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Persuasion Tips For Product Managers

The Secret PM Handbook

After a few well-received presentations to senior executives, a few colleagues at my new company asked me, based on the positive effect I got, “Can you give us some tips on persuasion?”. I’ve been doing product management a long time, and over time my presentation skills have just naturally gotten more polished. A lot of it seems like second nature to me.

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The #1 Answer in Product: It Depends

Mind the Product

The internet lends itself to binary positions: you’re either for something or against it, advocating it or decrying it. It’s not just Twitter’s 280 characters that limit us to this black and white thinking, most blog posts and conference talks seem to follow the same trend. And I’m not even talking about politics. Waterfall vs Agile. Qualitative research vs Quantitative data.

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Product vs. Project Management

The Product Bistro

While there are article after article posted about the difference between the product manager role and the product marketing manager role, there is one more relevant comparison that ought to be made, how does a product manager differ from a project manager. Why should we care about this? When I was was posting job req’s, […].

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License to sell: 5 strategies to hit your sales quota

Intercom, Inc.

In sales, there’s one number we obsess over – our quota. As soon as one month ends and another starts, we can’t help but ask, how am I going to hit my number? Yet for all the time we spend thinking about it, many of us don’t have a game plan. As an Inbound Sales Development Rep, I face the challenge of not having any control over the leads that get passed to me.

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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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Mobile Product Manager vs. Mobile Product Owner

Alchemer Mobile

Agile teams have a lot of moving parts, and it can be difficult to understand where product responsibilities fall across team members. And a mobile product manager or mobile product owner role can be difficult for only one person to take on. Mobile product managers spend time straddling two worlds: the external customer’s world and the internal team’s world.

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Musing on the Future of Work

The Product Bistro

Watching a British Police Procedural – Line of Duty, and at the end of a “Season” they did a run down of the investigating team, and one statement caught my attention, that one DC (Detective Constable), had passed her test and was now a DS (Detective Sergeant). This caught my ear, because it is a […].

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How Typeform’s Intercom app is growing value for users and the business

Intercom, Inc.

We’ve just unveiled our new publicly available Intercom App Store and rolled out a bunch of new features to make building apps on Intercom even easier at the same time. Among those features are tools and capabilities that enable anyone to build an app that can be used in the Intercom Messenger. We released a beta version of the features earlier this year to a small group of developers, including Typeform.

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The Simple Tool That Revives Employee Motivation

First Round Review

At Pinterest and LinkedIn, product leader Jack Chou learned firsthand how vital it is to zero in continuously on what keeps people motivated as a company scales. Now Head of Product at Affirm, here are the four components of workplace motivation that he leans on from the start.

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Cognitive Biases & The Questions you Shouldn’t be Asking by Cindy Alvarez

Mind the Product

No one is immune to cognitive biases. Cindy Alvarez , Principle Researcher at Microsoft and Author of Lean Customer Development wants us to recognize this fact. Because while we can’t avoid bias altogether, she has some advice for us on how to work around bias and reduce the impact it has in our research. You are all an incredibly smart audience, and it doesn’t actually matter, because cognitive biases are really going to screw up what you do anyways.

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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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Product Design For Kids: A UX Guide To Children’s Minds

UX Studio

We don’t know what kids want, like, expect or think, says Kid UX Designer Sabine Idler. Product design for kids poses its own challenges. Throughout childhood, kids’ physical and cognitive abilities change, and so do their digital preferences. This quick guide will help you through the first steps of the design process. We also attempt to blow away the myth that designing for kids would be easy or dumbing things down suffices.

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Meet the Intercom App Store: Helping customers and partners grow

Intercom, Inc.

It’s rare that one product manages to solve all of your needs or the needs of your customers – no matter how extensive or well designed it is. We all use a plethora of tools to collaborate, communicate and get our work done on a daily basis. Each product used is only one tool of many at our disposal. At Intercom, we believe that tools should be adaptable to your needs and not the other way around.

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The Simple Tool That Revives Employee Motivation

First Round Review

At Pinterest and LinkedIn, product leader Jack Chou learned firsthand how vital it is to zero in continuously on what keeps people motivated as a company scales. Now Head of Product at Affirm, here are the four components of workplace motivation that he leans on from the start.

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What to do in your new product manager job?

The Product Guy

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2017, Melissa Perri. Watch now and see why she 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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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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Kids’ Video Game Obsession Isn’t Really About Video Games. It’s About Unmet Psychological Needs.

Nir Eyal

Many parents are concerned with their child’s seemingly obsessive video game play. Fortnite, the most recent gaming phenomenon, has taken the world by storm and has parents asking whether the shooter game is okay for kids. The short answer is yes, Fortnite is generally fine. Furthermore, parents can breathe easier knowing that research suggests gaming […].

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Why you Should Create a Person, not Just a Persona

Mind the Product

Sarah Collins is 26 years old. She graduated from Nottingham University with a degree in Communications and moved to London. She took a job as a social media manager for a small travel company. She’s having fun, gets to visit new places, and loves her new life in London. However, she feels like something is missing. Through her job she’s met many strong, opinionated people who she leans on for support.

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Sometimes Failure is the Best Result

Clever PM

As a Product Manager, it’s in our bones to always do the best job possible, to deliver the best product possible, and to satisfy the most customers possible. But what if I told you that by always succeeding, we’re actually hampering ourselves? While it might feel good to hit a home run every time you […].

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What Is Value-Based Pricing?

Pragmatic Marketing

Value-Based Pricing (VBP) means to charge what your customers are willing to pay (WTP). This is a simple concept to understand and probably impossible to implement. Every buyer has a different WTP. Perfect VBP implies we can read each buyer’s mind and charge them that one price exactly equal to their WTP. Using today’s technology, this is still impossible.

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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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Kids’ Video Game Obsession Isn’t Really About Video Games. It’s About Unmet Psychological Needs.

Nir Eyal

Many parents are concerned with their child’s seemingly obsessive video game play. Fortnite, the most recent gaming phenomenon, has taken the world by storm and has parents asking whether the shooter game is okay for kids. The short answer is yes, Fortnite is generally fine. Furthermore, parents can breathe easier knowing that research suggests gaming […] The post Kids’ Video Game Obsession Isn’t Really About Video Games.

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6 Ways The Product Manager is the CEO of the Product (and 1 Way They are the CFO too)

The Product Coalition

The comparison has been around for a long time?—?the product manager is the CEO of their product. It’s become ingrained in our thinking and the way we talk about product management. For newcomers, it’s an exciting concept. Everyone wants to be the CEO, right? Make decisions. Create vision. Command respect. But is it true? Is the product manager the CEO?

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The big move: Becoming the only remote member of a collocated team

Miro

The big move: Becoming the only remote member of a collocated team Perhaps this situation sounds familiar: you’ve been working at a company for a while in their main office. You like what you do, but one day, something happens in your personal life that triggers a move to somewhere well beyond a reasonable commute. […]. The post The big move: Becoming the only remote member of a collocated team appeared first on RealtimeBoard Blog.

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 Marrying Up: Partnering With Big Companies

Pragmatic Marketing

The competitive landscape for software companies, driven by venture-backed startups and disruptive business models and technologies, has only become fiercer in today’s economy. Small players have to make good use of whatever means they have at their disposal to break free from the pack. One strategy to make that leap is to partner with a larger, established company whose scale and resources can quickly take the product well beyond anything the startup is capable of on its own.

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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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Digitally Transforming Language, One Buzzword at a Time

ProductCraft

Skip to content. ProductCraft by Pendo. Subscribe. Best Practices. Perspectives. Profiles. Debates. Podcast. #ProductStack. Esoteria. Digitally Transforming Language, One Buzzword at a Time. By Tricia Cervenan – Aug. 3, 2018. Share Post: Monday, July 30, 2018. 6:32AM Local Time. Team, I would like to drill down and double-click into the next-generation vision for the organization that will revolutionize disruption.

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IoT and the Energy Storage Revolution

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

In this episode of the IoT Product Leadership podcast, we talk about energy storage revolution and the key role IoT plays in this new era of distributed energy. We also talk about the challenges of building end-to-end IoT solutions both from a Product perspective as well as the internal organizational challenges that arise when building such […].

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Upcoming Presentations in Denver and Cleveland; Product Management and Boards

Good Product Manager

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy writing and doing other things related to product management, of course — here’s an update! August 8 in Denver: Product Strategy on a Page. Next Wednesday, August 8, I’ll be in Denver to present at a meeting of Colorado Product , being held at General Assembly Denver.

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 Marrying Up: Partnering With Big Companies

Pragmatic Marketing

The competitive landscape for software companies, driven by venture-backed startups and disruptive business models and technologies, has only become fiercer in today’s economy. Small players have to make good use of whatever means they have at their disposal to break free from the pack. One strategy to make that leap is to partner with a larger, established company whose scale and resources can quickly take the product well beyond anything the startup is capable of on its own.

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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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Tech community set to gather in San Francisco for 10th annual Open Mobile Summit

The Product Coalition

The 10th Open Mobile Summit (November 27th-28th) returns as the annual hub for globally renowned brands to discuss their digital strategies across all connected devices. Looking ahead at this years show we are moving with industry trends and shifting the focus of the Open Mobile Summit from ‘mobile first’ to ‘customer first’. Now in our tenth year we are bringing together the US’s major brands for two days of strategic discussions about how to improve the customers digital experience.

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Product Bookclub #8 | Marty Cagan, Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

BrainMates

Another great evening at Product Book Club last week, when we got together to discuss Marty Cagan’s revised classic Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love. Thanks Julian for always being ready to give a summary for those who haven’t read the book (and a refresher for those of us who have, or have made a wholehearted partial effort). Should you read the second edition?

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Upcoming Presentations in Denver and Cleveland; Product Management and Boards

Good Product Manager

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy writing and doing other things related to product management, of course — here’s an update! August 8 in Denver: Product Strategy on a Page. Next Wednesday, August 8, I’ll be in Denver to present at a meeting of Colorado Product , being held at General Assembly Denver.