Product Management University

MAY 24, 2021

Your product management maturity model isn’t so much about what your team can do. It’s what your team can do for the customer. From either perspective, it’s the skill level and proficiency of your team as it matures. But if customer value is always the end game, make quantifiable customer outcomes the driving force in your product management maturity model and the path becomes shorter, faster and easier to measure.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 24, 2021

Do you or your managers want people to be happy at work? That's a laudable goal. And, in my experience, unrealistic. That's because happiness is an outcome of a person's current life context. Instead of happiness, let's consider satisfaction. When we consider satisfaction, we might discover ways to create a great work environment. That satisfaction might offer more opportunities for happiness.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2021

Thinking Like a Leader?—?Part 1 of Becoming a Product Leader This is Part 1 of the “ Becoming a Product Leader ” series. In this series, I’m tackling different outcomes and traits that individual contributor Product Managers can practice and cultivate to become a Product Leader. This article focuses on shifting one’s perspective from a team level Product Manager to an organization wide Product Leader.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 25, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an irreversible impact on how the world does business. Over the last year, companies have had to pivot to digital-first ways of working overnight; supply chains and distribution facilities worldwide have been majorly disrupted; and, in the midst of all this uncertainty, consumers have (understandably) been more anxious and frustrated than ever.

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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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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2021

When we ask questions about our data, we rarely walk in a straight line to the answer. Instead, data analysis often follows a more circuitous, creative process: we ask a question, discover our first effort to answer it is incomplete, reshape our data, bring in new data, consult a domain expert to rework our hypothesis, [.] Read more » The post How product leaders can make better decisions with iterative analytics appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 26, 2021

Artificial intelligence is the most suitable choice to succeed in all challenges in learning different things. AI technology in education develops your learning method properly. It supports teachers or coaches to implement better, acquainted, and customized help to students. AI-powered learning techniques help teachers to examine the grasping power of learners.

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Product Management Unpacked

MAY 27, 2021

After nine years working as a systems engineer, applications engineer, software engineer and finally, a lead data engineer, Debashish Sasmal was ready for his next strategic move. “I’d worked for a startup in Hyderabad, India where everyone had to wear different hats,“ recalls Debashish. “I realized that I wanted to expand my focus into product management.”.

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Mind the Product

MAY 28, 2021

Little in a company is more important than the successful transition to a leadership role — make good decisions as a senior leader and you’ll positively impact the business. Make bad decisions and your influence on the organisation will surely hit a bum note. But transition to product leadership isn’t always easy. McKinsey posits that 50% of [.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 26, 2021

Every company, organization, or team has a set of values – they may or may not be codified and written down, but they exist in the way the people behave and treat one another. The most successful companies take the time to be purposeful about their values. They discuss and debate them, write them down, agree on them, and most importantly live by them.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 24, 2021

Becoming a Product Leader?—?Introduction This is an article series on moving from individual contributor Product Manager to people manager and Product Leader. This is something that I’ve personally struggled with, and witnessed brilliant, hardworking, rockstar PMs struggle with. There are some solid articles on this already, as well as great guidance from the recent Cracking the PM Career book.

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Mixpanel

MAY 27, 2021

Imagine you run a lemonade stand. You meticulously track how many people purchase from your stand each week, because that’s how you make money. For the first two months, the number increased without fail. Then, as if you took a false step on your hike to profit, it started tumbling down the hill. What happened? And how did you not see it coming? After sitting down with some trusted friends and family members, they broke the news that your lemonade simply wasn’t any good.

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Mind the Product

MAY 24, 2021

In this ProductTank Berlin talk, Benjamin Keyser, VP Product at Contentful, explains the importance of decision-making in taking a company from the startup stage to the scale-up stage. The key points of his talk include: Consequences of poor decisions Decisions during the startup period Decision styles More effect and less affect Watch the video to [.

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freshtrax

MAY 26, 2021

At btrax, we typically talk to two types of people when discussing Japanese market opportunities. Those who believe that a global strategy will work in Japan. Those who understand the landscape of the Japanese market and need to create a strategy specific to Japan. Depending on your goals, resources, and budget, both types of people can succeed in Japan.

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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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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2021

The secret to acing a product management interview isn’t just knowing what questions to expect. It’s getting inside your interviewer’s mind, and understanding why they’re asking you these questions, and what they want to know. The Most Common Product Management Interview Questions What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development?

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NextBigWhat

MAY 26, 2021

During my time as Partner at @ycombinator, my ambition to build something big only grew. I took the plunge and decided to follow the ‘age-old’ wisdom of fixing my own problem and building a startup around the solution. (cont.). I hated doing legal work for my startups and never really understood what I was paying for. The entire experience was too complicated and opaque.

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Mind the Product

MAY 23, 2021

While discussing this week’s Sunday Rewind, Mind the Product’s Managing Director Emily Tate was quick to suggest one of her all-time favourite posts — Escape from the feature roadmap to outcome-driven development. For Emily, this post written in 2018 by Alice Newton Rex, Director of Product at WhatsApp, formerly CPO at WorldRemit, provided a real [.

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Nir Eyal

MAY 23, 2021

The post Can We Regulate Social Networks To Curb Addiction—Without Making Them Suck? appeared first on Nir and Far.

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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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The Product Coalition

MAY 24, 2021

A regular challenge for product and venture teams operating in large companies is uplifting the skills of the people raising ideas so that they are more mature when they arrive. More mature ideas hitting the top of the product team’s funnel means better results for the business. This challenge usually starts out with an announcement from an executive that there is now a team responsible for taking innovative ideas and converting them into new products and new ventures.

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Roy Madden

MAY 27, 2021

Case Study. This analyst team designed AI-powered security Feeds in Feedly that proactively alert them about specific topics, threats, and threat actors. The energy provider ‘s results with Feedly Discovered a supply chain data breach a week before the public announcement Able to monitor hundreds of suppliers for breaches Detected a critical vulnerability within 2 hours of its release and patched it immediately.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2021

The job of a Product person is hard to define. We’re a little of everything, depending on the day and what’s needed. The one thing we can all agree on is that it’s never really done. Christian Idiod—partner at Silicon Valley Product Group—joins us on the podcast to break down what’s expected of us, what [.] Read more » The post Product Management: What is the job, really?

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Modus Create

MAY 26, 2021

As part of a recent customer engagement, we were tasked with defining a naming convention for GitHub repositories. Up to this point, each project team had used whatever convention (or none) they liked to define the repository name, leading to a situation where there was a lack of consistency across the GitHub organization. I had my own ideas around what conventions made sense, although these are influenced by the type of work I do.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2021

Domain Knowledge is a key factor in every IT field, be it Business Analytics, FinTech, Mobile App industry, Information Protection, Data Privacy, Database Testing, Security, Software Testing, and Quality Assurance. But the last two in the list remain crucial in every IT domain because with testing and QA rest of the technical aspects are met successfully.

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First Round Review

MAY 26, 2021

From the importance of founder naivety, to seeking out the doubters, to rigorously assessing founder/market fit, Irving Fain shares his lessons from building a company in a space he wasn't an expert in, as well as other takeaways from the earliest days at his startup, Bowery Farming.

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Mind the Product

MAY 27, 2021

“It was really close, but we’ve decided not to extend an offer at this time.” I thanked the Lyft recruiter for her time and asked a few follow up questions on areas where I might be able to improve. After we hung up, I stepped outside and paced along the Cumberland River in downtown Nashville [.] Read more » The post The power of interviewing above your weight class appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 22, 2021

Everyone wants innovation, especially if we can plan and schedule into each sprint. But innovation is uncertain. Can we shift the discussion to planning and scheduling and funding of discovery that can (often) lead to innovation?

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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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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2021

The value of a test kitchen when creating a product is immense. The ability to test and iterate based on real usage with real users is invaluable to getting to the root of a problem, understanding a user’s existence, and removing friction. Even the smallest and tightest group of beta users still takes coordination effort and time that is crucial when you have an early product.

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The Product Guy

MAY 23, 2021

Transitioning from a sales/marketing lead company to a product lead company will be great for recruitment. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Amin Bashi.

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TryMyUI

MAY 27, 2021

Wireframing is a technique that involves visualizing the product. These are user experience or UI designs that summarize the design process. These can be hand-drawn or made using complex designing software. If you are working for a client, they will likely ask for a visual representation of the process. Providing wireframes is the best option in this case.

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