Sat.Jan 20, 2018 - Fri.Jan 26, 2018

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Optimizing internal product communications

Folding Burritos

A lot of our time as PMs is spent communicating with other people in our organization. There’s high-level communication and discussion, and there’s low-level interaction with stakeholders about the day-to-day of the product’s development and operation. Since the majority of our communication time is typically spent on the tactical, let’s talk about that.

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How to find your WHY

Lead on Purpose

A key focus of this blog—from its beginning—has been purpose. Leading on purpose, working with purpose; doing things intentionally, doing things for the right reason. Though topics have led in various directions, the core focus has been purpose.

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BPMA: Network and Chill (for FREE!) Wednesday, January 31, 2018 | 6:30 – 9:30pm

bpma ProductHub

Network and Chill (for FREE!). Wednesday, January 31, 2018 | 6:30 – 9:30pm. New year, new network. Clear your calendar for BPMA’s first event of 2018 and network with other Boston area Product gurus. Don’t keep the networking to yourself….bring a buddy and help them break into Product! Along with drinks, apps and good vibes you can expect the following: Exchange best practices with your peers.

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A Product Manager’s Guide to Replatforming

Mind the Product

Replatforming is arguably one of the most difficult things you can tackle in a product management career. And if experience is about learning from mistakes, let’s just say that I have a lot of experience on replatforming. First,we should start with a quick definition. Here, replatforming is about replacing the computing platform on which a number of other products or systems are built.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, 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 Product Demo Themes to Improve Your Sales Win Rate

Product Management University

Product demo themes can improve your sales win rate. The key? They have to be crafted in the customer’s vocabulary and mirror their business goals. Here are three guidelines for creating and using demo themes to improve your sales win rate. 1. Connect the Strategic and Tactical Dots. Your demo themes will be more effective and more credible if they connect tactical departmental/user issues (addressed by your product) to big-picture strategic issues that are top-of-mind with executive de

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APO: Retrospectives: The Product Perspective Tuesday, February 6, 2018 | 6:00 – 9:00pm

bpma ProductHub

Retrospectives: The Product Perspective. Tuesday, February 6, 2018 | 6:00 – 9:00pm. Join the Agile Product Open community on Tuesday, February 6th at Slalom in Boston for an interactive evening focused on the product perspective for retrospectives. We join with other communities around the globe gathering on February 6th for World Retrospective Day.

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Optimize for an Experience not a Platform

Mind the Product

The pace at which new platforms are introduced is increasing rapidly. This means that our customers are always looking for the next opportunity to get their hands on new technology and use it in complex, exciting ways. Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality are the buzzwords we can’t seem to escape or get enough of. Last year brought the release of the iPhone X’s ARKit and hundreds of trendy pop-up VR arcades.

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How New Startups Can Win at PR — Advice from a 20-Year Comms Career

First Round Review

Terra Carmichael leverages two decades of comms experience with companies like Eventbrite, Yahoo, Mattel, Nike and more to dispense advice to young startups finding their footing with the press.

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Design Sprints

The Product Guy

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Nis Frome, lead a conversation around “Design Sprints”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Check it out… About The Product Mentor. The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions.

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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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Good Product Team/Bad Product Team

Amplitude

As VP of Product at Amplitude, I get the opportunity to work with hundreds of different products teams every year?—?ranging from startups with only a handful of engineers to large enterprises with thousands of PMs. Each of them works with Amplitude because they believe we will help them build a better product. . But this naturally raises a simple question: why do companies need help building better products?

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Davide Vitiello – Focus vs Product Team Structures

Mind the Product

At the #MusicMonday edition of ProductTank Oslo , Davide Vitiello , then the director product – listener experience at SoundCloud, talked about his experiences on the topic of focus. For organizations, finite resources translate into need for focus – a challenge that frequently affects product managers. In addition to describing three key steps to achieve this, he outlined a few ongoing experiments with ways of working at SoundCloud.

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Don't Just Network — Build Your 'Meaningful Network' to Maximize Your Impact

First Round Review

XO Group CEO Mike Steib built his fast-track career on the power of his network. Here's his incredibly granular and specific advice for how to do the same.

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Product Managers: Your peers say you should read these articles

ProductBoard

10 must-reads suggested by successful product managers The most successful people read. In fact, many influential entrepreneurs and those looking to better their craft have a habit of reading on a daily basis. But reading that often is easier said than done. It’s not just the time it takes to read. Finding quality content takes time as well. We wanted to help you out.

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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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Tune-up Your Product Management Career

The Product Guy

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….

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Share Your Knowledge!

Clever PM

As an active member of the Seattle community of Product Managers, I’ve been fortunate enough to find many opportunities to engage with fellow Product Managers as well as those looking to make a break into the role. Between my work with General Assembly as a part-time instructor, my volunteer efforts as a board member of […].

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CES 2018, Smart Toilets, and the Future of the Internet of Things

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

CES 2018 introduced a smart toilet. But the real star of the show was a blackout. How did we get here? And what does that say about the state and the future of IoT? The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is one of the most anticipated and hyped expos of the year. I’ll […] The post CES 2018, Smart Toilets, and the Future of the Internet of Things appeared first on TechProductManagement.

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Four methods to align your UX strategy with your business goals

Miro

Four methods to align your UX strategy with your business goals Here at RealtimeBoard, we set out on a mission to build a universal whiteboarding tool that helps companies to embrace digital transformation, manage remote teams and think visually in order to speed up internal processes and delight their customers. That’s why we are always […]. The post Four methods to align your UX strategy with your business goals appeared first on RealtimeBoard Blog.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

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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How Do You Price Long-Term Contracts When Cost Fluctuations Are Involved?

Pragmatic Marketing

A reader recently reached out: “It would be great to hear your thoughts on the impact of currency fluctuations on pricing in B2B market with long-term contracts. How about oil and exchange rate variations?”. Pricing is about willingness to pay, not about costs. But the other side is: What is your company willing to accept to do a piece of business?

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Increase Performance in Cross-Browser Testing with Zero Effort – Here’s How

Amir Rozenberg

Introduction Are you used to getting a certain amount of data from your testing practices? Did you know that today you can extract more data from your existing testing practice…with zero additional effort. This all plays into the shift left movement that delivers insight – earlier and easier. When thinking about shifting left, you should answer one of these questions: 1.

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TEI 160: How LEGO and others use a low-risk, high-value approach to product management – with David Robertson, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

You don’t need to reinvent the wheel, just innovate around it. Fundamentally, product managers should be driving success for their organization. We do that by providing customers value. The source of that value may be, and perhaps should be, closer to our core capabilities than is often thought. The toy company LEGO found this to be true, only after being on the brink of bankruptcy.

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Power up Your Copy with Wireframes

Balsamiq

Joel Klettke is a copywriter and entrepreneur who runs Business Casual Copywriting. We discovered him through his entertaining and informative video called "Wireframing With Balsamiq for Copywriters Who Don't Suck.". In the video he makes a strong case for using a wireframing tool like Balsamiq for presenting copy to clients. By showing words in the context of the page they fit into, he sees (and can show) a much clearer picture of how effective they'll be.

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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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Product Managers Look For A Way To Make A Better Burger Without Meat

The Accidental Product Manager

It’s all about the burger Image Credit: cyclonebill. The majority of consumers identify themselves as being meat lovers. What this means is that they like their burgers to be made with a nice juicy piece of meat. For a variety of reasons, this has created a challenge that a number of different product managers are trying to solve. Can they change the burger product development definition and create a burger that looks and tastes like the real thing with one important exception: it does not

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How to deliver great products when you don’t follow any “magical framework”

The Product Coalition

Yes, there is a way (or more)… Over the past few years I had some experiences working as a Product Owner with digital products. Since then, I studied a lot about UX, product management, design thinking, agile, customer experience and a wide range of subjects that are related to delivering a great experience to the user. Studying all of those subjects, there is one thing that I’ve noticed as a pattern: Whichever the article, paper, workshop that you read or attend to, there will always be some so

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What Any UX Designer Can Learn From Medical Device Design

UserInterviews

Tim Nayar, Ph.D., shares advice on designing for a multitude of internal and user stakeholders with an emphasis on user need.

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Industrial IoT Spotlight – Podcast Interview with Eric Walenza

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

Eric Walenza, CEO at IoTOne, conducts interviews to explore success factors and challenges in Industrial IoT markets with CEOs, investors, and experts. In this podcast episode, Eric invited me to discuss my views and approach to Industrial IoT product strategy. In this podcast interview, Eric and I discuss common challenges companies face when launching Industrial IoT […] The post Industrial IoT Spotlight – Podcast Interview with Eric Walenza appeared first on TechProductManagement.

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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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Reduce Development Rework with Software Usage Analytics

Revulytics

You’ve likely heard of the office furniture giant Steelcase. Perhaps you’re even sitting in a comfy yet productivity-inspiring Steelcase chair as you pore over this blog post. A huge part of the 100-plus-year-old company’s staying power is its ability to continue to revolutionize the way we think about office furniture. Working with Microsoft, Steelcase recently revealed technology that exposes data from sensor-connected office furniture and rooms that, as a first use case, aim to help optimize

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Job interview prep–and other skills for product managers and innovators, Jan 26, 2018

Product Innovation Educators

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. Questions product managers should expect when interviewing for a job. Of course, there is the classic question, “What product are you most proud of launching and what did you learn from it?” Depending on the primary responsibilities of the position (such as platform management, community management, growth management, etc.) this article tells you the question

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Increase Performance in Cross-Browser Testing with Zero Effort – Here’s How

Amir Rozenberg

Introduction Are you used to getting a certain amount of data from your testing practices? Did you know that today you can extract more data from your existing testing practice…with zero additional effort. This all plays into the shift left movement that delivers insight – earlier and easier. When thinking about shifting left, you should answer one of these questions: 1.