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.

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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.

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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.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 21, 2021

In a small startup, product managers may find themselves wearing multiple hats. In this ProductTank Vienna talk, Nikolaus Horn and Sebastian Ratcliffe, product managers at Riskine, dispel some of the myths about what it means to be a product manager working in a smaller B2B business and explain how they needed to think outside the [.] Read more » The post What makes for effective product management by Nikolaus Horn and Sebastian Ratcliffe appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

What is API testing? Before we get to the problem of identifying which of the two, API testing and UI testing, is easier or more difficult, we need to begin by defining them. Especially the former. But it comes with a caveat. API testing can cover several different and distinct concepts and knowing which one you’re interested in is often dependent on your role in a software testing company.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

No one wants to wait. Responding faster to customers always keeps them satisfied and invested. When someone learns about your business, the easiest and fastest way to initiate communication is the ‘chat’. Chats can help people in different ways; from clarifying basic queries or customer support to converting inquiries to business. Why do Businesses need Real-Time communication?

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Userpilot

JUNE 21, 2021

User stories are an Agile technique of defining product functionality and requirements. They focus on telling a story for an action a user will take and what the expectation is when successful. The concept of user stories is widely used, but telling good stories can be quite difficult. User stories have taken a bit of a hit in the last few years though, as they’re slight oversimplifications and lack empathy for the user.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

Create with a bit of customization the perfect board for your next remote planning Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Product Management Today Submitted Articles

JUNE 21, 2021

A Learning Framework for growth

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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

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

Fail, Learn and Repeat Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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JUNE 21, 2021

A Learning Framework for growth

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The Accidental Product Manager

JUNE 21, 2021

CVS wants to find ways to cross the last mile to get to their customers Image Credit: Mike Mozart. One of the things that every product manager would like to have would be a guaranteed customer base. We’d all love to know that there was a group of customers out there that really needed our products and would probably always be buying from us. It turns out that there are a few markets that are like this.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 21, 2021

Great product managers prioritize EVERYTHING! Watch and learn more from product management expert, Tanya Koshy.

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Fearless Product

JUNE 21, 2021

Are you a product leader seeking to improve the discovery practices of your teams? Do you want to create a culture and leadership team that values discovery-based, customer-centric product roadmaps over executive-only ideas? In this episode of Fearless Product Leadership, Teresa Torres of ProductTalk and I discuss how product leaders can nurture product discovery in their organizations.

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Ken Norton

JUNE 21, 2021

What dual ladders for product managers could look like in practice -. My previous newsletter was a call to normalize dual-track career ladders for product management, allowing people to choose between advancement in product leadership over people management. I was pleased with the response, which was overwhelmingly positive. Scores of readers saw themselves in my words.

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Clinton M. Padgett

JUNE 21, 2021

If you could look into a crystal ball and predict everything that would happen in the future with perfect detail, you’d be more than just a successful project manager. Unfortunately, none of us have that ability. Instead, we plan for and adapt to all the unknown circumstances life throws at us as best as we can. Fortunately, it is possible to predict potential scenarios based on our experience as project managers and human beings.

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Fearless Product

JUNE 21, 2021

Are you a product leader seeking to improve the discovery practices of your teams? Do you want to create a culture and leadership team that values discovery-based, customer-centric product roadmaps over executive-only ideas? In this episode of Fearless Product Leadership, Teresa Torres of ProductTalk and I discuss how product leaders can nurture product discovery in their organizations.

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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

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Innovatemap

JUNE 21, 2021

If you’ve interacted with an Innovatemap team member, you’ve likely heard the phrase “marketable, valuable and useable” at least once or twice. It’s more than a motto – it’s a philosophy that guides everything we do for our clients. It represents our four disciplines and how they work in harmony to produce winning digital products. Over the past seven years of being an agency, we’ve had more than 175 clients come to us with a digital product need.

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Userpilot

JUNE 21, 2021

The Net Promoter Score (NPS) captures your user sentiment and informs you how likely your users are to recommend your tool to their friends. But what is the best NPS feedback software for this task? Here is a list of the top five NPS software tools, with a set of questions to help you evaluate which one should go into your SaaS martech stack. Use the table of contents below to jump straight to the tool comparisons if you don’t need to know what NPS is and how it’s calculated.

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NextBigWhat

JUNE 21, 2021

Build audience before product. But how do you do it? Here’s how I’ve built an audience across channels and grown my startups from 0 to $2 million revenues. Involves a mix of marketing & writing. (1/11) When building audience on any channel, make personal connections. Share your personal experiences, stories & learnings vs. company or product updates.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 21, 2021

Why Do Product People Need to Focus on Impact? As the VP of Product at ProductPlan, there’s nothing that I enjoy more than talking to customers. I enjoy identifying a significant problem that sounds impossible to solve and then bringing it to my engineering and design peers. The ensuing conversations energize us as we look at the pain point from different angles before ultimately taking the first impactful step.

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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.

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