Sat.Nov 25, 2023 - Fri.Dec 01, 2023

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Steps to develop your product team: Insights from #mtpcon London

Mind the Product

Product leader, author, and consultant Matt LeMay gave an enlightening presentation on developing your product team at the #mtpcon London 2023 Leadership Forum, which precedes the main London conference. Read more » The post Steps to develop your product team: Insights from #mtpcon London appeared first on Mind the Product.

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12 Best Product Research Tools to Empower Your Strategies

Userpilot

With the right product research tools, you can dissect vast pools of data, gather actionable insights, and create products that align directly with your user’s needs. But how can you build the right product research tech stack to achieve your product growth goals? For that reason, we’ll go over 12 of the best tools you should use when conducting product research.

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The Power of Continuous Learning in Product Management

Amplitude

Gain insights from product expert Wil Pong into using continuous learning via experimentation to craft exceptional products.

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Positioning Value – The Simplest Things Are The Hardest to Say

Product Management University

To all of you product marketers out there, you totally understand this situation! When it comes to positioning value, sometimes the simplest things are the hardest to say. A good friend of mine is leaving his corporate job and going out on his own as a consultant with an amazing track record of success. He put up a website and asked me to give it a look.

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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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From Niche to Success: How To Make Vertical SaaS a Worthwhile Startup Investment

The Product Coalition

Now! It’s difficult to find a SaaS company that isn’t already in the niche you wish to enter! The solution? Vertical SaaS! Vertical SaaS has had a tremendous run during the last decade. The growing number of public vertical SaaS winners worth billions of dollars, such as in health sciences (Veeva), construction (Procore), restaurants (Toast), and banking (nCino), demonstrates how cloud-based and mobile app development specialized to certain industries can become giant businesses.

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Building an Agile Product Roadmap: Tips and Best Practices | Productboard

ProductBoard

Agile product roadmaps are the cornerstone of scaling businesses. Rooted in agile development methodologies, these roadmaps speed up development and time-to-market, leveraging adaptable, clear visual representations of the product’s strategic direction and ideal outcomes. All roadmaps include or connect to a product’s key goals, features, and milestones over time.

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How to Build a Habit-Forming Enterprise Product

Nir Eyal

For companies building products for enterprise customers, increasing customer retention by just 5 percent increases profits by 25 to 95 percent. Yet keeping customers isn’t easy. Eighty percent of B2B buyers say they switch suppliers at least once in two years. User retention is perhaps the most important metric for SaaS providers, who offer products or services that must engage customers regularly to ensure they don’t churn.

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Car Product Managers Prepare To Go Electric

The Accidental Product Manager

The future is coming, will car product managers be ready? Image Credit: American Tobacco Campus If you are a product manager for a car, then you have a pretty well-defined life. Every couple of years, you work with your team to create an updated version of your product, work to get it manufactured, do the marketing, and then go do battle with all of the other car product manager.

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Tired of Fake Agility? Choose When to Experiment and When to Deliver

Johanna Rothman

I have a new book: Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. I wrote it because I'm concerned about what I see in too many supposedly agile teams: Crazy-long backlogs and roadmaps. Those create a serial lifecycle approach with too little experimentation. Worse, sometimes the team doesn't demo or deliver.

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B2B eCommerce, Self-Service Portals, and PIM Trends for 2024

In 2024, B2B customers expect better quality and service with streamlined experiences that match consumer-grade simplicity—no long calls or meetings required. Our B2B eCommerce Trends Report, surveying 400+ B2B professionals in the US and Europe, reveals how eCommerce has become vital to top companies’ strategies. The report shows how leaders are leveraging eCommerce to break data silos, unify channels, and deliver the personalized experiences that customers demand.

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Top product management reads in November

Mind the Product

From questions about how technical a product manager should be, or how to manage your career or how to master cross-disciplinary collaboration, here’s a look through our most-read posts in November. Read more » The post Top product management reads in November appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How to run a better win-loss analysis and improve win rates with Alchemer

Alchemer Mobile

Improve win rates with more effective customer feedback By Jasper Lipton, Alchemer Senior Product Marketing Manager, and Vanessa Bagnato, Alchemer Director of Product Marketing Sales leaders are being asked to deliver more revenue with fewer resources, and a strong win-loss analysis program can boost win rates by up to 50%. With powerful customizability and robust automation, Alchemer enables sales teams to collect strategic feedback that helps them understand why they win or lose deals—and driv

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Understand How A Business Works and Makes Money

The Product Coalition

The best product managers are business managers. I hosted an event recently where a panel of experienced product management professionals discussed the state of product management. One of the topics that surfaced as part of the discussion is that the best product managers are business managers. Product managers can only be great by understanding how a business works and makes money.

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Your Guide to Sharpening Scoring Skills & Reducing Bias

Gocious Blog

Product development teams are always eager to improve their products. This passion for the product and quest to make improvements leads to a flood of ideas pouring in on a regular basis. Naturally, everyone who submits an idea believes their suggestion is great and should be implemented. While their idea may be good, that doesn’t guarantee it’s the right idea to focus on next.

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Usage-Based Monetization Musts: A Roadmap for Sustainable Revenue Growth

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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Interviewing customers has never been more important – here’s how you do it

Mind the Product

A how-to guide for product managers on structuring customer interviews Read more » The post Interviewing customers has never been more important – here’s how you do it appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Alchemer Adds ServiceNow, Jira, Oracle Cloud, and HubSpot Always-On Workflow Initiators 

Alchemer Mobile

Listen to events from CRM, marketing, HRIS, and project management software systems so you can collect feedback in context of your customer’s experience. By Justin Falk, Alchemer Product Manager, and Vanessa Bagnato, Alchemer Director of Product Marketing Every month, we add to the library of Alchemer Workflow Initiators so that you can create always-on surveys and feedback by listening to events in the systems your business runs on, such as CRMs, marketing automation, HRIS, and project ma

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The age of AI-based Copilots has arrived?—?but does this mean for the future?

The Product Coalition

With thousands of tech companies rushing to adopt or integrate AI, we’re finally seeing AI-enabled products such as “Copilots” entering… Continue reading on Product Coalition »

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How to Improve Conversion Rate Optimization Using Web Analytics

Amplitude

Learn how conversion rate optimization (CRO) using web analytics and A/B testing helps create better user experiences to drive more desired actions.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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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How to keep your head about generative AI (when everyone is losing theirs) by Claire Woodcock

Mind the Product

In her keynote at #mtpcon London 2023, Claire Woodcock, Director of Product, ML, at Mozilla explains how to keep your head about generative AI, when everyone else loses theirs. Read more » The post How to keep your head about generative AI (when everyone is losing theirs) by Claire Woodcock appeared first on Mind the Product.

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465: Increase your success when creating organizational change – with Lisa Carlin

Product Innovation Educators

The secret recipe for organizational transformation Today we are talking about organizational change. As innovators, creating change is what we do. You may have already learned that change is not always welcomed, such as when the new product you created also cannibalizes an existing product your organization provides. Organizational change and transformation is challenging, and today we’ll learn how to navigate it more successfully, thanks to our guest Lisa Carlin.

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Want To Become a Product Manager? Start Thinking Like One.

The Product Coalition

Let’s define success while on the path to product management.

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Revenue Growth Rate: Definition, Formula & How to Improve it

Userpilot

Tracking revenue on a spreadsheet is easy, but understanding the underlying factors influencing revenue growth rate is a different ball game. By the end of this article, you will be equipped to do that. As you read on, you will learn: How to properly define revenue growth. The formula to calculate growth rate and what good growth looks like. Related metrics that impact your revenue and how to use the insights to turn your product into a growth engine.

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The 25 Types of Innovation Dominating R&D Today

Innovation varies widely across sectors and organizations, creating value in diverse forms. Understanding different types is crucial for R&D teams to foster creativity and uncover missed opportunities. This guide explores 25 key types of innovation in management frameworks.

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SUNDAY REWIND: The new cybernetics: systems thinking for the 21st century by Genevieve Bell

Mind the Product

This week’s Sunday Rewind is a #mtpcon Digital APAC keynote from 2021 in which Genevieve Bell, Director of the 3A Institute (3Ai), gives us a whirlwind tour of cybernetics, demonstrating how its transdisciplinary approach can be used to inform our product processes and systems. Read more » The post SUNDAY REWIND: The new cybernetics: systems thinking for the 21st century by Genevieve Bell appeared first on Mind the Product.

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A Primer on Talking to Customers From Rob Fitzpatrick's The Mom Test

Sachin Rekhi

Everyone knows that a critical part of developing a new product is talking to potential customers. So most product managers and founders dutifully have customer conversations as part of their product development process. But what's insidious about the way that people talk to customers is that they often fail to glean any new insights or worse, get a false positive, causing them to over invest their cash, their time, and their team in an unvalidated product idea that ultimately doesn't sell.

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The future of AI in software development | Inbal Shani (CPO of GitHub)

Lenny Rachitsky

Brought to you by Jira Product Discovery —Atlassian’s new prioritization and roadmapping tool built for product teams | Sanity —The most customizable content layer to power your growth engine | HelpBar by Chameleon —The free in-app universal search solution built for SaaS — Inbal Shani is the chief product officer at GitHub, where she leads core product management, along with product strategy, marketing, open source, and communities, including the development of Git

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Performance Reporting: Definition, Types, Process & More

Userpilot

Performance reporting is essential for product and project managers to make data-driven decisions. In this article, we explore: What performance reporting is Why it is important What to include in a performance report How to create performance reports The best analytics tools for performance reporting Let’s get right to it! TL;DR Performance reporting is the process of collecting , analyzing, and presenting data on product or project performance.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

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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Navigating the AI job market – Hoang Nguyen (Director of Product)

Mind the Product

Navigating the job market, finding your specialization, and making career decisions that suit your needs can be a complex process. That's why we sat down with Hoang Nguyen , Director of Product at Westwing, to dig into these intricate topics and offer some insight. In the realm of AI, not only do we discuss its fascinating aspects, but we also delve into how to discover innate talents and develop a passion for product management within it.

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Should You Leave Academia? Advice for Researchers from a Former Professor

UserInterviews

A former history professor turned UX researcher explains his decision to leave academia for the private sector, and shares practical advice for others looking to make the transition.

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How Centralization Decisions Create Friction, Increase Cycle Time, and Cost Money, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

Some company is buying your company (or vice versa). Why? They claim it's “Economies of scale,” and the combined organization will save money by centralizing “overhead” and flattening management. You know who that “overhead” is: the people who support the business, such as finance and HR. And, the managers. Worse, the new management asks managers to “reapply” for their old jobs, the jobs they have right now.