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Product Discovery or Product Delivery: How do you Decide?

Mind the Product

What’s the fundamental difference between product discovery and delivery or execution? The degree of uncertainty. The degree of uncertainty should determine whether you need to run product discovery or whether you can begin to deliver a solution to your customer. Why is it Important to Know the Degree of Uncertainty Upfront? Let’s walk through three hypothetical scenarios.

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How great product teams use Story Time to do better work

The Product Coalition

The User Story is the unit of currency in the exchange of ideas between product managers and engineers. Product Managers write the things… Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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Product Accessibility Shouldn’t Be an Afterthought

ProductPlan

I recently attended a presentation by Benjamin Evans, Inclusive Design Lead at Airbnb, on product accessibility and his experience with designing for inclusion. It really got me thinking about how we build products in tech and the inherent biases in product management. In an environment that prizes “minimum viability” and “failing fast” there’s seldom much of an appetite for slowing down the parade of new features and functionality to prioritize product accessibility.

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Using the Product Canvas to Define Your Product: Getting Started

bpma ProductHub

By Ellen Gottesdiener – I usually find a diversity of opinion when I ask anyone within an organization what their products are. This is true for product companies whose primary source of revenue is their product and for companies who use products internally to run their business.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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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Tips for Growing a Product Management Team

Roman Pichler

Organise Around Products. In order to grow your product management team, start by reviewing your product portfolio. Determine which assets are actual products —value creating vehicles that offer a tangible benefit or address a real problem for a group of people, while at the same time deliver specific business benefits, such as generating revenue directly or indirectly, reducing cost, or increasing brand equity.

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“Software eating the world” creates a growing need to educate product managers.

Product Management Unpacked

Digital transformation impacts almost everything, so the demand for product management continues to increase – every day. When I started in product management in the mid-1980s, most product managers were hired to work in traditional B2C businesses, which is where the idea of product management originated. Modern product management started in 1931 with a memo written by Neil H.

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Hook trial users from their first use

Intercom, Inc.

In 1898, American sales pioneer E. St. Elmo Lewis created the AIDA model to describe how customers buy. The AIDA model described four cognitive phases that buyers follow when accepting a new idea or purchasing a new product: A problem comes to the customer’s attention. This creates interest in the benefits of a product or service. The customer decides to buy the product.

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Tips for Growing a Product Management Team

Roman Pichler

Organise Around Products. In order to grow your product management team, start by reviewing your product portfolio. Determine which assets are actual products —value creating vehicles that offer a tangible benefit or address a real problem for a group of people, while at the same time deliver specific business benefits, such as generating revenue directly or indirectly, reducing cost, or increasing brand equity.

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Lessons From the Space Race: 3 Steps to Better Product Decisions

Mind the Product

What makes a great product decision? The answer to this question is like the Holy Grail of product management: it promises success and prosperity but no clear evidence that it exists. In this post I examine the way I think about the path: what has worked for me and helped me grow as a product manager and decision maker. Let’s go back 50 years. The US is actively involved in the Space Race with the Soviet Union, and NASA starts an ambitious project: developing a spacecraft to land on the Moon.

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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.

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The Product Guy Meets Pop Culture

The Product Guy

Recently I found myself on the Product Management Meets Pop Culture podcast. Check it out: Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 19:31. Show Notes For This Episode. Episode Sponsor: Audible. Linked In: Jeremy Horn. Twitter: @theproductguy. The Product Guy Blog. Tafifi, The Living Roadmap. “ Accelerando ” by Charles Stross.

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HubSpot’s Michael Redbord on staying in touch with your customers as you scale

Intercom, Inc.

In a company’s early days as a lean, mean, business machine, it’s fairly easy for leadership to stay in sync with their users. You might say it’s one of the strongest advantages a startup has. But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers.

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Do It For the Portfolio Instead of Every Product: 1 of 5

Product Management University

There are five things that you don’t need to do for every product if you do them once for the portfolio. They’ll reduce the stress that goes with constantly changing priorities and more importantly, improve product management’s stock by operating more strategically, simplifying execution and getting better results. 1. Market Segmentation. Imagine that you have 20 products, each of them with strong growth potential in five market segments.

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Can Product Culture Save Media? by Anita Zielina

Mind the Product

Anita Zielina’s keynote at this year’s MTP Engage Hamburg addresses the question of whether “product culture” can save the media industry. Anita, who is director of innovation and leadership at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, focuses on the underlying problem of how to change organizations that do not want to change and she shares exciting insights into the challenges of digital transformation at publishing houses, challenges which could easily apply to other not-y

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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.

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Important Arc of Product Process

The Product Guy

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2018, Brian Crofts. Watch now and see why he is counted amongst the ranks of the best in product management. More to Come. The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group.

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3 Compelling Concepts from Basecamp's Shape Up

Sachin Rekhi

I always love reading each new book the Basecamp team publishes as they are inevitably chock-full of unique perspectives that preach an approach to working better that goes against conventional wisdom and established best practices. I don't always agree with every practice they preach, but I absolutely love reflecting upon diverging opinions that challenge my own assumptions.

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How insurance companies can improve their online user experience

Userzoom

With more people heading online for insurance quotes, this is a sector in which UX has become vital to remain competitive. Insurance companies are spending a lot to attract customers to their websites. Indeed, insurance and related terms are frequently some of the most expensive PPC keywords. This makes it even more important that insurance sites focus on providing the best possible UX to convert as many of these visitors as possible.

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When you Look but Don’t see: Agile as Performance

Mind the Product

While I’ve driven all of my adult life in the US, I’ve not had a UK driver’s license for the five or so years I’ve lived here. This year I decided to change all that and enrolled on an intensive driving course so I could knock it out in two weeks. Sadly after a couple of lessons, it was clear that something wasn’t clicking. I was making a lot of failing-level mistakes.

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Exploring PerfDog Whitepaper 2024: Unlock the Power of Performance Testing

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.

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Protecting Your Roadmap from Influential Clients

The Product Guy

Executing on your roadmap is key to product success. Influential clients may ask you to work on non-roadmap efforts they want, killing your success. I’ll provide techniques and processes for how to keep your roadmap stable. In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Jordan Bergtraum, lead a conversation on this topic. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world.

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Product and Pricing Strategies to Realize Customer Value

bpma ProductHub

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Can Coke Product Managers Make Their New Alcoholic Drink A Success?

The Accidental Product Manager

Chu-Hai is big in Japan. Can Coke join the crowd? Image Credit: Tim. So for just a moment, picture yourself as a product manager for one of the most iconic products out there: Coke-Cola. You’ve done a great job – Coke is one of the most popular drinks available and no matter what country you go to, it is very well known. The company makes an enormous amount of money from your soft drink product every year and in all honesty, traditionally you’ve only had one real competitor – Pepsi.

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Lean Mean Product Machine – Dan Olsen on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

After leaving the Navy and working on nuclear submarines, Dan Olsen embarked on a career that has spanned enterprises and start-ups, consulting, speaking, writing, and running the Lean Product & Lean UX meetup. He joined us to talk about product/market fit: what it is, how to know when you have it, and how to achieve it. Quote of the Episode. [The definition of product-market fit:] When customers agree that your product creates enough value for them relative to the other options that are ava

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Product Management Careers: Job Prospects, Pathways, and Must-Have Skills (2024)

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.

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Thanks!

The Product Guy

Thank you to everyone who attended The Product Group’s WayBetter Summer Soiree last night & WayBetter for being an awesome host! Have a great weekend and see everyone at our next regularly scheduled roundtable event… RSVP NOW. Thursday, August 1st @ 7PM. Topic: Launching a Product & Everything else Go To Market. Featured Product: Vydia.

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Product Dev: Think “Past, Present & Future”

The Product Coalition

I often like to frame product development as 3 buckets?—?Past, Present and Future. Past: What are the things we have shipped previously and how are they performing? Are our experiments achieving what we hoped they would? Present: What is the current sprint or work we should be doing today? What have we achieved this sprint and how is our product health looking right now?

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What Leadership Qualities Does it Take to be a Good Leader?

UX Studio

Ever wonder about the difference between leadership and management? This article shares essential leadership qualities. Also, we’ll give some examples of what leadership on a UX team looks like. What does leadership involve? Leadership means you know where you’re going and have the ability, skills and qualities to take people in the same direction.

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Lessons From the Little Blue Book by Joff Redfern

Mind the Product

Joff Redfern is vice president of Australian enterprise software company Atlassian. He previously spent seven years at LinkedIn and he shares his thoughts on the “best and most painful product lessons” of his product leadership career through a journal he calls “the blue book”. He discusses what he’s learned with ProductTank San Francisco. Joff was inspired by Clare Booth Luce, the first American woman to be appointed to a major ambassadorial post.

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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.

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Product Love Podcast: Hubert Palan, CEO and Founder of productboard

ProductCraft

Hubert Palan wants every product to be both functional and delightful. He’s constantly thinking of ways to optimize experiences — he even says it the core of who he is. Sounds like a natural product manager if you ask me. Before becoming the founder and CEO of productboard, Hubert was the VP of product management. Read more » The post Product Love Podcast: Hubert Palan, CEO and Founder of productboard appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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Essentials of Localization: Recreate the Experience with Imagination, Creativity, and Expertise

freshtrax

With the peak of globalization exemplified by the multifaceted and interconnected tech industry, the translation and localization of products and services are key to expanding a business. Both small and large companies are finding it more and more necessary to create internationalized services in order to economically compete. But knowing what to translate and what not can be tricky for someone without the proper understanding of locales.

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Designing for growth: advice for platform creators

Miro

Designing for growth: advice for platform creatorsSimone CiceroCo-founder, BoundarylessGuglielmo ApolloniDesigner and Social Entrepreneur, BoundarylessPlatforms vs. products: what’s the difference?Products are designed for customers. An individual customer has a problem, and you provide a solution. However, this approach assumes that you know the solution.We wanted to challenge this assumption.

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