Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Last Wednesday I put out this call to product managers to participate in a research study about the life of a product manager. I am overwhelmed by the response. In the first 48 hours, I have 90 responses. I was initially thinking that I would interview 9–12 people. But now, I’m excited to make this an ongoing part of my work. After all, if I was working in a corporate product role, I’d be doing customer interviews on a regular basis, so why should it be any different as a consultant?

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Slides: The Art of Product Management. Video: The Art of Product Management. Product managers drive the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. While one can often quickly comprehend the basic responsibilities of the role, mastering each of these dimensions is truly an art form that one is constantly honing. In the last decade as a product manager here in Silicon Valley I've learned an incredible number of important lessons on how to be better at this role.

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Good Product Manager

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Upcoming Events: Spring 2016. The events season is upon us! This is usually a busy time of year with ProductCamps, conferences, and other events, and this year is no different. Here’s a few that I’ll be participating in — make sure to let me know in advance if you’ll be attending or find me and introduce yourself in person. ProductCamp Austin (Saturday, February 13): I’ve been to ProductCamp Austin a few times and it’s always a great event — there’s still time

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svpg

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

NOTE: I was invited to write the foreword for Christina Wodke’s new book on OKR’s, Radical Focus , and I am sharing the foreword here. I was extremely fortunate to have started my career at Hewlett-Packard as an engineer during their heyday, when they were known as the industry’s most successful and enduring example of consistent innovation and execution.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2016

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Good Product Manager

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Upcoming Events: Spring 2016. The events season is upon us! This is usually a busy time of year with ProductCamps, conferences, and other events, and this year is no different. Here’s a few that I’ll be participating in — make sure to let me know in advance if you’ll be attending or find me and introduce yourself in person. ProductCamp Austin (Saturday, February 13): I’ve been to ProductCamp Austin a few times and it’s always a great event — there’s still time

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Product Bookshelf

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Successful platform design requires a focus on interactions, a clear set of incentives for producers and effective filters for consumers. Starting a platform business means solving the chicken-or-the-egg problem. All platforms grapple with jump-starting their communities and ensuring long-term value creation. Carefully designing and monitoring interactions to ensure benefit for both sides, participation, effective matching and curation, and measurable ways to build audiences over the long term a

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TSIA

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

A common dilemma many professional services organizations face is competitively pricing their services in a way that they can also stay profitable. The unfortunate reality is that, without an effective pricing strategy in place, improper discounting practices and low list rates can lead to these organizations drastically undercharging for valuable services.

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UserTesting

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Name: Mo (Shlomo) Goltz. Location: San Francisco. Official title: Senior Interaction Designer. Company: UserTesting. Tell us a bit about your background, and what you do for UserTesting now. I’ve studied graphic design, strategic design, and ethnography which informed my work … The post A Day In the Life Of: Mo (Shlomo) Goltz, Senior Interaction Designer appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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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.