Clever PM
AUGUST 16, 2018
One of the challenges that we commonly run into as Product Managers is the battle between opinions and data. And though it would be nice to pretend that data always wins, and that there's always truth in Jim Barksdale's famous quote, "If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine," we know from practical experience that this is simply not the case.
The Secret PM Handbook
AUGUST 17, 2018
(This is the third article in my Persuasion Tips series.). “Pre-handling objections” is about showing empathy for your audience. You put yourself in your audience’s shoes, figure out what they’re going to be worried about, and make sure you have answers to some of those worries. Pre-handle objections: Put yourself in your audience’s shoes, figure out what they’re going to be worried about, and make sure you address those worries.
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The Product Coalition
AUGUST 14, 2018
Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash Invest in your relationship with your team’s tech lead and it will pay dividends In my time so far at Doximity , I’ve been fortunate to work with two incredible tech leads. These more senior engineers often find themselves in a challenging role, splitting their time between individual contributor responsibilities as well as management duties.
Revulytics
AUGUST 16, 2018
Designed to somewhat scare a prospect into paying attention, an increasingly favored form of cold calling seems to be the “Your ( insert title of executive in target line of business here) told me you’d be interested in our offering” phone call, or worse, email. That rather Machiavellian strategy often results from sales guru Mike Weinberg’s #5 of “Not-So-Sweet 16” reasons salespeople fail at new business development: “they have awful target account selection and lack of focus.”.
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.
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 14, 2018
The first law of content marketing is that publishing is an expensive business. No matter how hard you try to circumvent it, the first law will always come back and bite you. One common approach is to outsource content production, which can be cheaper in pure monetary terms. But unless someone, preferably an editor or with some editorial skills, is closely managing that process you’ll end up paying more for it in the long run.
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The Product Bistro
AUGUST 15, 2018
Product Management in a nutshell Tons of ink has been spilled on the art (and science) of product management. About methodologies, strategies, and the like. Grumbling about how the role varies, depending on the organization. Yada yada yada. Let’s simplify this. Product management at its very core is: Identify a problem for some market segment […].
Roman Pichler
AUGUST 14, 2018
What Maturity Means. A product is mature if it has stopped growing: The benefits it creates no longer rise. Instead, they have started to stagnate. In terms of the product life cycle model, the product has left the growth stage and entered maturity, as the following picture shows. To find out if your product is mature, you should track its performance.
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 13, 2018
Growing up, I was surrounded by video games. In my house, we had the NES, Nintendo 64, Game Boy and a bunch of PC games. I would play video games for hours on end, only stopping for the odd toilet break. But as my love of gaming grew, it became obvious that I wasn’t drawn to the typically popular action or racing games. Instead of Half-Life or GoldenEye, I was drawn to simulation games such as SimCity , The Sims and Theme Hospital – titles that rewarded strategy over speed, patience over practic
UX Studio: Product Management
AUGUST 17, 2018
Here we’ll give you some guidelines and best practices, whether you’re just beginning to include usability testing in your processes or are setting out to up your usability testing game. Usability tests check if people can use a product. Duh. But what does “usable” mean? Steve Krug, author of Don’t Make Me Think, summed it up: “It really just means making sure that something works well: that a person of average ability and experience can use the thing—whether it’s a website, a toaster, or a revo
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
The Product Bistro
AUGUST 13, 2018
One of my more popular posts has been on the unwritten truths of Product Management. Originally written over 5 years ago, that post covered many observations and self evident truths. Fast forward to 2018, and there are some additions to this list. Without further ado, I offer these observations: Whiz bang tools don’t make up […].
Product Management University
AUGUST 17, 2018
Shifting markets usually constitute a shift in product strategy for most organizations. For some, the current market climate presents a world of opportunity and for others it’s an exercise in survival. In either case, there are three key aspects of product strategy that matter most. The Playbook: 1. Target Market Focus. Your target markets drive every key decision in the organization.
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 15, 2018
On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had just spent 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as the head of 300 engineers. At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture.
Mind the Product
AUGUST 16, 2018
I have been the CPO/VP of Product for four startups as they scaled to thousands of employees. Because of these experiences – and the many challenges of growth – I’ve become obsessed with different tools and tactics that creative leaders can use to keep fast-growing companies pointed in the right direction. Having a clear, well-defined mission, strategy and culture are helpful tools, but I’ve found that one of the best methods that helps to define a “true north” for a product or
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Product Management Unpacked
AUGUST 17, 2018
People often describe a product manager as “CEO of the Product.” This sounds appealing, but the reality is that product managers don’t have a CEO’s level of authority over everyone who contributes to making a product successful. Being a product manager is actually more of a high-wire act — managing multiple disciplines and personalities — so you will need a cool head and a chill disposition.
Product Management University
AUGUST 16, 2018
Remember when the internet was going to eliminate the middle man? How’d that turn out? When Agile software development took the software world by storm, it was like many other paradigm shifts before it. Agile promised to be the next panacea for whatever ailed software companies. And just like the internet, we didn’t know what we didn’t know, but now we’re in a much better place.
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 15, 2018
For product teams, complexity is a dirty word – it’s the anti-goal. You can call it “flexibility” to make it sound better, but it raises the same problems: hard to design, hard to explain, hard to use and hard to maintain. Our early offerings for chatbots deliberately avoided all that. But to make our bots do the jobs our customers needed, we had to let go of our earlier opinions.
First Round Review
AUGUST 14, 2018
While leading engineering at Instagram, James Everingham spotted a problem: the inevitable dip in transparent decision-making and communication as teams scale. Drawing on three decades of experience, he shares how to operationalize transparency during hypergrowth.
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UX Studio
AUGUST 15, 2018
A good product design team can do a huge job in making your product successful. They can make your product easier to understand and easier to use. A good product design team can make PO’s and PM’s life much easier. If it is so useful, how can you build one? Building a great product requires a team effort. But from what team? Developers might be the first ingredient that comes to mind, but visual designers, UX designers, UX researchers have a huge added benefit to the product team and
The Product Guy
AUGUST 16, 2018
You just started a new product management job. What should you be focused on your first day, week, month, and beyond? More in the video with product management expert, Alisa Warshawski….
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 17, 2018
In advertising, a one size fits all strategy is too broad to be truly effective. One size ends up fitting none. If you drive all of your paid traffic to your homepage it’s likely you’re missing out on high intent conversion opportunities. As advertisers, we know who we’re serving ads to, so we have everything we need to create personalized experiences catered to our audiences’ interests, pain points and solutions.
First Round Review
AUGUST 13, 2018
While leading engineering at Instagram, James Everingham spotted a problem: the inevitable dip in transparent decision-making and communication as teams scale. Drawing on three decades of experience, he shares how to operationalize transparency during hypergrowth.
Speaker: Paul Heller
Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. As a result, the products that arrive in the market are not well aligned with the company’s goals. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots. In this session, we will discuss why innovation in large companies is so often not aligned with the company’s strategy and what innovation leaders, pro
Mind the Product
AUGUST 14, 2018
I recently came across a piece by Mike Monteiro , co-founder and design director of Mule Design, titled Design’s Lost Generation , in which he makes the case that designers should require a licence to do their job. Mike got me thinking; should product managers also require a licence do their job? After all, we’re a sizeable professional community and having a product management certification or licence in place would ensure that all product managers comply with the same standards.
The Product Guy
AUGUST 13, 2018
Guest Post by: Mark Jones (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Shelley Iocona]. Product people usually like to start with the problem. One problem many are familiar with is being the requirements resource. You know the scenario; “Oh, we need a BA to figure out how these two internal tools should integrate, and you’re great at this, could you give us a hand?
UserInterviews
AUGUST 15, 2018
We made a product video that people, well, actually enjoy watching. That's why we wanted to share our video marketing process, and how we used research to validate creative marketing decisions.
First Round Review
AUGUST 17, 2018
In under six years, Gusto has grown from three guys in a house in Palo Alto to over 600 employees across two offices. Co-founder and CEO Josh Reeves shares how they've scaled the unscalable parts of hiring, detailing three steps the company has taken to retain its unique culture and ensure its best traditions live on.
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.
Mind the Product
AUGUST 15, 2018
Last year I marked my fifth year of working with private equity firm Better Capital and its portfolio companies. Today, however, I’m the Chief Product Officer of a small digital advertising startup, making difficult product decisions and helping the company to grow. This is the story of why I traded private equity for product. I spent my days at Better Capital working with private equity veteran Jon Moulton, and helping to acquire, turn around, and then sell companies.
Pragmatic Marketing
AUGUST 17, 2018
Here is a fantastic and funny pricing situation from a friend. Hi Mark, I recently got my curb number repainted by an outfit that allows you to name your price. I thought you’d get a kick out of their complicated pseudo-socialist price list. FYI, I ended up ignoring all this and writing a check for $30. You may want to read their flyer, but you definitely want to read their yellow price list.
The Product Coalition
AUGUST 17, 2018
Product managers are playing both strategy and tactics. Strategically, you set the long-term goals that inform the roadmap. Tactically, you want to ensure your Agile team is following the roadmap and delivers as expected. And it seems all you need is to prepare the backlog, prioritize it, push into development and regularly follow up on the status and results.
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