Mind the Product
DECEMBER 25, 2020
In 2019, remote working was something many of us dreamt of, some of us had already sampled it, and a few of us simply had no interest in doing it at all. Now, at the end of 2020, we’ve all spent most of the year honing our home-working style and in this post, we’re recapping [.]. Read More. The post Remote Working: No Longer New, Just Normal appeared first on Mind the Product.
ProductCraft
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Over the last two decades, we’ve observed a puzzling paradox: Great product managers exist at both market-leading and market-losing companies. So what else does it take to build a high-performing product organization that propels companies up and away? What’s the secret sauce beyond having the best talent and great product strategy? The answer lies in.
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The Product Coalition
DECEMBER 13, 2020
Master the art of communicating a “positive no” Continue reading on Product Coalition ».
Roman Pichler
DECEMBER 1, 2020
OKRs in a Nutshell. OKRs are a method for setting and tracking goals. An objective describes what is to be achieved. The key results state how we accomplish the objective. Let’s say, for example, that the objective is to “increase engagement.” The key results might then be “simplify user journey A” and “enhance feature alpha.”. OKRs can be used to create cascading goals—goals that are systematically linked.
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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.
Alchemer Mobile
DECEMBER 8, 2020
2020 completely changed the way we approach digital product planning (pretty crazy since nothing else really changed in 2020, right?). Digital transformation is back to most companies’ top investment channels, remote product management is the future of work, and there is more marketplace need for product managers than ever before—hooray? Your product team has responded to dizzying marketplace and business changes while planning for what may come in the years ahead.
Product Management Today brings together the best content for product management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Mind the Product
DECEMBER 11, 2020
In this November 2020 #mtpcon Digital keynote, Cennydd Bowles, Designer and Author of Future Ethics, highlighted how, as an industry, we will not survive the 21st century with the over-quantified methods of the 20th and must prioritise ethical practice as a fundamental part of the product process. Watch the video to see his talk in full. [.]. Read More.
Product Management University
DECEMBER 7, 2020
CONTEXT! CONTEXT! CONTEXT! Storytelling skills for product management and product marketing are essential because without them, the value context (why the market cares) of what you’re building, marketing and selling is completely masked. That mask is usually in the form of technical product jargon and/or a lot of superlatives (best-in-class, intelligent, actionable, optimized, etc.).
The Product Coalition
DECEMBER 28, 2020
We expect that these six biggest video marketing trends will dominate in our online reality in the upcoming year. Video marketing is one of the most powerful ways to interact with modern customers in the digital space. Videos have become the most popular and preferred type of content on almost all online platforms. From news feeds to social media and magazines, we like to watch videos everywhere since they transfer information faster and more effectively.
Product Talk
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Hi there, Product Talk readers! We can’t wait to share our latest Product in Practice with you. For this story, we spoke with a product team leading the Digital Hotels vertical at Seera Group , a travel and tourism company based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The team shares how they defined a new outcome and mapped out the opportunity space when COVID-19 ground international travel to a halt in 2020 and they were forced to discover a new market.
Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee
As a concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry. It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. As product managers, we need to understand how a good DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction.
Alchemer Mobile
DECEMBER 22, 2020
COVID-19 dramatically impacted how we live, learn, work, socialize, shop, and entertain ourselves. It has also changed how we interact with our favorite stores, restaurants, and service providers – even our healthcare providers. You’d be hard-pressed to find someone who hasn’t had a virtual doctor appointment, ordered groceries online, or used curbside pickup in 2020.
Intercom, Inc.
DECEMBER 22, 2020
This year, we launched Scale , a new content strand focusing on how industry leaders are propelling their companies forward by keeping their customers front and center. . When we created Scale, we had no idea what the year would hold in store; we simply knew that investing in long-term customer relationships was the key to success. As it happens, 2020 has only reinforced this, by highlighting again and again the importance of strong customer relationships as the structural foundation on which so
Mind the Product
DECEMBER 10, 2020
The goals of a minimum viable product are centred around idea validation and execution, learning, experiments, and ways of minimizing the effort to bring a meaningful new product to market. For the majority of product owners, having an MVP is not a question at all, while some are still skeptical about spending time on this [.]. Read More. The post The Complete Guide to Building MVPs appeared first on Mind the Product.
Product Management University
DECEMBER 17, 2020
B2B Product Manager December 2020 Issue. If you’re reading this newsletter, give yourself a big pat on the back. You’ve survived 2020 and demonstrated incredible resilience. 2021 will certainly bring more of the new normal and we can only hope for a few shades of the old. I sincerely hope you have a safe and enjoyable holiday season and that 2021 is a great year, both personally and professionally.
Traditional PM struggles with the complexities of platform ecosystems. B-MAP framework tackles this challenge. B-MAP goes beyond features, focusing on building, managing, adapting, and partnering to foster a thriving platform ecosystem.
The Product Coalition
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Having worked on a number of large technology programmes involving the selection and management of strategic suppliers, I wanted to share my perspectives from the ‘buy side’ on how to build effective partnerships. A partnership is a long term relationship that creates material value for both parties. They typically have large contract sizes, relate to business critical capabilities and require exec level sponsorship.
dscout People Nerds
DECEMBER 2, 2020
Researchers often want to include people with access needs in their studies but don’t know where to begin. This 3 part series covers the various considerations for adapting your practice to include people with disabilities.
Alchemer Mobile
DECEMBER 16, 2020
COVID-19 hit finance apps with a one-two punch, and many brands are still adjusting to find their new normal. Between heavy increases in usage as well as staggering drops in economic activity, 2020 was a roller coaster for banks, insurance companies, budgeting apps, and everything in between. While we saw DAU stay consistent for traditional banking apps this year, DAU spiked for budgeting apps, insurance companies, credit score apps, and other mobile-first brands in the finance category.
Intercom, Inc.
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Modern customers expect quick, personal, and effective service. To provide this, you must understand how your customer experience stacks up against these expectations. This is where metrics can be invaluable, giving clarity on performance, and circumventing potential issues. But with so much data to consider, how can you define the help desk metrics that matter for your team?
Speaker: Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product, Statsig
Experimentation is often seen as an aspirational practice, especially at smaller, fast-moving companies who are strapped for time and resources. So, how can you get your team making decisions in a more data-driven way while continuing to remain lean and maintaining ship velocity? In this webinar, Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product at Statsig, will teach you how to build an experimentation culture from the ground-up, graduating from just getting started with data-driven development to operating
Mind the Product
DECEMBER 7, 2020
What’s the one dream every budding entrepreneur has? To become a million-dollar startup-unicorn like Amazon, Uber, Instagram. But the road to success isn’t that easy. Roadblocks like increasing competition, time constraints, market saturation, changing trends, evolving technologies, and limited funds make the destination look farther away. Meanwhile, the mounting pressure of being out-competed keeps pulling you [.].
Strategyzer
DECEMBER 17, 2020
2020 has been an incredibly challenging year on a multitude of fronts and, like many of us, businesses all over the world have struggled to stay afloat. The covid-19 pandemic has accelerated and magnified shifts in the business world, creating a radically different setting for businesses to operate in. While these challenges have proved to be too great for many businesses, the pandemic related constraints have also spurred a great deal of innovation, with many businesses using these constraints
The Product Coalition
DECEMBER 29, 2020
At the close of 2020, when we’re on the brink of entering a new decade, we thought it’d be a good time for a little history lesson. With more people entering the Product landscape than ever, now is a good time to help the newbies understand where Product Management came from, and how far the industry has come. Where It All Began Not every discipline can point to a single person as its father/mother.
First Round Review
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Upstart was founded by three individuals who barely knew each other, was forced to make a company-saving pivot, and flew under the radar in Silicon Valley for the past 8 years — but this once-scrappy startup just went public. CEO Dave Girouard sketches out the story of how Upstart got built, detailing all of the bumpy starts and lucky breaks along the winding journey to IPO.
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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.
Alchemer Mobile
DECEMBER 3, 2020
‘Tis the season for the 2020 App Store Connect holiday shutdown. Every year, Apple implements a code freeze on all mobile apps where no new app submissions or app update submissions will be processed. When is the App Store Connect holiday shutdown? Apple’s 2020 holiday shutdown schedule will begin December 23rd and run through December 27th. Why does the Apple App Store enforce a holiday code freeze?
Intercom, Inc.
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Throughout this year on the podcast, we’ve talked to people from various companies about how they’ve met the challenges posed by the events 2020. We’ve heard from product leaders, e-commerce leaders, and customer support leaders about high volumes, new working practices, and remote launches. Of course, companies have had to suddenly reimagine not just how they deliver for customers, but also how they operate behind the scenes.
Mind the Product
DECEMBER 24, 2020
Whether it’s at one of our conferences or meetups, we host events in over 200 cities around the world and love to invite product people to take the stage, share their insights, and push our craft forward. This year we published 102 videos and you watched a staggering 920 days of video on Mind the [.]. Read More. The post The 10 Product Talks You Should Have Watched in 2020 appeared first on Mind the Product.
NextBigWhat
DECEMBER 28, 2020
“Get out of the building” – this quote by Steve Blank has inspired many founders and product leaders to go out and test their product in the real world. But then, Covid happened and everything we knew or believed in about building great businesses went through its own transformation. 2021 is going to be a crucial year for makers. Two tailwinds of significance: Economy, hopefully, will be bouncing back.
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The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.
The Product Coalition
DECEMBER 21, 2020
When it comes to fundraising, it all starts with an idea. The reality is that startups are never rarely unique?—?most likely there are a bunch of people who are doing exactly the same. So, ‘just the idea’ isn’t what makes investors open their wallets?—?even if you came up with something absolutely amazing. Purrweb will tell you a cool way to attract investors.
First Round Review
DECEMBER 8, 2020
As David Cancel puts it, they are “obsessed with story internally” at Drift. From the inspiration they’ve taken from the screenplay writing world, to how storytelling training is part of their onboarding, we dig deep into how he created this culture as the CEO.
Alchemer Mobile
DECEMBER 31, 2020
Despite the wild ride that 2020 was for all of us, our team here at Apptentive continued to produce high-quality content for product managers, mobile marketers, and C-suite executives interested in digital transformation. As someone who has written a lot of this content, I certainly have a bias when I say it’s all amazing and valuable. However, I’ll let our data speak for itself.
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