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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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Elevating your product management game: A guide for the new and the ambitious

Mind the Product

The product manager’s role is both crucial and challenging. New or relatively new product managers often find themselves in the deep end figuring out the complex world of product development, strategy, and user experience without a life preserver. The expectation to deliver results while continuously improving can be overwhelming, especially when you have little guidance Read more » The post Elevating your product management game: A guide for the new and the ambitious appeared first on Mind

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You should be playing with GPTs at work

Lenny Rachitsky

👋 Hey, Lenny here! Welcome to this month’s ✨ free edition ✨ of Lenny’s Newsletter. Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. If you’re not a subscriber, here’s what you missed this month: My favorite decision-making frameworks Why you should add a work trial to your interview process The ultimate guide to willingness-to-pay Subscribe now P.S.

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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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How To Get Promoted In Product Management

Speaker: John Mansour

If you're looking to advance your career in product management, there are more options than just climbing the management ladder. Join our upcoming webinar to learn about highly rewarding career paths that don't involve management responsibilities. We'll cover both career tracks and provide tips on how to position yourself for success in the one that's right for you.

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A Guide to Customer Retention: Importance, Strategies & Metrics

Userpilot

Customer retention is vital for product success and business profitability. Why? That’s one question we discuss in the article. You will also learn how to build a retention strategy, what metrics to track, and 10 bulletproof retention tactics for SaaS companies. Let’s dive right in! TL;DR Customer retention is the ability to keep your customers actively using their products.

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The Power of Your Network

Ronke PM

Table of Contents What is Networking? What is The Importance of Cultivating a Network? My Own Experience With My Network Final Thoughts As you navigate your life, it's crucial to cultivate a network of people who will inspire, influence, and uplift you. These relationships can be transformative, helping you confidently seize your defining moments.

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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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Breaking into Japan: The Sweet Success of Kit Kat’s Market Entry

freshtrax

Kit Kat , a globally recognized chocolate brand, has not only won the hearts of chocolate lovers worldwide but has also achieved remarkable success in the Japanese market. The journey of Kit Kat in Japan is a fascinating tale of cultural adaptation, innovative marketing strategies, and a bit of serendipity. In this article, we explore how Kit Kat made its mark in Japan, turning a simple chocolate bar into a cultural phenomenon.

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Conquering Product-Led Transformation: Strategies for Scaling in Large Enterprises

Dragonboat

A rapid scaling journey for a product organization is no small feat. The larger the company, the more significant the challenges become: team cohesion, strategic direction, and maintaining alignment throughout the organization. Recently, the CPO Series had the pleasure of hosting Rob Seidman, Chief Product Officer for the POS and lending division at U.S.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Beyond launch day: How to plan successful B2B product rollouts

Mixpanel

Believe it or not, rolling out a new product can be a lot trickier for B2B companies. And there are several reasons why. For one, in an ideal scenario, any new feature release requires a healthy amount of testing and, unlike B2C companies which build for general consumers and might have millions of users, most B2Bs are lucky to have a few thousand people regularly using their products.

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Did Substack make newsletters too mainstream (and irrelevant)?

NextBigWhat

Remember the excitement of discovering a well-written newsletter? That niche corner of the internet where someone shared passions, insights, or curated content with a devoted audience? There was a certain… The post Did Substack make newsletters too mainstream (and irrelevant)? appeared first on NextBigWhat.

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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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How AI will impact product management

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 P.S. Check out my PM recruiting service (helping you hire Sr. PMs and VPs), Lennybot (an AI chatbot trained on my newsletter posts, podcast interviews, and more), and my swag store (great gifts for your favorite PM, or yourself!).

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

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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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.

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Happy Customer Service: What Is It + 12 Ways to Delight Customers

Userpilot

Happy customer service can be the difference between inconsistent revenue and a good bottom line. When users are delighted with your product experience, they engage more and tend to renew and even upgrade their accounts. This article takes a deep dive, showing you what happy service really means and practical steps to keep customers happy throughout their relationship with you.

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Amplitude Digital Analytics Platform Just Got a Whole Lot Better

Amplitude

Learn how we’ve strengthened the power of Amplitude's Digital Analytics Platform with the addition of Session Replay and Experiment for web.

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Product-Led Sales is Product Management

Ronke PM

Our customers are like us. We have to understand that they want bonuses, pay raises, and promotions just as we do. As product managers, it’s our mission to position them as heroes within their organizations by providing products, solutions, and services that solve their unique problems effectively. We’ve entered the age of the customer, where traditional sales strategies have become obsolete.

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Exploring PerfDog Whitepaper 2024: Unlock the Power of Performance Testing

Key Takeaways Robust Platform & Multi-System Support: Brief introduction to PerfDog's extensive compatibility across various operating systems and hardware platforms including Android, iOS, PC, gaming consoles and more. In-Depth Performance Metrics: Quick view of the extensive range of metrics for system, graphics and rendering, user experience, in-depth analysis, and more.

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Systems Thinking and its Relevance to Strategic Planning in UX Research

UX Planet

Systemic Thinking: The Key to an Impactful UX Strategy Systems Thinking is a holistic approach to problem analysis and solving that emphasizes viewing systems as a whole, rather than focusing only on individual parts. In the field of UX research, Systems Thinking can bring many benefits to strategic planning, allowing for a broader and more integrated view of the user ecosystem.

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Building Tomorrow: A Global Vision for Change

freshtrax

At our recent event, SF Pitch Night 2024, Taylor Marcus and Gustavo Trigos were guest speakers on the discussion panel, “Building Tomorrow: A Global Vision for Change” moderated by HULT International Business School ‘s very own Paula Cevallos. The conversation ventured into the depths of innovation, global expansion, and the impact of entrepreneurship on societal transformation.

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Permission To Stay Focused

Mironov Consulting

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.  Lately, I’m calling this permission to stay focused. Some context: The typical product manager ( PdM ) gets dozens of new requests and demands and ideas and suggestions and escalations and bug reports and customer compl

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Limiting Beliefs: Ditch the 4 Dream Killers Holding You Back

Nir Eyal

You’re probably not going to fulfill all your goals this year. And if you don’t, it likely won’t be because you’re incapable; it will be because you got in your own way. A slew of self-limiting beliefs will distract you from your goals and New Year’s resolutions. Below are four ways you’re likely to shoot yourself in the foot with self-limiting beliefs, plus ways you can learn to get out of your own way.

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Product Management Careers: Job Prospects, Pathways, and Must-Have Skills (2024)

The product management job market in 2024 reflects the fast-growing and ever-evolving nature of the field. For product managers looking to future-proof their careers and take advantage of new opportunities, staying informed about the professional landscape is a smart move. In this comprehensive career guide from Regis College, you’ll learn about: The current job outlook for product managers in 2024 Six professional pathways and the average salaries for these roles in the U.S.

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Weird x Working = ? [Signs of a successful consumer AI product]

NextBigWhat

a16z ‘s GP, Anish Acharya has an interesting take on what it will take for an AI consumer startup to be super successful. “If it’s weird and working, it’s exactly where we want to invest…Weird products tend to win.” Extreme products win. Always! Successful consumer products have strong “word of mouth” virality due to surprising […] The post Weird x Working = ?

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Product managers, stop being jaded – Ipsita Basu (Senior Group Product Manager, BILL)

Mind the Product

Listen to our conversation with Ipsita Basu, Senior Group Product Manager at BILL, about rediscovering our passion for the product. In this episode, Ipsita shares practical advice for product managers looking to get out of a rut and build innovative products that customers love. Featured Links: Follow Ipsita on LinkedIn | Bill | Read Ipsita’s ‘Product managers, stop being jaded’ article at Read more » The post Product managers, stop being jaded – Ipsita Ba

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Twitter’s former Head of Product opens up: being fired, meeting Elon, changing stagnant culture, building consumer product, more | Kayvon Beykpour

Lenny Rachitsky

Brought to you by: • Enterpret —Transform customer feedback into product growth • OneSchema —Import CSV data 10x faster • Heap —Cross-platform product analytics that convert, engage, and retain customers — Kayvon Beykpour was the longest-serving head of product at Twitter and was GM of Twitter’s consumer division until the platform was acquired by Elon Musk.

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The “Dinner Party Jerk” test — why founders need to pitch themselves harder and more futuristically

Andrew Chen

The “ Dinner Party Jerk ” test is a solution to a common problem: Startups often struggle at pitching their team, even though for the earliest stage companies, it’s incredibly important to do it well to raise capital — as I’ve described it below: Pre-seed- Bet on the team ‍ Seed- Bet on the product Series A- Bet on the traction Series B- Bet on the revenue Series C- Bet on the unit economics To figure out if you are properly pitching yourself in your team, run the thought experiment of de

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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How to Perform User Needs Analysis For SaaS

Userpilot

What’s the best way to ensure your product hits the right chord with users? A user needs analysis conducted with product analytics data lets you build products that address user pain points and exceed their expectations. In this article, we dig deeper into what user needs analysis is and how you can get started with it. TL;DR User needs analysis refers to using various techniques to understand users’ aspirations, goals, and pain points.

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Celebrating the Top 50 Product and Growth Leaders Around the World

Amplitude

Learn about the winners of the 2024 Product 50—the best and brightest product and growth leaders around the world.

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Purposeful Leadership in Product Management

Ronke PM

In March, we celebrate women's accomplishments, reflecting on their monumental role in product management. We owe our progress to those women who trailblazed our path and laid our foundations, mentoring us to be exceptional and formidable. From their experiences, we meet our moments with integrity and grace. They are a testament to breaking barriers and shattering the glass ceiling.