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Product Discovery or Product Delivery: How do you Decide?

Mind the Product

What’s the fundamental difference between product discovery and delivery or execution? The degree of uncertainty. The degree of uncertainty should determine whether you need to run product discovery or whether you can begin to deliver a solution to your customer. Why is it Important to Know the Degree of Uncertainty Upfront? Let’s walk through three hypothetical scenarios.

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How great product teams use Story Time to do better work

The Product Coalition

The User Story is the unit of currency in the exchange of ideas between product managers and engineers. Product Managers write the things… Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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Product Accessibility Shouldn’t Be an Afterthought

ProductPlan

I recently attended a presentation by Benjamin Evans, Inclusive Design Lead at Airbnb, on product accessibility and his experience with designing for inclusion. It really got me thinking about how we build products in tech and the inherent biases in product management. In an environment that prizes “minimum viability” and “failing fast” there’s seldom much of an appetite for slowing down the parade of new features and functionality to prioritize product accessibility.

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Tips for Growing a Product Management Team

Roman Pichler

Organise Around Products. In order to grow your product management team, start by reviewing your product portfolio. Determine which assets are actual products —value creating vehicles that offer a tangible benefit or address a real problem for a group of people, while at the same time deliver specific business benefits, such as generating revenue directly or indirectly, reducing cost, or increasing brand equity.

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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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Using the Product Canvas to Define Your Product: Getting Started

bpma ProductHub

By Ellen Gottesdiener – I usually find a diversity of opinion when I ask anyone within an organization what their products are. This is true for product companies whose primary source of revenue is their product and for companies who use products internally to run their business.

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“Software eating the world” creates a growing need to educate product managers.

Product Management Unpacked

Digital transformation impacts almost everything, so the demand for product management continues to increase – every day. When I started in product management in the mid-1980s, most product managers were hired to work in traditional B2C businesses, which is where the idea of product management originated. Modern product management started in 1931 with a memo written by Neil H.

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Tips for Growing a Product Management Team

Roman Pichler

Organise Around Products. In order to grow your product management team, start by reviewing your product portfolio. Determine which assets are actual products —value creating vehicles that offer a tangible benefit or address a real problem for a group of people, while at the same time deliver specific business benefits, such as generating revenue directly or indirectly, reducing cost, or increasing brand equity.

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Product and Pricing Strategies to Realize Customer Value

bpma ProductHub

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Hook trial users from their first use

Intercom, Inc.

In 1898, American sales pioneer E. St. Elmo Lewis created the AIDA model to describe how customers buy. The AIDA model described four cognitive phases that buyers follow when accepting a new idea or purchasing a new product: A problem comes to the customer’s attention. This creates interest in the benefits of a product or service. The customer decides to buy the product.

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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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Lessons From the Space Race: 3 Steps to Better Product Decisions

Mind the Product

What makes a great product decision? The answer to this question is like the Holy Grail of product management: it promises success and prosperity but no clear evidence that it exists. In this post I examine the way I think about the path: what has worked for me and helped me grow as a product manager and decision maker. Let’s go back 50 years. The US is actively involved in the Space Race with the Soviet Union, and NASA starts an ambitious project: developing a spacecraft to land on the Moon.

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The Product Guy Meets Pop Culture

The Product Guy

Recently I found myself on the Product Management Meets Pop Culture podcast. Check it out: Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 19:31. Show Notes For This Episode. Episode Sponsor: Audible. Linked In: Jeremy Horn. Twitter: @theproductguy. The Product Guy Blog. Tafifi, The Living Roadmap. “ Accelerando ” by Charles Stross.

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3 Compelling Concepts from Basecamp's Shape Up

Sachin Rekhi

I always love reading each new book the Basecamp team publishes as they are inevitably chock-full of unique perspectives that preach an approach to working better that goes against conventional wisdom and established best practices. I don't always agree with every practice they preach, but I absolutely love reflecting upon diverging opinions that challenge my own assumptions.

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HubSpot’s Michael Redbord on staying in touch with your customers as you scale

Intercom, Inc.

In a company’s early days as a lean, mean, business machine, it’s fairly easy for leadership to stay in sync with their users. You might say it’s one of the strongest advantages a startup has. But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers.

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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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When you Look but Don’t see: Agile as Performance

Mind the Product

While I’ve driven all of my adult life in the US, I’ve not had a UK driver’s license for the five or so years I’ve lived here. This year I decided to change all that and enrolled on an intensive driving course so I could knock it out in two weeks. Sadly after a couple of lessons, it was clear that something wasn’t clicking. I was making a lot of failing-level mistakes.

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Important Arc of Product Process

The Product Guy

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2018, Brian Crofts. Watch now and see why he 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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How insurance companies can improve their online user experience

Userzoom

With more people heading online for insurance quotes, this is a sector in which UX has become vital to remain competitive. Insurance companies are spending a lot to attract customers to their websites. Indeed, insurance and related terms are frequently some of the most expensive PPC keywords. This makes it even more important that insurance sites focus on providing the best possible UX to convert as many of these visitors as possible.

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Reducing the Intercom Messenger bundle size by 65%

Intercom, Inc.

Businesses put the Intercom Messenger on their websites because they want real-time communication with their users. To help the Messenger load as quickly as possible on the web, we recently worked on reducing the bundle size of our Messenger. A fast load time is important because it makes the Messenger feel like a natural part of the websites they’re on, rather than an add-on.

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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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Can Product Culture Save Media? by Anita Zielina

Mind the Product

Anita Zielina’s keynote at this year’s MTP Engage Hamburg addresses the question of whether “product culture” can save the media industry. Anita, who is director of innovation and leadership at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, focuses on the underlying problem of how to change organizations that do not want to change and she shares exciting insights into the challenges of digital transformation at publishing houses, challenges which could easily apply to other not-y

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Protecting Your Roadmap from Influential Clients

The Product Guy

Executing on your roadmap is key to product success. Influential clients may ask you to work on non-roadmap efforts they want, killing your success. I’ll provide techniques and processes for how to keep your roadmap stable. In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Jordan Bergtraum, lead a conversation on this topic. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world.

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Do It For the Portfolio Instead of Every Product: 1 of 5

Product Management University

There are five things that you don’t need to do for every product if you do them once for the portfolio. They’ll reduce the stress that goes with constantly changing priorities and more importantly, improve product management’s stock by operating more strategically, simplifying execution and getting better results. 1. Market Segmentation. Imagine that you have 20 products, each of them with strong growth potential in five market segments.

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Announcing three brand new features to help scale your support

Intercom, Inc.

Today we’re launching three huge updates to our Articles and Custom Bots products to help you scale your support with Intercom. These days, great customer support isn’t a nice to have – it’s table stakes. Giving your customers fast, personal support is essential to customer retention , transforms customers into advocates for your business and delivers a competitive advantage.

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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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Lean Mean Product Machine – Dan Olsen on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

After leaving the Navy and working on nuclear submarines, Dan Olsen embarked on a career that has spanned enterprises and start-ups, consulting, speaking, writing, and running the Lean Product & Lean UX meetup. He joined us to talk about product/market fit: what it is, how to know when you have it, and how to achieve it. Quote of the Episode. [The definition of product-market fit:] When customers agree that your product creates enough value for them relative to the other options that are ava

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Thanks!

The Product Guy

Thank you to everyone who attended The Product Group’s WayBetter Summer Soiree last night & WayBetter for being an awesome host! Have a great weekend and see everyone at our next regularly scheduled roundtable event… RSVP NOW. Thursday, August 1st @ 7PM. Topic: Launching a Product & Everything else Go To Market. Featured Product: Vydia.

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A comprehensive guide to A/B testing

Userzoom

How much impact can one tiny, little feature on a webpage really have? A whole lot, as it turns out. Through A/B testing, hotel booking site arenaturist.com found that a vertical form (vs. a horizontal form) had a huge impact on their users, and their conversion rates… Horizontal form. VS. Vertical form. Their aim was to increase submissions on their forms, and by making this small change they certainly managed it – by a huge 52%.

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Using Slack: How To Be Distraction Free Like It’s Builders

Nir Eyal

The post Using Slack: How To Be Distraction Free Like It’s Builders appeared first on Nir and Far.

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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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Lessons From the Little Blue Book by Joff Redfern

Mind the Product

Joff Redfern is vice president of Australian enterprise software company Atlassian. He previously spent seven years at LinkedIn and he shares his thoughts on the “best and most painful product lessons” of his product leadership career through a journal he calls “the blue book”. He discusses what he’s learned with ProductTank San Francisco. Joff was inspired by Clare Booth Luce, the first American woman to be appointed to a major ambassadorial post.

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What Leadership Qualities Does it Take to be a Good Leader?

UX Studio

Ever wonder about the difference between leadership and management? This article shares essential leadership qualities. Also, we’ll give some examples of what leadership on a UX team looks like. What does leadership involve? Leadership means you know where you’re going and have the ability, skills and qualities to take people in the same direction.

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A comprehensive guide to A/B testing

Userzoom

How much impact can one tiny, little feature on a webpage really have? A whole lot, as it turns out. Through A/B testing, hotel booking site arenaturist.com found that a vertical form (vs. a horizontal form) had a huge impact on their users, and their conversion rates… Horizontal form. VS. Vertical form. Their aim was to increase submissions on their forms, and by making this small change they certainly managed it – by a huge 52%.