Fri.Mar 16, 2018

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Understanding direct and indirect competition

Intercom, Inc.

Sometimes your customers really want to use your feature or product, but they also want something else that simply isn’t compatible with it. People really want to be slim and healthy, but they also really want soft drinks and fast food. McDonalds and Weight Watchers are selling wildly different products, but they’re competing for the same customers.

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Manage Conflict by Building Your Product EQ

Mind the Product

I introduced a concept called Product EQ when speaking about managing conflict at work at a recent ProductTank London. It’s a term that focuses on the emotional intelligence / emotional quotient competencies that were introduced by Daniel Goleman and remain essential to our craft such as influencing, teamwork & collaboration, leadership, organizational awareness, and empathy.

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Imbuing Product Strategy

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: Marissa Fong (Mentee, Session 5, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Bill Gourlay]. Product management requires product strategy. What are your customers’ needs? How do you best solve for these needs? How do you get your team and organization to effectively solve for these needs together. These are all key questions addressed as part of product strategy.

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On building products customers love, from the father of tech product management

ProductBoard

How to create products customers love. “It doesn’t matter how good your engineering team is if they are not given something worthwhile to build.” In the opening lines of the newly released second edition of the product management classic — Inspired — Marty Cagan begins with a story that will sound familiar to anyone who’s followed him over the years.

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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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[Dataversity] Bring Your Own Data: Exploring a Cure for Software Licensing Compliance Ills

Revulytics

Every time I travel through an airport or workout at Harvard Stadium, I am reminded of the phenomenon that is Fitbit. Perhaps the only thing capable of competing for attention that people reserve for their smartphones is the desire to sneak a peek at how many steps they’ve completed so far that day. But as someone whose mind is programmed to always look at the meaning behind data, I’ve often wondered how much value there is in collecting data on the number of steps or amount of hours I’ve slept

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Sweating the prototype with James Bowman

Product Warrior

In this weeks Product Warrior podcast titled “Sweating the prototype” we speak with James Bowman, senior product consultant at EE. As always a big thank you to MindTheProduct and Knowit for supporting us. Well designed prototypes and user tests can inform tough decisions such as to keep going or to kill an idea early. The benefit for a team to learn early that they are going down the wrong road is big.

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Webinar: How the Best Product Leaders Manage without Authority

Aptrinsic

Come learn from product leaders at Marketo, Box, Pragmatic Marketing and Product Collective who will be sharing tips on how to manage up and make reasonable push back when other areas of the organization demand product changes. This is a fireside chat style webinar, so please bring your questions with you. Signup [link] Webinar: How the Best Product Leaders Manage without Authority was originally published in Intrinsic Point (by Aptrinsic) on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation

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