rapidly evolved. Here at Intercom, we doubled down on building and shipping features across our conversational support and engagement solutions that would fundamentally shift how our customers communicate with their own.
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 Accidental Product Manager
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Do customers want to trust Alexa with their health data? Image Credit: Jeff Eaton. The product managers at Amazon have a bit of a problem on their hands right now. They have a popular voice activated device called Alexa that can play music, look up things on the web, add things to a shopping list and a lot of other things all using voice commands – no typing, no screen swiping.
Userpilot
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
The two prevailing schools of thought for the Freemium Business Model are either: Freemium is dead (ok…when was the funeral?) Freemium works depending on certain conditions (some say it might be best to use in the seed stage ). However, our State of SaaS Product Onboarding study we did in 2020 (2021 report coming soon!) found something interesting to add to this debate.
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
It’s Time To Stop Being Obsessed With Your Competitors. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».
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