Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Be Prepared to Look after People, Not Products. When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Instead of creating, for example, product strategies and roadmaps and tracking KPIs , you should help the people on your team acquire the right knowledge and develop the right skills so that they can carry out the relevant work on

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Mind the Product

JULY 28, 2021

Down here at the end of the earth we have had a bit of a different experience to the rest of the ProductTank world, with our elimination of COVID-19 in the community allowing in-person events to be run for most of the second half of 2020 and most of 2021. So, we have been able [.] Read more » The post ProductTank in a post-pandemic world appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Product Talk

JULY 21, 2021

The Core Concepts series addresses common questions and concerns within the world of continuous product discovery. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been looking at common questions about the product trio. Did you miss the previous posts in this series? You can find them all here. Today’s post is about getting your engineers more involved in your product trio.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 13, 2021

The only thing harder than designing a product is designing your career. And many organizations, unfortunately, don’t make it any easier. For instance, the Design Career Index shows that 71% of design orgs don’t have a career progression framework. Less than 1% have documented competencies with scorecards for rating performance. But if you don’t have a map for your career, then how do you know where you’re going?

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 22, 2021

Product adoption is a key piece of any successful customer acquisition strategy or onboarding program. Understanding how, when, and why (or why not) customers become power users or high-value customers can drive ROI, inform future product roadmap decisions, and lower customer acquisition costs (CAC). So, what is product adoption? Product adoption refers to the way in which customers embrace and use a product.

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The Product Guy

JULY 11, 2021

Present! Present! Present! Present! Present! Present! Did we mention you should do more presenting to be a better product manager? Watch and learn more from product management expert, Mihaela Draghici.

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Mind the Product

JULY 22, 2021

A motivated team is a happy team. A happy team is more creative, provides better solutions, and to top it off, it’s also more productive. In today’s post, I would like to introduce some techniques and ideas that I have been refining over the last 20 years focused on motivating product teams. Embark them on [.] Read more » The post How to motivate a product team appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Product Talk

JULY 7, 2021

Over the past several weeks, we’ve been exploring what a product trio is , how decision-making works in product trios , and why more roles aren’t included. Today, we are going to tackle how user researchers fit into this puzzle. You can watch the short video or read a lightly edited transcript below the video. Why aren’t user researchers included in product trios?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

Marketing teams are under constant pressure to find creative ways to generate more leads for sales teams. Over the past few years, marketers have learned one of the most effective methods for lead generation is engaging with prospective customers while intent is high, like when they’re browsing the website or perusing the pricing page. However it’s quality – not quantity – that’s most important when it comes to accelerating your sales pipeline.

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Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

What is product experience? Product experience refers to the customer journey that takes place within the product itself, from a person’s first login to their last time using the application. It is a broader, more end-to-end view of user experience, which refers to specific interactions a person has within a product. Focusing on product experience allows companies to deliver more value to customers and to increase their lifetime value.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 12, 2021

In most companies, product discussions are about features. But features are bricks in a wall, a means to an end. What matters is what you… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Jay McBain

JULY 8, 2021

The channel is very large, highly diverse, and incredibly decentralized. Channel partners know that to be successful, they need to carve out a niche — whether that be by line of business, by industry (and, increasingly, by subindustry), by size of customer, geographically, technologically, and by business model. These six vectors are not mutually exclusive, […].

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Mind the Product

JULY 6, 2021

Want to make a veteran product person sad? Just ask them how they’ve used MVPs in the past. Once you get past the sobbing, you’re likely to get stories of the myriad ways that a perfectly good experiment got turned into a v1 release. It doesn’t have to be like that! Dan Olsen joins us [.] Read more » The post Getting the max from an MVP – Dan Olsen appeared first on Mind the Product.

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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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Johanna Rothman

JULY 20, 2021

We talk a lot about empowered or self-organizing teams in the agile community. However, I don't see too many self-organizing or empowered teams at my clients. Not because my clients are stupid—far from it. Everyone does the best job they know how to do. However, every manager's micromanagement pervades all levels. Instead of talking about empowerment, let's discuss how we trust teams and people to do their best job.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

Well, at the beginning of 2020, no one had the playbook for that. And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Ever since he was hired as the Director of EMEA Sales at BrowserStack , a web and mobile testing platform that lets developers test their websites and mobile applications across browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, he had to completely rethink how to successfully onboard hundreds of salespeople just as everyone was going remote.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 16, 2021

While customer acquisition, ratings and reviews, and social proof are the most externally visible success indicators for your brand, customer retention is an integral part of the health of your organization. Even if we’re just talking about a mobile app in the grand scheme of a much larger company, customer retention is a major health indicator and can provide valuable insight into the overall customer experience.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 11, 2021

The engineering team showcases their work in a demo to other stakeholders. Everyone else, including the product manager, tend not to… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 31, 2021

Company leaders who aren’t steeped in how software is designed and built can apply less-than-useful analogies for how software products are built. These analogies tend to highlight predictability, scheduling and cost management. but may not be that useful. This post unpacks a few of them.

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Mind the Product

JULY 27, 2021

In the following article, we’ll explore the importance of KPIs in tracking product success. Taking into consideration various performance indicators can be essential in providing managers with the necessary data to identify this. These KPIs are even more useful when interpreted correctly. They can help you draw important conclusions and drive continuous improvement.

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First Round Review

JULY 20, 2021

As our new podcast crosses the 30-episode mark, we've listened back to each one and plucked out our favorite pieces of advice shared by startup leaders at companies like Notion, Lambda School, Plaid, and Segment. Whether you're a long-time listener or haven't pressed play yet, we hope you find a new idea to put into practice.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 14, 2021

When you’re part of a team, you adopt the goals, objectives, and priorities of that team. As a principal engineer, you can effectively be operating as a team of one – and that makes it a little trickier to manage your time. . At Intercom, we believe that a principal engineer should “set goals autonomously and at the level of scope and ambition usually associated with a team.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 19, 2021

It turns out that Covid-19 vaccines need to be kept cold Image Credit: proteinbiochemist. The life of a freezer product manager is generally fairly boring. Your product development definition tells you to create more and more efficient products in order to replace the older units that your customers are using. You replace the ones that wear out and you are always looking for new customers.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2021

The antithesis of modern Product is mindlessly building a list of features. It’s an anti-pattern to rarely talk to your customers… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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UserInterviews

JULY 27, 2021

Great user research projects start with great research questions. Amy Chess explains how to choose the right UX research objectives and questions to understand what you don’t know.

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Mind the Product

JULY 20, 2021

Understanding your company’s business model is a key skill for all product people, but understanding how that affects your valuation is what takes things to the next level. What are you maximizing for and how does your pricing model impact that? We talked with Giff Constable, ex-chief product officer at Meetup, about all this—and much [.] Read more » The post Getting to the bottom line of valuation – Giff Constable appeared first on Mind the Product.

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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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First Round Review

JULY 29, 2021

We're spending more time in meetings than ever. The sharpest folks we've interviewed share their best tips for making sure this time is well spent.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic forced a sudden shift to remote working in one of the largest global experiments in the history of work. As parts of the world reopen, the experiment moves to its next phase – adjusting to a post-pandemic reality in which remote and in-office work are no longer “either/or” alternatives. . The transition to remote work proved employees’ adaptability – now the looming return to the office offers companies another chance to embrace the unknown.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 12, 2021

Tips for product managers to communicate so people remember. We are about to have an important discussion on how to communicate in a way that makes people remember what is im portant. That is communicating to influence others and build networks to help you accomplish your product objectives. Helping us do that is our guest, Tina Frey Clements. She believes that a company’s success is directly related to the engagement of its people.

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