Lead on Purpose
DECEMBER 4, 2017
Guest post by John Packham The debate is still out about whether leaders are born or made, but if you are looking to up your leadership game this year, you’ll want to do what all great leaders do: practice self-coaching.
Folding Burritos
DECEMBER 7, 2017
As Product Managers, we perfectly understand the need to generate and use customer feedback. What isn’t so often clear is how to do this on a day-to-day basis, when we’re not as experienced or when we deal with “less than ideal” products and organizations. This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams.
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Roman Pichler
DECEMBER 4, 2017
Why Failing Can Be Hard. If we like it or not, failure is an essential innovation ingredient. It’s impossible to successfully innovate without taking informed risks and making mistakes. YouTube, for example, failed as a video-dating site and succeeded by pivoting to video-sharing site; and Google Glass failed as a consumer product and was recently re-launched as a B2B product.
Mind the Product
DECEMBER 5, 2017
For the past 6 years Mind the Product has run #mtpcon in London and San Francisco – the biggest and best product management conferences in the world. We invite some of the top product thinkers and practitioners from all over the world to share their experiences, insights, and lessons, and now we invite you to watch the entire library of talks!
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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.
The Product Guy
DECEMBER 7, 2017
Guest Post by: Jessica Waite (Mentee, Session 5, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Radhika Nayak]. So, your boss’s boss walks into your office and changes your roadmap…. No, this is not a bad joke. As a product manager you prep, plan and execute. You spend months in discovery carefully understanding the customer, the business needs, the software requirements and how to execute it all.
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Product Talk
DECEMBER 6, 2017
Hi there, Product Talk readers! I’m Melissa Suzuno. I’ve been helping Teresa with Product Talk content behind the scenes for the past few years. You may have noticed my handiwork if you’re a fan of the Oxford comma or em dash. If you’ve been reading Product Talk for a few months, you probably remember that this past October, Teresa announced a brand-new Continuous Interviewing course in her blog post, “This Keystone Habit Will Fuel the Rest of Your Continuous Discovery Habits.”.
Mind the Product
DECEMBER 6, 2017
There’s an apocryphal tale that the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the last person to have read everything. Given that he died in 1834 and the vast increase of information there’s been since then, you can understand how the tale started. Even 200 years ago, it was still possible to be an expert in many different fields of study, whereas today it’s often a life’s pursuit just to become proficient in one single area.
First Round Review
DECEMBER 4, 2017
When it comes to diversity and inclusion, D&I leader Ciara Trinidad lets the data speak. When she left her last startup, the 125-person company was 59% women, its sales team had gender parity, and underrepresented minorities constituted the majority of its product team. Here she shares why a culture of data underpins a culture of inclusion — and how to do it.
The Product Guy
DECEMBER 4, 2017
Guest Post by: Marc San Luis (Mentee, Session 5, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Dave Skrobela]. In the education-technology sector, there is one hard-set deadline. That deadline is simple: you must release a working product before back-to-school begins. Period. When I returned to the Ed-tech sector a year ago, I joined a team with a very aggressive goal.
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Tim Herbig
DECEMBER 4, 2017
Picture was taken by Product Management Festival Team. This post is the summary of a talk I gave throughout 2017 at a couple of product management conferences. I was on stage at Working Products 2017 , Productized Conference 2017 and Product Management Festival 2017. … Continue Reading. The post MVPs are too expensive – How wasteless validation leads to better insights appeared first on Tim Herbig.
Clever PM
DECEMBER 6, 2017
As Product Managers, we’re often deeply and intimately involved in the processes that our companies use in their everyday business. Issue tracking systems, customer feedback systems, email and IM systems — there’s a neverending list of tools that we use on a daily basis to further our own (and others’) professional productivity.
UX Studio: Product Management
DECEMBER 5, 2017
Designing an MVP always poses challenges, as it seems full of compromises. Designing one with a real mission motivates despite all the limitations on the time frame and resources. In January 2017 we had the opportunity to work on the Wattler Android app , which among its many visions aims to increase personal energy consumption monitoring. Closely following gas and electricity usage not only shows the money spent but also raises awareness of the lifestyle we lead.
Mind the Product
DECEMBER 4, 2017
Recently, Gartner revealed its top predictions for IT organizations for 2018. Among the expected buzz around technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, and the Internet of Things, was something a bit surprising to me. Gartner predicted that by 2022, most people in mature economies will consume more false information than true information.
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UserInterviews
DECEMBER 8, 2017
Building a research program from the ground up, the funny thing about being a woman in tech, and using research to get clients on board with deeper, richer research.
UX Studio
DECEMBER 7, 2017
Spoiler alert. Those who haven’t seen Spiderman: Homecoming yet, please skip this intro. So the main plot involves this new, young fellow with awesome abilities (aka Spiderman), who wants to save the world. How nice of him! One small problem: He tends to get himself into trouble due to inexperience and sometimes he takes too much upon himself. He repeatedly shows his difficulty accepting real professional help, thinking he can do everything alone (or with a friend).
Pragmatic Marketing
DECEMBER 5, 2017
Complete Our 18 th Annual Product Management and Marketing Survey. When you participate in Pragmatic Marketing’s annual Product Management and Marketing Survey, you’ll contribute to the most current, comprehensive information about the product management and marketing industry available. And you’ll help us identify the types of challenges product teams face around the globe.
Mind the Product
DECEMBER 8, 2017
When designing connected hardware products, there are many ways in which a project can go sideways and end up way over budget before the product is completed or in a manufacturable state. We’ve seen this happen countless times and it’s never one person’s fault, rather a lack of understanding of the full product design process and a lack of the experience necessary to avoid these cost surprises.
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Johanna Rothman
DECEMBER 7, 2017
I read Joe Berkowitz’s story in Fast Company, John Oliver Was Right: It’s Time To Confront The Dustin Hoffmans In Your Life. There’s a link to a video excerpt in which Hoffman discusses the idea that the people felt like a family. Mr. Berkowitz says this: There is no template for how to be a good man in the #MeToo era. I disagree. There is a template.
UX Studio
DECEMBER 7, 2017
Spoiler alert. Those who haven’t seen Spiderman: Homecoming yet, please skip this intro. So the main plot involves this new, young fellow with awesome abilities (aka Spiderman), who wants to save the world. How nice of him! One small problem: He tends to get himself into trouble due to inexperience and sometimes he takes too much upon himself. He repeatedly shows his difficulty accepting real professional help, thinking he can do everything alone (or with a friend).
The Accidental Product Manager
DECEMBER 4, 2017
People get a lot of their news from Facebook, but what news should they get? Image Credit: Jurgen Appelo. So here’s an interesting question for you. If I was to ask you where people spend the most amount of time when they are on the Internet, where would you say that they go? Google? Yahoo? A sports site like ESPN? Those are all good guesses, but you’d be wrong.
Amir Rozenberg
DECEMBER 7, 2017
How many times have you heard this phrase while watching a game on your phone: “Touchdown!!” (or GOAL!!) but all you can see is the loading dial? How about this: you are sitting on an airplane, trying to watch a video on the flight WiFi and it just stops or pauses constantly. Maybe you’ve tried to watch some home improvement or recipe video that was impossible to watch because it just kept stalling?
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Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.
Johanna Rothman
DECEMBER 8, 2017
I wrote about treating each other with respect in Organizations Are Not Families, Part 1. In these respect posts, I’ll address possible ways we can treat each other with respect. These are not the only ways. You might have better ideas than I do. Please do comment if you’ve seen alternatives that work better. I started to write before I realized I was echoing Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.
UserInterviews
DECEMBER 5, 2017
Why working across teams is crucial and what design thinking can bring to urban design with Joel Rosado of Braze.
Product Innovation Educators
DECEMBER 8, 2017
Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. 4 steps for how product managers can navigate the politics of innovation projects. (1) Anticipate resistance. (2) Unmask political motives. (3) Find the right champion. (4) Secure social proof. Organizations are often “wired” (not purposefully) to kill innovation.
Amir Rozenberg
DECEMBER 7, 2017
How many times have you heard this phrase while watching a game on your phone: “Touchdown!!” (or GOAL!!) but all you can see is the loading dial? How about this: you are sitting on an airplane, trying to watch a video on the flight WiFi and it just stops or pauses constantly. Maybe you’ve tried to watch some home improvement or recipe video that was impossible to watch because it just kept stalling?
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
Johanna Rothman
DECEMBER 8, 2017
I started this series positing that respect is the cornerstone for how we might treat each other, to manage our interactions with success, especially in light of the #MeToo conversation. The series so far is: Organizations Are Not Families, Part 1. Why the metaphor of family-as-org demeans the people working there. Build Respect in Organizations, Not Families, Part 2 , had some ideas for building respect in terms of physical and psychological safety.
Userzoom
DECEMBER 5, 2017
The post Supercharge Your Corporate Dashboards With UX Analytics appeared first on UserZoom.
Product Innovation Educators
DECEMBER 4, 2017
3D printing creates new options for product managers and designers beyond prototyping. The discussion coming up is about the state of 3D printing for prototyping and additive manufacturing. 3D printing is evolving quickly with the capability to print in a wide variety of materials. Also, post-processing capabilities, such as metal-plating plastic printed parts, are creating new opportunities for ergonomically correct parts. 3D printing provides significant efficiencies and competitive advantages
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