Johanna Rothman
MARCH 12, 2019
Too-typical “telephone” game. Especially when we use agile approaches, we want to be close to our customer. If you've ever had a chance to sit with a customer, you've learned how effectively (and fast!) the team and the customer learn from each other. And, too few teams have any access to any customers. Most of their customer information comes via a product owner, who learns from a product manager.
ProductPlan
MARCH 12, 2019
Cultural fit is a relatively new concept in hiring and team building. While organizations have always had culture, the long-held expectation was that new employees would adapt to said culture, and people would be hired purely based on resumes. Companies now realize just how important corporate culture is to their ability to grow, adapt, react, and thrive.
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Product Management Unpacked
MARCH 12, 2019
Marty Cagan, founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group , delivered the opening keynote to the 2016 Mind the Product Conference. His keynote, “Behind Every Great Product,” highlights professionals involved in some of the most iconic technology products of our time, including Netflix, iTunes and Word for Mac. All six of the examples he uses are women in product management.
Intercom, Inc.
MARCH 12, 2019
A little over a year ago, I got the opportunity to start a new team within our sales organization – a team of Relationship Managers dedicated to growing our current customers at scale. The opportunity emerged out of a shift in how we practice sales. We had split into two distinct but complementary functions. We now had “hunters” who acquire new business and “farmers” who nurture existing business.
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Mind the Product
MARCH 12, 2019
Building and sustaining a healthy team culture and communication is a large part of being a successful product manager. Since product managers don’t directly manage other team members (except for other product managers), and your unit of delivery is your team, influence and inspiration are vital for ensuring your team is happy, healthy, and productive.
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First Round Review
MARCH 12, 2019
Angel Steger serves as our guide on a trek to better understand the still developing speciality of growth design. She shares lessons learned from her roles leading the function at Dropbox and Pinterest, and outlines tactics for early-stage startups looking to source, interview and onboard growth designers of their own.
Amplitude
MARCH 12, 2019
We have a running joke on the product development team: “If a chart falls in the woods and there’s no one around to analyze it, does it make an insight?”. Our answer is no. We believe that a healthy data culture is not merely defined by data access. In a healthy data culture, people can use data and have conversations about it all the time—and that means having a good way to share and collaborate on insights.
ProductBoard
MARCH 12, 2019
We recently wrote about interviewing customers to get beyond their initial asks to find out what they really need. In the article, we mentioned that the “5 Whys” is a popular and effective method for talking to customers. We also elaborated on how we use that framework. Of course, interviewing, whether it be with job candidates, customers, or sources for a story, can be a bit of an art and science.
Gainsight
MARCH 12, 2019
Just how accurate are online review aggregators, anyway? If you pull up Google or Yelp for a restaurant, say, you’ll get an aggregate of stars from one to five, the number of reviews counted, and any number of written reviews and qualitative feedback. Dig deeper, and you may find responses from the restaurant, a policy for filtering out bogus responses (usually through a combination of software and human intervention), an easy way for you to leave your own review, and maybe an explanation
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
Centercode
MARCH 12, 2019
Imagine this: you have two groups of 100 testers. You give them the same product. You ask them to report back on their findings. Would their answers be the same? Well, that depends on who the testers in those two groups are. It also depends on what you ask them. Those aspects show the difference between crowdsourced testing and beta testing. The conditions surrounding these two test types are very similar.
UserInterviews
MARCH 12, 2019
This week on Awkward Silences, the gang talks about the benefits of remote research and how to do it effectively.
ProductCraft
MARCH 12, 2019
This week on Product Love, I talked to Glen Holmes, a senior product manager at Workday. Workday offers enterprise-level software solutions for financial management, human resources, and business planning. We met at Industry: Dublin last spring, and I’m happy to have a friend on the podcast to discuss everything product management. Previously, Glen worked in.
Gainsight
MARCH 12, 2019
The most terrible response can be silence. In 2016, the Swedish Academy announced that it was awarding the year’s Nobel Prize in literature to Bob Dylan. The world turned expectantly (and reasonably) to the musician for a statement, and for that satisfying feeling you get from hearing a person warmly express their gratitude. Instead, he gave us a solid reminder of just how eccentric he is: he said nothing ( at least not immediately ).
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UserInterviews
MARCH 12, 2019
This week on Awkward Silences, the gang talks about the benefits of remote research and how to do it effectively.
UserTesting
MARCH 12, 2019
No matter your role, if you’re focused on creating great experiences for your customers, chances are you’re working with multiple teams across your organization. Each team has a unique role to play in creating great CX, and likely use phrases, … The post 5 product management terms product teams want you to know appeared first on UserTesting Blog.
UserInterviews
MARCH 12, 2019
This week on Awkward Silences, the gang talks about the benefits of remote research and how to do it effectively.
Product Management University
MARCH 12, 2019
Your product portfolio has more strategic value than the sum of its parts, especially from the customers’ point of view. Here’s the simplest definition of product portfolio management and it involves three simple concepts: First, the entire product management team has to align behind a common view of the customer organization (from the top down) without any product bias.
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
UX Studio: Product Management
MARCH 12, 2019
If you (or your boss) ever wondered about the right way to do design for the greatest profitability, we’ve go t your b ack with some cold hard facts. These facts about the business value of design should convince even the most financially oriented. . Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash. In this article we cover: The business value of design. Four groups of design actions to take.
Dear Strategy
MARCH 12, 2019
Dear Strategy: “How do you build programs, projects, and, ultimately, products out of a strategy once it’s been established and accepted? How does it look from a complete, holistic lifecycle? . This is one of those questions that might, at first, appear to be a bit on the obvious side. I mean, isn’t the whole point of a strategy to identify actions that can be turned into programs, projects, and products?
The Product Coalition
MARCH 12, 2019
A meaningful, motivating product vision enables teams to advance to a purpose-driven mindset. People care about themselves and their problems. Product Leaders face this universal truth daily: Sales wants to close more deals. Customer support wants to reduce stressful customer calls. Our CEO wants to look good at an upcoming Board meeting. Engineering wants to speed up development.
Userpilot
MARCH 12, 2019
It’s rare that a SaaS company invests a lot of time, money and efforts in its user onboarding, adoption and in-app experiences. However, whenever we find such a company, we make sure that everyone can learn from its experiences, UX tips and user onboarding methodologies. Also, we did a user onboarding teardown as well, so be ready to collect as much information as you can!
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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