Tue.Mar 13, 2018

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Product Management Conferences: The Complete List (2018 Update)

Tim Herbig

Product Management Conferences are a valuable opportunity to get inspiration for your daily work through new input and build a robust network. Both are incredibly important to make progress in your career as a product manager. To help you cut through the noise of all the conferences out there, I put together this comprehensive overview of the most relevant conferences out there.… Continue Reading.

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Wait But Why’s Tim Urban on Parsing and Transmitting Complex Ideas

First Round Review

From cryonics to AI to procrastination, Wait But Why's Tim Urban distills and presents the most complex ideas. Here he shares how he makes sense of hard-to-understand concepts so they're rich and resonant for others — an act that every startup leader and team must master over and over again.

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Want Better Product Managers? Throw Them In at the Deep End

Mind the Product

I recently read a write-up of what looked like a very interesting roundtable discussion with product leaders in London. The last of the four topics particularly caught my eye: “how do you increase the commercial acumen of product managers?”. The article suggested that “product people (especially those in Europe) are weak commercially”, which “can lead to bad assumptions, particularly in more complex environments”.

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Creating a Product Management Team from Scratch

The Product Guy

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Nis Frome, lead a conversation around “Design Sprints”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Check it out… About The Product Mentor. The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions.

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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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The Product Management Reading Essentials

The Product Coalition

Who to read when you’re getting started At it’s heart, building software product is a simple thing. Yes, the technical concepts required to build great software are incredibly complicated, and prolific and capable engineers are worth every penny they make because of it. In most cases, though, building great product is about more than just being capable of putting technical skill into practice.

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How letgo is Using Amplitude to Fuel its Extraordinary Growth

Amplitude

Only two years old, letgo is already the biggest and fastest growing app to buy and sell locally in the US and other countries with over 75 million downloads, 200 million listings and 3 billion messages sent in its first two years. Its team moves quickly, so they needed a tool that could keep up with their rigorous A/B testing and analysis. Since letgo’s Business Intelligence team integrated Amplitude, analysis of A/B tests – once a cumbersome task – has become incredibly simple.

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Agile Transformation: More Possible Organizational Measurements, Part 5

Johanna Rothman

I’ve been thinking more about possible measurements in an agile transformation journey. The first Possible Measurements post focuses on product throughput measurements. This post will focus on measurements you might see when the culture changes with an agile transformation. Again, do start with your why. Without knowing why you want to use agile approaches throughout the organization, you can’t generate reasonable measurements.

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Grow Professional Services Revenue Using Data

TSIA

TSIA fields hundreds of PS member inquiries every year. Always among the most common service business challenges (SBCs) represented is how to improve PS price performance. That’s why for the last decade, TSIA has been capturing extensive professional services rates and pricing practices information in our Professional Services Market Rates Study.

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Take Back Your Personal Time (4 Steps To A Tidy Inbox & Why It Matters)

Sequent Learning

The post Take Back Your Personal Time (4 Steps To A Tidy Inbox & Why It Matters) appeared first on Sequent Learning Networks.

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Driving Business Impact for PMs

Speaker: Jon Harmer, Product Manager for Google Cloud

Move from feature factory to customer outcomes and drive impact in your business! This session will provide you with a comprehensive set of tools to help you develop impactful products by shifting from output-based thinking to outcome-based thinking. You will deepen your understanding of your customers and their needs as well as identifying and de-risking the different kinds of hypotheses built into your roadmap.

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A new look for UserTesting: A brand and design system that connect

UserTesting

You may have noticed some changes to UserTesting recently. We’re excited to have made a number of updates not only to our website but also to the UserTesting platform (which we rolled out a few weeks ago). We’re thrilled to … The post A new look for UserTesting: A brand and design system that connect appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Why live chat isn’t just for customer service anymore

Intercom, Inc.

For all the time and money we spend attracting customers to our website, isn’t it odd how little we spend trying to convert them? According to an eConsultancy report , for every $92 spent acquiring prospects only $1 is spent converting them. Sure, that dollar could give you returns in spades, but in reality the odds of that are no better than a craps table in Las Vegas.

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A new look for UserTesting: A brand and design system that connect

UserTesting

You may have noticed some changes to UserTesting recently. We’re excited to have made a number of updates not only to our website but also to the UserTesting platform (which we rolled out a few weeks ago). We’re thrilled to … The post A new look for UserTesting: A brand and design system that connect appeared first on UserTesting Blog.