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The Four Cs of Product Communication

ProductCraft

John Cutler, one of the product people I most admire, recently tweeted the below image with the note, “The job is like 90% communication.” John’s absolutely right — the job is 90% communication. In fact, everything a PM does ties back to their ability to communicate effectively. Product managers need to build a strong team, Read more » The post The Four Cs of Product Communication appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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Getting to backlog zero: Tips to improve backlog management

ProductBoard

As a product manager, you take the lead on delivering products that delight your customer. To do this, you focus on the needs of your customers, prioritize what features to build, and create a roadmap that aligns your company. Of course, there are many other responsibilities that come with product management and ownership. One of the biggest challenges a lot of product teams face is one that I.

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What the four forces can teach us about the user onboarding experience

Intercom, Inc.

A great onboarding experience is one that proves to new users that your product will help them do the job that they want. To put it another way, the ideal onboarding experience is a short, easy and frictionless path to finding value. Of course, many products have unavoidable complexity. If getting started with your product requires new users to install software, invite colleagues or message customers, then the path to value may not seem as short or straightforward.

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Don’t Let Technology Changes Turn into Technical Debt

ProductPlan

Technological evolution doesn’t stop. It doesn’t go on vacation, it doesn’t take a victory lap, it rarely even pauses long enough to catch a breath. There’s always something new on the horizon. Our products and solutions are built atop these technologies, relying on servers and programming languages, databases and messaging protocols, devices, and APIs.

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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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Six guidelines for successful prototype testing

Userzoom

“Is my prototype testable?” It’s a frequently asked question when running usability studies with a prototype that isn’t fully functional. The rule of thumb is the more complete the prototype, the better. I’ve run usability testing for over eight years now, and I keep reviewing prototypes that are quite limited. Despite that, some professionals new to UX research expect many insights to validate the design hypothesis based on just a few pages.

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Executive Perspectives on Strategic Product Management and Three Common Gaps

bpma ProductHub

by John Mansour – For as long as I have been training product managers (since 2001), senior executives have been telling me that they want their product management function to be more strategic. When I ask them to define “more strategic,” a handful of themes have consistently emerged. 1.

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Slack’s Lane Collins on their ‘radical convenience’ approach to customer experience

Intercom, Inc.

? ? ?. Today, we’re dissecting the customer experience at one of the hottest companies around: Slack. As someone who’s immersed in customer-experience questions and concerns day-in and day-out here at Intercom, I was fascinated to hear how Slack’s entire team dedicated itself to thinking about the end-to-end customer experience. And I was excited to sit down behind the mic with Lane Collins.

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Helping Product Managers to Let Go by Michael Sippey

Mind the Product

In this keynote from #mtpcon San Francisco, Michael Sippey, VP of Product at Medium, shares some insights on how to think big and create clarity and focus for product management teams to unleash their full potential. The Power of Optimism. At the start of his keynote Sippey says that: “Most acts of creation – live music and conferences like this – are optimistic acts”.

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BADIR?—?The Antidote to Low ROI from Data Science Projects

Piyanka Jain

BADIR?—?The Antidote to Low ROI from Data Science Projects [link] Data Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, and AI?—?these are some of the hottest keywords in the business right now. Trillions of dollars are being invested in these fields by organizations. One would think with such large investment, these organizations must be reaping a lot of value out of data science.

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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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Core Product Management

The Product Guy

Many people who are early in their PM career, or who are looking to break into Product Management, find themselves obsessing over gaining deep technical skills. Learn from an experienced Product Manager about why that’s the wrong thing to prioritize and what traits are more important to making your mark as a Product Manager. In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Patrick Hoffman, lead a conversation on this topic.

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How engineers can make an impact outside the code editor

Intercom, Inc.

Product engineers are experts at identifying, understanding and solving problems. When you talk about the types of problems you tackle, and therefore the impact that you have, the conversation should not be solely limited to the work you do within a text editor or integrated development environment (IDE). Yes, the code that you write and the systems that you build are major contributing factors to the success and growth of a business.

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Why is Psychological Safety at Odds With the way we Work?

Mind the Product

In order to prepare for a talk I delivered at Mind the Product’s 2019 Leadership Forum in San Francisco I’ve spent the last couple of weeks applying the lens of psychological safety to the things I’ve experienced and witnessed in my product career. And I keep coming back to a messy but seemingly unavoidable conclusion: In real-world organizations, the behaviors that create psychological safety for our teams and the behaviors that bring us rewards and recognition as individuals are often fundamen

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Positioning for Product Managers

Sachin Rekhi

Positioning, while classically considered part of the marketing world, is absolutely essential for every product manager to understand. Positioning refers to the place that a brand occupies in the minds of customers and its perceived differentiation from its competitors. Positioning ultimately dictates the frame of reference that your customers leverage when evaluating your product.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Working with Management

The Product Guy

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2018, Brian Crofts. Watch now and see why he 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.

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Build the right thing: How to kick off a software design project with the Discovery Phase

Userzoom

Every project we do at Natural Interaction starts with discovery. This phase is probably my favourite because it’s about gathering evidence. Like Sherlock Holmes, we go about finding the information we need to solve our client’s problem. We meet with the key stakeholders to workshop and ask questions, and we speak to users about what they expect that thing to do.

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Logo Design Trends: Best Tips for Creating an Innovative Logo

UX Studio: Product Management

Design trend predictions usually come out at the beginning of the year, but who said we can’t write a blogpost about it in the middle of summer? Logo design forms the most essential part of every company’s branding, so looking at some inspiration always comes in useful. However, following logo trends mindlessly without thinking about our company’s mission, values and target audience definitely doesn’t make for a smart decision.

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Is Your Agile Transformation Failing, Too?

The Product Coalition

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How To Select the Right Software for Innovation Management

Finding the right innovation management software is like picking a racing bike—it's essential to consider your unique needs rather than just flashy features. This oversight can stall your innovation efforts. Download now to explore key considerations for success!

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Launching a Product & Vydia

The Product Guy

Thank you to everyone who attended the latest roundtable meet-up of The Product Group and discussed Product Go To Market Strategies and debated Featured Product, Vydia … And, also, thank you to our awesome sponsors who make everything possible…

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How Executives Define Strategic Product Management

Product Management University

What Do Executives Really Mean When They Say, “I Want Product Management to be More Strategic?” When I ask senior executives how they define “strategic product management,” these five things come up most often. Understanding the market better than all other customer-facing disciplines (sales, marketing, customer success, etc.).

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Moving Up the Career Ladder with Thor Mitchell [Rebroadcast]

Mind the Product

We’re taking a short break from releasing new episodes for the month of August. We’ll be back with new interviews in September. But don’t despair! We’ve asked a few friends to pick some of their favorite episodes to re-broadcast in the meantime. This week’s pick comes from our co-host, Lily Smith. Lily’s Pick. I think, by now, we all know that product management is hard.

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Amazon Takes On Walmart: Who’s Product Managers Will Win?

The Accidental Product Manager

Amazon product managers are going after Walmart shoppers Image Credit: ?? ?. I suspect that if I asked you to take a moment and feel sorry for the product managers who work for Amazon, you probably would not. For that matter, if I asked you to take a moment and feel bad for the product managers who work for Amazon, you probably would also find that hard to do.

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How To Set Up Innovation So That It Aligns With And Enables Corporate Strategy

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

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Product Love Podcast: Melissa Perri, CEO and Founder of Produx Labs

ProductCraft

Product has many different facets, and Melissa Perri has had a stint in quite a few of them, including UX design, engineering, and development. By working in these different areas, Melissa believes that you get a holistic systems approach to product management. And this means you can evaluate the product on its feasibility, usability, pricing, Read more » The post Product Love Podcast: Melissa Perri, CEO and Founder of Produx Labs appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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How To Groom Value-Based Product Backlogs From a Single Strategic Roadmap

Product Management University

Creating value-based product backlogs is pretty simple when there’s a single strategic roadmap for the portfolio. Here’s why. The Playbook: The strategic roadmap outlines the top-down business goals and priorities of your target customers along with the biggest operational obstacles standing in the way of those goals. Grooming the backlogs (for all products) is as simple as determining the job tasks that have to change to eliminate the obstacles.

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Des Traynor on how to keep your company aligned during hypergrowth

Miro

Des Traynor on how to keep your company aligned during hypergrowth1Main challenges of hypergrowthRead ?2Measuring success and failureRead ?3Organizational agility & remote collaborationRead ?4Future challengesRead ?What happens after a startup finds product-market fit, achieves some early success, and starts scaling? A period of hypergrowth can breed communication problems, slower decision-making, and a loss of the agility you had […].

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Using Empathy Maps to Better Understand Your Customers

CardBoard

What is an Empathy Map? An empathy map is an additional template offered inside CardBoard that your team can use to gain deeper understanding and insight into your customers. Much like user personas, an empathy map also represents a group of users or customer segment. According to the Nielsen Norman Group, empathy mapping is the first step in the design thinking process.

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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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15 Fun Facts About btrax

freshtrax

btrax is 15! We have grown so much since our humble beginning in 2004, from providing design services for small businesses to now helping companies bridge the gap between Japan and America through design. Maybe you know btrax from a business standpoint, but btrax is so much more than just that. Here are 15 fun facts about our history, culture, and people.

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Proficientz to Host Strategic Portfolio Roadmapping Workshop in Atlanta September 5th, 2019

Product Management University

Learn How to Groom Value-Based Product Backlogs From a Single Strategic Roadmap. Atlanta, GA – Proficientz announced today that it will host a Strategic Portfolio Roadmapping Workshop in Atlanta on September 5th, 2019. The objective of the workshop is to help B2B companies deliver solutions with greater strategic value by aligning priorities across all products to a common set of customer business goals, strategic priorities and success metrics.

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Keep an Eye on These User Research Trends

ProductCraft

By staying up-to-date on trends, you ensure you’re on top of best practices and continuously ready to broaden your professional skillset. As a researcher myself, I find industry trends particularly interesting; I proactively observe, discuss, and share my findings with the design community. But research is a horizontal, not a vertical. Everyone should be involved.