Andrew Chen
JULY 2, 2018
When a +10% isn’t really a +10%. OK, this is an infuriating startup experience: You ship an experiment that’s +10% in your conversion funnel. Then your revenue/installs/whatever goes up by +10% right? Wrong :(. Turns out usually it goes up a little bit, or maybe not at all. Why is that? Let’s call this the “ Conservation of Intent.” The difference between high- and low-intent users.
Mind the Product
JULY 6, 2018
Failing is an eventuality in software development. Not only do we fail, we are encouraged to fail iteratively. Let’s do it over and over again! And yet, the job of the product manager comes with a level of accountability and scrutiny that is unique. Product managers are asked to look after all facets of a product’s development, from conception to launch.
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The Product Coalition
JULY 3, 2018
How to tell your product’s tale A user story is, get this, a story about your user. These artifacts serve as an account of how your user should ultimately experience the product that you’ve determined you need to build. They are typically the artifact that product managers develop in their roles of asking for particular user experiences from their engineering teams.
Roman Pichler
JULY 3, 2018
Embrace a Growth Mindset. Learning something new requires the right mindset or attitude. If you believe that you lack talent or are not smart enough, then you make it hard—if not impossible—for yourself to acquire new knowledge, skills, and behaviours. For example, I never used to think myself as somebody who is good at writing, and I wasn’t particularly good at it at school.
Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage
When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m
The Product Guy
JULY 5, 2018
Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2017, Melissa Perri. Watch now and see why she is counted amongst the ranks of the best in product management. More to Come. The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group.
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Intercom, Inc.
JULY 2, 2018
Technology firms have a long and storied history with commercials. Just reading that sentence you’re probably already thinking about half-time Super Bowl commercials. Or annoying YouTube pre-rolls that leave you puzzled as to what the company actually does. In fact there’s a whole genre of tech company videos that are so clichéd – fast edits, shiny happy people, repeated lines of script, emotional cues and images of bakers (think about it) – it’s become easy to poke fun at them.
Product Innovation Educators
JULY 2, 2018
Don’t let your calendar get in the way of doing what’s important as a product manager. Experienced product managers benefit from what they learned from previous successes and failures. That experience is valuable. However, they can also pick up some bad habits along the way. Some bad habits may be from a lack of knowing better but others come from routine and a “this is how we do it”-sort of mentality that too often develops over time in many organizations.
The Product Guy
JULY 2, 2018
Being in product management can have its ups and downs. But when you really dig in there can be found the BEST. See what product expert, Jordan Bergtraum, has to say on this topic.
Mind the Product
JULY 5, 2018
The final keynote of this year’s MTP Engage came from Paul Adams, VP of product at Intercom. In the preparations leading up to the conference, Paul had warned me that he would challenge some common beliefs in the audience. We were excited, because we wanted to end the conference by giving our audience something to think about. Paul makes us aware that all the things we build are temporary – including the code for the Intercom messenger V3 which was deleted five days after Paul’s presentati
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Intercom, Inc.
JULY 6, 2018
If you’ve ever looked at your diary, notebook, sticky notes and email inbox in the middle of a busy sales period and thought, “This isn’t working,” you’re not alone. For years, I used to try to organize my thoughts and ideas without structure, missing sales opportunities and forecasts as a result. Then, I found the answer – the concept of a sales pipeline.
First Round Review
JULY 2, 2018
Engineering leader Marco Rogers (Lever, Yammer, Clover Health) debunks some of the most common recruiting tropes and walks through his four top interviewing practices for startups.
The Product Guy
JUNE 30, 2018
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Mind the Product
JULY 4, 2018
In this era of product management, I think we all agree that user research and feedback is important. We also know that sourcing users for this research can be difficult. So we often turn to proxy users in our research. Proxy users are people who are not actually your users, but are close enough that they know what your users would want… up to a point.
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Intercom, Inc.
JULY 4, 2018
One of the lures when I joined Intercom in 2014 was that it sold itself as a product-first company. We continue to repeat that mantra to ourselves today, and we say it to anyone who’ll listen. We thump our chests when we say that. It’s a badge of honor – a badge of legitimacy – a badge of a new, better way of building a company. But, there’s a hidden arrogance inside that product-first mindset, and traps that await those who adopt it.
First Round Review
JULY 3, 2018
Engineering leader Marco Rogers (Lever, Yammer, Clover Health) debunks some of the most common recruiting tropes and walks through his four top interviewing practices for startups.
The Product Coalition
JULY 2, 2018
What problems arise in agile teams and how to measure them? Product Agility As our product scales, team size grows and we adopt more processes and infrastructures, the complexities to which they adhere to become immense. Sometimes processes malfunction, team is devoid of motivation or lacks the necessary impetus to deliver the best version of the product.
Mind the Product
JULY 3, 2018
As product managers, we often talk in data points. For instance, we have X number of monthly active users, we want to grow subscriptions by X amount, this feature is expected to increase logins by X. However, when we start listing out data points, our listeners’ eyes begin to glaze over. As humans, we’re not built to take in and process data points, we’re built to understand the world around us through story.
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Intercom, Inc.
JULY 4, 2018
One of the lures when I joined Intercom in 2014 was that it sold itself as a product-first company. We continue to repeat that mantra to ourselves today, and we say it to anyone who’ll listen. We thump our chests when we say that. It’s a badge of honor – a badge of legitimacy – a badge of a new, better way of building a company. But, there’s a hidden arrogance inside that product-first mindset, and traps that await those who adopt it.
UX Studio
JULY 4, 2018
Disruptive technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality radically change how we behave and interact with our world. As a consequence, they open up interesting new territories in UX research, too. VR in UX research can serve as an individual tool to explore user needs and test complex user experiences. We collected some best practices for those looking to learn more about or just getting started with VR user testing.
BrainMates
JULY 3, 2018
According to The Product Management Body of Knowledge, Product Management is: “A discipline that provides managerial focus to products that in turn will generate measurable business benefits.”. Product Managers are often described as “the CEO of the product”. Marty Cagan says the role of the Product Manager is “to discover a product that is valuable, usable and feasible”.
Pragmatic Marketing
JULY 5, 2018
A question from a reader: Good morning Mark. The podcasts are excellent, as always. But I have noticed there may be one point you have not covered: “Why should sales not be in charge of pricing?” Thank you for the question. I can think of two reasons why sales should not be in charge of pricing. Their incentives are wrong. Most salespeople get a commission as a percentage of revenue.
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Intercom, Inc.
JULY 6, 2018
If you’ve ever looked at your diary, notebook, sticky notes and email inbox in the middle of a busy sales period and thought, “This isn’t working,” you’re not alone. For years, I used to try to organize my thoughts and ideas without structure, missing sales opportunities and forecasts as a result. Then, I found the answer – the concept of a sales pipeline.
Miro
JULY 4, 2018
5 recent U.S. studies that shape the future of managing remote teams Here at RealtimeBoard, we are creating a visual collaboration tool that helps leading organizations from all over the world (including Fortune 500 companies) create innovative products. We are always curious to hear their stories on how they manage remote or collocated teams and […].
DISQO
JULY 5, 2018
Incumbents across every industry have been put on notice: technology upstarts are taking over the Fortune 500 list at an accelerating pace. No one wants to be the next Blockbuster. But the ability to avoid that fate won’t come from open workspaces, a relaxed dress code, and a bring-your-own-device policy. It requires organizations, from analyst to executive, to internalize the fast-paced world we live in and to adopt modern workflows that enable them to compete.
Pragmatic Marketing
JULY 5, 2018
A question from a reader: Good morning Mark. The podcasts are excellent, as always. But I have noticed there may be one point you have not covered: “Why should sales not be in charge of pricing?” Thank you for the question. I can think of two reasons why sales should not be in charge of pricing. Their incentives are wrong. Most salespeople get a commission as a percentage of revenue.
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As your company grows and your product matures, so too should your product strategy. Drawing from their decades of experience as product leaders, Stanford Online instructors Donna Novitsky and Laura Marino share best practices for defining your product strategy at each stage of company growth. Get practical, real-world product strategy tips from experts who have lived through the same challenges you’re currently facing.
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 2, 2018
Technology firms have a long and storied history with commercials. Just reading that sentence you’re probably already thinking about half-time Super Bowl commercials. Or annoying YouTube pre-rolls that leave you puzzled as to what the company actually does. In fact there’s a whole genre of tech company videos that are so clichéd – fast edits, shiny happy people, repeated lines of script, emotional cues and images of bakers (think about it) – it’s become easy to poke fun at them.
The Product Coalition
JULY 5, 2018
Put your learn mode in overdrive and boost creativity by asking *stupid* questions Unsplash What do product managers want to ask at engineering meetings but are too afraid to for fear of looking stupid? Are you new in your PM position? You might wonder how you’re going to handle the meetings with engineering without showing your lack of technical understanding and losing “cred” with the engineers.
CardBoard
JULY 2, 2018
You asked, we listened. The new, widely requested “Free Text” tool takes versatility in story mapping to a whole new level. It has universal functionality and is a handy tool for your building process. Let’s take a look at just a few of the ways free text can make your story maps your own. Customization. To create free text, drag the “Free Text” icon onto any area of your board.
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