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Why it pays to show gratitude

Lead on Purpose

No matter what we are facing in life right now, there are things for which we can, and should, express gratitude. The act of focusing on the good things helps us keep moving forward during the tough times.

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Should Product Owners be Servant-Leaders?

Roman Pichler

What Is Servant-Leadership? Servant-leadership means that “one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead,” writes Robert Greenleaf , the creator of the servant-leadership model. Servant-leaders want to “make sure that other people’s highest priority needs are being served” so that they “become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous.”.

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Top 40 Product Management Influencers 2016 [Highlights]

The Product Guy

I am thoroughly humbled to have made this year’s list of Top 40 Product Management Influencers of 2016 for the SECOND CONSECUTIVE YEAR! The list exists to recognize the many influencers who helped to establish best practices and enlighten the industry this year. Following are a few of my excerpted Influencer highlights from the list…. Nir Eyal // Author Nir is the author of the bestselling book Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products.

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How to turn a story point factory into a customer-centric team?

Mind the Product

The one spontaneous ovation at this year’s London MTPCon was when Drift CEO David Cancel muttered “I hate agile” as an aside while he was on stage. Agile, a revolutionary idea 10 years ago, has clearly lost its shine for many people. However, almost all the product teams I know use some agile methods, and they are certainly great tools to break down mega projects into manageable parts, to bring back flexibility to the development process or make it easier to estimate resources.

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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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Why it pays to show gratitude

Lead on Purpose

No matter what we are facing in life right now, there are things for which we can, and should, express gratitude. The act of focusing on the good things helps us keep moving forward during the tough times.

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Top 40 Product Management Influencers 2016 [Highlights]

The Product Guy

I am thoroughly humbled to have made this year’s list of Top 40 Product Management Influencers of 2016 for the SECOND CONSECUTIVE YEAR! The list exists to recognize the many influencers who helped to establish best practices and enlighten the industry this year. Following are a few of my excerpted Influencer highlights from the list…. Nir Eyal // Author Nir is the author of the bestselling book Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products.

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Building High-Growth Products Using Jobs-To-Be-Done

Mind the Product

I have been practicing jobs-to-be-done (aka jobs theory) for over a decade with the world’s leading companies, leading to me being the Founder & CEO of thrv.com. In this talk, I explain how product managers can use jobs theory to launch high-growth products. Turn Theory into Practice. To start with, I demonstrate how product managers can transform the powerful jobs theory in Clay Christensen’s new book (Competing Against Luck) into a rigorous, metric-driven practice that can help

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Happy Thanksgiving — Take The Week Off!

The Accidental Product Manager

Image Credit Here's Hoping That This Week Is Special For Everyone. Loyal readers & subscribers, here’s hoping that this upcoming week is a great week for you — I’m taking it off! Blogging will resume next week… For my readers in the U.S., you know that this week is all about family, turkey, and of course football. I’m not sure what it is about turkey that always seems to make everyone fall asleep, but I’m hoping that when I wake up this year the globa

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TEI 099: Speaking with confidence and gravitas – with Caroline Goyder - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Have you ever wondered why some people earn attention and respect when they speak and others don’t? According to my guest, the secret to their success can be summed up in one word: gravitas. With gravitas, you can express yourself clearly and with the passion and confidence to persuade, influence and engage listeners. And that is exactly a capability product managers and innovators need.

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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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New York to London–Upgrade that Product Career

The Product Guy

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….

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How To Learn From Structure In Your Product Data

Mind the Product

Shaona Ghosh (Postdoc at University of Cambridge, Engineering) talks about ways of leveraging data in order to build AI and machine learning algorithms that can learn and make intelligent predictions about the product. Data driven AI/Machine Learning algorithms. Machine learning algorithms are bottom up AI techniques that are extremely good in finding patterns in data, learning from the patterns in existing data and predicting on new data.

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Podcast: Organizational Anthropology

Mironov Consulting

Karthik Vijayakumar’s Design Your Thinking podcast brings in a range of product and design thinkers to talk about their hot topics. He generously included me for a long discussion about organizations, incentives and motivating other functional groups — an episode that we labeled “ Organizational Anthropology and Product Management.” Some takeaways: Different groups (sales, marketing, product, engineering and executive leadership) have their own success metrics, filters a

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Say NO the right way–and other innovation insights for product managers Nov 25, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. How product managers creatively say NO without being confrontational. In this interview with Erin Essex, she shares why product managers can’t always say yes to requests and how to respond with “no” in ways that educate stakeholders on the product’s objectives.

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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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New York to London–Upgrade that Product Career

The Product Guy

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….

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Making My Underwear an accessible product

Mind the Product

This is a story about My Underwear. Not my underwear —  but “My Underwear” — the mobile game for children from my old game studio. More importantly, it’s about the hard work of building accessible products, about finding and fuelling previously unreachable audiences (niche markets on the internet), and ultimately about creating joy for people using our products and for ourselves personally.

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Welcome New TSIA Members! November Edition

TSIA

At TSIA, we are dedicated to helping services organizations both large and small grow and advance in the technology industry. We'd like to take the opportunity to welcome our newest members, as well as acknowledge companies already a part of the TSIA community who have recently expanded their membership to include additional service disciplines TSIA has to offer.

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The Friction Points in Going Digital

TIBCO - Thought Leadership

Digital business is no longer just a hot topic, it has become the top priority for many organizations. This change isn’t going to happen without friction. Companies big and small are being pushed by competitive forces and cost to adapt their products, services, and even their core business model to a more modern marketplace. Customers are found through digital means—often the focus of digital hype—but so are shipping partners, parts suppliers, and everyone else in the supply chain.

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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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What are the best quotes about experimentation from the podcast, This is Product Management?

DISQO

For 18 months, This is Product Management has been a major resource for product teams across industries and company sizes. But at 75 episodes, it can be difficult to keep up. That’s why I’m cataloging some of the best quotes about different topics referenced in the series. For this first post, I highlighted the best quotes about experimentation. “We’re in the home run business.

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Climbing the Product Management Career Ladder

bpma ProductHub

Contributed by John Mansour. Before your mind wanders too far, let’s set the record straight. In B2B product management, tactical, operational and strategic refer to layers in the customer organization – not your job responsibilities. Master each of these customer domains and the next rung on the product management career ladder awaits. When the product management/marketing profession was in its childhood, upward mobility options were few: director and VP.

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How Professional Services Automation (PSA) Supports Business Transformation

TSIA

It’s no surprise that services organizations rely more and more on various technologies to successfully run their businesses. Recent research shows that planned spending and adoption of Professional Services Automation solutions is on the rise, and has become a must-have technology for most business stakeholders within services organizations. PSA provides automation in core business areas along with the information necessary to make important business decisions in real-time.

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Technology Has a Weekend Problem

TIBCO - Thought Leadership

It was obvious during the recent election…there were far fewer meaningful stories on the weekends. That’s not in itself too surprising, but it is equally obvious if you order from Amazon after 5pm on Friday as I did recently: Nothing really moves until Monday. Sure, you get a notification on Friday that your item shipped, but it hasn’t moved an inch.

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Platform Product Management Beyond Features: Introducing B-MAP for Platform Ecosystem Success

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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What are the best quotes about experimentation from the podcast, This is Product Management?

DISQO

For 18 months, This is Product Management has been a major resource for product teams across industries and company sizes. But at 75 episodes, it can be difficult to keep up. That’s why I’m cataloging some of the best quotes about different topics referenced in the series. For this first post, I highlighted the best quotes about experimentation. “We’re in the home run business.

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5 Paths To Your First Product Manager Role

Sachin Rekhi

The most common question I get from aspiring product managers is how to land their first product manager role. Unfortunately it's not an easy question to answer because there isn't a single straightforward path into product management, but instead a variety of paths from which product managers typically come from. I wanted to share the five most common paths that I've observed for individuals landing their first product management role and how to increase your chances of landing the job through

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Taking Your Product Across Cultures by Lisa Long

Mind the Product

The commercial world is littered with the wreckage of international expansion plans gone awry, whether it’s the $2 billion that US discount retailer Target misguidedly spent thinking Americans and Canadians are the same, Tesco’s failure to understand US shopping habits with its Fresh & Easy brand or the failure of the HP digital magazine Pivot to accommodate French and German editions in a layout that was grounded in English.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Customer Powered Product Decisions

UserVoice

Product feedback is an invaluable resource for informing roadmap decisions for both new and established products, and product teams across the board constantly seek more insight from their customers whether they have 10 or 10,000,000 to listen to. With insight derived from feedback, product teams can uncover customer pain points to solve, identify the features and functionalities customers care.

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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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What are the best quotes about experimentation from the podcast, This is Product Management?

DISQO

For 18 months, This is Product Management has been a major resource for product teams across industries and company sizes. But at 75 episodes, it can be difficult to keep up. That’s why I’m cataloging some of the best quotes about different topics referenced in the series. For this first post, I highlighted the best quotes about experimentation. “We’re in the home run business.