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To PLG or not to PLG

The Product Coalition

To PLG, or not to PLG? There’s lots of writing about Product Led Growth (PLG). What is it exactly, what are the benefits, and how to get it right. Yet I’ve read relatively little about the key question: when should a startup even try to take the PLG route? And I’ve heard many misconceptions about it. As a PLG founder myself (quick plug for tagbox.io), it wasn’t at all an obvious choice, and I was personally surprised by so many aspects of it over the past couple of years, I wanted to jump into t

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Deep dive: Navigating uncertainties as a product manager by Lara Kulesh

Mind the Product

In an ever-evolving tech landscape, product managers must skillfully navigate uncertainties to achieve success. Product Leader Lara Kulesh discusses how we can respond to unforeseen circumstances in product management. Read more » The post Deep dive: Navigating uncertainties as a product manager by Lara Kulesh appeared first on Mind the Product.

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5 Trends in Product Management for 2023

Gocious Blog

Every industry sees trends that come and go, but sometimes there are trends that stay for the long term and eventually become the norm. While it's interesting to pay attention to short-term trends, it's more important to recognize when a lasting shift is happening in the industry. In the field of product management , there are trends that come and go.

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What Should Product Managers Tell Customers About Deliveries?

The Accidental Product Manager

With deliveries, sometimes later is better Image Credit: Javi The good news is that your customer has ordered your product. The bad news is that they don’t have it yet. It’s going to take some time for you to get it from where you store it to their location. This means that your customer is going to have to put up with a delivery delay. As a product manager, how should you go about dealing with this delay?

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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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Free eBook: Top-Down Customer Discovery – Uncovering THE BIG WHY

Product Management University

Why Discovery Practices in Product Management, Product Marketing, Sales & Customer Success Consistently Miss the Mark for Uncovering Strategic Customer Value, and the Easy Fix! In this book, you’ll learn the importance of top-down customer discovery, the definition of THE BIG WHY, and how both help you consistently uncover opportunities for quantifiable strategic value across the board.

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The Role of Customer Success Teams

The Product Coalition

Let’s talk about how CS teams drive value in logging customer feedback, product roadmapping, and closing the loop. Your Customer Success team is critical to an effective feedback management process. Building a customer feedback management system? Don’t forget to include your customer success team — they’re critical. Specifically, they can play three critical roles in your feedback management system: collecting feedback, supporting roadmapping, and closing the loop.

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SUNDAY REWIND: The psychology behind successful products by Nathalie Nahai

Mind the Product

This week’s Sunday Rewind is a #mtpcon San Francisco talk by author and web psychologist Nathalie Nahai called The psychology behind successful products. Read more » The post SUNDAY REWIND: The psychology behind successful products by Nathalie Nahai appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How Is a Product Roadmap Different From Other Types of Roadmaps?

Gocious Blog

In the world of product manufacturing, roadmaps are essential components in the development process. These tools offer a visual representation of a strategic plan which helps to align product teams to specific goals while creating transparency in the process. While the product roadmap is the tool that leads the product development process, it will differ from other roadmaps your company may be using for engineering, finances, or project management.

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Leading the Change: How Ellen Juhlin Introduced Discovery Habits at Orion Labs

Product Talk

For many product teams , continuous discovery is a brand-new way of working. It involves strengthening your understanding of business outcomes , fostering collaboration in product trios , and cultivating many other habits like conducting regular story-based interviews , mapping opportunities on the opportunity solution tree , and identifying and testing assumptions.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

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?

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Goal-Question-Metrics: A Holistic Alternative to Objectives and Key Results

The Product Coalition

Goal-Question-Metrics (GQMs): A Holistic Alternative to Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) GQM’s approach is to ask wide-ranging questions about a Goal. This makes it more holistic and complete than OKRs or at least, a way to select higher impact Key Results. GQM Use in Ancient Times On a recent product requirements document, I laid out measures of success using an old favorite: Goal-Question-Metric (GQM).

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Designing conversations in product- Daniel Stillman on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

What is it like to design regular conversations for a living, and how can doing this applies to the product management craft? Tune into our conversation with Daniel Stillman, Author of Good Talk – How To Design Conversations That Matter’ to find out. Featured Links: Follow Daniel on LinkedIn and Twitter | Daniel’s website | The Conversation Factory | Daniel’s book ‘Good Talk – How To Read more » The post Designing conversations in product-

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435: Hershey’s award-winning approach to innovation – with Charlie Chappell and Greg Coticchia

Product Innovation Educators

Learn from the 2022 winner of PDMA’s Outstanding Corporate Innovator award – for product managers For the last 36 years, each year the Outstanding Corporate Innovator award is provided by PDMA to an organization that excels in innovation. At the time of this recording, the last winner was Hershey, and I was at their award ceremony. There were boxes of Hershey chocolate treats for everyone.

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Get hands-on product analytics and Mixpanel training with Mammoth Growth

Mixpanel

Data has become the heartbeat of modern businesses. From e-commerce to finance, logistics to healthcare, data-driven decision-making is at the core of success. But with so many data sources, channels, and tools, how can you ensure that you’re making the right decisions? Enter product analytics—the art of collecting, analyzing, and leveraging data to optimize products, explore user behavior, and drive business growth.

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How To Select the Right Software for Innovation Management

Finding the right innovation management software is like picking a racing bike—it's essential to consider your unique needs rather than just flashy features. This oversight can stall your innovation efforts. Download now to explore key considerations for success!

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A Simple Framework for Identifying the Real User Problems

The Product Coalition

“If there is no problem, there is no solution, and no reason for a company to exist.

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What are the key fundamentals of product management?

Mind the Product

In this adapted chapter from his book The Product Manager's Guide: Strategy, Psychology and Leadership at Work, Daniel Chak, Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase & Co. discusses the fundamentals of product management for those aspiring to break into the product management craft, or those who need a refresher and are looking to go back to basics.

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Japanese Yurukyara: The Cute and Quirky Mascots Taking Over Japan

freshtrax

Japan has created some of the most beloved characters in entertainment, many of which have become internationally famous! Characters like Mario, Hello Kitty, and Pikachu are known for their cuteness and the franchises that they support; but they aren’t the only characters that you’ll find. If you’ve ever been to Japan, then you may have noticed that cute characters are almost everywhere you look.

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4 Major Questions on the Minds of UX Industry Leaders

dscout People Nerds

After two days of discussion, dscout’s VP of Research shares what surfaced for the builders and scalers of UX.

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How To Set Up Innovation So That It Aligns With And Enables Corporate Strategy

Speaker: Paul Heller

Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. As a result, the products that arrive in the market are not well aligned with the company’s goals. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots. In this session, we will discuss why innovation in large companies is so often not aligned with the company’s strategy and what innovation leaders, pro

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Those Customer Requests in Your Backlog

The Product Coalition

Your customers seem to want new features all the time. If they use your product, that’s a great signal — it means they care and they want to do more with it. But you end up with an endless list of features in your backlog. Here is a quick guide to managing them. Photo by Roman Kraft on Unsplash My daughter recently got for her birthday the Monopoly Cheaters Edition board game.

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Career clinic for product managers by John Cutler

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank Melbourne talk, John Cutler, Senior Director of Product Enablement at Toast, sits down to answer audience questions and give his advice on product career trajectories and some overall product career tips. Read more » The post Career clinic for product managers by John Cutler appeared first on Mind the Product.

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FinServ Roundtable

Split

Ariel Perez, VP of Engineering, and John Cappelletti, CFO at Split, sit down for a roundtable discussion on FinServ industry topics. Highlights include how to make investments during economic uncertainty, and getting CFO support at your organization, among other related topics. You can watch the whole roundtable discussion on-demand in the video below.

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UX Research Portfolios That Will Get You Hired: 20 Templates and Examples

UserInterviews

Yes, you need a portfolio for UX research. Here’s a list of UX research portfolio examples and templates to help you land your next gig.

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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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The Process Behind Building a Private Blockchain Network!

The Product Coalition

Blockchain technology has been a game-changer in the field of finance and business. It offers secure and transparent transactions without intermediaries, making it a popular choice for businesses looking to streamline their operations. While most people associate blockchain with public cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, there are also private blockchain networks that are used by businesses to improve efficiency and security.

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Rethinking the user experience with Tomer Sharon

Mind the Product

Tomer Sharon, Co-founder and Chief Experience Officer at anywell, has a wealth of experience in various User Experience (UX) functions. In a recent interview with us, he shared his journey into UX and what he will speak about at #mtpcon San Francisco 2023 on June 14. Read more » The post Rethinking the user experience with Tomer Sharon appeared first on Mind the Product.

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10 Biggest SaaS Challenges: How to Protect Your Business and Ensure Growth

Userpilot

While product growth may seem as simple as “attract customers to your Software-as-a-Service solution” there are countless SaaS challenges and customer issues that you’ll need to overcome along the way. This article will go over 10 different challenges across product, sales, and general business to help SaaS businesses identify (then overcome) these obstacles!

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Writing Secret 9A: Choose How You Write: Prototype or Draft

Johanna Rothman

When I published Writing Secret 9: Keep Your Writing Clean As You Write, the feedback surprised me. Many of my fellow nonfiction writers write a lot before they get internal feedback. That might be right for them. It's not right for me. I finally understood why I write differently. I think of each iteration as a prototype , not a draft. That means I need to assess the prototype as I proceed, until I'm ready to put the prototype out for larger review or publication.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Building an NFT Marketplace on Algorand!

The Product Coalition

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have taken the world by storm in the past year, with the total NFT market cap reaching over $3 trillion. NFTs have become a popular way to represent ownership and authenticity of digital assets such as art, music, and collectibles. The Algorand blockchain , with its high speed and low transaction fees, is an excellent platform for building an NFT marketplace.

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4 ways product managers can leverage ChatGPT to improve their product’s accessibility

Mind the Product

As a product manager, you may be looking for ways to improve your product's accessibility. However, it can be a challenging task to identify and address all accessibility requirements during the product development cycle. Here are some ways in which a product manager can use an AI like ChatGPT to improve accessibility in their product Read more » The post 4 ways product managers can leverage ChatGPT to improve their product’s accessibility appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Managers, Stop Distracting Your Employees

Nir Eyal

It’s no secret companies spy on their staff. The rise of remote work has made corporate leaders paranoid, thinking they must monitor their employees’ every digital move. When employees know their performance is being measured by the rules of productivity software, they become motivated to prioritize emails and messages over their core work. Discover better ways to tackle distractions at work.