UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 22, 2021

They get most of the recognition, but they also have to be involved in everything, which is super tiring and often leads to stress, burnout, and bad health. They don’t have to make every decision and double-check everything done by their teams. The most important tool empowering leaders can use is context.

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

We look at the process of idea validation and a range of tools and techniques you can leverage to aid the process. TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need. Are there enough users who are ready to pay for a solution to the problem?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2023

If you’re a financial services product manager, you’ll know that crafting an effective fintech app onboarding process is no small feat. There are challenges unique to financial services that become magnified when dealing with mobile devices. Chances are the ones you frequently use have a simple, intuitive app onboarding process.

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Mixpanel

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Forrester reports that insight-driven businesses are growing at an average of 30% each year and are predicted to take $1.8 We spoke to two leaders at growing digital companies about how integrating data-informed practices into their operations, including mature product analytics with a platform like Mixpanel, can lead to success.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 17, 2020

As a product leader, you know how important iteration is to helping teams adapt to user needs and build great products. But iterating without clear, accessible data can lead to problems throughout the launch cycle, from poor audience fit to missed timelines because it took too long to validate an earlier change.

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Modus Create

MAY 31, 2021

This article focuses on the practical challenges we faced while testing APIs and their best possible solutions. As per the latest State of API report, there is a massive spike in the companies taking up API operations. Let us get into the top QA challenges of API testing and their solutions. . Test Coverage.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Pure revenue may be helpful for the Sales organization, since they probably need to hire 35% more account teams each year.    And possibly helpful to Finance, responding to investors’ demands for a hypothetical 2-year cash flow forecast.  ” What To Do?   No magic bullets. 

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. Rather, everything is an iterative process of building the service, rolling it out to users and keep improving it as you get new data and feedback.

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Gainsight

MARCH 19, 2020

Let’s start by acknowledging that Customer Success teams always have the coolest people in the company. They develop a deep understanding of the customer’s problems and how the company can offer a better overall solution. So why are Success leaders often second-class citizens on the executive team? Account value.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 26, 2022

Three huge economic sectors employ the majority of data scientists or analysts: finance, insurance and professional services. Data science will only continue to expand as well as more teams begin to use data to make decisions, not just engineering. This type of job may work on a team or lead a team of others.

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Atlassian

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Psychologically safe work environments allow team members to feel that they can safely take calculated risks without fear of repercussions. On the journey to success, how your team members feel about their work environment may be just as important as the skills they bring to the table. 5-Second summary. What is psychological safety?

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Gainsight

MARCH 9, 2020

Let’s start by acknowledging that Customer Success teams always have the coolest people in the company. They develop a deep understanding of the customer’s problems and how the company can offer a better overall solution. So why are Success leaders often second-class citizens on the executive team? Account value.

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

Input from executives is only less common than input from product owners, engineering teams, and the product managers themselves. The challenge for product leaders is that ideas from the C-Suite often lack customer validation and therefore put teams at risk of investing resources in ideas that won’t be successful.

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Mind the Product

MAY 9, 2019

In March last year, my colleague and Mind the Product’s Director of Training, Rosemary King, wrote about how the company departments working alongside a product team could better work together to meet their common goals and to improve working practices. Take Stock Regularly. “If The concept is so simple, but so effective.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

Hi I'm Kevin Wei, a product manager (aka an offering manager -- I can get into that in a bit) on IBM's data + AI team. I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 11, 2022

Finding a new team member creates anxiety for many managers and for a good reason. The right hire unlocks new capabilities, allowing the team to achieve even more. The wrong choice, however, can drag down the highest functioning of teams. The perfect product operations candidate might not even know to search for this job title.

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

Input from executives is only less common than input from product owners, engineering teams, and the product managers themselves. The challenge for product leaders is that ideas from the C-Suite often lack customer validation and therefore put teams at risk of investing resources in ideas that won’t be successful.

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

Input from executives is only less common than input from product owners, engineering teams, and the product managers themselves. The challenge for product leaders is that ideas from the C-Suite often lack customer validation and therefore put teams at risk of investing resources in ideas that won’t be successful.

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Innovatemap

MARCH 22, 2023

How We Know As a service provider in the tech industry, we have a unique purview. After 25 years in tech, it’s never been so obvious to me how tied technology is to the macro-economic climate. Venture funds and economic reports released early in the year confirmed what we felt in Q4. Simply put, we’re all in this together.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

Defining my label carefully, a “product leader” is someone who manages a team of product managers. There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. . What does your team and company need?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 22, 2019

It’s the tool I get asked about the most. They serve bad goals just as well as they do good goals. In fact, of all the management tools, OKRs are the easiest to misuse, overuse and abuse?—?many This is a major problem because bad OKRs can amplify the issues the org is troubled with rather than fix them. Reduce avg.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

These frameworks are targeted at teams building new products, first and foremost. Everywhere you looked, there were reminders of the global scale of Uber’s business as well as the international heritage of the team driving it. How to get them started, how to scale them, and what it’s like to compete.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2021

Half of the calls I get from CEOs include requests for Product Management to boost productivity in Engineering (aka Development aka Makers). This reflects confusion about what product managers do (and how we really add value), and often poor role definition where product managers are also project/program managers or engineering leads.

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Revulytics sponsors a series of Product Management Today webinars featuring innovative ideas from top software product management thought leaders. We all know these things existed before technology. The question is: how is technology contributing? What got you interested in better ways to craft and use metrics?

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

So that the senior manager can decide on the mix of products and services as a product line. Notice that each team has all the skills and capabilities it needs. Not only does each team have all the skills and capabilities it needs, but the product line has all the skills and capabilities it needs to manage the culture.

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Reveal

JULY 28, 2022

Embedded analytics is everywhere around us – in our cars, in our homes, in our security systems, in the digital advertising that we see while surfing the web, and even in the healthcare services we are being treated with. Embedded analytics is no longer ‘’nice to have’’, but a definite ‘’must-have’’ solution.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 28, 2019

It is more accessible than ever before, and we’re constantly awash in data, metrics, news, reports, etc. There probably isn’t a better example of data overload than in finance. New reports are available every day with economic indicators, financial forecasts, analyst rating, price movements, and much more.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Almost every week, I have a conversation with executives at B2B software companies who don’t see a bright-line distinction between software license revenue and customization/implementation revenue.  Or What do I mean by software product vs software services ?  A billable).  Building

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It is also one of the busiest, most complex departments, often handling many tools, managing multiple campaigns and events, and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders. The centralization promoted by these tools ensures brand assets and marketing materials are easier to find. What is marketing resource management (MRM)?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

TL;DR A product manager leads the product management team and is responsible for overseeing all stages of the product development process. They earn more than developers, astronauts, and even attorneys, but less than surgeons. The Director of Product is accountable for multiple product lines and manages product management teams.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

I’ve written a lot about the huge organizational and technical gulf between services companies and product companies.  (See Services companies (aka custom development, agencies, outsourcing/nearshoring, contract engineering, consultancies, any work-for-hire) primarily market/sell the time and expertise of their people.  Work

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Building effective teams with people from different disciplines can be challenging due to various circumstances. Teams with multiple functions are instrumental towards staying competitive and succeed. Conversely, to rely solely on a single-function team for brainstorming is a recipe for failure.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet  We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent.  Project teams that ship v1.0

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eG Innovations

OCTOBER 20, 2022

I will not dwell too much on why you should monitor Azure Active Directory, but here are the top three reasons why we think everyone should be monitoring this service: Security – actively monitoring sign-in logs enables you to detect malicious attacks such as brute force penetration attacks as they happen.

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