Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1] Figure 1: An Empowerment Model for Product People and Teams Level one represents the authority to decide how features are detailed and guide their implementation.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

TicTok product managers have to deal with new rivals Image Credit: HS You Is there any app that is hotter than TicTok? I mean go just about anywhere these days and you’ll find kids and adults with their noses buried in their mobile phones watching short videos that have been made for the TicTok platform. This would be a great product manager job to have.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Everyone treats authority differently. Some of it is cultural, and some of it is personal, but how you treat authority impacts your ability to lead. Especially in product management, where authority is limited, you need to act beyond the limits of formality. Here is how. Photo by Blake Cheek on Unsplash I once coached a very talented senior product manager.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Competitive demos are stressful, especially when you’re operating on very little knowledge or hearsay information about your competitor’s weaknesses. Here’s the thing about focusing on your competitor’s weaknesses. Just like you, they know their own shortcomings and there’s a good chance they’ve been schooled on how to neutralize them with some clever positioning or avoidance tactics.

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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.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

We talk to Google's Head of Product Inclusion Annie Jean-Baptiste about her experience to date and how to inspire diversity in the workplace. Read more » The post Building diverse products: A conversation with Annie Jean-Baptiste, product leader at Google appeared first on Mind the Product.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Having clear goals is vital for every organization. It allows team members to focus on the work that matters and deliver measurable results. Defining such goals is never easy. But there is a secret weapon that can help you with that, and it’s called OKR. OKR is a goal-setting technique that helps teams establish measurable goals. In this article, I will show how product designers can use this technique.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

When people talk about UX, they usually mean the front-end design and usability of a digital product. But a proper UX is also significantly impacted by choices made on the back-end — building a secure and scalable architecture that supports the experience your customers see. Technology leaders need to think about both. Fortunately, our latest research report on Investing in Digital Transformation and Product Development found that decision-makers are already doing this: improving their infrastru

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

This article explores the transformative shift from traditional product management to the dynamic role of a product leader. Read more » The post Product management: Outdated? The inevitable rise of the product leader appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Read how leveraging Amplitude Analytics and Amplitude Notebooks during a health insurance discounting campaign revealed a 41% improvement in cross-sell rates and a 53% boost in sales.

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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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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

When you start interviewing customers every week, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by how much you are learning. When we use our customer interviews to collect specific stories about past behavior, every conversation can uncover dozens of unmet customer needs, pain points, and desires (AKA opportunities). I recommend teams use three different artifacts to keep track of what they are learning from their customer interviews: The interview snapshot: This artifact summarizes what you learned from a sing

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

This article is tailored for product managers eager to excel in interviews focusing on product sense and execution. In product management , it’s crucial to discern genuine expertise from merely holding a job title. The title “product manager” is often misapplied within the technology sector, leading to a disconnect between role expectations and actual responsibilities.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In this Product Tank Bellevue talk, John Mora, Chief AI Officer at Zefr, offered a glimpse into the world of data-centric product management. Providing insights on leading teams, the best traits for data-centric product managers, and how to use LLMs effectively. Read more » The post How to lead data-centric product teams: Jon Mora (Chief AI Officer, Zefr) appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Market research essentials for product managers Today we are talking about the knowledge area called market research. How do you know that the product you’re developing will actually create value for customers, that they’ll love it, and that they’ll buy it? Have you done the right things to have confidence of these outcomes, or are you wishfully guessing?

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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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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Brought to you by: • CommandBar —AI-powered user assistance for modern products and impatient users • Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security. • LinkedIn Ads —Reach professionals and drive results for your business — Jason Lemkin created and runs SaaStr, the world’s largest community for B2B/SaaS founders, and is the managing director of SaaStr Fund, a $90 million venture capital firm specializing in early-stage enterprise investments.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The magic of the Jobs-to-be-Done framework. Photo by Anthony Wade on Unsplash Ever wondered why your little nephew builds towering castles out of Lego bricks, while your niece spends hours lost in a miniature dollhouse world? It’s not just about the toys themselves, aspiring product managers! Those bricks and dolls are tools for epic adventures and heartwarming stories, “hired” by kids to do specific “jobs” in their playtime universe.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In the second of a three-part series on cybersecurity, Jinali Goradia delves into the intricate challenges faced by product managers in the cybersecurity domain, examining how these hurdles shape product development and influence team dynamics. Read more » The post Navigating the cybersecurity maze: Unraveling the challenges faced by product managers appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Customer communication skills are a cornerstone of any business. This guide will go over 10 best practices that will help you improve product engagement , nurture customer relationships, and increase retention rates! TL;DR Customer communication encompasses all interactions between a business and its customers, while customer communication strategy is what you’ll use to improve these interactions amongst new and existing customers.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A dependency is a relationship between two initiatives that must be executed in a particular order. Dependency management is the process of tracking and minimizing disruptions between dependencies. Effective dependency management can reduce risks and increase the likelihood that your product launch will go according to plan. When preparing for a product launch, product managers should know who collaborators and key stakeholders are and understand that workflows and synchronized collaboration are

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) are important, but there are certain tips and tricks to ensure they reach maximum value!

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

This week’s Sunday Rewind is a 2017 #mtpcon talk from author and UX leader Scott Berkun on creativity. Read more » The post SUNDAY REWIND: Creativity by Scott Berkun appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

You may have heard a horror story about a business not using impact analysis. It could be launching features that are half-finished and causing customer problems with THEIR customer. It could be push changes that bring your entire product down. Whatever it is, it’s not good. This could be avoided with the use of impact analysis. TL;DR Impact analysis evaluates the potential consequences of changes in a project, system, or process to inform decision-making and preparation.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Brought to you by: • Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security. • Sendbird —The (all-in-one) communications API platform for mobile apps • Explo —Embed customer-facing analytics in your product — Elizabeth Stone is the chief technology officer of Netflix. She previously served as vice president of product data science and engineering, and as vice president of data and insights, at Netflix.

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Spice Catalyst

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In the article for small business, author Gwen Payne includes product management and product marketing. In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, small businesses need to leverage web-based updates to thrive amid fierce competition. These updates encompass a range of strategies that can significantly benefit small enterprises in their online endeavors.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Join us on this week's podcast episode with Todd Olson, CEO and Co-Founder of Pendo. We discuss the key fundamentals of launching AI-powered products and how doing so can generate real outcomes for businesses and customers. Read more » The post How to launch AI-powered products with Todd Olson (CEO of Pendo) appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

What is a data product roadmap? How do you build one? What roadmap metrics should you be tracking? Are these questions getting the best of you? This article provides detailed answers. We also share software products you can use to create a foolproof product roadmap and drive product-led growth. TL;DR A data product roadmap is a product development strategy where the product manager and their team use insights from various data sources to inform decisions.

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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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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

5-step process The Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) is a powerful tool in product design that helps teams focus on understanding the needs and objectives of their customers rather than just the product itself. Jobs to be done template. Image by Tony Ulwick This approach can drive innovation and ensure that the design of a product or service closely aligns with what customers are actually trying to accomplish.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Learn direct-to-consumer (DTC) marketing approaches that will take your ecommerce brand to the next level. Grow your business with nine DTC tactics.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

This Black History Month, we celebrate the brilliance and leadership of individuals who have made significant strides in product and have become effective voices for diversity and inclusion. Read more » The post Black History Month: A spotlight on black product leaders appeared first on Mind the Product.

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