Gocious Blog
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
It's no secret that developing products come with many challenges. Some of them are unpredictable, while others can be avoided with better planning and preparations. Issues often arise from internal factors, including miscommunication, information silos, and differing opinions. Some issues occur due to external factors, such as supply shortages or market demands.
Modus Create
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Innovation labs remain a popular way for large enterprises to accelerate digital transformation. Popular, but not always successful. The idea seems brilliant on the surface. Let the best creative minds dabble in the latest technologies, understand what works, and share insights with the mothership. So why do close to 90% of innovation labs fail? In the past few months, I have talked to several leaders with a proven record of groundbreaking digital initiatives.
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Product Management University
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Product management is one of the hottest careers in high-tech right now with tremendous career growth. If you’re considering a career in this industry, you’ll need to know exactly what will be expected of you as a product manager. Fortunately, we have all the insights you’ll need to succeed. In this post, we’ll look at the nuances of the product manager career path and how to stand out in your role so you can advance in your field.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
In the first part of his extensive guide, Product Manager, Evan Le, breaks down how to dive into product management. [.] Read more » The post How to get a job in product in 2023 appeared first on Mind the Product.
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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.
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 18, 2023
Running a successful product organization is hard. There are so many challenges, and everyone’s day-to-day is super hectic. It’s no wonder there are many tools that try to resolve this. But tools alone won’t fix anything and can do the opposite. Here’s why. Photo by Luis Villasmil on Unsplash As a proud member of the startup nation, startups are all around me.
Product Management Today brings together the best content for product management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Userpilot
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
User adoption is essential for B2B SaaS companies, as it helps customers to learn about your product, adopt features , stick around, and nurture product growth. But how does user adoption impact your business? And your role at a customer success team? In this post, we’ll clarify what user adoption is, explain the best practices, and share some tools you can leverage to make a bigger impact in your job.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
In this guest post, Shubhansha Agrawal, Head of Product at Yelp comprehensively breaks down the first 30/60/90 days of a product leader based on the lessons she has learned in her extensive career. [.] Read more » The post The first 90 day plan for new product leaders appeared first on Mind the Product.
Gainsight
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Customer success (CS) is a multifaceted discipline. It’s both art and science. It’s a balance of high-touch and digital-touch interactions. It’s about creating efficiency while also building deep relationships. At the heart of this juggling act is Customer Success Operations (CS Ops). While CS ops is often viewed as a role or even a team, in reality, long before it’s a headcount, it’s a responsibility that often lives on the to-do list of the CS team lead.
ProductPlan
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
As a product manager, one of the toughest challenges I and my fellow PMs face is prioritizing the right features amongst an ever-increasing influx of data from customer feedback, product analytics, and the never-ending list of stakeholder requests. The pressure doesn’t let up even after you decide on your product strategy and communicate your vision on your roadmaps.
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The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Product-market fit (PMF) is a tricky thing for startups. It’s that sweet spot where the needs of your target market perfectly align with what your product is offering, and if you’re a product manager at an early startup, it’s your job to help your product find that fit. A lot of startups think they have PMF and try to enter the growth phase prematurely — usually due in part due to VC pressure to grow or simply not having a way to measure and validate how strong your PMF is — which can be disastr
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
In this guest post, regular Mind the Product contributor and Product Leader, Alex Hughes, delves into the conversation of building better product teams, and why focusing on the system matters the most. Why aren’t product managers talking to more customers? Why aren’t we running more experiments? Why aren’t product managers thinking holistically about the end-to-end [.
svpg
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
We have some news to share. Those of you that read EMPOWERED might have noticed that there was another book in the SVPG series that has long been envisioned: TRANSFORMED. Originally, my partner Lea was going to write this book, but after a year of trying to manage all her SVPG client work as well as a young family, she. The post TRANSFORMED appeared first on Silicon Valley Product Group.
Johanna Rothman
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Twenty years ago today, I wrote my first blog post. I was nominally on vacation in Lake Tahoe, where my family was skiing. Since I'd stopped skiing by then, I used my vacations to write and read. And Esther Derby and I were writing some version of Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management. We had an appointment to talk. Esther said, “There's a new way to engage readers.
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.
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Do commercial metrics, like “monthly recurring revenue” matter to product managers, when product metrics, like “monthly active users” already paint a good picture? Measure what’s valuable, don’t just value what’s measurable. Pic by Flow Bohl The short answer is yes, as long as the PM role involves communicating with commercially oriented stakeholders like CEOs with an interest in financial growth, pretty much every CEO.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
We talk to some product leaders to find our how they manage prioritisation in their organisations and learn about their strategies for success All product people need to be able to work out their priorities. They need to know what to work on next and how they can bring everyone else along with them in [.] Read more » The post Prioritisation: Bringing order out of chaos appeared first on Mind the Product.
Strategyzer
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
A few weeks ago, Dana—the Chief Innovation Officer at a large multinational company contacted us. She was concerned her company was cutting costs across the board and her budget for 2023 had been reduced. We started working together in late 2022, designing the company’s innovation ecosystem and taking 10–12 innovation teams through our discovery and validation programs.
Product Innovation Educators
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
How to achieve product-market fit – for product managers 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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The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
With the shift to remote work, many people have chosen the lifestyle of a digital nomad: they constantly relocate to new countries and change time zones regularly. Previously we discussed how this helps employees find their work-life balance and avoid burnout. But not every manager can restructure and effectively organize the work of his digital nomad team.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
In this weeks' podcast episode, we speak with OKR expert Sten Pittet, to find out ways of how to get the most out of OKRs, and discuss where most product people go wrong. [.] Read more » The post Getting OKRs right — Sten Pittet on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.
UserInterviews
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Build your own integrated UX research operations tech stack with tools sourced from our 2022 Tools Map for more mature ReOps workflows.
Userpilot
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
If you’re wondering how to create a feedback loop in your product, you’re in the right place! In this article, we look at the process of creating feedback loops step-by-step and share some best practices for product managers to get the best out of user feedback. Let’s get right to it! TL;DR Feedback loops consist of actions that involve collecting feedback and acting on it to solve customer pain points and add value to the product.
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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.
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 19, 2023
In Product Management, user friction is not always a bad thing. Let’s learn about how you can use friction to help consumers recognize what’s important and increase their trust in your product or service. We often obsess over reducing friction for users. But have you considered introducing friction by design? In recent years, the product management community has placed a great deal of emphasis on reducing friction for users.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 19, 2023
This week’s Sunday Rewind is an #mtpcon London+EMEA session from John Cutler, now Senior Director of Product Enablement at restaurant technology vendor Toast, that explains how product managers can be strategic and think big while staying agile and small. John says that in most companies, the timelines for business strategy (1 to 3 years), making bets [.
UserInterviews
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
When and how to run remote unmoderated user tests like surveys, card sorts, A/B tests, and task analysis. Plus: The secret to easy unmoderated recruitment.
Gocious Blog
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
There are many resources that a product manager (PM) can use daily. A lot of the time PMs will struggle with complicated spreadsheets attempting to organize data, which is not only an added complication for PMs but also for teams as well as stakeholders. However, there are tools that can solve this problem.
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 Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Let’s explore the reasons teams engage customers and the challenges they are likely to face in doing so In the past, I have written a post on how to start engaging customers without going into reasons why that may be helpful. Engaging end users in the product development process has become a textbook truth, hailed as the surefire way to build solutions that solve real problems.
Userpilot
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Heap vs Pendo? If you've searched for this comparison, you're probably looking for a tool that will help you gain actionable insights to drive your product growth. Whether looking for an alternative to your existing tool or setting up product analytics at your organization, we're here to help. In this article, we look at each product's key features, use cases, strengths, and limitations.
Split
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
The usage of a single, common codebase by all developers on a team is emphasized by the software development method known as trunk-based development (TBD). Instead of building feature branches, developers use this method to commit changes straight to the trunk, often known as the main branch. With frequent integrations and codebase validations, this strategy ensures that the code is constantly in a usable state.
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