Alchemer Mobile
DECEMBER 22, 2020
COVID-19 dramatically impacted how we live, learn, work, socialize, shop, and entertain ourselves. It has also changed how we interact with our favorite stores, restaurants, and service providers – even our healthcare providers. You’d be hard-pressed to find someone who hasn’t had a virtual doctor appointment, ordered groceries online, or used curbside pickup in 2020.
The Product Coalition
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Market research, for Product Managers, is an absolute necessity for success. Much of the time, you’ll find that your company has already outsourced your market research to a firm. But if you’re working on your own project or at a smaller startup, you might find this responsibility falling into your lap. That’s why you need us! And we’re here to help.
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Nir Eyal
DECEMBER 20, 2020
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Mind the Product
DECEMBER 25, 2020
In 2019, remote working was something many of us dreamt of, some of us had already sampled it, and a few of us simply had no interest in doing it at all. Now, at the end of 2020, we’ve all spent most of the year honing our home-working style and in this post, we’re recapping [.]. Read More. The post Remote Working: No Longer New, Just Normal appeared first on Mind the Product.
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Intercom, Inc.
DECEMBER 21, 2020
This was a year when it felt like history was unfolding in real time – rather than the narrative of our time taking shape gradually over months and years, events were seemingly getting inscribed straight into the collective memory every day, or sometimes every hour. Such turbulence is never pleasant to live through – we crave a steady, predictable pace of progress, and above all we crave a sense of control over that progress.
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Product Innovation Educators
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Insights for product managers from an R&D Engineering Director. How does an R&D Product Line Director lead the development of products and help to mentor product managers? That’s what I wanted to know when I talked with our guest, Shankar Achanta. He has had a number of engineering product roles at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, which designs and manufactures products for the power industry.
Mind the Product
DECEMBER 24, 2020
Whether it’s at one of our conferences or meetups, we host events in over 200 cities around the world and love to invite product people to take the stage, share their insights, and push our craft forward. This year we published 102 videos and you watched a staggering 920 days of video on Mind the [.]. Read More. The post The 10 Product Talks You Should Have Watched in 2020 appeared first on Mind the Product.
Intercom, Inc.
DECEMBER 22, 2020
This year, we launched Scale , a new content strand focusing on how industry leaders are propelling their companies forward by keeping their customers front and center. . When we created Scale, we had no idea what the year would hold in store; we simply knew that investing in long-term customer relationships was the key to success. As it happens, 2020 has only reinforced this, by highlighting again and again the importance of strong customer relationships as the structural foundation on which so
The Product Coalition
DECEMBER 21, 2020
When it comes to fundraising, it all starts with an idea. The reality is that startups are never rarely unique?—?most likely there are a bunch of people who are doing exactly the same. So, ‘just the idea’ isn’t what makes investors open their wallets?—?even if you came up with something absolutely amazing. Purrweb will tell you a cool way to attract investors.
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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
First Round Review
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Upstart was founded by three individuals who barely knew each other, was forced to make a company-saving pivot, and flew under the radar in Silicon Valley for the past 8 years — but this once-scrappy startup just went public. CEO Dave Girouard sketches out the story of how Upstart got built, detailing all of the bumpy starts and lucky breaks along the winding journey to IPO.
Mind the Product
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Product managers who have never worked with founders often find their first experience a bit jarring. “f**ked” and “crazy” have definitely been thrown around. But “crazy” is a label we use when we don’t understand. What makes working with founders challenging and different from other executives? What do founders do? Founders at early stage startups [.].
Userpilot
DECEMBER 23, 2020
Which product trends emerged in 2020 and are here to stay? What are the biggest trends in Product for 2021 you must implement into your Product Growth strategy? Who’s who in Product these days? And what new product growth terms made it to our dictionary? It goes without saying that this year, the news has been completely hijacked by the global pandemic.
The Product Coalition
DECEMBER 21, 2020
New ideas are exciting. If you let yourself get carried away, it’s really, really hard to tell the difference between a good and bad one. There’s nothing worse from a personal and business perspective than investing your time, money, and effort into an idea, only to find out no one wants it or needs it. Or , to find out everyone thinks it’s a cool idea, but it’s not necessarily something they would pay for.
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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
ProductPlan
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Making a shift to product-led growth sounds pretty appealing, especially to product managers. Knowing your baby is the driving engine behind the entire company’s success puffs up our egos and makes our jobs seem more important than ever. But unless your company offers paid services along with its line of products, how is this different from “regular” growth?
Mind the Product
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Every week we curate the best product and design content from across the internet into our weekly product management newsletter Prioritised. Here are the top 10 most clicked articles (and a bonus 11th because it seemed relevant this year!) from the 408 links featured in this year’s 51 newsletters to date — 10 articles that [.]. Read More. The post The 10 Product Articles You Should Have Read in 2020 appeared first on Mind the Product.
Amplitude
DECEMBER 23, 2020
Many people think technical knowledge is the most important quality in a product management team. That’s what I thought when I came to product management with a background in engineering. In the five years I’ve spent at Amplitude, I’ve worked with hundreds of product development teams. What I’ve learned from them is that technical insight alone won’t make them or their product great.
The Product Coalition
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Problem-solving is one of the core characteristics of product managers. But the ability to solve customer problems does not always translate into the ability to solve problems for your own company. It is a slightly different skill to master, but very important for your ability to succeed. Photo by Xavi Cabrera on Unsplash When I was head of product at eBay I participated in an executive leadership training program.
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
Nulab
DECEMBER 23, 2020
It’s easy to make work friends in person. Casual conversations struck up around the coffee machine evolve into lunches out, happy hour drinks, and hallway discussions about that one difficult client. Before you know it, you’re running emails past each other and stealing gum from each other’s drawers. Work friends are a great addition to your life. They make tough projects easier and cheer us up after a bad day.
Mind the Product
DECEMBER 22, 2020
As product people, we work extensively with images. While our designers may be doing the heavy lifting, who hasn’t spent an extra 30 minutes trying to find the perfect image to help get a point across for an executive presentation? (It can’t just be us who does that…) That’s why we invited Grant Farhall, Chief [.]. Read More.
Johanna Rothman
DECEMBER 24, 2020
Are you on “Paid Time Off” (PTO) this and/or next week? Several of my clients claim they're on PTO. That's what their “away” email says. Yet, they've sent me emails, direct messages, all kinds of interactions. What gives? Several possibilities. Too often, they feel they must: Finish some work before the end of the year. Make some sort of progress on a project.
The Product Coalition
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Experimental Design For Product Testing?—?Important Concepts and Considerations From time to time, we come up with ideas and speculate about how they might play out in reality. Take, for instance, a food scientist who believes that a new flavour enhancer could improve consumer demand, or a pharmaceutical company that have developed a medication which they believe could relieve high-blood pressure.
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ProductCraft
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Over the last two decades, we’ve observed a puzzling paradox: Great product managers exist at both market-leading and market-losing companies. So what else does it take to build a high-performing product organization that propels companies up and away? What’s the secret sauce beyond having the best talent and great product strategy? The answer lies in.
Mind the Product
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Product managers who have never worked with founders often find their first experience a bit jarring. “f**ked” and “crazy” have definitely been thrown around. But “crazy” is a label we use when we don’t understand. What makes working with founders challenging and different from other executives? What do founders do? Founders at early stage startups [.].
ProductBoard
DECEMBER 22, 2020
“We bring you some deep user insights” Inspired by: “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” Santa heard you’ve been extra “nice” this year and made Productboard’s Salesforce integration even better. Product managers can choose which companies or accounts to import to Productboard with their associated attributes.
The Product Coalition
DECEMBER 23, 2020
Understand why your estimates might go wrong and how to improve upon Image Source: Pixabay This incident happened in November 2019 around Diwali time in Chennai. A close friend of mine travelled from Bangalore to Chennai on an official visit and wanted to meet me before his return to Bangalore the same day. We worked on a plan and somehow met at a common place with just a few hours left to reach Chennai Central for boarding his train.
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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.
UserInterviews
DECEMBER 22, 2020
This wasn’t the year of research we planned for. Our hosts Erin May and JH Forster review the lessons, insights, and guests from 2020 that stuck with them.
ProductPlan
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Is it Time to Declare Roadmap Bankruptcy? Whether your product finds a market or falls flat, your team needs to understand why this outcome occurred. That way, you’ll know if your strategic plan is working and your roadmap is on the right track, or if it’s time to declare roadmap bankruptcy. In my years as a product manager and product leader, I’ve seen many product teams draw the wrong conclusions from both failures and successes.
Centercode
DECEMBER 22, 2020
You can say what you like about 2020, but you can’t say we didn’t learn a lot. This year has forced us to grow and change many, many aspects of our lives, from how we work (#remote), to how we communicate with our team (“Can you guys see my screen?”), to how to dress (hello sweatpants, my old friend). Our team was right there, too, and we’re proud to say that we continued not only to support our customers with our platform and services, but we supported testing prof
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