Lead on Purpose
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Guest post by Frank Song Many working professionals are stuck in underpaid, intellectually unstimulating jobs, and at companies with no career growth potential. Do you know anyone in this position? Does this describe your situation?
UserVoice
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
There are plenty of fantastic ways to keep your product management skills sharp and keep up with evolving industry trends and new technologies. There’s no shortage of product management blogs, podcasts, and reading lists out there to keep you in the know. However, real, in-person events such as meetups and conferences are by far the best way to keep up with industry trends while simultaneously.
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Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
When developing products, customer insight is vital to understanding the critical question: where are we going? Insights can help us better to understand our product and how it fits into the everyday lives of users — users who live in an age of abundance, where every product competes for a minute of attention. But insights too fall into our cultural condition of excess.
Nir Eyal
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
DJ Khaled, the one-man internet meme, is known for warning his tens of millions of social media followers about a group of villains he calls “they.” “They don’t want you motivated. They don’t want you inspired,” he blares on camera. “They don’t want you to win,” he warns. On Ellen DeGeneres’s talk show, Khaled urged the host, “Please, Ellen, stay away from them!
Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee
As a concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry. It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. As product managers, we need to understand how a good DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction.
The Product Guy
FEBRUARY 4, 2017
Out of the hundreds of nominations, and amazing finalists, the 7th annual winner of The Best Product Person is … Chris Butler. Join me in congratulating him ( tweet ) and nominate your pick for 2017 at [link] today. Remember to subscribe to our YouTube channel @ [link]. Keep the conversation going via our own Slack Community @ [link]. Thank you to everyone who made it to our latest RECORD BREAKING roundtable meet-up of The Product Group at Digital Ocean , as well as to our other sponsors, Yext ,
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Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 10, 2017
When it comes to capturing the public’s imagination, few works of fiction have ever done it as well as the movie Jurassic Park did almost 25 years ago – I couldn’t believe it’s been that long either. The special effects were insane for the time, but even more amazing was how the way they resurrected dinosaurs seemed so scientifically plausible.
Brian Balfour
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
Andy Carvell joined SoundCloud in 2012, when the company was just over 80 employees and 10 million monthly active users. The service now boasts over 150 million registered users, and monthly actives in the high tens of millions. I recently spoke with Andy as part of a 1 hour interview covering: How he brought a web-first product to mobile Activity notifications, rich push, and other techniques for driving mobile growth and retention Andy’s “Mobile Growth Stack” for 2017 You can watch the full in
The Product Guy
FEBRUARY 5, 2017
If you are a great product person looking for a great product job, or vice versa, check out our job board. Thousands of employers across all areas of product, from management to design, from digital to physical, are looking to fill positions from our community. Each week we highlight some of the recently posted openings. Check out this week’s newest, below….
Rahul Abhyankar
FEBRUARY 9, 2017
On any road, there are the usual sign markers showing useful information, locations for services, and sometimes, checkpoints set up by law enforcement authorities. These checkpoints are intended to ensure compliance, e.g., sobriety, seat belts, or in other situations to reroute traffic due to hazardous conditions ahead, e.g.
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.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Joe Leech is a UX consultant and author of the book Psychology for Designers , and he splits his time between doing huge amounts of research, advising companies on design strategy, and rolling his sleeves up and actually doing design work himself. In this energetic talk at ProductTank London, Joe gives some real-world examples from his own work of some useful ways to think about “thinking fast” (i.e. emotive or instinctive mental processes) and “thinking slow” (consciousl
TSIA
FEBRUARY 10, 2017
With subscription-based XaaS business models on the rise, more technology companies are realizing just how important it is to maintain good relationships with their customers if they're to secure a solid recurring revenue stream. To do this, they are shifting their primary focus away from their products and onto the customer by helping them achieve their desired business outcomes with their products and services in an initiative known as " customer success." In this post, I'm goi
Alty
FEBRUARY 10, 2017
Money is no funny. Especially when you don’t have any extra dollars to spare on your Big App Project. The controversy, however, is that some say good apps cost a good heap of money, while a cheap app is bound for failure. Yet, bootstrapping appreneurs are not so rare these days either. So is it possible to develop a mobile app with a small budget? Our answer is absolutely as long as you know when it’s worth to act frugal, and when to spend more lavishly.
SidsAvenue
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
A cocktail of ignorance and greediness is what you need to become a telephonic fraud victim. I saved myself from being one a few days back. What follows in this blog post is the short transcript of the fraudulent call and what is the solution to prevent people from being telephonic fraud victims. The trap formation I received a call from a mobile number saying it was from Citibank.
Speaker: Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product, Statsig
Experimentation is often seen as an aspirational practice, especially at smaller, fast-moving companies who are strapped for time and resources. So, how can you get your team making decisions in a more data-driven way while continuing to remain lean and maintaining ship velocity? In this webinar, Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product at Statsig, will teach you how to build an experimentation culture from the ground-up, graduating from just getting started with data-driven development to operating
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 9, 2017
What does technology do to society? When technology and human ingenuity gets together, everybody in society profits. If you look at graphs of GDP / capita over long time periods (850 years+), the trend is always upwards. The only things that drag this progress down are severe periods of sickness (like the black death) and widespread war (such as WW2).
TSIA
FEBRUARY 9, 2017
This article was originally published on the Verint blog on 2/1/2017. Today's customer is smart, engaged, connected and informed. To keep pace with this new breed of customer, organizations must also become smarter and more connected. Your employees are the gateway to your customers, and the best way to help ensure they stay satisfied and loyal is to empower your employees with the tools and tactics to provide superior service.
dscout People Nerds
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
A People Nerds interview with Natalie Hanson.
Product Talk
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
Product management is evolving quickly. The days of gathering requirements from business stakeholders and documenting them in long product requirements documents are vanishing. We no longer take months or years to release value to our customers. Instead, product teams are experimenting their way to viable solutions. We are putting our customers first, taking the time to discover unmet needs, and developing solutions that address those needs.
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Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
Rahel Bailie (Chief Knowledge Officer at Scroll LLP) describes content as the “new front door” to your business. From the home page to the error message on your checkout- content enables customers to understand your product and connect with your brand. The process of localisation adapts your content to make it understandable and recognisable by different local markets.
Pragmatic Marketing
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
Sure McD’s has always had small, medium, and large fries, and small, medium and large drinks. These are classic good, better, best pricing and portfolio techniques. However, they recently went to good, better, best for the most classic of all McDonald’s sandwiches : the Big Mac. They are introducing the Mac Jr, a Big Mac with only one beef patty. (In case you didn’t know, a Big Mac is two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions on a sesame seed bun.
Product Bookshelf
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
42 rules to live by for product managers. Great insights and product principles for being a great product manager and making better products. 42 Rules of Product Management edited by Brian Lawley. This book is packed with great advice, product patterns, and anti-patterns. The rules are brief and written by different authors. Each encapsulates a key principle of effective product management.
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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