Lead on Purpose

JANUARY 1, 2018

“The future is in your hands, but only if you act today.” Today starts a new year with new opportunities ahead.

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JANUARY 2, 2018

Every month, subscribers to Ask a Tech Teacher get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. January 1st-15th: Spend $28 or more on Structured Learning , get a free copy of the. Martin Luther King Day Bundle. Click to view slideshow. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 18 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 4, 2018

You may have a great idea and polished advertising to go with it, but, for some reason, millennials don’t seem to click with your product. Do you ever wonder why? What can you do about it? Millennials are one of the largest generations by number, and will soon make up 50% of the global workforce according to PWC. But when it comes to customer loyalty, millennials are different.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Out of the hundreds of nominations, and amazing finalists, the 8th annual winner of The Best Product Person is … Melissa Perri. The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group. Take a moment and congratulate The Best Product Person of 2017: Melissa Perri. ( tweet ).

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First Round Review

JANUARY 4, 2018

The most insightful and transformative pieces of advice we published on the Review in 2017, curated for your perusal and continued excellence. Relevant to everyone working in tech, not just founders.

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Nir Eyal

JANUARY 5, 2018

What are the ethical responsibilities of companies that are able to manipulate human behavior on a massive scale? It’s a question one hopes technologists and designers ask themselves when building world-changing products — but one that hasn’t been asked often enough. Operant conditioning, intermittent reinforcement, the search for self-actualization — the techniques used by product […].

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 3, 2018

Joe Leech is an expert in product design strategy, UX and applying psychology in design. He’s recently written a book, “ Psychology for Designers,” in which he focuses on recognising and using psychology as a design tool. He’s now a product consultant who works with a range of companies: “I plug into companies that have delivery teams, and I advise the teams on what they should do and in what order.”.

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Miro

JANUARY 1, 2018

Day 1 of 80 Days of Excellence From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. I’ve been one of those people who crafted this articulate, well-planned giga-goals that never happened. In the last three years, I’ve learned several things about setting goals that are transformative and move life forward. So, this year, I’m keeping things simple in goal setting: 3 goals for each 12 weeks (Read the 12-week Year by Brian Moran about 12-week goal sett

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Userzoom

JANUARY 3, 2018

What a design system is, why you need one, and how to build it. Inconsistency across products and platforms. Wasted time spent digging up old code snippets. Poor communication between teams. These consequences of large teams just can’t be avoided, right? Not exactly. Just because you’re expanding your product team and/or scaling processes doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice quality or consistency.

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Clever PM

JANUARY 4, 2018

So, another year is starting up, and we’re just now starting to unpack ourselves from the holiday break that so many of us take time to enjoy with our families and friends. The best thing about a new year is that the future really is a blank slate, 365 days to make of them what […].

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. These discussions often get very technical or theoretical: treating roadmapping as a purely intellectual exercise, where our secret ambition is for the world to admire our brilliant algorithms and decision criteria.

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Nir Eyal

JANUARY 5, 2018

What are the ethical responsibilities of companies that are able to manipulate human behavior on a massive scale? It’s a question one hopes technologists and designers ask themselves when building world-changing products — but one that hasn’t been asked often enough. Operant conditioning, intermittent reinforcement, the search for self-actualization — the techniques used by product […] The post Want to Design User Behavior?

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2018

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ladislav Bartos, lead a conversation around “The Future of Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Check it out… About The Product Mentor. The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better D

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 1, 2018

The right product begins with a validated user need and a market. In this episode you’ll learn about some of the big ideas in product management to help you make the move to product master, specifically: The difference between building the product right vs. building the right product, Challenges of working with development teams, How to assemble a roadmap, Release planning, and.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 1, 2018

(aka The Myth of Statistical Significance). Get the Nobel Prize ready. I know Baskin-Robbins cures cancer in lab tests for a fact despite no medical training or testing. How can I be so certain? Because they have 31 flavors. If I ran a test of people who eat each flavor of Baskin-Robbins, it’s very likely that at least one group would have statistically significant results at the.05 level that it cures cancer.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JANUARY 3, 2018

According to an article in The Mercury , Village Cinemas in Australia is testing dynamic pricing, and it’s not going well. It has implemented a $1 increase in ticket prices and has increased prices on many concessions after 5 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, the busiest times for the movie theaters. Many moviegoers are complaining on social media, and this article has increased awareness and dissatisfaction.

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UserInterviews

JANUARY 2, 2018

Erik Zahnlecker, Co-founder and COO at Allocate, on finding participants, prioritizing the effort, and more on managing user research at an early stage startup.

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 2, 2018

Our oldest child recently graduated from college with dual undergraduate degrees in Biology and Music Performance. He worked hard to accomplish this in 4 years with a high GPA and we look forward to celebrating his future successes. He was successful, in part, by establishing a reachable goal. Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), first introduced more than 30 years ago, has many documented examples of success.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Data is a product manager’s best friend. However, just like friends in real life, you need to know when to phone a friend and who to call upon. In search of a problem – going broad Finding the right problem to solve with a product is often the hardest problem in itself. This is when you are in the “unknown unknown” zone because you don’t live the customer’s life day in and day out.

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Userzoom

JANUARY 5, 2018

Friday in 5 – interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, served up in one spot to keep you up to date. This week: Our increasing demand to buy gadgets, groceries and other goods online is actually driving up the price of land on which to store those items, U.S. private employers added 250,000 jobs in December, marking the biggest monthly increase since March, traditional grocers are preparing to harness technology in new ways, ready to unleash a new, more likely to succeed, tech re

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 1, 2018

Allan Neill’s Product Management Show podcast ( TPMS episode 43 ) has md humorously debating Steve Johnson , with Neeha Tummala as referee and Saeed Khan as guest host. Steve represents the algorithmic approach to prioritization, and I stump for stakeholder consensus. We don’t take ourselves serious, but do reach for some colorful analogies.

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Sequent Learning

JANUARY 5, 2018

For the past few years, the business world has suffered from “growing pains” and the corporate community is certainly enduring its share of turbulence and disorder. Among the many causative issues, mergers and downsizing are creating conflicts over strategies, roles and responsibilities, and corporate culture clashes. Recently, a product manager lamented that he was stuck […].

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The Accidental Product Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Happy New Year! It’s still the holiday season and I’m still on vacation! This is the time of the year that we all make plans for what we want to accomplish in the upcoming year. This time around, take your time and give some thought to what you can do to make this your best year ever…! Here’s hoping that you’ll have peace, love, happiness, and success in the upcoming year.

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DISQO

DECEMBER 30, 2017

The company revolutionizing the American healthcare industry uses Alpha to gain empathy for consumers and bring desperately-needed products to market. Background. Amidst skyrocketing healthcare costs, one of the nation’s oldest and largest insurers decided to take bold action. In 2016, Aetna announced its commitment to transparency. With the mission to enable employers to help their employees make more informed decisions, Aetna set out to provide access to information about benefits, estimate c

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 5, 2018

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. 12 observations after 10 years as a product manager. This is a good list providing perspective on the role of a product manager. And it’s a quick read at [link]. The way we build products has fundamentally changed.

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TryMyUI

JANUARY 4, 2018

Happy New Year! As we roll into 2018, many of us are refreshing and reevaluating some of the personal goals that we set and perhaps struggled to keep last year. What kind of resolutions can we make as User Experience practitioners? The post 6 UX New Year’s resolutions appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 2, 2018

Topic: Building & Scaling Product Teams. How Do We Make Them Work? Where: Sydney , AU (location TBD). When: Thursday, 1 March, 6:00pm – 8:00pm. Registration page. Hosted by Product Talks Sydney and Brainmates. Building and scaling a product team is a challenge that every successful product company faces. We’ll tackle it in a few steps, time permitting, with lots of audience participation: When and how does a startup hire its first product manager?

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 4, 2018

I have a new column up on projectmanagement.com, 3 Questions to Ask Before Estimating an Agile Program. Often, management wants an estimate for the program. I suggest that before a program manager ask the teams to estimate, she learn the answers to these questions from management: How much would you like to invest in time, money, or learning before we stop?

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