Roman Pichler
MARCH 14, 2017
What? As you may know, the product owner originated from Scrum, where the role is responsible for maximising the value the product creates. This sounds like a text-book product management responsibility to me. Nevertheless, the product owner is often regarded as a tactical role focused on managing the product backlog, detailing requirements, and interacting with the development team.
Mind the Product
MARCH 15, 2017
When Ben Horowitz wrote his groundbreaking memo good product manager, bad product manager nearly 20 years ago he described a product manager as the CEO of the product. While this has gotten a lot of people excited about the job I couldn’t disagree more – unless you’re the founder and the product manager at the same time, you are not the CEO of anything.
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bpma ProductHub
MARCH 13, 2017
by C Emera Trujillo. Design sprints are all the rage these days and with good reason. As a flexible design framework, the design sprint can yield creative solutions that stakeholders & customers want. Recently, Boston Women in Product organized a design sprint workshop run by the amazing team at Fresh Tilled Soil and hosted by ZipCar. Evan Ryan , chief product officer at Fresh Tilled Soil and seasoned entrepreneur with over a decade of experience bringing products from concept to market,
Lead on Purpose
MARCH 13, 2017
Guest post by Annabelle Smyth Many companies still hold tight to the old way of doing things. They put you in high-pressure situations and hope that you get all your work done out of fear.
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 Guy
MARCH 14, 2017
Guest Post by: David Pasztor. A product manager just stopped by the desk of the designer on a lazy Thursday afternoon. The designer showed him something, and they started discussing a new feature’s design loudly. The manager used wide gestures to show where he wanted to move certain elements. The developers sitting nearby just watched the show for the first time, but after a while they stood up to join the party one by one.
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Melissa Perri
MARCH 16, 2017
Product Institute is an online school for Product Managers looking to level up their skills. We're featuring some of our recent graduates and asking them to share their experiences, both in the field and in our class. First up: Dave Masters, a Product Manager with 8 years experience in the role, most recently at Doorsteps in NYC. -- Hi Dave! Can you tell our readers about your current role, and how you got into Product Management?
Product Management University
MARCH 15, 2017
Product usability is the new currency for differentiation. That makes the role of the functional product designer, a.k.a business analyst, subject matter expert (SME) or agile product owner more critical than it has ever been, yet many organizations still insist on combining it with the product manager role. If you want high-value products with superior usability, here are the top three reasons the functional product designer needs to be a separate role.
Nir Eyal
MARCH 16, 2017
Nir’s Note: Below is the transcript of an interview I did with David Burkus, an award-winning podcaster and author of Under New Management: The Unexpected Truths about Leading Great Organizations. This interview was part of a Heleo Conversation on the topic of technology obsession, work-life balance, and challenging assumptions in order to change behavior.
Mind the Product
MARCH 14, 2017
Nate Clinton works as the Managing Director for Cooper in their San Francisco studio. Before Cooper, Nate has held product and design leadership positions at StarMine, Thomson Reuters, and BuildZoom. As a consultancy Cooper leads initiatives in content creation, business development, and creative leadership. They regularly tackle the challenge of assessing and communicating the value of design to their clients.
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Melissa Perri
MARCH 16, 2017
Product Institute is an online school for Product Managers looking to level up their skills. We’re featuring some of our recent graduates and asking them to share their experiences, both in the field and in our class.
Product Management University
MARCH 14, 2017
There’s a good reason why athletes in contact sports wear protective pads. Over time, statistics have shown where injuries are most likely to occur, hence the placement of the pads. If product management is a contact sport, what’s your organization’s risk of injury? What types of pads do you need and where is their optimal placement?
Mironov Consulting
MARCH 12, 2017
In theory, Build versus Buy decisions should be straightforward: we compare off-the-shelf offerings with the time/cost/expertise to create them ourselves; we run the numbers; then we make an objective financial-technical decision before starting any work. In practice, these decisions sneak up on us after a lot of work has been done. I often see development teams that have built some side technology that’s not core to their product’s mission, and which could (should!
Mind the Product
MARCH 16, 2017
Or Three Ways Product Owners can Stay on top of Scrum. 2016 was a big year for the Justinmind product development team. We shipped a new feature every month or so, tackled bug fixes and upgraded the usability of our software (an interactive prototyping tool). With hindsight it was exciting, but such intense activity presents challenges for a product owner: backlogs can get baggy and prioritization between user stories can become complex.
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 Accidental Product Manager
MARCH 13, 2017
There’s a battle that getting ready to start in the market for mattresses Image Credit: Charles Wagner aka ChumpChange. Just exactly how much time do you spend every day thinking about that mattress that you sleep on. Scientists say that we’ll spend roughly 1/3 of our lives sleeping, so you’d think that the mattress that we sleep on would be a very big deal.
Product Management University
MARCH 11, 2017
As the barriers to entry continue to get lower, technology product lifecycles are becoming increasingly shorter. If you don’t want price to become the single biggest buying driver, you’ve got to figure out a way to get out of commodity rat race. Differentiation and innovation are your two best options! Differentiation. Differentiation boils down to unique positioning in your sales and marketing efforts with your products and company reputation serving up the proof points.
The Product Guy
MARCH 16, 2017
Guest Post by: Avinash Bajaj (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Nis Frome]. So, you did whatever it took to become a Product Manager. Either you stumbled your way into product management, or you planned your way through. Whatever the case maybe, you are here now. You have done it. Now, how do you transition yourself from a product guy to the product guy in your organization?
Mind the Product
MARCH 17, 2017
David Kullman talks to ProductTank NYC about why most projects are doomed to fail right from the very start. David is a Partner and Development Manager at CitrusByte, working with both large corporations and startups to develop innovative software solutions to challenges they may be facing. IT Project Failures – The Statistics. In 1995, IT spending amounted to around 250 billion dollars in the US alone.
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.
Product Bookshelf
MARCH 17, 2017
Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams by Jeff Gothelf. Lean UX Principles. Lean UX is the way you do design in an Agile process. Lean UX teams work “collaboratively, iteratively, and in parallel, with few handoffs, minimal deliverables, and a focus on working software and market feedback.” Our goal is not to create a deliverable, it’s to change something in the world–to create an outcome.
Business of Software Conference
MARCH 16, 2017
Oracle’s Cloud Computing sales are now running at $5 billion a year. It is fair to say that Larry Ellison hasn’t always taken the cloud as seriously as Oracle does now. This is a recording of an analyst call in 2008… “The technology industry is the only industry more fashion-driven than women’s fashion.” “We’ll make cloud computing announcements because if orange is the new pink, we will make orange blouses.” Larry Ellison.
The Product Guy
MARCH 15, 2017
Out of the hundreds of nominations, and amazing finalists, the 7th annual winner of The Best Product Person is … Chris Butler. 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. Take a moment and congratulate The Best Product Person of 2016: Chris Butler. ( tweet ).
Mind the Product
MARCH 16, 2017
UPDATED Mind the Product San Francisco 2017 promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with double the number of workshops , more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. But most importantly , we are thrilled to bring you some of the best minds in product and design from around the world to share some truly world-class insights, which is why I’m excited to announce our first three amazing speakers!
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TSIA
MARCH 17, 2017
If you want to make sure your customers renew their contracts, it’s crucial that you have a renewal process that’s as painless as possible. While roadblocks to renewal can and do crop up, knowing how to spot them ahead of time and adopting the right capabilities for frictionless renewal is your key to overcoming them. Check out this SlideShare to identify 3 common renewal friction points and the capabilities you'll need to keep your renewals moving forward as planned.
Business of Software Conference
MARCH 15, 2017
Is it possible there are more swipes on Tinder (990,000) than logins to Facebook (900,000) every minute? We’re not generally fans of Infographics, largely because we get sent so many by desperate digital marketing people wanting to shill some product using a very large and badly thought through image but this caught our attention. This was written by Lori Lewis who was making a point about how radio stations compete for the attention of their audiences but the same principle applies to any
The Product Guy
MARCH 11, 2017
If you are a great product person looking for a great product job, or vice versa, check out our job board. Thousands of employers across all areas of product, from management to design, from digital to physical, are looking to fill positions from our community. Each week we highlight some of the recently posted openings. Check out this week’s newest, below….
DISQO
MARCH 13, 2017
Whether your company’s innovations are 72 hours or 72 years old, relentless customer discovery remains a critical priority. Even if the product itself hasn’t changed in decades (think cinder blocks or lumber), lots going on beyond the product itself delivers dramatic P&L impact. What’s to discover once the new product is shipping? As noticed on January 20, almost any big event can impact even the most loyal consumers.
Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
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TSIA
MARCH 16, 2017
In our multi-part blog series on organizational convergence , TSIA’s Phil Nanus and others have written extensively about the convergence of sales and services in an XaaS world. For a great primer on how these lines are blurring, be sure to read his blog post or Chapter 7 of the Technology-as-a-Service Playbook. A much less talked about topic, however, is the convergence of marketing and services, and their potential to work together to drive cost-effective leads and revenue from existing
Mironov Consulting
MARCH 12, 2017
What: Four Laws of Tech Product Economics. Where: Moz, 1100 2nd Ave #500, Seattle WA. When: Monday, March 27: 5:30pm social networking, 6:30pm -8:00pm discussion and Q&A. REGISTER HERE. There are some fundamental laws of technology product economics (especially software) that should drive executive-level decisions about business and product strategies.
UserTesting
MARCH 13, 2017
Getting insights from your videos just got easier. Companies are realizing the power of continuous user testing to make more informed decisions. And more tests means more insightful feedback to review. As part of UserTesting’s ongoing commitment to making the … The post New UserTesting feature: Transcripts appeared first on UserTesting Blog.
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