2024

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The Product Strategy and the Product Life Cycle

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] A Brief Introduction to the Product Lifecycle Model As its name suggests, the product lifecycle model describes how a product develops over time. It assumes that it has a life much like a living being. A product is born or launched; it then develops, grows, and matures. At some point, it declines, and eventually, dies.

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Ask the Community: How Do You Shift From Functional Teams to Value-Driven Teams?

Product Talk

When an organization shifts from delivery or feature teams to product teams , the first step is often a change to team structure. Delivery and feature teams are often structured by function—front-end teams, back-end teams, mobile teams, etc. These teams can rarely deliver value on their own. Instead, they hand off work from team to team—the back-end engineers design the data model and system architecture, the front-end engineers build the interface elements, the mobile engineers work toward feat

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Product Management University Announces New Micro Learning Courses for Product Managers

Product Management University

Learn Targeted Skills in Small Chunks On the Go Today, Product Management University announced the availability of 15 new micro learning courses for high technology product managers in B2B. As workloads grow heavier and product management teams are asked to do more, there’s less time to learn new skills or keep current skills sharp. Training budgets are smaller too.

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Top product management reads in September

Mind the Product

From an in-depth look into the product job market, to creating LLM workflows for product managers, read on for a quick recap on what popular articles were shared the most on Mind the Product in September. Everything wrong with the product management job market. And how to fix it In part 1 of this two-part Read more » The post Top product management reads in September appeared first on Mind the Product.

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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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He’s Worth over $58 Billion, but Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Understand the Difference between Values, Culture, and Business Processes

Spice Catalyst

Summary This article discusses the differences between Meta (formerly Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp) and Apple in their approach to product development and core values. It criticizes Mark Zuckerberg’s “move fast and break things” approach, contrasting it with Apple’s “Design Thinking” approach, which focuses on understanding users and creating innovative solutions.

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Introducing the next generation of AI for product management

ProductBoard

With today’s launch of Productboard AI 2.0, featuring new fully-automated feedback categorization, true continuous product discovery is finally within reach. Now you can build what customers really need, increase product manager productivity, and ship even faster with the next generation of AI for product teams, fully integrated into your product management platform.

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Exploring the Characteristics of Popular Music Among Gen Z

freshtrax

In recent years, the music preferences of Gen Z have come into sharp focus, especially as this tech-savvy generation shapes global music trends. From the songs that gain fleeting fame on social media to those that have staying power, certain characteristics make music resonate with Gen Z listeners. A Strong Beat, Minimal Intro, and Immediate Melody Many popular songs skip lengthy intros, jumping straight into a memorable, punchy melody.

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Making the Complex, Easy: Self-Service A/B Testing Is Here!

Amplitude

Learn how Amplitude Web Experimentation brings self-service experimentation to growth teams, web product managers, and marketers to maximize conversion rates.

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507: Navigating the second product problem – with Greg Coticchia

Product Innovation Educators

To survive, your company must sell multiple products Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I’m interviewing Greg Coticchia, an experienced CEO and product management expert. The discussion focuses on the challenges and strategies involved in expanding from a single product to multiple products. Key points include: Why companies have to expand to multiple products to survive The importance of portfolio management in product development Cultural challenges in product expansion Strategies fo

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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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Split + Harness: Unlocking the Future of Software Delivery

Split

Here at Split, we’ve always been laser-focused on empowering developers to release features faster and with more confidence. This mission has fueled our growth as a leader in Feature Management and Experimentation. Today, I’m thrilled to announce a monumental leap forward in our journey: Split is joining Harness, the leading end-to-end platform for software delivery!

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Pattern Play: 5 Product Takeaways from Reinventing Madras Checks

UX Planet

How a centuries-old pattern inspired a fresh take on interactive user experience design. Madras checks are woven into South India’s cultural fabric—bright, imperfect, and alive with heritage beyond the Subcontinent. As a designer, I saw this iconic pattern as more than a textile; I saw it as a story waiting to be reimagined. In my recent exhibition, Lineage: PastForward, I set out to bridge this rich tradition with modern tools, using Processing-based generative art to invite visitors into the c

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Shifting from Outputs to Outcomes: Why It Matters and How to Get Started

Product Talk

A clear outcome sets the scope for discovery. It defines how much latitude a team has to explore. It sets a clear measure of success. But many teams struggle to set the right outcome. Whether they have a hard time negotiating with stakeholders , feel pressure to commit to multiple outcomes, or unintentionally assign themselves an output instead, this is a critical aspect of continuous discovery where it’s all too easy to be led astray.

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Are We Going About Stakeholder Alignment the Hard Way?

Product Management University

I was at a recent Product Coffee meeting and the subject of stakeholder alignment came up. I immediately sensed heightened stress levels in everyone’s voice as the discussion progressed. I know stakeholder alignment has always been a challenge, but the intensity has clearly been ratcheted up as the complexities in product management continue to grow.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

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.

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Users engage with only 6% of product features: Product benchmark findings

Mind the Product

With the move to subscription-based licensing, it’s more important than ever for users to see the value of a product. The best product managers use feature adoption to measure and improve their product’s value. Our benchmarking survey set out to evaluate how features are being received by users. What is feature adoption? Feature adoption aims Read more » The post Users engage with only 6% of product features: Product benchmark findings appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How to break into Silicon Valley

Andrew Chen

(Above: No, it doesn’t really look like this — and yes it’s mostly office parks and tech billboards. But I like to pretend) You’ll never regret spending time in SF If you work in tech, you’ll never regret spending 3-5 years in the Bay Area. This is advice I’ve been giving to people for years, and it’s shaped by my own experience — after all, I moved to the Bay Area in 2007 and it completely changed my life.

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My favorite decision-making frameworks

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 🚨 The Best of Lenny’s Newsletter – Volume 1 is now available for order 🎉 The first batch of books is officially in production and pre-orders are arriving globally!

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13 Best Product Analytics Courses for Upskilling In 2024

The Product Manager

Data is, like, kind of a big deal. These product analytics courses are designed to help you build critical skills in data management, interpretation, and storytelling. The post 13 Best Product Analytics Courses for Upskilling In 2024 appeared first on The Product Manager.

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The 25 Types of Innovation Dominating R&D Today

Innovation varies widely across sectors and organizations, creating value in diverse forms. Understanding different types is crucial for R&D teams to foster creativity and uncover missed opportunities. This guide explores 25 key types of innovation in management frameworks.

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Dragonboat Wins 2024 Proddy Award for ‘Top Product to Watch’

Dragonboat

We are pleased to share that Dragonboat has been awarded the 2024 Proddy Award for ‘Top Product to Watch’ by Product School. This prestigious recognition was unveiled live at ProductCon San Francisco by Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, Founder and CEO of Product School. It marks Dragonboat’s second accolade from Product School where in 2023 it […] The post Dragonboat Wins 2024 Proddy Award for ‘Top Product to Watch’ appeared first on Dragonboat.

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Introducing the Future of Digital Analytics

Amplitude

Data doesn’t have to be hard to use. Amplitude Made Easy is a reimagined experience with new features that radically simplify digital analytics.

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Product Strategy Depends on Company Strategy

Mironov Consulting

Expanding on a recent post ( Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies ), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product, engineering, design) struggling to form product strategies without a company strategy to hang them on.  This is a recipe for failure: there are no generic product strategies or corporate strategies , and IMHO therefore no context-free prioritization models, metrics, or product goals.

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Costco Japan: Wholesale Success in a Country of Small Households

freshtrax

Cover Image Source Introduction Whether you’re seeking a massive pack of toilet paper or a budget-friendly hotdog, Costco is the place to go for many in the US… and now in over a dozen countries around the world! What can we attribute this global success to? In Japan, Costco is extremely popular. This might be strange considering how Japanese people tend to live in small homes and often travel via public transportation.

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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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Top Blog Articles of 2024

Ronke PM

This year, our blog explored essential themes in product management - curiosity, leadership, and personal growth. These top articles reflect the challenges and decisions product managers face every day, providing insights to empower and inspire. Take a look back at the stories that sparked meaningful discussions and resonated most with our community.

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Product in Practice: Getting Value Out of In-App Surveys Takes Iteration

Product Talk

Committing to continuous discovery means changing the way your product team operates. It’s no longer about making decisions purely based on your intuitions or stakeholder requests, but finding ways to integrate touch points with customers into your work every week—if not every day. Continuous discovery means not making decisions purely based on your intuitions or stakeholder requests, but finding ways to integrate touch points with customers into your work every week. – Tweet This This can sound

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The Best Bang For Your Discovery Buck – Customer Advisory Boards

Product Management University

Customer Advisory Boards (CABs) are still the best bang for the buck when it comes to “customer discovery,” not to be confused with user or product discovery! More on that later. Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of facilitating numerous customer advisory boards for my clients. There are two common denominators in every meeting. The discussions between your customers are invaluable because of the rich context you’d never get in one-on-one discovery meetings with those same customers.

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Getting real with Jobs to Be Done – Bob Moesta (CEO & Founder, The Re-Wired Group)

Mind the Product

Bob Moesta, who developed the approach alongside Harvard Business School's Clayton Christensen - to really get into the approach. Read more » The post Getting real with Jobs to Be Done – Bob Moesta (CEO & Founder, The Re-Wired Group) appeared first on Mind the Product.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Compliance Management: Meeting Regulatory Standards While Maintaining Flexibility in Product Roadmaps

Gocious Blog

Navigating the landscape of regulations and compliance standards is an unavoidable reality for manufacturers. With varying requirements in different regions and industries, the challenge lies in effectively managing these complexities. One approach to addressing this challenge is the implementation of compliance management systems (CMS), which serve as structured frameworks for ensuring adherence to legal obligations and industry standards.

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Why PMs are best positioned to thrive in an AI world

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. For more: Best of Lenny’s Newsletter | Hire your next product leader | Podcast | Lennybot | Swag Subscribe now Announcing two new speakers at the Lenny & Friends Summit I’m excited to announce that Mike Krieger (CPO of Anthropic, co-founder of Instagram) and K

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Why the worst users come from referral programs, free trials, coupons, and gamification

Andrew Chen

Above: Many small business figured out the hard way why coupon sites generate worse users Incentive programs often don’t perform The people you attract with referral programs, free trials, coupons, and gamification — folks who are “incentivized” as a broad umbrella category — are usually MUCH WORSE than organic ones. Worse LTVs, worse conversion, less engaged, and so on.