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The product guru complex

Mind the Product

It's time to ditch the dogma and introduce a strong dose of pragmatism if product management is to avoid an existential crisis, argues Becky Yelland. Read more » The post The product guru complex appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How to Lead Your Product Teams to Success in 2024

Gocious Blog

We're two months into 2024, and your Q1 product initiatives are likely well underway. Setting a strong cadence for effective team processes at the beginning of the year is crucial, especially when deliverables in the following quarters depend on the success of current projects. What can your teams do to ensure their projects continue to progress smoothly?

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Beyond the Book: Navigating the Real-World Challenges of Managing a Product Roadmap

The Product Coalition

“The value is in what gets used, not what gets built”. — Kris Gale As a wise man once said, no roadmap survives contact with reality. Fires sparked to life left and right, yet there were no firefighters in sight, and I had no tools to fight them. Every hour, a new fire seemed to materialize from an unknown direction with no warning. I was on a path, a journey, to a new and wonderful destination.

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Using Generative AI to Drive Corporate Impact

TechEmpower - Product Management

Generative AI is revolutionizing how corporations operate by enhancing efficiency and innovation across various functions. Focusing on generative AI applications in a select few corporate functions can contribute to a significant portion of the technology's overall impact. Key Functions with High Impact Generative AI is revolutionizing sales by enabling dynamic pricing and personalized customer interactions, boosting conversion rates and customer satisfaction.

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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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What Makes An Effective Product Management Process

Product Management University

A great 30-minute conversation with Paul Heller , Chief Evangelist at Sopheon. But we didn’t discuss the process itself. We talked about value-driven product management, what it takes to get the rest of the organization on board and how to help other disciplines see the benefit to them. 30 minutes never went so fast. It’s definitely worth a listen.

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The 7 Most Important Laws of UX Design in 2024

UX Planet

Just as the physical world operates under predictable cause-and-effect relationships, so too does the world of User Experience (UX) design. Behind every interaction on every digital interface, lies a series of cause-and-effect relationships, dictating the predictable outcomes and human behaviors we encounter as users. UX designers refer to these predictable cause-and-effect relationships as the “laws” of UX design.

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Free vs Paid Analytics Platforms: How to Choose One (+ Best Tools in Each Category)

Userpilot

Analytics tools offer a competitive advantage for companies investing in prolonged product growth. However, not all companies can invest precious resources in an analytics tool. In reality, some companies are better served using free vs paid analytics platforms. Which camp would you belong in? In this article, we’ll present the advantages and disadvantages of paid analytics platforms versus their free version counterparts and the best tools for each category.

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‘Niching’ Down

The Product Coalition

“No niche is too small if it’s yours”  — Seth Godin We’ve all heard the saying, “if you try to please everyone, you please no one.” This is especially true for startups and new products. Focus and being able to find a niche can be a huge unlock for products. Square started as a POS (Point of Sale) device, Lululemon started as yoga clothing for women, and Amazon started as an online book store.

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What They Don’t Tell You About Designing For Responsible AI Products

UX Planet

In part 5 of the Human-Centered AI methodology series, we uncover how to design for Responsible AI products to users.

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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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Tools of the Trade: Using Pendo to Manage Customer Requests

Product Talk

When you’re building a product, you can easily get overwhelmed by ideas. There are the ideas your product trio comes up with based on your discovery work, the ideas that come from your customers in the form of specific requests, and the ideas that come from stakeholders within your company like your customer-facing teams or CEO, to name a few. While some of these ideas are unsolicited and may not relate to your current outcome or the opportunities you’re pursuing, that doesn’t mean you want to i

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Navigating economic uncertainty with OKRs

Mind the Product

Malte Scholz outlines the benefits of implementing OKRs during economic uncertainty, the challenges that come with them and how to overcome these with the right tool. Read more » The post Navigating economic uncertainty with OKRs appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Digital Transformation Strategies for Enterprises: Key Elements

The Product Coalition

Explore digital transformation strategies for enterprises Have you wondered why digital transformation strategies are a necessity? The digital revolution is no longer a distant wave on the horizon, but a powerful tide reshaping every industry. To navigate this dynamic landscape, embracing digital transformation is no longer optional, but crucial for survival and growth.

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How to successfully launch on Product Hunt (when it’s right for your startup)

Lenny Rachitsky

👋 Hey, I’m Lenny and welcome to a 🔒 subscriber-only edition 🔒 of my weekly newsletter. Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Subscribe now P.S. Don’t miss Lennybot (an AI chatbot trained on my newsletter posts, podcast interviews, and more), my PM recruiting service (helping you hire Sr.

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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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Top 10 Metrics to Measure Freemium and Free Trial Performance

Amplitude

Discover ten essential freemium and free trial metrics. Use these metrics to measure your monetization performance.

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Building products to tackle the opioid crisis: Omer Kaplan (Head of Product, Sonara Health)

Mind the Product

For many of us in product, building products that have long-lasting impacts on people's lives is a life goal. In this episode, we speak to Omer Kaplan from Sonara Health. We discuss his mission in forging a path in healthcare technology to combat the opioid crisis. We also explore the principles of equity-first design and the meticulous testing strategies that ensure their technology serves everyone effectively.

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Desirable, Valuable, and Feasible Goals

The Product Coalition

The DVF framework: How might we use the Venn diagram to set clear goals for team members and satisfy the user personas?

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

Userpilot

Recently, I did a little experiment. I asked DALLE to ‘Give me an image of a tech CEO’. It gave me two photos of a smartly-dressed young, white man in a corporate office setting. Then I tried regenerating the image to see on which try it would give me a tech CEO of a different gender (or colour). After regenerating the image 18 times -and getting pretty much the same result every time – I gave up… According to AI, the ‘tech CEO’ is young, white, and male.

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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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How Square Used Amplitude to Enhance the Seller Experience and Power Growth

Amplitude

Read how adopting Amplitude Analytics and Amplitude Audiences allowed Square to facilitate projects like multi-product onboarding and homepage redesign, leading to double-digit improvements.

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SUNDAY REWIND: A guide on breaking into product

Mind the Product

Tom Dyson’s post from 2021 looks at some of the actions you can take to land a first job in product management. Read more » The post SUNDAY REWIND: A guide on breaking into product appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How Can CRM Marketing Help Predict A Customer’s Needs?

The Product Coalition

Let’s explore how CRM marketing helps to better anticipate customer behavior. Understanding your customers is key, but simply understanding their demographics isn’t enough. Predicting their future behavior allows you to anticipate their needs, personalize their experiences, and ultimately, drive conversions and loyalty. So, how can CRM marketing help you achieve this elusive power of prediction?

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What is User Engagement Analysis? Top 9 Metrics to Track

Userpilot

How do you conduct user engagement analysis? What metrics you should track? How do you use the insights to improve user engagement? These are the main questions the article explores. We also look at a couple of analytics tools for analyzing user engagement. Let's dive right in! TL;DR User engagement is a measure of how active your users are inside the product and how good the product is at keeping them interested.

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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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Inside TikTok: Culture, strategy, monetization, and more | Ray Cao (Global Head of Monetization Product Strategy and Operations)

Lenny Rachitsky

Brought to you by: • WorkOS —The modern API for auth & user identity • Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments • OneSchema —Import CSV data 10x faster — Ray (Jiayi) Cao is the global head of product strategy and operations for monetization product at TikTok. Prior to TikTok, Ray spent six years at Google helping scale Google Shopping globally.

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Let’s hear it for the women working in product

Mind the Product

In celebration of International Women’s Day we’ve rounded up some recent seminal #mtpcon talks given by a few of the many outstanding women working in product management. Read more » The post Let’s hear it for the women working in product appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Smart Use of Principles

The Product Coalition

Principles are a very powerful tool in product leadership. They can help you create clarity and alignment, and separate the wheat from the chaff. Here are a few ways to use them in your everyday tasks, and some cases where they are not the right tool. My husband and I grew up very differently. Generally speaking, my parents’ approach to parenting was “Life is hard and our job is to prepare our kids to face whatever life throws at them”, whereas my husband’s parents were more like “We’ll work as

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Did Substack make newsletters too mainstream (and irrelevant)?

NextBigWhat

Remember the excitement of discovering a well-written newsletter? That niche corner of the internet where someone shared passions, insights, or curated content with a devoted audience? There was a certain… The post Did Substack make newsletters too mainstream (and irrelevant)? appeared first on NextBigWhat.

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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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Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)

Lenny Rachitsky

Brought to you by: • Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security. • Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments • Explo —Embed customer-facing analytics in your product — Andrew Bosworth —or Boz, as most people know him—is the chief technology officer at Meta and head of Reality Labs, the company’s augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) organization, which he created in 2017.

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How to Build Custom Funnel Reports in SaaS

Userpilot

Funnel reports are a popular analytics tool used to optimize customer journeys and user flows. Our guide explains how to build and analyze funnel reports for actionable insights. Let’s get to it! TL;DR Funnel reports are analytical tools for visualizing the stages of the customer journey and analyzing how users progress from one stage to another.

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Successful Agility In Product Delivery Requires Dynamic Implementation

The Product Coalition

Challenging an emerging myth that Agile is dead, and providing insight on key principles & tactics to finding success with Agile-based product teams. Nowadays it seems to have an opinion of Agile product methods like Scrum. You cannot go a full week without seeing an article proclaiming Agile is dead or describing how we need to think in a “post-Agile” world.

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