ProductCraft
OCTOBER 9, 2018
Here’s a fun party trick: next time you have the occasion to introduce a product manager, refer to them as a project manager. Then run! You’d better run because, for many product managers, these are fighting words. It’s not that they have anything particularly against this role. It’s just that, by confusing product and project, The post Products, Not Projects appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.
Product Talk
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Last week, I was in Cleveland for the Industry Product Conference. I spoke about the three mindsets that help a team find success as a continuous discovery team. My slides and script are below. Enjoy! Becoming a successful discovery team. Product management is changing. We are evolving from managing our teams by outputs to managing them by outcomes.
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Mind the Product
OCTOBER 8, 2018
We can and should learn product management lessons from a diverse range of environments. It’s absolutely worth looking to the likes of Google’s Sundar Pichai, but it’s also worth looking to less celebrated entrepreneurs, outside of the multinational mega-corporations, to learn about lean front-line product management. It quickly becomes clear that certain product management principles truly are universal.
Alchemer Mobile
OCTOBER 11, 2018
Let’s be real: product management can be challenging. Between interfacing with multiple teams, coordinating release schedules, prioritizing customer happiness, driving the mobile product roadmap, and endless other activities, it’s easy to get caught up in the hustle, bustle, and stress that is product management. Time to pause, take a breath, and re-energize yourself through the words of some of the world’s most inspiring product leaders.
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.
The Product Bistro
OCTOBER 9, 2018
One of the most difficult part of a product manager’s job is pricing. Too low and you don’t make enough money (or leave money on the table), too high, and the product fails to take off. Getting it just right is part alchemy, part luck, and often just a bit of a guess. There are […].
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The Secret PM Handbook
OCTOBER 9, 2018
Co-opting product management into sales. My good friend Geoffrey Anderson ( @ganders2112 ) recently wrote about a situation we product managers sometimes find ourselves in. When sales are not going well, company leadership might ask product management come in to help hit the numbers. This can be a bad thing or a good thing. As Geoff said: …when the bookings are light, often product management is diverted to “fix” the problem.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 11, 2018
Web and app analytics are fundamental to business these days. No serious developer, product manager, or CEO of company operating in the digital market, will consider not using them. The analytics market is also highly competitive, with providers of all scales and agility fighting to get their three lines of code or SDK into your software. As a result, the platforms are packed with features and very easy to use.
Alchemer Mobile
OCTOBER 9, 2018
Customer experience strategies shouldn’t be created in a vacuum, but it’s hard to know how to create a CX strategy that exceeds customers’ expectations without first understanding them. We hosted a CX-focused panel at this year’s Customer Love Summit. Panelists included: Daniel McCone, Digital Marketing & Innovation Manager at Dunkin’ Brands.
The Product Guy
OCTOBER 9, 2018
Guest Post by: Julian Dunn (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Vikas Batra]. I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. Two major obstacles stood in my way. First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder).
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Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 9, 2018
When it comes to capturing people’s attention, there is nothing quite as effective as video – according to one study, 69% of people have decided to buy software after watching a video. For Sales Development Representatives, who are at the front line of sales teams, capturing attention is crucial to their success. A lot of our time and energy is spent trying to engage potential customers with outbound messaging.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 10, 2018
In this talk, Alan Chiu pulls from his experience in product management and as a seed-stage venture capitalist to showcase a variety of case studies on companies who have perfected product/market fit. It’s probably not surprising to hear that there is no silver bullet when it comes to market fit. To help startups approach this challenge, Alan proposes four key areas of exploration: users, applications, data, and buyers.
First Round Review
OCTOBER 9, 2018
Engineering leader Varun Srinivasan had a front-row seat as Coinbase scaled to meet an explosion in demand for cryptocurrencies. Here, he shares the four org design rules they relied on to gear up for hypergrowth.
The Product Guy
OCTOBER 12, 2018
Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2017, Melissa Perri. Watch now and see why she is counted amongst the ranks of the best in product management. More to Come. 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.
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
Amplitude
OCTOBER 9, 2018
In today’s fiercely competitive age of product, efficient growth of engaged, happy users is the Holy Grail of product development. Growth can no longer be an afterthought or solely the responsibility of marketing. And as channels get saturated, ‘growth hacks’ no longer cut it. Your product has to be designed and built for growth from the foundation up.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 9, 2018
Today, attention is our new currency. With endless distractions, how does anyone get anything done? For product managers leading the execution of a product, working with an inattentive, context-switching development team is a struggle. This is why developing strong influencing skills is crucial for product managers. While many articles provide advice on ways to influence, they do not explain how to influence quickly.
First Round Review
OCTOBER 9, 2018
Engineering leader Varun Srinivasan had a front-row seat as Coinbase scaled to meet an explosion in demand for cryptocurrencies. Here, he shares the four org design rules they relied on to gear up for hypergrowth.
UserInterviews
OCTOBER 10, 2018
We are going all in on this user research thing at User Interviews. Here's how we're getting started on our path to timeless research.
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.
NextBigWhat
OCTOBER 10, 2018
As part of our Product Management course, I often end up talking to a lot of aspirants who look at product management as the next big career move and a move which will make them famous, rich, sexy and have a (more) meaningful career (not sure of the order though). Most of the product management […]. The post You Know you are unfit for Product Management when. appeared first on NextBigWhat.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 12, 2018
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: What’s your favourite product, and why? Or how about: You have to launch a new product for X. How do you determine the total and addressable markets, and what steps do you take to fill that need? How do you determine pricing? I hate these questions. I hate them as an interviewer, because they don’t tell me anything about what it’s like to work with you, how you’re going to help me, or why I might want to hire you.
Sachin Rekhi
OCTOBER 10, 2018
I just finished reading The Messy Middle by Scott Belsky and highly recommend it for product managers at both startups and established tech firms. Scott Belsky shares his lessons learned optimizing and enduring the messy and unsexy middle every product goes through before (hopefully) thriving. He does a great job of sharing lessons from his own experience founding Behance and navigating Adobe post acquisition, as well from the many startups he has worked with as an investor or advisor, including
Gainsight
OCTOBER 12, 2018
I cringe every time I’m in a conversation with a Sales leader talking about Customer Success and they make the familiar reference to our outbound Sales team as “Hunters” and the CS team as “Farmers.” If you can relate, this post is for you! It’s time to scrap this notion of “hunting” and “farming” as the dominant models for how we work with customers.
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NextBigWhat
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Design thinking doesn’t guarantee success. It does, however, up your chances of success. It also allows you to fail forward i.e fail but with holistic insight of why things went wrong and what can be fixed in the future. Deepa Bachu, the CEO and Cofounder of Pensaar spoke at the ProductGeeks Conference 2018 on the […]. The post Design Thinking doesn’t guarantee success: Here is how to make sense of it appeared first on NextBigWhat.
ProductCraft Debates
OCTOBER 11, 2018
Hearing what customers really think about your product is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it is the most important piece of feedback that will push your product forward. On the other hand, the truth can sometimes hurt. Either way, product managers are a tough bunch, and they seek customer feedback wherever they go, warts and. The post Is CSAT, NPS, or CES a Better Measure of Customer Sentiment?
The Product Guy
OCTOBER 6, 2018
If you are a great product person looking for a great product job, or vice versa, check out our job board. Thousands of employers across all areas of product, from management to design, from digital to physical, are looking to fill positions from our community. . Each week we highlight some of the recently posted openings. Check out this week’s newest, below….
The Accidental Product Manager
OCTOBER 8, 2018
Apple has decided to offer different products at different times Image Credit: Matt Madd. Let’s talk about the product that you are responsible for. How many different versions of that product are you currently offering? Most of us have a big, medium, small version or perhaps a simple, better, and fancy version. When you create a new version of your product (e.g. version 2.0), what does your product development definition tell you about when to release all of the different versions of the new pr
Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
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Miro
OCTOBER 11, 2018
The only constant is change. These words are as true now as they were when the Greek philosopher Heraclitus spoke them more than 2,500 years ago. For all we know, change might even be accelerating; after all, technology is improving at a rate unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. At a glance, this technological revolution […]. The post The fourth industrial revolution in numbers: What you need to know about work in 2022 appeared first on RealtimeBoard Blog.
Pragmatic Marketing
OCTOBER 11, 2018
The formula for “value-based pricing” is simple. Your buyer’s “willingness to pay” is equal to the competitor’s price plus positive differentiation value minus negative differentiation value. In other words, whatever your competitor is charging plus how much the buyer values what you do better, minus how much the buyer values what your competitor does better.
Revulytics
OCTOBER 12, 2018
An interesting question was recently posed to respondents of the Pragmatic Marketing 2018 Product Management and Marketing survey: “If you could say one thing to your CEO without fear of retribution, what would it be?”. “Market problems should be defined based on multiple sources of data, not just anecdotes from visiting customer offices,” one respondent said.
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