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How I Survived the Lifestyle of a Product Manager as an Introvert

The Product Coalition

“I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.” — Laurie Helgoe When I first started working as a Product Manager, the number of meetings on my calendar jumped from a few to a few hundred. That’s not factually true, but that’s how it felt like. Bing’s AI helped to create this illustration of me Before product, I was a designer or an engineer, so most of the work happened in a collaboration between me and my computer.

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11 Easy Ways to Gather Customer Feedback 

Centercode

Discover 10 effective ways to gather customer feedback and improve your products and services with this comprehensive guide.

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How to Know the Difference Between a Product Feature & Customer Need

Gocious Blog

Products are built with a multitude of different components and features. When we think about the selling factors of a laptop, the experts look at the specs, such as the operating system, screen size, weight, memory, screen resolution, processor type, touchscreen capability, and battery life. But what about the average customer? Their concerns are more focused on questions about how they benefit from the product.

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Mastering & Understanding the ROI of Customer Feedback & CX

Usersnap

Let’s start with a quick equation: ? Customer Feedback ROI = 100 x (Benefits – Investments) / Investments In a recent study (which matches our experience), many CX leaders find it hard to quantify the impact ?, or the ROI of customer feedback and customer experience (CX) on business outcomes and metrics. But in a successful business, it’s imperative that the benefits of initiatives are not only defined in a qualitative way, but also in quantitative, measurable numbers.

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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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Use Body Language to Strengthen Your UXR Interviews

dscout People Nerds

What is often a subconscious act can have unexpected implications on your research. Here’s how to use body language to everyone’s advantage.

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3 tips to ensure a flexible product roadmap

Mind the Product

In product management, a roadmap is the source of truth, the shared prioritisation tool of a product team. Here are 3 tips that will help you build a roadmap that's set up to conquer the unknown. Read more » The post 3 tips to ensure a flexible product roadmap appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Product in Practice: Getting Engineers Involved in Brainstorming

Product Talk

Getting a group together to generate ideas—an activity often referred to as “ brainstorming ”—doesn’t always go smoothly. Getting a group together to generate ideas—an activity often referred to as “brainstorming”—doesn’t always go smoothly. – Tweet This In the past, Teresa has written about the major reasons why traditional brainstorming doesn’t work : social loafing (people tend not to work as hard in a group setting), conformity (people are afraid to stand out with ideas that are too distinct

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Stellar Product Strategies for Early-stage Startups

The Product Coalition

I’m not a big fan of the word “product strategy”. Especially if it means filling slides with hypothetical futures. But not having one means shipping with no purpose. Building a Frankenstein product. Wasting precious resources. Here are 4 steps any startups can follow to create a great product strategy: 1. Open the game 2. Be different 3. Start with tactics 4.

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The Product Advantage | Episode 01

BrainMates

The Product Advantage | Episode 01 By ADRIENNE TAN Catch the first episode of The Product Advantage hosted by Adrienne Tan and featuring Sam Askin, Chief Executive Officer at OneStop. In this series, Adrienne talks with business executives about their experiences implementing good product management practices, how they’ve transformed their organisations, and how they drive growth to provide a competitive advantage.

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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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The 9 ugliest truths about NPS in B2B

Mind the Product

NPS is a widely used measure of customer satisfaction. But the simplicity of the survey that made it gain popularity has its pitfalls, especially in B2B products. Read more » The post The 9 ugliest truths about NPS in B2B appeared first on Mind the Product.

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CUSTOMER SUCCESS: MAKING THE SHIFT FROM TACTICAL TO STRATEGIC IN 3 STEPS!

Product Management University

Leading Strategically vs. Reacting Tactically There’s a good reason your title changed from account manager to customer success manager. You’re no longer just the tactical laundry list manager. In this training seminar, you’ll learn how to lead your customers strategically to where they ultimately want to go with your products, quantify their success and continue delivering value with additional products and services.

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Scrum: A Simple Guide to Agile Product Development

The Product Coalition

Product Management Technology If you’re unfamiliar with software development, you may not have heard of Scrum. Scrum is an Agile methodology that can help teams work together more efficiently to develop products. Here’s how it works: Image Credits Scrum.org The Basics of Scrum Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products. The framework consists of Scrum teams, roles, events, artifacts, and rules.

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Update regarding the Feedly Twitter Integration

Roy Madden

Twitter has discontinued the API we use to let Feedly Pro+ customers follow tweets in Feedly. As a result, we are sad to announce we have to retire the current Twitter integration. We know this isn’t ideal, and we are exploring different ways to help the community connect to their favorite creators and sources of information. Pro+ users can already follow Newsletters and use our RSS Builder , and some of the content you were following on Twitter may be accessible in this way.

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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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Your first 90 days in product – Leah Tharin on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

If you’re starting a new role in product at whatever level, it can sometimes be difficult to get started, especially if you’re chucked in the deep end. In this week’s podcast episode, we speak with Leah Tharin. She provides some insights on your first 90 days in a new product role and the best ways Read more » The post Your first 90 days in product – Leah Tharin on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.

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ROI for innovation

Strategyzer

Here is a classic scene I have observed in many companies: Leslie, an innovation team lead, is pitching a project to the executive board. As required, he presents the business case for investing in the new offering and five-year projections for revenue growth and profits.

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Product Management Humility

The Product Coalition

Product managers have to put everyone else before themselves.

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430: How changes in marketing are influencing products – with Ali Plonchak 

Product Innovation Educators

How product and marketing teams can work together Today we are talking about the interdependence of product and marketing and how marketing trends have changed. To help us, Ali Plonchak is with us. Ali is the COO of Crossmedia. Since 2006 at Crossmedia, she has helped clients navigate the changing marketing landscape. As the company’s first female partner, she proudly leads the agency to deliver on its mission of trust, reason, and happiness every day.

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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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Hiring product managers by Kate Leto

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank Edinburgh talk, independent product consultant and organisation design consultant Kate Leto talks about how to approach hiring in a different way. Watch the video in full, or read here for an overview of her key points: Working towards a balanced product practice by focusing on human skills, as well as technical. 3 Read more » The post Hiring product managers by Kate Leto appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Just Released: ISO 27001 Certificate

Gocious Blog

As a provider of product roadmap management (PRM) software, we at Gocious are proud to announce that we have obtained the ISO 27001 certification. This is a significant milestone for us, as it demonstrates our commitment to protecting our customers' data.

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Are You a New Hire? Here Are Three Things You Can Do To Get Started!

The Product Coalition

Are you a new hire? Here are three realistic things you can do for your team as their new product manager.

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3 Ways to Build Scalable Product Roadmapping Processes and Grow Your Impact

ProductBoard

A product roadmap is only as valuable as it is realistic. It sets the course for an entire organization, defining the success of the business and impacting every team. Too often, roadmaps fail to align all functions around the product vision; they lack clear details around customer needs, and aren’t fully centered on the business strategy. Productboard’s new Product Roadmap Playbook outlines.

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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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SUNDAY REWIND: The next 10 years in product management

Mind the Product

This week’s Sunday Rewind takes us back to a panel discussion from last year’s #mtpcon London that looks forward to the next 10 years in product management. What will be the single biggest change? The panellists, Marc Abraham, Digital Product Lead at Informa Tech, Lindsey Jayne, Chief Product Officer at the Financial Times, Matt LeMay, Read more » The post SUNDAY REWIND: The next 10 years in product management appeared first on Mind the Product.

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An Update on the Amplitude Team

Amplitude

Amplitude CEO Spenser Skates shares the message he and his cofounders communicated announcing a global workforce reduction on April 5, 2023.

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Stakeholder Communication Strategy: Part 3 of 4 Steps of Stakeholder Engagement

The Product Coalition

Effective Stakeholder Engagement is key to the success of the product and one of the essential skills all product people should have.

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Translating Product to Engineering

The Product Guy

Learn the language of engineering and you will be on your path to success. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Meghan Nesta.

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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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Dealing with HiPPOs and big dogs in product

Mind the Product

We catch up with Randeep Sidhu, former Head of Product for the NHS Covid 19 app, to find out what he’s doing now and how he succeeds in companies that have little to no knowledge of product management. If you came to #mtpcon London a couple of years ago you’ll remember Randeep Sidhu: his keynote about Read more » The post Dealing with HiPPOs and big dogs in product appeared first on Mind the Product.

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eG Innovations showcases a complete solution for Observability at HIMSS

eG Innovations

We are excited to announce that eG Innovations will be a featured partner in the Citrix Ready Partner Pavilion – booth #674 – at HIMSS 2023 from April 17-21, Chicago, the healthcare industry’s information and technology event of the year. We will be demonstrating the ways monitoring and observability can enhance the productivity, performance and cost-effectiveness of your healthcare infrastructure and applications.

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Finding Your Sweet Spot When Managing Product Managers

The Product Coalition

A good manager balances being involved in the details and giving their people more freedom. This is often easier said than done though. As a product leader, is this a skill you already master? Image by Wooden Earth Ltd E. was the first product manager I ever hired. A brilliant guy, with many years of tech leadership experience, but none in product management.