Mind the Product
OCTOBER 21, 2022
In this ProductTank Heidelberg, Jenny Herald, VP of Product Evangelism at Gtmhub shares her experiences with working with OKRs and explains the groundwork required to get started with these metrics. [.] Read more » The post The good, bad, and ugly of OKRs by Jenny Herald appeared first on Mind the Product.
ProductBoard
OCTOBER 18, 2022
While you can never completely cut the risks of uncertainty out of life, you can prepare for them and embrace the opportunity they provide. That was the premise of our 2022 Product Excellence Summit (now available on demand) and we wanted to be sure to share the best strategies for doing so with you, whether you were able to attend in-person, virtually, or only in spirit.
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The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Product Managers uniformly seem to be burning out. I believe there’s another way. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Start or end your product work day with these memes! Continue reading on Product Coalition ».
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.
UserInterviews
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Every taco should be enjoyed but tide pods are hard to ignore. Roberta is back to discuss the good (and not-so-good) aspects of UX research.
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ProductBoard
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Roadmaps can be full of unintended pitfalls, like overly ambitious timelines or too many unnecessary features that don’t actually solve the needs of your customers. How do you stay the course to build features your customers actually want, instead of getting pulled down another dusty side road someone in the C-Suite swears is a shortcut? We put together insights from several product management.
Product Talk
OCTOBER 19, 2022
What do your customers care about? This seems like a simple enough question, but many product teams struggle to answer it honestly. Often the first instinct is to frame an answer in terms of what your business cares about. But remember: Your customers don’t care about your business outcomes. They care about having their own problems solved or having an enjoyable experience when they use your product.
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 16, 2022
At the dawn of the computer age, PCs did not have a graphical user interface. Only employees of scientific institutions could work with them. With the help of special commands, they accessed an operating system through a console. In the 1970s, Xerox PARC managed to make technology clear for people by developing a GUI. The era of personal computers began.
Product Management Today Submitted Articles
OCTOBER 17, 2022
If you are building something without data, then you are not building a product. You are simply building your opinion. And to continue building it without data is the biggest crime in product management. You only end up consuming a lot of resources and might never reach the desired outcome.
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Mind the Product
OCTOBER 18, 2022
This week on the podcast experience, we're talking all about churn. How do you reduce customer churn. What are the biggest obstacles? What are the biggest challenges? And are there any misconceptions behind the perfect churn strategy? Churn expert, Andrew Michael, CEO of Avrio, was able to answer all of our questions with ease and more. [.] Read more » The post Reducing customer churn – Andrew Michael on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.
Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 19, 2022
At Intercom, we believe trust is at the core of every relationship between a business and its customers. As businesses grow and scale, they need to continue to earn and build on that trust in every way they can – but with rapidly expanding tech stacks, it’s not just their own company policies they need to monitor, it’s those of every company they partner with.
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Gone are the times when the sketch on a napkin from your lunch was enough to secure your company Series A funding. In the current economy… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».
Mironov Consulting
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Product management doesn’t run Engineering; Engineering runs Engineering. And at least in public, Engineering and Product leadership need to be shoulder-to-shoulder , actively supporting each other at every turn. But there are some engineering team configurations that I see as problematic. So behind closed doors and where it won’t create political/organizational issues, I lobby my engineering counterparts away from: Dedicated bug-fixing teams (usually proposed by Engineering)
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
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 18, 2022
In the opening keynote session at #mtpcon London 2022, corporate innovation expert and award-winning author Tendayi Viki discusses the importance of placing product people at the heart of business model design, in order to innovate and achieve aligned outcomes. [.] Read more » The post Is your innovation project on track? by Tendayi Viki appeared first on Mind the Product.
AB Tasty
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Even though hypothesis tests are meant to be reliable, there are two types of errors that can occur. These errors are known as type 1 and type 2 errors. Learn more.
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 19, 2022
The article here focusses on business criterion to use to better evaluate if a predictive model is ready for production and the associated risk when the predictions are wrong. A simple / practical framework is used to do this evaluation with three examples. Optimized for better outcomes Today, businesses regularly use predictive analytics to optimize their business and achieve better business outcomes.
Product Innovation Educators
OCTOBER 17, 2022
What product managers need to know about the Product Development and Management Association. The Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) has been curating the body of knowledge for product managers, leaders, and innovators and helping them improve since 1976—the longest-running product management professional group. Most of us haven’t known about product management for more than 10 or 20 years, yet PDMA has been improving the discipline of product management for nearly five d
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.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 16, 2022
In this 2015 post, Jason Burke, then VP of Product at a Boston-based start-up called clypd, offers some advice on how product managers can prioritise when they’re faced with endless lists of work to be done. You can’t do it all, says Jason, and there’s the problem. Included on the lists are features that someone [.] Read more » The post SUNDAY REWIND: Just Say No – Hard Decisions in Product Management appeared first on Mind the Product.
The Product Guy
OCTOBER 16, 2022
It is never too soon to start your career in product management. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Mihaela Draghici.
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 18, 2022
The power of scheduling, email introductions and meeting notes Generated by author via Stable Diffusion AI using NightCafe website Product Managers like myself can have big egos. Prioritizing others’ work, crafting a roadmap, ‘managing customers’, ‘leading by influence’, and storytelling- all this can get to their heads, and make them think they’re important.
UserInterviews
OCTOBER 17, 2022
What to pay research participants, according to data from nearly 20,000 moderated and unmoderated research projects.
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Mind the Product
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Sankalpa Sarkar is a Product Lead at Walmart — he has spent over 8 years in the product management profession. Here’s how he got his job in product. [.] Read more » The post How I got my job in product – Sankalpa Sarkar, Product Lead, Walmart appeared first on Mind the Product.
Johanna Rothman
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Do you know what to say when it's time to lay people off? The first time I had to lay someone off, I had no idea what to say. However, if you have a reasonable context, you (or HR and you) can create a script you can use to make a layoff a respectful and relatively kind experience. With a congruent conversation, you might even be able to maintain a healthy collegial relationship with the person you have to lay off.
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 16, 2022
The Product Go-to-Market canvas (aka “Product GTM canvas”) is designed to help facilitate your thinking when taking new products or ideas… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».
Modus Create
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Welcome to Conversations with Chief Innovators, in which our CEO Pat Sheridan discusses innovation in business with transformational leaders across industries. In the second episode, we bring you Tom Klaff, CEO of Revolution Cooking. Watch the full episode here. $70 billion. That’s the market value of a 10,000-year-old industry — small kitchen appliances.
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.
ProductPlan
OCTOBER 20, 2022
As your IT Department changes, the nature of your department’s role may transition to a strategic partner. You will find several product management techniques useful during this transformation, such as roadmapping. Once considered the domain of product managers, roadmaps are useful in various contexts. You can use a roadmap to effectively communicate and collaborate with your business partners at the beginning and throughout an IT initiative.
Userpilot
OCTOBER 15, 2022
Customer feedback collection is the lifeblood of any successful SaaS company. Understanding how users feel about your brand , finding areas for improvement, and implementing the necessary changes to meet customer expectations are what give you a competitive advantage. Let’s explore some customer feedback collection methods and best practices for scaling up your efforts.
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 15, 2022
Storyboards on Unsplash by dix sept Storyboards are collections of cells that comprise an image showing us a story. These storyboards are most common in media & film production but now it’s our time to implement Storyboards in our daily life as PMs. Creating Storyboards will make product developers think step-by-step, and we won’t be able to skip some steps?
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