Roman Pichler
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Enter the Cycle. Traditionally, strategy and execution are often viewed as separate, sequential pieces of work that are carried out by different people. For example, a product manager might determine the product strategy and one or more development teams might be tasked with executing it. But as long as innovation, change, and risk are present, this approach is ineffective.
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
Many of us are familiar with the history of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). When I first came across the methodology in 2013, I was wowed by stories of organisational alignment and focus from the likes of Google, Twitter and LinkedIn. I rushed out to buy John Doerr’s back catalogue. After 7 years of implementing OKRs [.]. Read More. The post OKRs: So simple!
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The Product Coalition
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Creating success with well defined product KPIs Continue reading on Product Coalition ».
Intercom, Inc.
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
The start of any journey begins with consulting a map. But if you’re a product designer starting out on a new project, you might find yourself with a blank page, and the job of drawing the map: of defining the high-level design direction that your team is going to use to chart their course. Mess it up, and you could find yourself quickly marching your team off a cliff.
Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage
When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m
Product Management University
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Product managers, there’s never going to be a time where customer retention priorities and wallet share growth opportunities have more overlap, i.e., not at odds. Think about it. The pandemic has forced a lot of businesses to go directly to their customer base for growth as new logos are harder to come by. If you’re one of them read on. One of our current clients offers a CRM add-on solution that helps high-tech companies grow revenue and wallet share in existing customer accounts.
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The Product Guy
NOVEMBER 1, 2020
Staying relevant is all about iterating on the latest technologies. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Amin Bashi.
Intercom, Inc.
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
The holidays are fast approaching, and for ecommerce businesses, that often results in significantly higher support volume for your team – which is set to further accelerate this holiday season due to the impact of COVID-19. The Conversational Support Funnel can help you stay on top of your support, without increasing your overhead. Below, we share our favorite tips for proactively and automatically resolving queries, at scale.
The Product Coalition
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Copyright?—?Dilbert.com In Job interviews, one of the most frequent questions I get is?—?“ Assume you have new feature requests from business, but your technical team wants to fix the technical debts first, what do you do?”. Well, it is logical for the interviewer to assume that as a product owner, you will have a ready answer for this. Because every PO faces this dilemma on a regular basis.
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
In collaboration with NEO Culture, Mind the Product conducted a short survey on OKRs investigating their use in product teams in real companies. Now, the results are in. In this post, we’ll provide an overview of the survey results and, if you’re a Mind the Product member you can access an extended report including analysis [.]. Read More.
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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 Innovation Educators
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Discover the smorgasbord of tools for product managers and innovators. This is a little longer introduction than normal and there is a good reason for it, so bear with me for a moment. In 2007 I sat in a small conference room with 12 other people. We were there to prepare for the New Product Development Professional certification from PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association.
Intercom, Inc.
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
This week, we’re putting the S in S.H.O.P. and considering the role of the Store. On the podcast, Dee Reddy talks to writer Deborah Fallows about seeing the retail landscape of small-town America from the sky; Director of City Design at the City of Melbourne Prof Rob Adams about urban regeneration for the retail space and the 20-minute city; and Intercom’s SVP of Product Paul Adams about the development and future of ecommerce.
The Product Coalition
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
Two friends share tools they learned from improv comedy to help you on your product journey By Becca Groner and Gabby Zilkha As product managers with improvisational comedy training, we’ve been surprised how often our improv skills have helped us be more effective in our roles. We, Becca and Gabby, have been improvising since our college improv troupe days and have learned a few tricks of the trade.
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
As one of the leaders in a company, the buck stops with you. And while this is generally thrilling and also what you signed up for, it can occasionally be the source of headaches as well. Whether you’re the CEO, COO, the Head of Product or leading a business vertical – a particular area that [.]. Read More. The post The Challenge of Leadership: Asking for Help appeared first on Mind the Product.
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Effective risk management in product development balances safety, compliance, and opportunity. Risks can't be eliminated, but they can be mitigated through structured assessments, clear documentation, and expert guidance. Engaging specialists ensures efficiency, regulatory adherence, and product security while reducing costly oversights. A well-executed risk management plan includes frequent evaluations, defined assessment criteria, and a structured decision-making process.
Strategyzer
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
The best plans for experimentation don’t always come through. We’ve learned this in working with teams to design, run, and analyze experiments over the years. Part of learning this process is becoming more proficient at quickly running experiments while making progress through data-driven insights. Below is a list of the most common experiment pitfalls we’ve seen in the field.
First Round Review
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Molly Graham shares her collection of rules for managers (which include references to robots and wilderness medicine), assembled from her experiences scaling Lambda School, Quip and Facebook.
The Product Coalition
NOVEMBER 1, 2020
Part 3 of series on experimentation This Article will cover: How to create an experimentation idea backlog? How to prioritize the ideas for maximum business value? Cross functional alignment with the rest of the business. The right data and experimentation tools. A well designed experimentation system allows a company to accelerate growth by creating faster feedback loops and enabling progressive delivery.
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
In this video, Zoopla’s CPTO Dave Wascha shares his take on the reality of the CPO role, where Product fits within the organisation, what skills product managers need to be successful, and more. Watch the session in full or read on for the top 5 highlights. About Dave Wascha Dave Wascha started as a product [.]. Read More. The post Where Does Product Fit?
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Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.
ProductCraft
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
What is a full-stack product manager? Well, I think we should start by breaking down both terms. Full-stack, in the tech sense, describes someone who is a jack-of-all-trades, but (generally) a master of none. You usually see this term on engineering teams, where job descriptions ask for “full-stack” candidates by requiring skills that are critical. Read more » The post What Exactly Is a “Full-Stack Product Manager?
The Accidental Product Manager
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
The WhatsApp product managers may have come up with a way to make money Image Credit: Marina Stroganova. So just imaging this scenario: you are the product manager for a wildly successful mobile application. In fact, your application is so successful that your company got bought by another much larger online company for a lot of money just a few years ago.
The Product Coalition
NOVEMBER 1, 2020
More Velocity brings more PBIs to completion and not necessarily more value out from those PBIs Photo by Victoire Joncheray on Unsplash Story points are tagged as an outcome of relative estimation to the Product Backlog Items (PBIs). What comes when we sum up this number at the end of the Sprint for the ones that are marked ‘Done’ and accepted qualifies to the Scrum Team’s Velocity.
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
We first saw Onfido’s Susana Lopes talk about how she used the State of the Product presentation to manage stakeholders and drive alignment at London’s Product Camp. She’s since written two great articles on the subject (Tools to Help Product Managers Think Strategically and Commercially Part 1 and Part 2), and she joins us on [.].
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.
Usersnap
NOVEMBER 6, 2020
Did you know that technical issues are the number one reason people delete apps off their phones? That’s right! More than 90% of the downloaded apps are deleted after one use. Similarly, 88% of users don’t return to a website after bad user experience. This is why UX matters. These days users expect remarkable experiences every time they interact with an app, products, support, or a website and in case they don’t get it, you may never have a second chance with them.
Indicative
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
The seasons are changing and global economic conditions are in flux with an upcoming U.S. Election and coronavirus continuing to hamper growth. Still, we’re laser-focused on delivering you more security, self-service, faster customer analytics. Check out what’s new: Organization Settings. Configure and manage your organization’s details, security settings, single sign-on configuration, default project access, and billing information in the all-new Organization section, located in the Account Set
The Product Coalition
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Originally a late-night brain dump on Twitter, I thought it’d flesh some of it out a bit here. — @ant_murphy Product Management is complex. Complex because it’s situational which makes being a good Product Manager about being adaptive. More than that. It's being able to contextualize and read the situation in order to adapt appropriately.
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 6, 2020
As many of the world’s major economies work to address the second wave of Covid-19, we thought it would be an appropriate time to look at how the pandemic has changed product management and whether these changes are likely to be long-lasting, even permanent. We can split businesses into those that have been able to [.]. Read More. The post The Impact of Covid on Product Managers and the Products They Build appeared first on Mind the Product.
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As your company grows and your product matures, so too should your product strategy. Drawing from their decades of experience as product leaders, Stanford Online instructors Donna Novitsky and Laura Marino share best practices for defining your product strategy at each stage of company growth. Get practical, real-world product strategy tips from experts who have lived through the same challenges you’re currently facing.
First Round Review
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Carly Guthrie has run HR for major restaurant groups and startups. Here, she shares lessons for startups looking to hold onto their talent.
Userpilot
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
Product Managers today have an overwhelming array of code free tools for UX design and development to choose from. In the bad old days, SaaS companies had to build every part of their products from scratch. That’s no longer the case – thank goodness! In this blog, we’ll show you our favorite low code or code free tools for UX at every step of the Product Manager’s role.
The Product Coalition
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
I’ve distilled the traits of great product managers into these five key points Continue reading on Product Coalition ».
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