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The Product Coalition
MARCH 2, 2021
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It’s OK to have some non-productive time
The Product Bistro
MARCH 3, 2021
Product Management is different from most roles in that you are always thinking about the product, and the myriad threads that it takes to make it. So, when you need to unplug, do not feel guilty.
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Product Positioning vs. Market Positioning: The Key Difference
Product Management University
MARCH 1, 2021
If you’ve ever asked yourself, What the biggest difference is between product positioning vs. market positioning? In its simplest form, it’s the target audience and the scope of what you’re positioning. The ideal positioning structure makes your value easy to articulate regardless of whether you’re starting from the top down or bottom up.
Decision time: Our new product decision-making framework
Intercom, Inc.
MARCH 3, 2021
There are many ingredients involved in successfully building a great product, but fundamentally it all boils down to a series of decisions. And it’s the quality of those decisions – and the speed at which you can make them – that will dictate how fast you can bring value to customers and realize positive impact for your business. That can be said of most businesses, at any scale, but too often the hard job of thinking about how businesses make decisions goes unexamined, never mind improved
Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Getting Started with JTBD – Mike Belsito on The Product Experience
Mind the Product
MARCH 2, 2021
One of the key things to do in any product lifecycle is to review if it’s meeting your user’s needs. The last time we sat down to do this for the podcast, we decided to use the Jobs To Be Done approach, which led to a key question: how might we power up our JTBD [.]. Read More. The post Getting Started with JTBD – Mike Belsito on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.
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Why There’s No Single “Right” Way to Do Discovery: Part 2
Product Talk
MARCH 3, 2021
A few months ago, fellow Product Talk coach Hope Gurion and I sat down to discuss why there’s no single right way to do discovery. Want to read Part 1 of the series? Find it here. In this second conversation in the series, we discussed two core principles of continuous discovery : encouraging teams to discover opportunities through continuous touch points and prioritizing in the opportunity space rather than in the solution space.
Intentions matter: How to uncover the why behind customer questions
Intercom, Inc.
MARCH 2, 2021
Customers reach out to you when they hit a roadblock in using your product and getting their job done, so it’s essential that you’re able to provide them with the right answer, quickly. But when it comes to customer support, all of your great product knowledge and technical skills will go to waste if you’re answering the wrong question.
Economics of Software Part 1 – Why Traditional Economics Concepts Don’t Apply To Software
Mind the Product
MARCH 4, 2021
Product managers looking for academic materials on technology and user experience won’t struggle to find what they need. However, when it comes to economics, especially Microeconomics, there are very few resources and case studies focused on the software industry. Most of the examples you will find are about traditional sectors like mining, manufacturing, FMCG, etc., [.].
The Right Way to Ask for Additional Resources
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
Did you ever find yourself struggling to explain to your manager why you need more people? You know you can’t continue this way, but while they sympathize with your struggle, they are not willing to give you what you ask for. The good news is that there is another, much more effective way to ask for additional resources, and here it is. Photo by Vlad Che?
Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them
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.
B2B Product Manager March 2021
Product Management University
MARCH 3, 2021
The performance of product management and the ripple effect (positive and negative) on engineering, marketing, sales and customer success is front and center this month. It’s one of those things that gets talked about here and there, but the magnitude of that ripple effect may not be fully understood across the company. We offer a few insights.
The 3 elements of an innovation ecosystem
Strategyzer
MARCH 3, 2021
Developing an innovation capability within a large organization is a daunting prospect. In the past, many have tried but few succeeded. Often difficulties are linked to a too narrow and shallow approach, such as training a group of employees in an innovation methodology and expecting the organization to turn into an innovation powerhouse as a consequence.
Economics of Software Part 2: Elasticity Explained
Mind the Product
MARCH 4, 2021
In the second of this 2-part post, we will learn about elasticity. How you can apply it to software, and how it could benefit you. If you missed Part 1, feel free to check it out now. In it we learned about demand, supply, and market equilibrium, how you can apply these concepts to software [.]. Read More. The post Economics of Software Part 2: Elasticity Explained appeared first on Mind the Product.
Product Alignment: An Introduction to How We Do Product Management at Miro
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
When I first joined Miro, less than a year ago, we had 3 million users and around 300 employees. A lot has changed since then. We have since grown Miro to around 12 million users and 600 employees, making Miro one of the fastest-growing B2B startups in history. With such hyper-growth, there’s been an ever-growing need to scale the way we do product.
Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know
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.
The 16 Best UX and User Research Podcasts to Listen to in 2021
UserInterviews
MARCH 4, 2021
Level up your UX research knowledge and get inspired by leaders and changemakers in design, research, and business with these 16 highly rated podcasts.
What is the Product Manager Career Path?
ProductPlan
MARCH 5, 2021
The product manager career path is an exciting one with lots of possible on- and off-ramps. According to LinkedIn, interest in product management has doubled in the United States in the past 5 years. At ProductPlan, we’ve surveyed and spoken to many product leaders about their career trajectories and past professional experience. We have found significant variation in titles, responsibilities, and hiring and promotion criteria.
Conducting User Interviews: A Practical Guide
Mind the Product
MARCH 5, 2021
Hopefully, we all understand how important it is to talk to customers. As Marty Cagan observed in an interview last year, they’re one of the main sources of insights about a product, helping us to understand the issues with our products and why users do or don’t use them. But what if you’ve never conducted a [.]. Read More. The post Conducting User Interviews: A Practical Guide appeared first on Mind the Product.
Leadership. Culture.
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
Lately, I joined the executive excellence program by Hoffman-Koffman( I met the fantastic Fred Kofman ). The notion of defining one’s work captured me. When you ask someone what his job is, you will usually get a title and a short description. But, people's real job is to make their company win, meaning that they have to sub-optimize their own goals to optimize the whole system.
Exploring PerfDog Whitepaper 2024: Unlock the Power of Performance Testing
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Key Takeaways Robust Platform & Multi-System Support: Brief introduction to PerfDog's extensive compatibility across various operating systems and hardware platforms including Android, iOS, PC, gaming consoles and more. In-Depth Performance Metrics: Quick view of the extensive range of metrics for system, graphics and rendering, user experience, in-depth analysis, and more.
What Can Amazon’s Product Managers Do About All Of Those Boxes?
The Accidental Product Manager
MARCH 1, 2021
Is there any way that Amazon can ship fewer boxes? Image Credit: Harlem Photograpy Inc. Ok, so I’m willing to make a confession here. I get a little thrill each and every time I come to the front door and see an Amazon box sitting there waiting for me to bring it into the house and open it up. It’s almost like Christmas day all over again!
A Product Manager’s Guide to Roadmapping as an Essentialist
ProductPlan
MARCH 5, 2021
I’ve been talking with product managers lately about how the concepts of “essentialism” can help them focus their efforts on what matters. I distilled the advice a few months ago in my book The Essentialist Product Manager and have recently been giving talks and workshops on the topic. This article tackles one of the areas that gets the most interest from product managers: how can they use an essentialist approach to create and communicate better product roadmaps ?
Do Things That Don’t Scale by Colleen Graneto
Mind the Product
MARCH 1, 2021
In this talk to ProductTank Cardiff, Colleen Graneto, a product manager at Airbnb, looks at learning and doing things that don’t scale. Colleen starts with a quote from Airbnb founder Brian Chesky: “At Y-Combinator we were challenged to do things that don’t scale – to start with the perfect experience for one person, then work [.]. Read More. The post Do Things That Don’t Scale by Colleen Graneto appeared first on Mind the Product.
Public Product Roadmap? Yes, please!
The Product Coalition
MARCH 1, 2021
Check out these Product Companies and their Public Roadmaps Photo by Tim Mossholder from Pexels Are you considering making your roadmap public? Or perhaps you constantly have customers asking about what’s coming up, where things are on the roadmap, etc. Making your roadmap public might just be a perfect solution depending on your goals. Many companies have made their roadmaps public and it is a trend that seem to be gaining traction.
Product Management Careers: Job Prospects, Pathways, and Must-Have Skills (2024)
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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.
No Budget? No Excuse. Here’s How to Do User Research on Any Budget.
UserInterviews
MARCH 2, 2021
User research doesn’t have to be expensive. Here’s how to conduct UX research on the cheap, whether you have a limited budget or no budget at all.
What’s Make or Break in Game UI Design?
UX Studio: Product Management
MARCH 5, 2021
Some members of UX studio had a nostalgic discussion about video games not too long ago. About halfway through the discussion, we realized that none of us clearly remembered or even cared that much about a game’s UI design, even though most of us met UI design for the first time by playing video games. When we are reminiscing about these games, typically the UI is the last thing we think about.
A guide to creating API Products
Mind the Product
MARCH 2, 2021
Building a good Application Programming Interface (API) is more than returning responses. Being a developer and having integrated with tons of APIs, I have noticed a pattern between successful API products and those that are not. It’s about solving problems with great affordance. One might ask the key to building good API products. In this post, [.].
How To Build a Slack Activity Dashboard Using Only Open-Source Tools
The Product Coalition
MARCH 3, 2021
This article will show how to use Airbyte ?—?an open-source data integration platform?—?and Apache Superset ?—?an open-source data exploration platform?—?in order to build a Slack activity dashboard showing: Total number of members of a Slack workspace The evolution of the number of Slack workspace members Evolution of weekly messages Evolution of messages per channel Members per time zone Before we get started, let’s take a high-level look at how we are going to achieve creating a Slack dashboa
Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications
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.
8 Things I Learned from Dave Kellogg About Net Dollar Retention
Gainsight
MARCH 3, 2021
I’ve hosted get-togethers with Customer Success executives nearly every month for the past 8 years. In the “old days” (pre-COVID), these featured conversation over fine dining. We substituted the merlot with a mute button in the new world – though we still mail our guests a flight of tasting wines. This past week, I invited my longtime friend and Gainsight advocate Dave Kellogg to join the happy hour.
How to create a product roadmap (with examples)
nulab
MARCH 5, 2021
What do Frodo, Indiana Jones, and Harry Potter all have in common? Well, aside from all having run-ins with spiders, they all went on epic quests — and they all used maps to find their way. A product launch is a bit like a quest. It usually involves a collection of people all working together over the course of weeks, months, or even years. There’s a goal at the end, but the route to achieving it can be complex and challenging.
Love is Measured By the Benefit of the Doubt: The Secret to True Kindness
Nir Eyal
MARCH 2, 2021
The post Love is Measured By the Benefit of the Doubt: The Secret to True Kindness appeared first on Nir and Far.
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