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Show Your Work: How to Justify Your Decisions & Get Stakeholder Buy-In

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Not All Metrics Have to Be Actionable (Gasp!)

ProductCraft

Everyone loves a good metric. As product managers, we probably proudly proclaim that we are getting better at making decisions based on data rather than gut instinct. How everyone gathers, visualizes, and uses information — in product management and beyond — has certainly changed for the better over the years. In the past, we were. Read more » The post Not All Metrics Have to Be Actionable (Gasp!

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How product teams can build effective customer feedback loops

ProductBoard

A lot of companies know how to collect customer feedback. But the real struggle is knowing how to create continuous feedback loops that provide valuable, actionable information that can inform strategic objectives. In this article, we’re going to see: How continuous feedback loops can improve your product The best ways to collect customer feedback How to engage customers with surveys What to do.

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How to Reduce the Product Backlog Size

Roman Pichler

Split the Product Backlog. Faced with an overly long and detailed product backlog, investigate if it does describe one cohesive product. Over time, products can serve an increasingly heterogeneous market and provide a large number of different features, some of which may not be used by all users. If that’s the case for your product, then reduce the product backlog size by unbundling one or more features and releasing them as products in their own right, like Facebook did with Messenger in 2014.

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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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8 Tips for Building an Executive-Facing Roadmap

ProductPlan

Product roadmaps shouldn’t be created with a one-size-fits-all approach; each audience needs varying levels of detail and transparency. The dates you show customers may not be the same ones shared internally, the product development team requires more granularity than salespeople, and a customer-specific roadmap prunes away anything irrelevant to the client in question.

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Automated customer service should be personal

Intercom, Inc.

Automated customer service isn’t a new concept. We’ve all navigated our fair share of automated phone menus or interacted with support bots to get help. But much has changed, both in usability and customer perception. Voice recognition technology has improved, AI solutions can interpret customer feedback, and chatbots have started to answer the questions they receive, not just pass them off to a human.

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Product Management: Leading by Trust

Product Management Unpacked

Greg Coticchia, the executive director of Carnegie Mellon University’s new Master of Science in Product Management program, was recently a guest on The Pitchwerks Podcast , a weekly audio show hosted by Scot MacTaggart that talks about sales, marketing and startups. During the show, the dynamic duo discusses some of the nuances related to a career in product management including why leading by trust is critical for being a great product manager.

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Platform Management by Brandon Chu

Mind the Product

At #mtpcon San Francisco, Brandon Chu, VP of Product at Shopify, provides some insight into what he considers the most interesting challenge in his career: managing platforms. In this talk he shares what platforms can mean for our product strategies, and what his team learned as they discovered how to build a platform at Shopify. What are Platforms?

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How the cloud is reshaping small business productivity

Lead on Purpose

Guest post by Shyamal Parikh According to a research by Cisco, cloud data centers will process 94% of workloads by 2021. Businesses are changing the way they work.

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From Developer Experience to Product Experience: How a Shared Focus Fuels Product Success

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.

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Lean UX author Jeff Gothelf on why design must have a seat at the table

Intercom, Inc.

? ?. If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. Author Jeff Gothelf sees this all the time in his work as a consultant for medium- and large-sized companies, and it inevitably leads to a culture clash where designers feel unvalued.

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1 in 100 #prodmgmt

The Product Guy

Not too long ago I had the pleasure of sitting down with 100PM to talk about my product management experiences and journey. I cover a lot of ground in this podcast, from founders as product people to effective product training to MUCH MORE! Check it out @ [link]. Enjoy! Jeremy Horn. The Product Guy.

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Enabling Outcome-Oriented Product Organisations Through OKRs by Sonja Mewes

Mind the Product

While most product people can agree on the attributes of an effective goal, turning them into tangible results is a different story. Goals quickly lose their effectiveness when product teams are not able to link them to the actions of their daily work. However, before you join in the OKR hype, it makes sense to take a couple of steps back. In this MTP Engage Hamburg talk, I use the learning journey of the (fictional) start-up Analytico to walk through the stages of getting started and scaling ob

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Scrum First Principles

The Product Coalition

TL; DR: Scrum First Principles Popularized by Elon Musk, utilizing first principles thinking to solve problems in an innovative, creative, and less biased way has proven popular in the tech community. Given that its sibling empiricism is an integral part of Scrum as a framework, applying Scrum first principles thinking is also a useful exercise. Learn more about how to Elon Musk the Scrum Guide.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Practical techniques for increasing team success

Lead on Purpose

Practical techniques for increasing team success Teamwork is a key factor when it comes to creating workplace success. No doubt individuals with incredible talent can accomplish great things on their own.

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Focus on the Product Team and Everyone’s Legacy

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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The Daily Standup is Broken, What Should You Do Now?

Mind the Product

The standup meeting, or daily scrum, as a team information-gathering staple has evolved into dogma , and especially tech dogma, over time. Not only did it seem like everyone was doing standups as their default way of conveying project context, it felt like there wasn’t an alternative. This was the path of the agile startup, midsize business, and the looking-to-feel-smaller enterprise for many years.

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Can Product Work Be Done Remotely?

ProductCraft

A lone engineer codes feverishly in a dimly-light room, drinking a caffeinated beverage and typing until their hands hurt. That dimly-light room is located in their home, the perfect environment for writing code. That’s probably what you’d see if I asked you to visualize what an engineer looks like at work. Either that or someone. Read more » The post Can Product Work Be Done Remotely?

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How to Build an Experimentation Culture for Data-Driven Product Development

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

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NerdWallet’s CEO on Navigating the Shift from First-Time Founder to Seasoned Exec

First Round Review

NerdWallet co-founder and CEO Tim Chen reflects on the arc of his journey as founder after more than a decade of company building. He shares the six mindset shifts he needed to make to transition from entrepreneur to executive as his startup scaled, weaving together a collection of lessons that will be invaluable for any founder finding themselves at this very same crossroads.

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Clear Product Outcomes

The Product Guy

How can you have a great product if everyone is not on the same page. One of the great problems is overcoming the challenge of communication clear product outcomes. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Don Ross.

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Are Watch Product Managers Almost Out Of Time?

The Accidental Product Manager

Change is happening and watch product managers need to learn to deal with it Image Credit: Barron Fujimoto. So here’s an interesting question to kick things off: do you wear a watch? Not all that long ago, the answer to this question would have been pretty much “yes” for everyone. I mean, how else were you going to be able to tell what time it was?

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How to use email marketing to improve product adoption

Mixpanel

At Mixpanel, we use our product internally to track critical business metrics. We “dogfood” it as much as we can: to measure product use at the account level with Group Analytics , onboard new customers using Mixpanel Messaging , and test subject lines in our blog newsletter. But until recently, we had to rely on Marketo for some email campaigns where “dogfooding” Mixpanel wasn’t the best option.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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NerdWallet’s CEO on Navigating the Shift from First-Time Founder to Seasoned Exec

First Round Review

NerdWallet co-founder and CEO Tim Chen reflects on the arc of his journey as founder after more than a decade of company building. He shares the six mindset shifts he needed to make to transition from entrepreneur to executive as his startup scaled, weaving together a collection of lessons that will be invaluable for any founder finding themselves at this very same crossroads.

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What exactly does a Product Manager do? Redefining Product Management function

NextBigWhat

There has been an array of definitions for the product management role – mostly derived from the standard one (shown below), which I believe isn’t the most accurate definition of Product Management role as of today. Product Management Role Definition (courtesy Atlassian blog). That is, product management intersects between UX, Tech and Business functions.

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Andreas Klinger on why remote teams have an unfair advantage

Miro

Andreas Klinger on why remote teams have an unfair advantageThe number of remote teams is growing, and they have specific needs. In this market, AngelList, a platform for startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups, has a special position — it has a remote team spread all over the world and also creates digital products for other distributed companies.

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The Problem is The Choice: The Frontier of A/B Testing

AB Tasty

Do you run A/B tests on your website? Are you sure you're making the best decisions when it comes to statistical certainty, loss and gain? This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as The Problem is The Choice: The Frontier of A/B Testing.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

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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Staying Connected is Key to Your Startup’s Survival — Here’s How to Nail Internal Comms

First Round Review

Even the smallest startups have a lot to gain from getting internal comms right. We've rounded up the Review's six most effective tactics for crafting crystal-clear messaging and facilitating feedback from your most important audience.

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Product manager vs. project manager: What’s the difference?

ProductBoard

French poet, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, once said, “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” You may interpret this in a way that’s directly meaningful to you. But I think at its core is the idea that leadership and alignment come from creating a vision, setting a course.

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Catch Software Pirates with Honey, Not Vinegar

Revulytics

Consider it a compliment that a company wants to use your software product, even if it’s an unlicensed version. After all, despite the financial hit, the culprit could have chosen a competitor’s product. But you obviously can’t let the free ride continue. So once you’ve identified unpaid use or the overuse of a paid license, instead of threatening legal action, take the opportunity to nudge the company about the benefits of proper licensing.