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“Sweat the Details” and Other Commandments for Mapping Out a Career in Product

First Round Review

Veteran product leader Jiaona Zhang walks us through the biggest lessons from her entire career in product at Dropbox, Airbnb, WeWork and now Webflow, from breaking into the function as a first-time PM to tactical tips for navigating transitions into more senior roles.

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10 Examples of Successful Ecommerce Product Pages

AB Tasty

Let's examine the 5 mandatory elements of an effective ecommerce product page plus some examples of the most successful product pages by industry that you can get inspiration from.

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Three Ways to Receive Feedback Quickly!

The Product Coalition

Use these methods to build great products, make decisions fast, and fuel your career! Feedback is critical to building great products and personal career growth! Fast feedback enables you to address minor problems before they become large ones. I’ll share three methods you can utilize to receive tangible feedback quickly! Source: [link] Fist of Five Fist of Five is a technique to gauge consensus ( and a great way to hear from quieter team members ).

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Democratizing User Testing

Centercode

Two decades ago, Centercode was bootstrapped by a small group of likeminded founders, collectively driven by our genuine passion to increase the positive impact of technology on the world.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

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.

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Rethink the Tools That Create Effective Meetings (Collocated, Remote, Hybrid)

Johanna Rothman

I wrote about general meeting problems in Recognize the Problems That Prevent Effective Meetings (Collocated, Remote, Hybrid). But “hybrid” teams have much worse meeting problems. During the pandemic, most of us understood how to create nebula team meetings that worked. (Dispersed teams are nebula teams. See How To Understand Your Team Type: Collocated, Satellite, Cluster, Nebula for more details.

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The Art of Product Prioritization According to Julie Zhuo

The Product Coalition

Sundial Co-Founder Julie Zhuo, talks about ways to determine what makes an impact to your customers. By Tremis Skeete , for Product Coalition When it comes to making your customers happy, it can seem like all the product development priorities are important. If you’re faced with challenges like this, Sundial Co-Founder Julie Zhuo talks about a few prioritization techniques in her LinkedIn post.

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Recognize the Problems That Prevent Effective Meetings (Collocated, Remote, Hybrid)

Johanna Rothman

Meetings. We all have them. Most of us hate them. When I ask why, here are some of the responses I hear: They take too much time away from our “real work.” It's too hard to find time to meet. Our calendars are too full. We can't find a place to meet. If we're back in the office, we have no meeting rooms. Or, we have some remote people, so we need several “places” to meet and the technology to support all those places.

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Insights from the CDH Benchmark Survey: How Are Teams Adopting Discovery Habits?

Product Talk

“Product thought leaders talk about an ideal way of working. Nobody actually works that way.” I can’t tell you how many times I hear this sentiment on Twitter and LinkedIn. And I hate it. I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.

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Vidya Srinivasan: An original product manager

Mind the Product

Vidya Srinivasan has many strings to her bow. She’s a senior product manager, public speaker, patent holder, a diversity and inclusion advocate and a classically trained Indian singer who has spent her career to date working for big tech companies. She went from a master’s in computer science to an internship at Microsoft where she [.] Read more » The post Vidya Srinivasan: An original product manager appeared first on Mind the Product.

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B2B eCommerce, Self-Service Portals, and PIM Trends for 2024

In 2024, B2B customers expect better quality and service with streamlined experiences that match consumer-grade simplicity—no long calls or meetings required. Our B2B eCommerce Trends Report, surveying 400+ B2B professionals in the US and Europe, reveals how eCommerce has become vital to top companies’ strategies. The report shows how leaders are leveraging eCommerce to break data silos, unify channels, and deliver the personalized experiences that customers demand.

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Traditional Buyer Personas Don’t Work: How Matt Lerner Understands Consumers

The Product Coalition

Startup growth expert, Matt Lerner, talks about his million dollar lesson learned while characterizing consumers. By Tremis Skeete , for Product Coalition Product people know that their greatest value lies in how well they understand consumers. It’s because when they are prioritizing product decisions, especially in regard to which products or features to release—understanding what satisfies consumer needs makes all the difference.

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We’re making our prices public

Mixpanel

We kicked off this year by introducing our vision for transparent pricing that would make it as frictionless as possible for companies of all sizes to get started with product analytics. The problem we’ve seen across B2B software at large is that vendors hide their pricing, forcing expensive discovery calls and negotiations that waste time and leave customers questioning whether they’re getting a good deal (and they’re often not).

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425: Three ways to escape gut-feeling and rapidly boost innovation to markets – with Ulrike Laubner-Kelleher

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can get market-driven data to make product decisions quickly This episode is sponsored by PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. PDMA is a global community of professional members whose skills, expertise and experience power the most recognized and respected innovative companies in the world. PDMA is also the longest-running professional association for product managers, leaders, and innovators, having started in 1976.

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SUNDAY REWIND: Enter the matrix – lean prioritisation

Mind the Product

This week’s Sunday Rewind is a post from Andy Wicks, then Strategy Lead at digital product transformation consultancy Red Badger, that looks at why poor prioritisation occurs, and at a lean solution that ensures you deliver the most value to customers. Effective prioritisation can be the difference between the success or failure of a product, [.] Read more » The post SUNDAY REWIND: Enter the matrix – lean prioritisation appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Usage-Based Monetization Musts: A Roadmap for Sustainable Revenue Growth

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

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A-Players Do These Things At Work To Get Buy-In For Their Ideas

The Product Coalition

The social and psychological aspects of getting things done.

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The Benefits of Leveraging Feature Toggles in Software Development

Split

Feature Toggles, or feature flags as they’re often called, are a powerful tool for software engineers. If used properly, they can be an invaluable asset to the development process. By enabling feature toggles within the codebase, developers can quickly turn ON or OFF features without having to go through the entire development cycle over and over again.

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How to Build a Customer Feedback Form [+ Examples and Best Practices]

Userpilot

Any product manager should know how to quickly put together a comprehensive customer feedback form: they’re a secret weapon for unlocking deep user insights and gathering quality feedback. In this article, we’re going to unpack the techniques, examples, and tools you need to create effective feedback forms within your own SaaS. Let’s dive in!

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Managing Product Managers

The Product Guy

You can have the best process and procedure, but if the people on your team are not inspired you have failed the company. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Amin Bashi.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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.

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Stakeholder Analysis and Mapping: Part 2 of 4 Steps of Stakeholder Management

The Product Coalition

In the Previous article (Stakeholder Exploration: Part 1 of 4 Steps of the Stakeholder Engagement), we discussed: Continue reading on Product Coalition »

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Four Stars from Writing Slices!

Johanna Rothman

Alex Kourvo, of Writing Slices , just reviewed Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer. (That's a link to her review.) She recommends it with four stars! Woo! Here are two excerpts I particularly enjoyed: “Rothman takes these brand-new writers by the hand with a guide full of wisdom, empathy, and truth.” “… is a wonderful, gentle guide” Gentle!

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Customer Retention Survey Questions Examples and Best Practices

Userpilot

Looking for some great customer retention survey questions to include in your feedback form? Look no further! Customer retention surveys are the lens through which you can see how people are feeling about your brand. With the right survey questions, you can identify opportunities for improvement, fine-tune your product experience and prevent customers from churning.

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The Product Model

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The response to my last article announcing my work on TRANSFORMED was very encouraging, and I want to thank everyone that shared their enthusiasm for the project or sent along their questions that they hope to see addressed in the book. The feedback itself was not only a demand signal, but there were some. The post The Product Model appeared first on Silicon Valley Product Group.

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The 25 Types of Innovation Dominating R&D Today

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.

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The Future of Product Management

The Product Coalition

How Emerging Technologies are Shaping the Field Continue reading on Product Coalition »

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Major Migrations Are An Organizational Challenge, Not Just a Technical Challenge

Mironov Consulting

I’ve sat through planning for scores of major B2B migrations, and implemented a half-dozen of my own.  Usually the discussion is highly technical: APIs, data transformation, feature ladders.  But most of the migration failures I see are driven by organizations’ unwillingness or inability to stick with the very hard choices that B2B/enterprise migrations demand.

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Mixpanel Analytics In-Depth Review: Is There a Better Alternative?

Userpilot

Looking to use Mixpanel Analytics for collecting product growth insights ? Mixpanel Analytics helps you collect and analyze data to gain valuable insights into your product’s growth. Mixpanel has become a popular choice among SaaS companies with its advanced analytics and intuitive interface. However, with so many analytics tools available in the market, is Mixpanel the best option for your business?

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What Product Managers Need To Know About Tires

The Accidental Product Manager

Product managers start to equip their tires with AI Image Credit: Yamanaka Tamaki When was the last time that you thought about the tires that are on your car? I’m willing to bet that it probably hasn’t been since you had a problem with them. Either the “low pressure” bulb on your dashboard lit up or you had a flat tire. However, I think that we can all agree that no matter how plain or fancy your car is , the tires are a critical part of it.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

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.

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How Champion Improved All Key Metrics by Using Data Insights

The Product Coalition

YML partnered with Champion to evolve the iconic brand for a new generation. Fueled by product insights and strategy, the work exceeded every key metric. Written by Michael Agombar Many times, we see a client’s data collection methods to be lacking, in which case we create analytic tracking plans. These plans outline event names, triggers (when the event is fired), and any parameters associated with the event — like page names, item names, etc.

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Best Toptal Alternatives for Hiring Offshore Software Developers

TurnKey Labs

As a technology leader, you can develop software in many different ways — all of which have their own specific pros and cons. But hiring top talent is important regardless of which route you choose. Should you hire only onshore or offshore? Should you build your own team, use an agency or consider Toptal alternatives?

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Digital Customer Engagement Is Here to Stay: 6 Ways to Embrace It

Userpilot

Most SaaS companies know that every touchpoint with users or prospects is a crucial part of the acquisition process. However, not all product marketing teams have mastered the art of digital customer engagement. In this article, we’re going to teach you how to measure digital engagement, four trends to stay on top of, and six approaches that you can use for your own digital customer engagement strategy!