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A case study: crafting OKRs at Printify

Mind the Product

In this article, we’ll share our good and bad experiences in setting, measuring, and testing OKRs goals against the fluctuations of print-on-demand eCommerce. [.] Read more » The post A case study: crafting OKRs at Printify appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Three Key Product Management Lessons from the Founder and CEO of productLivity

Alchemer Mobile

Whether you’re new to the product management field or a seasoned professional, it’s always valuable to learn from your peers’ lived experiences. From learning more about their career path to predicted trends to general tips and advice, there’s no shortage of lessons to be learned that can ultimately help you develop and become a better product expert yourself.

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Growing up without growing old: How to keep the startup spirit as you scale

Intercom, Inc.

When you’ve launched your product, raised a round or two, and scaled the business beyond the early days, inevitably things start to slow down. You used to speak in hours and days, and now it’s months and quarters. You used to obsess about innovation and being at the front of the market, and now you’re feeling bogged down shipping table-stakes features.

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Definition Playbook

The Product Coalition

Guest post by Rebecca Monfries, Head of Delivery at Terem Technologies, and Nathan Bruce, Lead Business Analyst at Terem Technologies. Word from Scott: Over the years we’ve helped many different teams bridge the gap between discovering requirements and getting them ready for deployment. So I asked the team to share the playbook we’ve used to help prepare them to begin Definition.

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

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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OKRs in product management by Roman Pichler

Mind the Product

From explaining the benefits and drawbacks to taking a collaborative approach to setting the right goals, Roman Pichler shares his thoughts on setting effective product-related goals using OKRs. [.] Read more » The post OKRs in product management by Roman Pichler appeared first on Mind the Product.

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UserOnboard’s Samuel Hulick on designing paths, not products

Intercom, Inc.

Users are recruiting your product to reach a specific outcome in their lives — whether that’s catching a flight to reunite with their families or using a productivity app to meet a deadline and impress their boss. For Samuel Hulick , a UX consultant and one of the biggest authorities out there on user onboarding, that means thinking less about the product itself and more about how to get users the results they’re after.

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PODCAST on Product Led Growth

Product Management University

Join John Mansour and Paul Heller for an insightful 30-minute podcast on product led growth and making the transition from a direct sales model. Had a lot of fun discussing the differences between a new business starting with a product led growth model and mature businesses making the transition from a traditional direct sales model. Paul’s company, Sopheon is making the transition.

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How to connect strategy with OKRs

Mind the Product

To maximise the effectiveness of OKRs, teams must connect them to their overarching business strategy. Learn how from Nacho Bassino, Director of Product at XING, about ‘Connecting Strategy to OKRs' [.] Read more » The post How to connect strategy with OKRs appeared first on Mind the Product.

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What Do Product Managers Specialize In?

The Product Coalition

No, They Are Not Generalists… Photo by Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels Every time I visit my parents we seem to have the exact same conversation. It is initiated in various forms like “You are a Project Manager right?” or “What do you do in your work?” or “Why do you only do meetings?”. And every time, I take them on a journey through what I really do.

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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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Announcing our new WhatsApp integration – support your customers on the world’s most popular messaging service

Intercom, Inc.

Incorporate your customers’ most-loved platform into your support offering. We’ve partnered with WhatsApp to provide a simple, hassle-free integration within Intercom – the easiest way to add WhatsApp to your company’s support experience. When it comes to personalized support, WhatsApp is a no-brainer. Offering convenient, effective support to your customers, exactly where they are, just makes sense. “Today, we’re announcing a simple way to integrate one of the world’s most popular communi

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Finding Language/Market Fit: How to Make Customers Feel Like You’ve Read Their Minds

First Round Review

After more than a decade of running B2B growth teams at PayPal and investing at 500 Startups, Matt Lerner now spends his days helping early-stage startups with growth. He's seen firsthand how changes in a handful of words can yield jaw-dropping differences in conversion — and accelerate a startup's course to product/market fit. Here, he makes the case for starting with language/market fit first, and offers up his 4-step process for getting there.

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OKRs can be simple – Storm Fagan on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

Storm Fagan — now the Chief Product Officer at the BBC, joined us on the podcast to break down how she made OKRs scale at a big company by keeping them simple. (Hint: that wasn't her first approach.) [.] Read more » The post OKRs can be simple – Storm Fagan on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.

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They Are Not Product People

The Product Coalition

As product leaders we work with so many stakeholders, and we strive to include them in the product definition processes. While generally this is the right thing to do, there is one line that you don’t want to cross: letting them do the product work instead of you, or expecting them to contribute more than they can. Here is a quick guide to finding the right balance.

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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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The experiment that revealed how proactive support directly affects your bottom line

Intercom, Inc.

Proactive support is a lifesaver for busy teams looking to provide exceptional support at scale. By allowing support teams to get ahead of known problems and provide help to customers before they need to reach out, proactive support has enabled major companies to scale their support without increasing headcount, drive down inbound conversation volumes ( in some cases by up to 80% ), and maintain incredible customer satisfaction ratings.

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Invisible Women as Part of Security Questions

Johanna Rothman

The good news is most sites realize we, the users, need nudges to create strong passwords. The bad news is too many of those nudges reject strong passwords from password managers. (I use and am happy with 1Password.). Worse, too many sites still ask horrible , terrible security questions instead of asking for two-factor authentication. Your first house, your first dog, your mother's maiden name.

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Let’s talk about Objectives and Key Results

Mind the Product

Product leader, Federico Iglesias delves into the elements of OKRs in product management, and discusses how they can be utilised best for teams in his post ‘Let’s talk about OKRs’. [.] Read more » The post Let’s talk about Objectives and Key Results appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Are Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs) a Safe Thing to Buy in 2022?

The Product Coalition

We are already in the last quarter of 2021, with 2022 on the way, several business owners and investors are looking for markets where they can start investing. Every investor knows that investing come with risks and even with that knowledge, investors still like to play it safe. That means that no one likes investing in anything that is not capable of bringing returns or that is not profitable.

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

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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Insights: Using product analytics to find metrics that predict retention

Mixpanel

Let me jump right in: With product analytics, customer retention isn’t just something you measure after the fact; it should be something you can learn to predict (and then improve). I get it—data and analytics sound technical and scary, something only “really smart analytical people” should touch. How could a product manager possibly dig into the data and pull up something that’s genuinely useful for activation and retention?

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Use Decision Deadlines to Plan for Product Deliverables

Johanna Rothman

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops. Many organizations ask teams to forecast when the team can deliver a feature. (Or finish a project.) That request often means the teams spend a ton of time forecasting, not delivering. Instead, what if managers told the team when the managers want to make a decision? The team could deliver enough to help the managers make those decisions.

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OKRs: Implement well, ensure transparency and drive progress

Mind the Product

Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are used in different ways. What's more, different stages of the framework present different challenges. To shed light on some key areas we asked three product managers to share their experiences. [.] Read more » The post OKRs: Implement well, ensure transparency and drive progress appeared first on Mind the Product.

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It’s All About The Relationships

The Product Coalition

4 important product management relationships and why they matter Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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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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Doing UX Research within an Arab Cultural Context – with Norah Abokhodair of Microsoft

UserInterviews

How to recruit and do thoughtful research with Arab and Arabic-speaking participants—and why making the effort to understand cultural nuance is so important.

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Setting Product OKRs – 5 Mistakes That Might Be Holding Your Team Back

Dragonboat

When it comes to setting product OKRs (objectives and key results), there are several rules of thumb that most who are familiar with this goal framework already follow. For example, objectives should be aspirational enough to motivate team members, and key results shouldn’t be easy targets. When used correctly, a product-led company can use goal-setting […].

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SUNDAY REWIND: The secret weapon of retrospectives – the Team Radar

Mind the Product

You know that moment when you realise that something in your team isn’t quite? Sometimes you’re the only one who sees it too. It’s never a fun feeling, but often, you’re ability to spot the problem can be put to good use. Today we find out how via a 2019 post by independent product leadership [.] Read more » The post SUNDAY REWIND: The secret weapon of retrospectives – the Team Radar appeared first on Mind the Product.

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My Story of Landing a Product Gig in The Valley

The Product Coalition

A story about my job seeking experience and what I learnt from it Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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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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Optimizing qualitative research: Coding and tagging strategy

TryMyUI

Qualitative research is a method of gaining insights into how people think and act by studying what they say, do, use, or build. In this post we'll discuss coding strategies for qualitative analysis and tips on how to ensure that your work is reproducible. The post Optimizing qualitative research: Coding and tagging strategy appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.

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How to Grow Your Company’s Product Culture

BrainMates

An interview with Kate Pollard, Co-Founder of Circle In. Circle In is an employee benefits platform that inspires parents, caregivers, HR professionals, and managers to take real action. Since its start in 2017, Circle In has been growing quickly, with over 60 companies now using their platform to support parents in the workplace. And as the company matures, Circle In Co-founder Kate Pollard knows that proper Product Practices are what will lead her team to success.

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MTP Panel: Defining your OKRs in 2022

Mind the Product

With 2022 fast approaching, there’s no better time to have a refocus on OKRs and get ready to start the new year. In this panel discussion for Prioritised members, five OKR and product experts discuss defining your OKRs. [.] Read more » The post MTP Panel: Defining your OKRs in 2022 appeared first on Mind the Product.

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