First Round Review
OCTOBER 22, 2019
Product builders should aim for lovable, not just viable. Jiaona Zhang (product leader at Dropbox, Airbnb, WeWork and lecturer at Stanford) shares her tactics for building MLPs that win users' hearts.
ProductPlan
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Product management is one of the least-defined roles in the professional world. But you can identify many of the skills and habits you’ll need to be effective in this career by learning from other successful product managers (PM). We’ve compiled some of the best advice we’ve heard from PMs about what are habits of highly effective product manager. 1.
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ProductCraft
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Churn is not the most appealing topic to write about, but it’s a reality that those of us in product must face. “Churn” is both an important and depressing metric to track. No product manager likes to hear that a customer has decided to move to a competitor. It stirs up feelings of failure because. Read more » The post Why Product Should Care About Customer Churn appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.
Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 22, 2019
Good onboarding isn’t just about introducing new signups to your product’s features – it’s a continual process of guiding people towards success with your product. That long-term focus on ensuring people find success with your product should lead to higher customer retention, which is the foundation on which thriving businesses are built. As our Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Des puts it, “ customer retention is the new conversion. ”. “It’s important to have a solid strategy in plac
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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.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Product managers can make better decisions if they’ve built transparency and trust with their team. How these decisions are made is also important, and it requires a clear and collaborative process. Here’s a straightforward framework for collaborative decision making that is founded in transparency and trust. Product Decisions. Product decisions are either tactical or strategic.
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Userpilot
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Product engagement is a key factor when it comes to a successful SaaS product. Without engagement, you’ll find it really hard to retain your users, and upsell them onto more premium price plans. In this article, we’re going to teach you everything you need to know about product engagement. You’ll learn: What product engagement actually is. What a product engagement manager does.
UserInterviews
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Researching with your own users takes special considerations
ProductCraft
OCTOBER 21, 2019
All product teams want to be successful. They want to drive feature adoption, delight their users, and properly structure their roadmap. However, doing all of these things both consistently and well is a real challenge. As any product manager can tell you, PMs are constantly strapped for time and are usually juggling multiple priorities. Unfortunately, Read more » The post How Product Teams Can Make Success a Habit appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 25, 2019
In this keynote from #mtpcon London, Henrik Kniberg , an organisational consultant and developer at Crisp in Stockholm, discusses how creating great products requires us to reduce the gap between makers and users. Key points: If we want to create products people love (like Lego , Minecraft and Spotify ) we must reduce the gap between makers and users.
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Alchemer Mobile
OCTOBER 22, 2019
What makes an effective UI design? A skillful designer, the right combination of design elements, or the tool used to create it? Well, the right answer is a combination of all of the above. On one hand, a skillful designer can indeed turn your concept into a sleek and stylish UI design if they have the right information about your app. On the other hand, nobody knows your idea better than you, and the best way to share it for future professional design and development is to visualize it.
Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 22, 2019
If you are new to sales management, it can be hard to know what concrete steps you can take to improve your skills, be recognized, and eventually, rise to a senior leadership role. Sales managers looking to stand out among their peers would do well to focus on four things: prioritizing work that will move the needle, making sure the right people are on their team, thinking about initiatives that will improve the business (not just themselves and their reps), and developing a solid decision-makin
First Round Review
OCTOBER 22, 2019
Product builders should aim for lovable, not just viable. Jiaona Zhang (product leader at Dropbox, Airbnb, WeWork and lecturer at Stanford) shares her tactics for building MLPs that win users' hearts.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 21, 2019
A strong product strategy is often neglected because of the absence of any strategic thinking in product teams. What can product managers do to make sure they give their product strategy the attention it warrants? Tanya shares her ideas for nurturing a strong product strategy from this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum. It’s about 20 years since Ben Horowitz wrote his now-famous piece “Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager”.
Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System
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The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 23, 2019
October 23, 2019: It’s my birthday today and as I sit here feeling incredibly grateful for the life I have right now, it compels me to share a few hacks/ resources that helped me get where I am. There are so many great product leaders doing tons of great work that’s available for free ( will list them later in the article ), it’s amazing how much good content is available out there.
Product Management University
OCTOBER 22, 2019
Buyer perceptions are a dangerous thing. I remember it all too well from my quota-carrying sales days. There were competitive products that solved the same exact problems, and then there were competitive products that didn’t even come close, but their marketing or sales teams did something to convince buyers otherwise. In either case, using technical explanations to convince buyers that our solution was superior or that a competitor was seriously deficient was like splitting hairs.
ProductCraft
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Product has always encompassed more than just design and engineering. It touches everything in an organization, including sales and customer success (even though we don’t hear as much about the last two). Duncan McCreery of MemberClicks has experience in more customer-facing roles. Today, he’s the company’s chief experience officer. Before that, he was their chief.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 22, 2019
With over 20 years of experience in industries ranging from manufacturing to aerospace, to energy, and more, Daniel Elizalde has seen it all. Currently VP, Head of IoT at Ericsson North America and also an IoT instructor at Stanford University, Daniel talks to Randy and Lily about how to gain the skills needed to confidently and efficiently manage any IoT product.
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The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 22, 2019
Product management is a very broad role?—?you’ll have to speak with customers, lead developers, manage stakeholders, build reports and even be Sometimes I question myself and ask if I’m doing a good job or what am I suppose to do right now. This bothered me a lot and gave me a lot of imposter syndrome. However, I realised that it’s not the fact that I don’t have the skills, it’s the fact that I don’t know what type of product management is required during each stage of the company.
ProductBoard
OCTOBER 21, 2019
John Cutler didn’t start off his career as the product management thinker that he is today. In fact, his transition into the field has been anything but linear. “I spent my 20s playing music in bands and touring around the country.” When not on the road, John was busy adding a laundry list of odd jobs to his resume. At one point, he even created a bartending video game.
Revulytics
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Jason traveled to Paris and spoke with Borja Suarez, a lawyer specializing in intellectual property law working in international environments at Law 21 in Madrid. Borja talks about the different methods of engagement when doing software license compliance work in South America and some of the common themes and approaches. He tells Jason about the importance of finding a solution that works for both sides and shares a great story from Ecuador.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 25, 2019
Kicking off #mtpcon London 2019, Martin Eriksson reflects on how much the product community has grown and why we build better products together. Here’s a quick recap of his opening speech. ProductTank started nearly 10 years ago because product can be a little bit lonely. Martin wanted to meet other people to work out how to navigate this challenging job, and so it began – with 25 people in the back room of a bar in London.
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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
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Originally published on Mind the Product. You just finished your dinner and are ready to head home. You see plenty of Uber drivers around, but the ride-sharing app matches you with a car that’s a whole 10 minutes away. This just can’t make any sense?! In reality, matchmaking is one of the core levers of any marketplace business, and data crunched by product teams at Uber, Airbnb and other established marketplaces has revealed that engineering an optimal marketplace can sometimes defy common sens
Modus Create
OCTOBER 22, 2019
Operating systems and browsers have been learning new accessibility tricks capable of improving our screen-dependant lives. One of the most popular features, dark mode, helps our eyes adapt to low-light environments. Switching between dark to light modes is an incredibly useful feature for airplane pilots, commuters, and other road warriors. While the aesthetics are beautiful, the ability to adapt to ambient lighting can also be mission-critical.
Business of Software Conference
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Join us on Thursday 14th November for a live online Q&A with Rich Mironov on Product Roadmaps & Prioritization. The roadmapping process is almost always broken. Roadmaps are met with frustration and boredom in equal measure. That’s Rich Mironov’s experience of working with Silicon Valley software companies for 35+ years. Different voices in the company want different things.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 22, 2019
If your product managers are performing well, but not as a team, it’s a problem—a problem you need to solve fast. Here I’ll explain a few methods, tried and tested at Skyscanner , that could also help you to improve your product management culture and community. When this issue surfaced at Skyscanner, we were a bunch of individuals in a large company, in what can already feel like an isolated role.
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
OCTOBER 23, 2019
(Including a 4-week crash course for the technical round of a Product Management interview) Product Managers are responsible for what is being built (and when/wh y), and not directly responsible for how it is built. Most product companies have aligned to the view that Product Managers do not necessarily need to have coding experience to perform well in a Product Management role, but they do need to have ‘Technical Fluency’?
ProductCraft
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Decades and even centuries ago, what did it mean to build something? Consider bridges, buildings, monuments or works of art. How did the people responsible for such undertakings go about scoping their work? It almost goes without saying that they had to identify every single detail of the scope upfront. One mistake could bring the. Read more » The post Focus on Value, Not Scope appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.
TryMyUI
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Is UX ethical? Is there such a thing as UX ethics? In this Kafka and Kant inspired post, we consider the ethics, morality, truth, and necessity of the UX industry. The post Your worst UX nightmare… notions of ethics in an unethical(?) industry appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.
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