Mind the Product
JUNE 24, 2021
Used properly and in the right place, Machine Learning (ML) is an incredible tool to bring value to your product and your users. But how can you use the five product risks—value, usability, feasibility, viability, and ethics—to know if the opportunity is right for ML? Andy Kelly on Unsplash Whether it’s checking your online transaction for fraud [.] Read more » The post Should you really be using machine learning?
Nir Eyal
JUNE 13, 2021
The post What Is Motivation? You’ve Probably Been Thinking About It All Wrong appeared first on Nir and Far.
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Product Talk
JUNE 16, 2021
In this short video, I address the most common question I’ve received since releasing my book Continuous Discovery Habits: Why didn’t you include my role in the product trio ? You can watch the video or read a lightly edited transcript below. Who should you include in your product trio? Does a product trio exclude everyone else from discovery decisions?
The Product Bistro
JUNE 12, 2021
A little history. When I originally bought my Honda S2000, I became very interested in keeping it in great condition, and to do that, I picked up a habit of detailing. It was fun, relaxing and rewarding practice, a Saturday ritual to wash, and clean my car, with waxing happening several times a year, and […].
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Intercom, Inc.
JUNE 16, 2021
When you analyze your company, it’s easy to look at everything in its current state. What’s our biggest problem today ? What’s our best asset today ? That perspective is not so useful, however, when planning for where you want to be tomorrow. It’s not about where you are, it’s about where you’re headed, and how fast you’re getting there. Long-term thinking is hard for a very simple reason: every company is in a race against the clock.
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Mind the Product
JUNE 17, 2021
Product discovery pitfalls, have you fallen foul of one? If your answer is yes, you’re forgiven, because the list is long and you’re only human! But, as product people, it’s our job to be aware of the hidden hurdles and do product discovery the right way. Here we share 6 common product discovery pitfalls and [.] Read more » The post Common product discovery pitfalls and how to avoid them appeared first on Mind the Product.
The Product Coalition
JUNE 13, 2021
“To a great mind, nothing is little.” — Sherlock Holmes Continue reading on Product Coalition ».
Product Talk
JUNE 2, 2021
In this short video, I walk through what decision-making looks like in a product trio. If you missed the first video in this series, be sure to check that out first: What’s a product trio? You can watch the video or read a lightly edited transcript below. Do product trios really work? What do they do when they can’t agree? Who really gets to make the decisions?
Product Management University
JUNE 21, 2021
If you’re waiting for someone to crown your product management team the kings and queens of strategic direction, you better get a nice comfy chair with all the reclining, heating and massaging accoutrements because you’re in for a long wait! Strategic direction is all about influence, and influence is all about earning the trust and credibility of your colleagues across the organization from top to bottom.
Speaker: Leslie Grandy, Product Executive & Drew Weaver, Senior Program Manager
Effective management of multiple product teams necessitates a skillful coordination and guidance with the objective of aligning efforts towards shared goals. This entails constant communication, efficient task management, and ensuring that each team aligns with the broader organizational objectives. We can think about this like conducting an orchestra, where diverse efforts are harmonized toward a unified outcome. 🎯 Proficiency in these skills empowers product managers to navigate comple
Intercom, Inc.
JUNE 9, 2021
We want to give our employees the best possible start to their Intercom careers. That used to mean welcoming them to the company in person but, like everyone, we’ve had to adapt to a new way of onboarding over the past year. The COVID-19 pandemic has completely disrupted the way we work and forced us to reinvent how we onboard new colleagues. At the start of March last year, as the scale of the threat became more apparent, we realized we had to transition our in-person employee onboarding experi
Alchemer Mobile
JUNE 15, 2021
Product teams deliver value through collaborating to solve problems. Even if a remote-first approach isn’t the primary goal, for most high-performance product teams, some combination of co-located and remote team members is the future. We’ve mostly gotten comfortable with working remotely, but many remote product teams’ strategies lack in at least one area of collaboration.
Mind the Product
JUNE 29, 2021
You’ve optimised your product to solve a problem for your users. You’ve refined the sales funnel, built for scale, and made sure that accessibility is baked in from the start. Great job! But what about ensuring that your customers can trust it? We talked with Nathan Kinch, an Entrepreneur and Digital Trust Expert, about the big [.] Read more » The post Making your products trustworthy – Nathan Kinch appeared first on Mind the Product.
The Product Coalition
JUNE 3, 2021
Prefer watching your insights? Check out the 10-minute video version of this blog post. [link] Have you ever found yourself sweating bullets staring down a product decision? Executives are pushing urgency. The data is inconclusive. Your support team is asking for more time. Are you being data-driven? What about your product intuition? These types of feelings are not uncommon for PMs.
Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr
Product Management Unpacked
JUNE 21, 2021
“I’m actually a pretty avid DIY-er,” confides Pranita Ramakrishnan, MS of Product Management, Carnegie Mellon University, Class of 2019. “I grew up in a family where if you didn’t take a trip to Home Depot twice a month to get some type of materials for a project, something was wrong.”. When Home Depot came to the Carnegie Mellon campus to interview Product Management intern candidates, Pranita’s interest was piqued.
Userpilot
JUNE 15, 2021
UX or CS teams who are trying to improve their SaaS user onboarding experience often ask us: Which software companies have the best user onboarding experiences? Who can we turn to for some inspiration? The answer isn’t always so straightforward. When it comes to onboarding a new user, the experience must be obsessively aligned with providing that first moment of value. .
Intercom, Inc.
JUNE 2, 2021
At Intercom, we start with the problem. But not every problem is created equal, and their solutions shouldn’t be either. Aligning on three things before diving into a solution can help ensure teams spend the right amount of time and energy solving every problem. We start every project with a problem statement that answers these questions: . What outcome does the customer want?
Alchemer Mobile
JUNE 24, 2021
Banking, fintech, and insurance companies are uniquely positioned to build relationships with mobile consumers—but few tap into their app’s full potential, leaving missed connection opportunities on the table. If you’re in finance, it’s time to reevaluate how you use your app for feedback collection and relationship building. In this webinar, Veronica Rosenberg, Manager of Apptentive’s Customer Success team, and Marta Mueller, Apptentive Customer Success Manager, share the strategies the world’s
Speaker: Jason Tanner
While growth of software-enabled solutions generates momentum, growth alone is not enough to ensure sustainability. The probability of success dramatically improves with early planning for profitability. A sustainable business model contains a system of interrelated choices made not once but over time. Join this webinar for an iterative approach to ensuring solution, economic and relationship sustainability.
Mind the Product
JUNE 13, 2021
Have you ever made a product or feature that no one wanted? In this ProductTank San Francisco talk, Jenny Shirey, then Senior UX Manager at Splunk, explains how product people can avoid this problem by showing us how to use product discovery the right way. The key points of her talk include: We are not our users [.] Read more » The post Using discovery methods to create products that people actually want by Jenny Shirey appeared first on Mind the Product.
The Product Coalition
JUNE 21, 2021
A practical look at how and why software designers can ensure digital services can be used by everyone. For much of the past year, life in countries around the globe have been in a coronavirus-driven lockdown. Friends gathered online instead of in bars and pubs. People who need medicine use apps and websites to order perscriptions and have them delivered to their homes.
First Round Review
JUNE 15, 2021
Sharp folks from across the First Round community share the small habits that great managers do, including delivering feedback with care, opening up about failure, and sending praise up the chain.
Roy Madden
JUNE 29, 2021
Work at feedly. We’re looking for a hands-on Marketing Automation Manager with Hubspot expertise to help us level up our B2B marketing efforts. You will own our Hubspot environment across the Marketing, Sales and Customer Success teams, and be responsible for educating the broader organization on data hygiene and digital marketing best practices. apply for this positon.
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Intercom, Inc.
JUNE 1, 2021
Over the course of the past year, the customer support landscape has changed for good. As brick-and-mortar businesses closed worldwide, companies and customers alike had to pivot to digital-first ways of doing business. As a result, we’ve seen some major, long-lasting changes to how businesses and consumers communicate and build relationships with one another: The popularity of messaging channels is on the rise – messenger-based support is now the second most used support channel.
Alchemer Mobile
JUNE 29, 2021
On the last Tuesday of every month, our team gives some tough love to our favorite apps. That’s right, we’ll be going through some of our most beloved mobile apps and discussing what they’ve done well and what could be improved – all done with love! This week, we’re talking about Strava and how they’re missing an opportunity to drive mobile app retention from analyzing and acting on product feedback.
Mind the Product
JUNE 4, 2021
This article looks at the future of product practice and product management — at how far we’ve come, our present-day understanding of product, and the challenges we still need to meet. It should help you, as a product person, to better understand:- Why we keep asking “what is product management?” and why we find it so [.] Read more » The post What is product?
The Product Coalition
JUNE 30, 2021
Photo by Jukan Tateisi on Unsplash Online marketplaces are a hot trend now?—?such names as Amazon, Etsy, or eBay are on everyone’s lips. There is no wonder that more and more people want to create their alternatives to the existing e-commerce platforms. In this blog post, I will share the step-by-step guide to building an online marketplace. I hope that with guide the process of development of a marketplace will become clearer for you. 1.
Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science
Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.
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