ProductCraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

“What do you do?” Plenty of product managers have been on the receiving end of this question, and we don’t doubt that answering it is harder than it seems at first glance. After all, PMs do a lot. Their responsibilities span from prioritizing the roadmap to working with engineering and design to discussing feature requests. Read more » The post How to Explain Product Management to a Five-Year-Old appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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ProductBoard

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

For this week’s webinar, we were delighted to be joined by Rich Mironov. During his 35-plus-year career, Rich has done it all as a product leader, executive, coach, consultant, programmer, developer – you name it. You may know him from his popular articles and books, including The Art of Product Management. During the webinar, Rich and host Scott Baldwin discussed the subject of soft skills – what.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Why use them and a free starter template Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Piyanka Jain

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Data can be a powerful tool if you know how to put it to work! Often I start my analytics conference keynote addresses by asking the audience to share the issues they face in their organizations. For the past decade, in nearly every conference, the #1 problem cited by analysts and their managers has been the same: their team built the best possible model (read: analysis, dashboard, report, predictive model) but people are not using it.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

But, there’s one company who believe that’s not always the case. Kyum Kim is the Head of U.S. Operations and co-founder of Blind , the anonymous social platform for verified professionals. The company was originally founded in South Korea and made the move to Silicon Valley in 2015 – it quickly became adopted as a place for employees from the likes of Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and more to discuss the internal culture of their companies.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

In his ProductTank San Francisco talk, Chris Barton – founder of Shazam and, more recently, Guard – recounts the music recognition app’s successful quest for the Holy Grail: Product/Market Fit. Watch the video to see his talk in full, or read on for an overview of Chris’ top tips. Go After a Big Market Chris explains that to [.]. Read More. The post Nailing Product/Market Fit by Chris Barton appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Piyanka Jain

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Data can be a powerful tool if you know how to put it to work! Continue reading on Towards Data Science ».

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Powerful questions are at the heart of traditional business coaching. But being an Agile Coach requires you to have a multitude of other… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Product Management Today Submitted Articles

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

This is my complete guide to Product Goals in 2020.

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Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

How do you build a data lake? In fact, what even is one? And what’s the key to understanding qualitative data operations? I’ll share my thinking on these excellent questions, and the process I’m current testing out with my own team – please feel free to share yours too! For basically my entire 10 years [.]. Read More. The post How do you Build a Qualitative Data Lake?

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

On the surface, solving market problems versus addressing the needs of a market might sound like semantics. But the implementation of each practice in B2B organizations reveals a huge contrast between the two with a ripple effect that may be just as significant. Common Practice: Solving Market Problems. You have a product that addresses user needs in a certain market.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

You’ll find yourself working closely with UX and UI designers throughout your career as a Product Manager. While you won’t be expected to know everything about product design (otherwise you’d be a designer, right?) there are at least a couple of key things you should have a solid grasp on. The last thing you want to do when talking to a designer, is to use UX and UI interchangeably.

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Product Management Today Submitted Articles

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Everyone has their own interpretation of what minimum viable product (MVP) means to their organization. While the specifics of a company’s MVP may vary, there are key components of what a traditional MVP is, and what it definitely is not.

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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.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Matt LeMay has a problem. He’s a content machine. He’s written 3 books (two books on product and one on the musician Elliot Smith), plenty of music, and much more – which means that he’s prone to going down a rabbit hole before sharing his work with a team. To combat that, he now employs [.]. Read More. The post Perfection is the Enemy of Progress – Matt LeMay on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. That may be the record for anyone other than search professionals. Here are some patterns I’ve seen in picking successful Heads of Product.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Having an ecommerce store is a great way to make your products accessible to a broad market, whether locally or globally. In fact, retail… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Empathy is a powerful word and even a more powerful feeling. It is also a word that is becoming more and more popular in the vocabulary of product and user experience designers. But, why? Before we get into why empathy is such an important concept when designing a product, it's vital to make it clear that this is only true when your focus is on what users need, instead of pushing products to the market.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Lucia Adams knows a lot about burnout: she’s not afraid to admit that she once fell victim to it. A past ProductTank speaker, Lucia is a consultant and executive coach who specialises in helping organisations take a human-centred approach to evolve their ways of working. Her experience of burnout has been a steep learning curve [.]. Read More. The post Lucia Adams on Burnout: the Signs, Symptoms, and Strategies appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Roy Madden

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

An at-a-glance overview of the evolving cybersecurity threat landscape. Keeping up with the most critical threats, vulnerabilities, and threat actors can be time consuming and overwhelming. We have been working with a few existing Feedly for Cybersecurity customers to create a trending dashboard that offers an at-a-glance overview of the evolving cybersecurity threat landscape.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Much of modern problems in software development have actually been solved and we keep forgetting this to our peril. Every day something pops up in a conversation, on one of our teams or on socials that can be addressed by a book from years and sometimes decades ago. I think of these as classic books on the fundamentals of software development. These books have provided the foundations and first principles to approach software development, and later, product development.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The best marketing campaigns send the right message to the right user at the right time. It’s a tried and tested method that creates an ideal experience for the end user, and maximizes results for the marketing team. The end user sees campaigns that are relevant to them–reducing spam and improving likelihood to convert–while the marketing team sees increased efficiency in ad spend and email sends.

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Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk

Technology professionals developing generative AI applications are finding that there are big leaps from POCs and MVPs to production-ready applications. They're often developing using prompting, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and fine-tuning (up to and including Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF)), typically in that order. However, during development – and even more so once deployed to production – best practices for operating and improving generative AI applications are le

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In this ProductTank London talk Navin Nair, – Product Consultant and Chief Product Officer of JustPark, shares some of the common mistakes and pitfalls he finds Product Managers make during the product discovery process. Watch the video to see his talk in full, or read on for an overview of the common mistakes he highlights, including: [.]. Read More.

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Agile Velocity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The leaders and change agents we meet are eager to ensure their Agile transformation avoids hitting rocks or running aground. After all, nobody wants to experience a shipwreck. We have found that the ones who do enjoy a successful journey have overcome three especially challenging obstacles. . We aim to address those obstacles in this article by offering three Agile transformation OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) for you to consider.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Cyber-attacks are launched from one computer from another computer where the aim of cyber-attacks is either to disable the target computer to gain access to the target computer’s data and gain admin privileges to manipulate this data. One such attack was carried out on the database of online banking company Capital One. The credit card applications of hundreds of thousands of people were exposed and this included personal information like birth dates and Social Security numbers.

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UserInterviews

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Diary studies can help researchers gain context for user decisions. Here's how Tony Turner of Progressive scales up his diary studies, builds customer journey maps from feedback, and chooses the right tools for the job.

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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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Under 10 Consulting

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

What should you measure? Focus on Today, Next, and Future. It’s difficult to determine relevant metrics for product managers because the product management role is inconsistent from company to company. There are actually. three roles of product management: business strategy, technical planning, and growth tactics. Growth tactics impact the products we have today—finding ways to sell more of the products we currently offer.

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ProductCraft

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

As consumers of technology products (or really any product), we feel entitled to the best customer service available. As the old cliché goes, “the customer is always right.” With escalation paths just a click away, it’s easier than ever to report a poor customer experience and express displeasure via reviews and ratings. And dissatisfied customers.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

While for many business organizations staying competitive mainly required a consistent focus on utilizing innovation and the power of… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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