Mind the Product

DECEMBER 15, 2017

At Mind the Product our mission is to further the craft of product management by bringing together product people of all stripes to share their stories and experiences. And at our #mtpcon conferences and some of our ProductTank meetups we film those stories so we can share them as widely as possible. This year our speakers have shared a plethora of amazing product talks and those videos have had 100,000s of plays, so I decided to look at which videos our audience engaged with the most and which

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The Secret PM Handbook

DECEMBER 12, 2017

I’m excited to announce The Secret Product Manager Handbook is available for pre-order ! When I started in product management, there were no classes, books, or online resources for product managers. I always wanted the “secret handbook” – so I wrote it. The Secret Product Manager Handbook i s all the things I wish someone had told me. I wrote a book for people like me (and you?).

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Tim Herbig

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Photo was taken by Product Management Festival 2017 Team. I’m not a big believer in granular (New Year’s) resolutions. Instead, similar to the approach I follow in product development, I like to follow overall themes to pursue. While I have been writing personal reviews for the past couple of years already, I never set up those themes for the year ahead publicly.… Continue Reading.

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Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2017

One of the key attributes of the Internet of Things is its ability to measure physical signals to better understand the world around us. It is a very important topic and one that Product Managers should have a good grasp on. In this post I provide an introduction to the world of data acquisition and […] The post Data Acquisition: A Primer for IoT Product Managers appeared first on TechProductManagement.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Having spoken at conferences twice this year on the subject of design and emotion, I was spurred into writing this post by the number of people who gave me positive feedback. Why is Designing for Emotion so Important? When we recall past experiences, we are not wired to remember the whole experience with total accuracy. We tend to remember the peak of the experience (whether positive or negative) rather than the end-to-end experience.

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First Round Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Kevin Ryan has spent decades on both sides of the fundraising table. Here, he provides secrets seldom shared for getting and keeping VCs interested before closing the deal.

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Miro

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Sprint planning – the RealtimeBoard’s playbook To address the need for agility, many organizations have adopted Agile Scrum or other Agile approaches. However, applying Agile frameworks to modern organizations is not as easy as it may appear. The biggest roadblock? The application of outdated techniques and tools that can no longer adequately support development teams, […].

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 14, 2017

I was recently on a long haul flight and ended up whiling away my time watching random shows on the in-flight system. One of the shows I watched was a sitcom. I didn’t find it great (in fact I don’t remember chuckling at even one single joke) but I still ended up watching a bunch of episodes in a row. However, once I got off the plane neither could I remember what it was about and nor did I have the inclination to watch more.

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Clever PM

DECEMBER 14, 2017

I was called into a meeting with a team here in the office a couple weeks ago because they told me they had a “question” about the estimations that they were doing. As we started talking, it became immediately apparent what the problem was, they were getting into arguments about whether their estimates were “too […].

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First Round Review

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Dig into seven reading lists curated by our network of operators and experts, as they recommend must-reads for their disciplines: product, sales, recruiting, marketing, management, engineering and more.

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Balsamiq

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Amy Law and Joe Wilson work on the Learning Gateway team at the University of Washington School of Medicine. They are a design group that works directly with faculty to develop and deliver online learning to medical residents and fellows. They recently started using Balsamiq to prototype an online training to help physicians provide better care for members of the LGBTQ community.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 11, 2017

My journey to product management was not what you might expect, but then again, maybe you would. I studied accounting and computers in high school. At 19 I got a job as a computer technician and by 21 I was a computer science major. I then got a job on campus as a network administrator. Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries.

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Sachin Rekhi

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Today I’m excited to announce the launch of the productivity app my co-founder Ada and I have been building over the last 2 years. Meet Notejoy , a better way to organize team docs. Why tackle document collaboration? It’s amazing how in our personal lives we can easily search the world’s information in a split second yet we transition back to a world of tribal knowledge when we enter the workplace.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 11, 2017

10 common mistakes or pitfalls new product managers should avoid. A few months ago I was contacted by a product manager, Areo Wong, who works in Hong Kong. He described himself as a “newbie” with about one-year of experience. He has been struggling to learn what the role of product manager was really about. After trying a few different approaches to learning more, he took a very creative path.

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Pragmatic Marketing

DECEMBER 10, 2017

"What is most important to you?" This was the subject line of an email I recently received from an account manager at a financial management software vendor. Inside the email was a list of 10 potential features. My instructions were to highlight the feature enhancement that I deemed most important and send back my reply. There was only one thing wrong with this approach and it irked me.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Like many in the software world these days, as you fix your eyes on your monitor and begin to go about your day, the many ways in which General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance will touch your company likely swirl around in your head. Every product, every service, and every part of your business that in some way will be affected by the regulations has of course been on your mind for quite some time, but as that May 25, 2018 deadline inches closer, it has taken on increased urgency.

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Split

DECEMBER 14, 2017

At Split, we sit at an intersection between the two worlds of DevOps and Analytics. From this powerful vantage point, here are the top trends we see unfolding in 2018. 5. DevOps Goes Enterprise-wide. In 2017, enterprises of all sizes started implementing DevOps for some of their newer services. Forrester Research recently estimated that 63% of enterprises have implemented DevOps in some form.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2017

[ Previous : Chapter 2- Developing Market Understanding?—?Idea Conceptualization, Incubation & Validation ] [Back to content page ?—? Product Management 101 ] User research is the most critical part of the whole product development lifecycle. It is the single most link that helps you empathize with your users and their list of wants and needs, which serves as a basis for your product.

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Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2017

One of the key attributes of the Internet of Things is its ability to measure physical signals to better understand the world around us. It is a very important topic and one that Product Managers should have a good grasp on. In this post, I provide an introduction to the world of data acquisition and […]. The post Data Acquisition: A Primer for IoT Product Managers appeared first on Daniel Elizalde.

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The Accidental Product Manager

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Death needs to be marketed also. Image Credit: Zach. I’m hopeful that most of us don’t spend a lot of time each day thinking about death. For most of us this is not a pleasant subject and so we try to avoid thinking about it as much as possible. That is unless you happen to be a product manager who is involved in the business of death. We need to realize that when someone passes on, that is just the start of a lengthy process that deals with how their remains should be handled until

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 12, 2017

I started this series positing that respect is the cornerstone for how we might treat each other, to manage our interactions with success, especially in light of the #MeToo conversation. The series so far is: Organizations Are Not Families, Part 1. Why the metaphor of family-as-org demeans the people working there. Build Respect in Organizations, Not Families, Part 2 , had some ideas for building respect in terms of physical and psychological safety.

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DISQO

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In today’s rapidly changing world, every business and product leader wants to make decisions as quickly and with as much confidence as possible. The challenge is that speed and certainty are often at odds with one another. That’s why the best decision-makers embrace methodologies and tools for rapid experimentation and iterative optimization. In other words, that’s why we built Alpha.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. Making that first impression with your product – onboarding. Not all products use an onboarding process, but even for those that don’t, product managers can improve customer experience by learning about onboarding.

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dscout People Nerds

DECEMBER 14, 2017

People Nerds share four strategies for getting results with human insight.

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TryMyUI

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In a prototype or wireframe usability test, users require careful instruction to successfully navigate the limited functionalities. Read our techniques for writing tasks specially suited for prototype & wireframe testing. The post How to write tasks, Vol. 3: Prototype & wireframe usability testing appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.

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TSIA

DECEMBER 14, 2017

What is education services? It sounds like a trick question, but is it? The role and nature of education services (ES) organizations has been morphing over the past few years. However, one consistent element is that education services, or whatever name your company gives to a similar organization, is responsible for customer-facing training. Additionally, 82% of ES functions train channel partners and 75% provide technical training for internal employees, most commonly Sales, Pre-Sales, and Prof

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Sequent Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The post How Product Managers Get Promoted appeared first on Sequent Learning Networks.

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UserInterviews

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This experienced UX researcher and designer shares her tools of the trade, thoughts on boring findings presentations, and one crazy war story.

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