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Creating products that people love: London highlights

Mind the Product

Some of the stand-out talks from past Mind the Product conferences on building products that people love Read more » The post Creating products that people love: London highlights appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How do you make Resource Allocation decisions for products and teams?

Fearless Product

Are you a product leader trying to effectively allocate people and time across your product portfolio? In this 7-episode miniseries on alignment, 5 experienced product leaders share our most effective techniques on why and how to make product-related resource allocation decisions. In it, you’ll hear perspectives from: Jonathan Bertfield, Senior Director, Lean Startup Co.

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The Enduring Obsession: Big Brands and NFTs?—?A Tale of Hope and Uncertainty

The Product Coalition

The Enduring Obsession: Big Brands and NFTs — A Tale of Hope and Uncertainty NFTs: A Shaky Start for the Big Fish When it comes to the world of NFTs, even the biggest brands are not immune to the initial turbulence. Major brands, like GameStop, once hyped up their NFT marketplaces, hoping to ride the NFT craze to success. However, it’s been a bumpy ride.

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Product Portfolio Management & the Strategic Ripple Effect 9 of 10 – The Best Product Launches Launch the Story, Not the Product

Product Management University

The best product launches are like the cream cheese frosting on a decadent chocolate cake! You’ve just built some cool new A.I. enabled product or feature set and everyone’s totally energized over the upcoming announcement and marketing launch activities. The new product is going to boost your differentiation in the competitive space. Existing customers have greater confidence you’re keeping pace with or staying ahead of the technology curve in ways that benefit them.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

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

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AI data privacy: A new product essential

Mind the Product

In the ever-evolving tech landscape, where innovation meets the promise of generative AI, one crucial question looms: Can we truly harness the transformative power of AI while safeguarding sensitive data? Amruta Moktali, CPO at Skyflow explores. Read more » The post AI data privacy: A new product essential appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Product Managers Look For New Ways To Detect Counterfeits

The Accidental Product Manager

Finding counterfeits is half the battle Image Credit: cce Just imagine if you were a product manager who was responsible for a very popular product. Perhaps this is a fashion product or a high tech product that everyone wants. Yes, your sales would probably be exploding; however, something else would be exploding at the same time – counterfeiting of your product.

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Navigating Product Initiative Approval: Agile vs. Stage-Gate

Gocious Blog

Developing a new product is a complex process that demands the cooperation of various product teams, the collection of resources, and a significant budget. But before development can begin, there needs to be a product plan and approval from senior executives.

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Strategic Prioritization in Product Management: Core Notions and Insights

The Product Coalition

In product management, prioritization is the compass that guides teams towards their ultimate goal: delivering a product that pays off and truly resonates with their audience. It’s the practical tool that helps managers navigate the complex path of development. At JetStyle , we are enthusiasts of the product development approach, and we’ve dealt with dozens of most common issues related to prioritization.

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Assumption Testing: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started

Product Talk

A regular cadence of assumption testing helps product teams quickly determine which ideas will work and which ones won’t. It’s one of the highest value activities we can do. And sadly, most product teams don’t do any assumption testing at all. And those that do, don’t do nearly enough. I want to change that. In this article, I’ll cover assumption testing from beginning to end, including: Why should product teams test their assumptions?

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Your Guide to Product Management Interviews: Top Questions with Answers

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

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459: CX Design for products customers love – with Debbie Levitt

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can promote human-centered design I wonder if you can relate to this frustration—the pressure to get products and product updates released quickly sometimes means making compromises on design quality. It’s an organizational issue—moving quickly to beat competitors and keep up with changing customer preferences. Speed is more important than quality.

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A case study: How to build useful AI features with a cross functional ‘AI Squad’

Mind the Product

Lightful has been building features with AI tools with a fairly novel approach with an 'AI Squad'. The organisation has been working through daily iterations with a cross-functional team trying to apply product and design theory to the practical part of building AI products. In this case study, Jamie Eliott, Head of Technical Operations shares the team's key learnings from the perspective of tech, design, and product parts of the process.

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Techniques to Build Consensus and Convince Others

The Product Coalition

A variety of concrete approaches to change minds.

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Product Portfolio Management & the Strategic Ripple Effect 7 of 10 – Portfolio Positioning Is What Makes Your Product Positioning More Strategic

Product Management University

Here’s a simple example of portfolio positioning and how it makes your product positioning more strategic. Your accounts payable product improves the customer’s cash flow. It sounds strategic. What CFO doesn’t want a stronger balance sheet? Your accounts receivable product further enhances cash flow. Even more strategic when customers use both, right?

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Effective Risk Management: Balancing Safety, Compliance, and Opportunity

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.

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Product Update: New Cross Survey Reporting Capabilities

Alchemer Mobile

Combine reports from multiple surveys into a single report By Cherilyn Cornwell, Alchemer Product Manager, and Vanessa Bagnato, Alchemer Director of Product Marketing Thanks to customer requests and your feedback, Alchemer Standard Reports now provides cross survey reporting capabilities so that you can combine reports from multiple surveys into a single report, allowing you to visualize questions from different reports together.

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AI, failings, and product villains: 9 lessons from #mtpcon London

Mind the Product

After months of build-up and excitement for our flagship event #mtpcon London, we were finally back at the Barbican, London, to reconnect with old peers, interact with new friends, and indulge in some great words of wisdom from some of the most amazing product leaders around. Read on for a quick recap of what we learned this year at #mtpcon London 2023.

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Navigating the Transition from a Senior to a Lead Product Manager

The Product Coalition

As I sat across from my boss, the words “I recommend you for a promotion to Lead Product Manager (LPM)” reverberated through the room.

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Product Portfolio Management & the Strategic Ripple Effect 8 of 10 – The One Thing That Simplifies Sales Enablement Most

Product Management University

Nothing eludes the ripple effect of your product management model, and sales enablement is no exception. Sales enablement encompasses a lot, but there’s one thing that still matters more than anything else when you’re a salesperson in the throes of the sales process. It’s the conversations you’re having with buyers at all levels, from users to the C-suite, and from the first discovery conversation through to contract negotiations and the transition to customer success.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

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.

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Unlock the Power of Amplitude for Less

Amplitude

Get started with Amplitude’s new all-in-one self-serve offering that combines Amplitude Analytics, CDP, and feature management capabilities.

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Accessibility is not an add-on feature—it’s the product itself

Mind the Product

Sommer Panage, Senior Engineering Manager of Accessibility at Slack (prev. Apple, Twitter) shares tangible takeaways for product engineering teams to learn and evaluate the accessibility of their products, highlighting the need for all products to be accessible to be usable for millions. Read more » The post Accessibility is not an add-on feature—it’s the product itself appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Stakeholder Relationship Building

The Product Coalition

Mastering First Impressions: Essential Tips for Product Leaders Continue reading on Product Coalition »

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What Characteristics Make An Effective Roadmap?

Gocious Blog

Product roadmaps are crucial for communicating the product vision, guiding product development, aligning development teams, and communicating with various stakeholders. The failure to use a product roadmap effectively will often lead to confusion, misalignment, and possible failure of the product. This article focuses on what makes a good product roadmap and how to use it to ensure success.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

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.

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Deliver Impact: Why Startups Win with Amplitude

Amplitude

Starting at $49 a month, Our Plus plan lets startups and small teams quickly scale their business with an integrated solution that includes analytics, feature management, and CDP.

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Personalization at scale – tailoring tiered subscriptions to meet customer needs

Mind the Product

In this guest post, Tirtha Chavan, delves into the power of personalisation and tiered subscription models when building products. Read more » The post Personalization at scale – tailoring tiered subscriptions to meet customer needs appeared first on Mind the Product.

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B2B vs B2C Product Management: 4 Hidden Differences to Know

The Product Coalition

What hidden differences can we point out about B2B product management compared to a B2C environment?

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CAC Payback Period: What is It and How to Calculate It?

Userpilot

Product analytics are extremely helpful for SaaS businesses but they’re not the best metrics when it comes to revenue. On the other hand, metrics like the CAC payback period can help you keep an eye on sales and marketing costs to ensure that you maintain a healthy gross margin on new customers. In this guide, we’re going to go over what the CAC payback period is, why it’s worth calculating, and how to reduce your customer acquisition costs altogether!

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Build Your Best Product Strategy: An Action Plan You Can Start Now

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.

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Behind the Scenes of Our PLG Strategy Evolution

Amplitude

Check out the Amplitude Blog to learn about digital analytics, product strategy, and product-led growth from our experts. Read the latest tips and examples to bring power to your products.

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SUNDAY REWIND: 8 lessons for adopting agile by Jonathan Smart

Mind the Product

In this Sunday rewind, we look back to #mtpcon London+EMEA keynote in 2021. Jonathan Smart, Business Agility Coach and Author, shared some key lessons on ways of working by adopting agile to deliver better value, sooner, safer, and happier, offering lessons in creating an outcome-focused product culture. Read on to hear his eight key lessons. Read more » The post SUNDAY REWIND: 8 lessons for adopting agile by Jonathan Smart appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How AI Transformation Impacts the Digital Marketing Industry

The Product Coalition

With AI technology, marketers can identify microtrends and even predict trends, saving time and resources through automated digital marketing services. Artificial intelligence (AI) has begun to transform all facets of our professional and personal lives. The marketing industry is not immune to this digital transformation, as prominent brands are beginning to take advantage of the opportunities it presents.