The Secret PM Handbook
JULY 13, 2018
What are your goals? A product organization has three overarching goals: Deliver great value to our customers. Do it quickly, efficiently, and with high quality. Do it better over time. A product organization that achieves those goals is much more likely to be successful. Your methodology, your process, is a means to an end. It's not the end in itself.
Hutwork
JULY 10, 2018
Most on the customer side of product development don’t see the long days and hard nights that go into creating an amazing product. Your product’s success is much like an iceberg. The bulk of the berg (what actually happens) lies beneath the calm waters and your customers see only the shiny tip (your product) sticking out. The following infographic depicts what you can expect to experience when creating your product.
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Intercom, Inc.
JULY 9, 2018
Shipping product fast and often means more opportunities for Sales to delight customers and engage with prospects. But your sales team needs a lot more than an email on launch day to maximize the opportunities that product launches present. Here at Intercom, Sales Enablement is responsible for ensuring sales reps have the skills and resources they need to capitalize on product launches.
UserVoice
JULY 10, 2018
The latest generation of entrepreneurs has contributed its share of buzzwords and mantras to the business lexicon with mixed results. We all now know “unicorns” aren’t just mythical horses. “Disruption” is a legitimate strategy for a company trying to break into a new market… and a legitimate fear for those already making money there. And, of course, we know the best way to hone your business.
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Mind the Product
JULY 9, 2018
Since it’s still a relatively new role, there’s a lot of confusion around product management job titles, seniority, and hierarchy. This makes it hard to compare jobs, plan your career, and attract the right talent to your team. While there is still no one-size-fits-all solution, a standard is emerging from most successful product teams and organisations that can serve as a template for your own: Product Management Career Ladder.
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Intercom, Inc.
JULY 11, 2018
The problems people encounter in their lives rarely change from generation to generation. The products they hire to solve these problems change all the time. If you’re building a new product, it’s because you believe you can create a better solution that people will want to use because it delivers a better outcome. A strong understanding of the outcome customers want , and how they currently get it, is essential for you to succeed in product development.
UserVoice
JULY 10, 2018
The latest generation of entrepreneurs has contributed its share of buzzwords and mantras to the business lexicon with mixed results. We all now know “unicorns” aren’t just mythical horses. “Disruption” is a legitimate strategy for a company trying to break into a new market… and a legitimate fear for those already making money there. And, of course, we know the best way to hone your business strategy and create a killer product is to “fail fast.”.
The Product Guy
JULY 12, 2018
Guest Post by: Eric Kiang (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Paul Hurwitz]. A product manager has a tough role, there are many responsibilities and arguably all of them are important. However there is one thing every product manager must do, but often times it gets overlooked or forgotten. A product manager needs to talk to their customers, period.
Andrew Chen
JULY 10, 2018
The current generation of marketplace startups has been incredibly successful. Airbnb, Lime, Uber, Lyft, Instacart, etc. I’ve been doing a broad survey of the best writing on this topic and wanted to share my list of 20 best links I’ve seen. Marketplaces at Andreessen Horowitz. We look at a lot of marketplace startups at Andreessen Horowitz @a16z – and we fund a lot of them!
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Intercom, Inc.
JULY 13, 2018
You can spend months working on a great idea, pour tons of time and energy into crafting the perfect marketing, but without customers your business will cease to exist. All future growth hinges on one thing – customer acquisition. While this may sound simple, it can be incredibly challenging to find new opportunities for growth and customer acquisition in an increasingly crowded marketplace.
Clever PM
JULY 12, 2018
Even though it’s been around as a formal role in software organizations for nearly 20 years (or more, depending on who you talk to), Product Management still struggles with a lot of definition problems — what is the role, how do we grow, when do we get promoted and to where, etc. One of the […].
UX Studio
JULY 11, 2018
Want to improve shopping cart abandonment rates in your online store? Not sure why your customers leave the site before the last step? A question we often hear: what are some web checkout page best practices? Are there some rules to follow? So many articles cover the rules. For us, Rule Number One is: Don’t just blindly follow these. Always study the audience and design your web checkout process specifically to their needs.
Miro
JULY 12, 2018
Building products in distributed teams: 12 learnings from our first meetup in SF Reshaping Teamwork: Building & Scaling Products with Distributed Teams San FranciscoJune 20 On June 21, we hosted the first-ever “Reshaping teamwork” meetup in San Francisco. Together with our guests Eventbrite’s Pete Lim, Upwork’s Jessica Tiwari and Pivotal’s Aloka Penmetcha, we talked about building products in […].
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
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 12, 2018
As VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter, Elad Gil was a key player as company headcount skyrocketed from 90 to 1,500 employees. This wasn’t Elad’s first experience with hyper growth – Google grew headcount 10x during his time as a product manager there – nor the last. He’s also co-founded Color Genomics and invested in and been an adviser to companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Instacart, Square, Stripe and more.
The Product Guy
JULY 9, 2018
Thank you to everyone who attended the latest roundtable meet-up of The Product Group and discussed Breaking Into Product Management and debated Featured Product, Emissary.
Mind the Product
JULY 11, 2018
Consultant Özlem Yuce discusses the importance of team diversity when building products, and the impact of a non-diverse team on product development. Wet Suits and Shirley Cards. Not so long ago the prevailing wisdom for developing products for women was to “pink it and shrink it”. Nowhere was this clearer than with wet suits. Designed to fit men like a glove, women were left with uncomfortable, ill-fitting garments that didn’t protect them the same way.
Pragmatic Marketing
JULY 12, 2018
Here is a reader story about horrible pricing. Unfortunately this is far too common. I thought you might appreciate my recent foray into a pricing battle with my horse boarding facility. A lady lives on and owns a gorgeous horse farm. She agreed to let me board my horses for $250 month per horse. The barn is basic, not fancy and with no other amenities other than a sand arena, so that was a fair price.
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.
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 9, 2018
Shipping product fast and often means more opportunities for Sales to delight customers and engage with prospects. But your sales team needs a lot more than an email on launch day to maximize the opportunities that product launches present. Here at Intercom, Sales Enablement is responsible for ensuring sales reps have the skills and resources they need to capitalize on product launches.
ProductBoard
JULY 12, 2018
Today we announced our Series A: an $8M round of funding led by Kleiner Perkins, one of the world’s most iconic venture capital firms, with participation from inspiring product visionaries – the founders of Intercom, InVision, and Envoy. Below I’ll speak to how we got here and where we’re headed. You can also check out the official release announcement.
Mind the Product
JULY 12, 2018
This week’s Product Warrior podcast, supported by Mind The Product, discusses the concept of the Lean methodology and helping teams adopt an experimental approach. Silicon Valley Lean startup coach Tristan Kromer helps product teams to move fast through experimentation. He writes articles and e-books at [link]. In this episode I chat with Tristan about: What is Lean?
Pragmatic Marketing
JULY 12, 2018
Here is a reader story about horrible pricing. Unfortunately this is far too common. I thought you might appreciate my recent foray into a pricing battle with my horse boarding facility. A lady lives on and owns a gorgeous horse farm. She agreed to let me board my horses for $250 month per horse. The barn is basic, not fancy and with no other amenities other than a sand arena, so that was a fair price.
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Intercom, Inc.
JULY 10, 2018
In order to make bootstrapping work, you need to be scrappy, ruthlessly prioritizing your actions and avoiding non-essential expenses. Having one tool that helps you do all your most important work – sales, marketing and support – makes life so much easier. We’ve been pretty vocal about our love for Intercom as we’ve grown Ad Reform and Userfeed , our profitable, bootstrapped SaaS businesses over the last year.
The Accidental Product Manager
JULY 9, 2018
We do love our Doritos Image Credit: 0Four. When we think about all of the exciting product manager jobs that are out there, one of the ones that always seems to come to mind are the people who are in charge of the big soft drink products. One of the largest is Pepsi and those product managers must be working hard every day to try to keep the market share that they have and win even more.
Revulytics
JULY 11, 2018
Oracle’s sales tactics have garnered attention recently, with a series of high-profile stories alleging that the tech giant is using audits to force cloud products on customers in exchange for a break on compliance costs. The end game is that even if they don’t want it, or use it, cloud adoption is reflected in Oracle’s numbers. For people who have been in this space for a while, this news is less interesting for its reminder of Oracle being Oracle (or even for its demonstration of the difficult
The Product Coalition
JULY 13, 2018
TGI Friday’s TGI Fridays have wholeheartedly embraced the rapid change in the digital ecosystem. They have probably paid more attention to offsite experiences than the rest of their competitors in the casual dining space and are now able to offer a sophisticated, personalized experience to diners. TGI’s customers can use Alexa to order their food and also pay for their order through Amazon Pay.
Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
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Product Club
JULY 7, 2018
Product Manager interviews are like running the gamut: you need to impress everyone from engineering to design (and sometimes execs too!). As a result, attempting to prep for the wide range of varying questions you might face is daunting. Faced with that challenge, one exercise can be extremely helpful: a product deep dive. Running a product deep dive builds your knowledge and insight around the product and provides a foundation to build on.
Miro
JULY 10, 2018
What you need to know about human perception to be great at presentations One of the most important factors that contribute to a team’s efficiency is communicating your ideas in the right way. Visual presentations (which can be easily created in RealtimeBoard) are probably the most widespread way to share your ideas, so we decided […]. The post What you need to know about perception to be great at presentations appeared first on RealtimeBoard Blog.
Roy Madden
JULY 10, 2018
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