Mind the Product
MAY 25, 2020
What are the qualities that make up a great product? It pays to analyse them and consider how they all work together to make a product successful. I remember once being asked in an interview: “Could you name a product you think is great?” I put on my “thinking deep thoughts” face and stare at [.]. Read More. The post What Qualities Make a Product Great?
Lead on Purpose
MAY 28, 2020
A successful leader leads by influence, not by wielding authority.
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The Product Coalition
MAY 28, 2020
Inspire Top Product Talent to Grow Their Career at Your Organization | Photo by Kolleen Gladden on Unsplash To motivate product managers to grow their career with your organization, a transparent and documented process for roles and promotions is critical. Build your own development program with these templates: Job Description Hierarchy Template , Product Manager Baseline Expectations Template , and Promotion Packet Checklist Template Background: As your product organization evolves, high perf
Mixpanel
MAY 27, 2020
This post is written by Semetis , a data-driven marketing agency located in Brussels, Belgium. Semetis works with different types of businesses, from start- and scale-ups to blue-chip clients, to help them grow and accelerate the digital side of their business. Here’s what you’ll learn: To be successful, organizations need more data. More importantly, they need the right kind of solutions to interpret that data, and drive actionable innovation across their organization.
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Stand out in your product management interview with guidance from Priyanka Upadhyay, an experienced product leader and Stanford Online program coach. In this guide, Upadhay dives into five key competencies interviewers will likely want to assess. She provides sample questions with detailed answers spanning: Product strategy Product design Execution Market estimation Teamwork Confidently land the product management role you want by pre-empting what interviewers are looking for and demonstrating y
Product Management University
MAY 27, 2020
What is a Minimum Viable Product? A minimum viable product is a collection of product features and capabilities that are required (at a minimum) to deliver a solution the market is willing to pay for. The easier it is to quantify the value, the more likely the solution will succeed. An outcome-based minimum viable product has two components. First, there’s the business context that answers all the WHO, WHAT & WHY questions.
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Mind the Product
MAY 27, 2020
This year doesn’t just mark the start of a new decade, but also the 10th anniversary of the first ever #ProductTank (and my 20th as a Product Manager). What started as a simple meetup in London has evolved into the world’s largest product community, with chapters in over 200 cities around the world and 200,000 [.]. Read More. The post A Decade in Product – a Retrospective appeared first on Mind the Product.
Nir Eyal
MAY 26, 2020
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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview
MAY 29, 2020
There are many paths to a career in Product Management. Many prospective PMs consider business school, internships, side-projects, startup experience, or bootcamps. Bootcamps are a very popular learning model in the tech industry for several reasons. They are usually a great way to get condensed, accelerated learning for a fraction of the cost of a traditional degree or certificate.
Piyanka Jain
MAY 26, 2020
Pretty much all AI/ML customer and transactional models have been on pause for the last few months. As we speak, history is being written… Continue reading on Becoming Human: Artificial Intelligence Magazine ».
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As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.
The Product Coalition
MAY 25, 2020
Mental Models and Ideas for product managers Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».
Mind the Product
MAY 26, 2020
The story of the first ProductTank – held in the back room of a London pub, arranged by Martin Eriksson, attended by a handful of people – has been told many times. And so, to celebrate the 10th anniversary, we wanted to hear from someone else who was there, in the room, when it all [.]. Read More. The post World Product Day Special – 10 Years of ProductTank, Arne Kittler & Selena Hadzibabic on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.
Intercom, Inc.
MAY 28, 2020
Aircall, “ the phone system for modern business ,” goes far beyond the call centers of old by playing well with third-party integrations that allow companies to do everything from viewing customers’ history and call transcripts in their CRM to making or receiving calls directly within Intercom Messenger. These next-gen capabilities make it an extremely valuable company for the future of work, and investors agree: yesterday, Aircall announced a successful $65 million Series C round, bringing thei
Piyanka Jain
MAY 26, 2020
Pretty much all AI/ML customer and transactional models have been on pause for the last few months. As we speak, history is being written. Thus new models can’t be created either as these models rely on the fundamental principle that the past predicts future. So statistical models are not being built unless specifically for COVID impact analysis. What does all this mean for AI and ML models in the future, post-COVID?
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The Product Guy
MAY 28, 2020
Good product management practice consists of various technics. To develop an excellent product it is really important to understand your customer’s need or to understand the problem your stakeholders are trying to solve. Big question is how do you know that what is the real that stakeholder’s are trying to solve and how relevant is the problem ? In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Yogesh Sharma, lead a conversation on this topic.
Mind the Product
MAY 26, 2020
Prioritization techniques such as RICE, MoSCoW and Value versus Effort are not complicated in theory but in practice, most Product Managers struggle with prioritization and research such as The state of Product Leadership 2020 shows that we’re not especially good at it. However good foundations can help teams to focus on what’s most important.
Alchemer Mobile
MAY 27, 2020
If you’re like me, your shopping habits have probably changed a bit (or a lot) over the last few months. I searched online for about two hours today for dumbbells to buy since the gyms are still closed, and had zero luck. Every grocery store has run out of toilet paper and flour, comfy sweats are out of stock at Target, and the wait to get into Home Depot is two hours long.
Piyanka Jain
MAY 26, 2020
Pretty much all AI/ML customer and transactional models have been on pause for the last few months. As we speak, history is being written. Thus new models can’t be created either as these models rely on the fundamental principle that the past predicts future. So statistical models are not being built unless specifically for COVID impact analysis. What does all this mean for AI and ML models in the future, post-COVID?
Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting
Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical
The Product Guy
MAY 24, 2020
There is always something going on in product management — but is it good or bad? Watch and learn more from product management expert, Mihaela Draghici.
Mind the Product
MAY 27, 2020
It goes without saying that ProductTank London community is very special to all of us at Mind the Product. Members of the community form the core MTP team, many volunteer at our flagship conferences, some make up our training team, and a handful of them have been in it with us since the very beginning. [.]. Read More. The post Stories from the ProductTank Community – London Special appeared first on Mind the Product.
The Product Coalition
MAY 24, 2020
Product Management in the Time of COVID Part II: Roadmapping Best Practices The second article in the series highlights how lean roadmapping helps product managers navigate change. What are we going to do next? one of our developers asked. I sat staring blankly at the screen waiting for someone else on the video call to speak up. But nobody could answer.
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First Round Review
MAY 26, 2020
Psychologist and founder Dr. Emily Anhalt shares her seven traits of emotional fitness, why they're crucial for founders right now, plus concrete tactics for shaping up your emotional health.
Mind the Product
MAY 28, 2020
In many organizations, product leaders have a constant stream of tasks coming in from customer-facing teams. Feature requests, bug fixes – all of them urgent. It can take years to master the practice of finding a healthy balance somewhere between allowing these non stop requests to dictate your product roadmap, and ignoring them altogether. Good prioritization [.].
The Product Coalition
MAY 27, 2020
Planning to develop a website, game or other? Don’t forget to factor in localization best practices if you want to bring it to the world scale. Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash Localization is not an act in hindsight, but an integral part of the product development process. And it’s also become the epitome of user-friendliness. 75% of the world populations feel more at ease and confident in using localized products in their native language as opposed to English.
Mixpanel
MAY 27, 2020
This post is written by Semetis , a data-driven marketing agency located in Brussels, Belgium. Semetis works with different types of businesses, from start- and scale-ups to blue-chip clients, to help them grow and accelerate the digital side of their business. Here’s what you’ll learn: To be successful, organizations need more data. More importantly, they need the right kind of solutions to interpret that data, and drive actionable innovation across their organization.
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Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.
Strategyzer
MAY 29, 2020
One of the key attributes of an invincible company is the ability to manage the Explore and Exploit portfolio with an equal amount of strategic focus and energy. But Explore and Exploit are very different. The same practices you use to exploit existing businesses cannot be used to explore new ideas. You can read more about the differences between Explore and Exploit here.
Mind the Product
MAY 25, 2020
As the COVID-19 crisis began hitting home, a lot of the conversations I had with product people started to take the same tone. It quickly became clear that many people were dealing with the same basic questions. There was also a lot of confusion about how to move forward. As a result, I sat down [.]. Read More. The post Book Excerpt: What Do We Do Now?
The Product Coalition
MAY 24, 2020
As we approach the 20th birthday of the Agile Manifesto, it may be time to take a hard look at a few of the principles. Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».
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