Product Talk

JULY 12, 2017

It’s easy to think you already do continuous product discovery. Most of the teams that I work with come into coaching thinking that they don’t need help. They’ve read the industry books, they attend the popular product conferences , and they follow all the leading blogs. They’ve got this. And they aren’t wrong. Most product teams are starting to integrate discovery practices into their product development process.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 10, 2017

My heart is heavy as I write this article; my father passed away a few days ago.

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Mind the Product

JULY 12, 2017

Prioritisation is a necessary evil of every product development lifecycle. Deciding what to build, where to focus limited resources and what customer segments to target are questions that face every organisation on a daily basis. With this being the case, why do companies prioritise so badly? Prioritisation is one of the most critical aspects of product development.

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Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

JULY 11, 2017

Creating a good user experience for IoT products is hard. There are more layers of technology, more users to please, and more teams to coordinate than ever before. Are you prepared to lead the way as a Product Manager? Throughout the years, UX practices have evolved and adapted to the latest technology trends, from the […]. The post Why It’s So Hard to Create a Good User Experience in IoT appeared first on TechProductManagement.

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The Product Guy

JULY 10, 2017

Nominate a great product manager you know today @ [link] ! Remember to subscribe to our YouTube channel @ [link]. Thank you to everyone who made it to our latest roundtable meet-up of The Product Group at iHeartMedia , with food and drinks sponsored by People10 , as well as to our other sponsors, Yext , BKLYN and many more. Over the course of the night a few of the highlights were… Featured Product: Troops exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from weekly retrospectives to m

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Mind the Product

JULY 13, 2017

Why Products Fail. One of the main reasons why products fail is because they don’t meet customer needs in a way that is better than other alternatives. That is the essence of product-market fit. In this talk at ProductTank San Francisco, I share advice from my book The Lean Product Playbook on how to achieve product-market fit. The Product-Market Fit Pyramid.

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Tyner Blain

JULY 10, 2017

You know you’re a product manager when this image causes more than a chuckle. A few random thoughts inspired by this Rorschach test of product management concepts from sunk cost fallacy to intentionality. Hanlon’s Razor. “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” ( wikipedia ). This was my immediate reaction when my colleague Dennis Stevens sent me this, with the comment ‘This has to be useful in a product management presentation.&#

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The Product Guy

JULY 13, 2017

Out of the hundreds of nominations, and amazing finalists, the 7th annual winner of The Best Product Person is … Chris Butler. 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. Take a moment and congratulate The Best Product Person of 2016: Chris Butler. ( tweet ).

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Brian Balfour

JULY 12, 2017

This is part 3 in a series about the growth frameworks companies need to grow to $100M+ Part One: Introduction & Why Product Market Fit Isn't Enough. The Road to a $100M Company Doesn’t Start with Product. Subscribe to get the rest of the series. This is part three in a series about 4 Frameworks To Grow To $100M+. Subscribe to get the rest of the series In the introduction I explained there are two types of companies : Tugboats, where growth feels like you have to put a ton of fuel in to get

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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.

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Mind the Product

JULY 12, 2017

A seasoned Product Manager has experienced many product and process failures. Andrew Harder, Senior Research Manager at Ebay, spoke to Product Tank San Francisco about how to avoid screwing up your user testing. 1. Only Asking Usability Questions. Consider user needs and whether the product or feature actually solves for those challenges. Andrew spoke about his experience at Nokia: throughout user testing their customers said that text input was very important, leading Nokia to dismiss the first

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UX Studio

JULY 13, 2017

For most of us, a bad user experience means only a bit of frustration or a waste of time. But in some cases, bad UX design can severely harm or even kill people. As we allow technology to infiltrate every field of our lives, bad UX design could become even more dangerous in the future. We don’t have to look that far into the future to find some dangerous UX mistakes….

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The Product Guy

JULY 11, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Sarah Varki, lead a conversation around “Product Management: Product- vs. Service-centric Companies”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! View the live stream…. About The Product Mentor. The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamen

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 10, 2017

To win more customers, Sprint needs a better network. Image Credit: Mike Mozart. Being a product manager who works in the highly competitive wireless market has got to be a struggle every day. There are not a lot of players in this market, in the U.S. there really is just AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile. However, each of these companies is always looking for ways to steal market share from the other firms.

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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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Mind the Product

JULY 14, 2017

Over the last 5-10 years our computer’s ability to understand our voice commands and pictures have made dramatic leaps forward – from barely being able to understand simple commands (or different accents) to comprehending complex commands or questions, the way we interact with computers is changing dramatically. And it’s all down to machine learning.

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Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

JULY 11, 2017

Throughout the years, UX practices have evolved and adapted to the latest technology trends, from the desktop application era, to the web revolution, to the mobile revolution. But now, product and design teams face a new UX challenge, one that might be bigger than all the previous ones combined: the IoT revolution. As this new era of technology continues to […] The post Why It’s So Hard to Create a Good User Experience in IoT first appeared on Daniel Elizalde.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 11, 2017

Software development has become a strategic priority for all companies in today’s digital era. In turn, the product management role has expanded. The product manager of today is wearing many hats, using a broad knowledge base to define the problem-solution-fit, make trade-off decisions, bringing together cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment between diverse functions, while still commanding the respect of engineering.

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Revulytics

JULY 12, 2017

Stack Overflow co-founder Jeff Atwood has noted that he’s “a big fan of developers handling tech support calls for their software, at least a part of the time. It really motivates them to address the pain points users are experiencing, because they become shared pain points.” There is tremendous value in hearing firsthand how your users are engaging with the applications you’ve spent so much time developing, but you also need a scalable and objective way to reveal these insights.

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Let’s establish this right upfront: nothing beats a well-managed full-time in-house team of local developers. So why would you want to outsource anything? Doesn’t outsourcing come with a lot of headaches just for a bit of saving? As with anything complex, it depends. Outsourcing: Why and When? Are there enough skilled developers at your location?

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Roadmunk

JULY 14, 2017

Sending out invites to our first Product & Pizza event felt reminiscent of sending out invites to our first grade school party. We were excited, but nervous, but super optimistic. We had a riveting line-up of panelists: Seema Lakhani from Wattpad , Brandon Chu from Shopify , Christina Perdikoulias from BlueCat Networks and Ali Tawfiq from 500px.

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Andrew Chen

JULY 10, 2017

Readers, As you can tell, I’ve been a bit more active writing in the last few months. I wanted to do a quick roundup of my essays over the last year, in case you’ve missed any of them. I’ve published a number of guest essays and original writing on topics like growth metrics, consumer psych, the startup ecosystem in the Bay Area, push notifications, and much more.

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Revulytics

JULY 11, 2017

Being customer-oriented certainly isn’t a new concept, but it has become more and more important for businesses to succeed today. New ways to build customer engagement is a key area of investment for B2B leaders. Although many functional areas throughout an organization are certainly involved, but marketing is most often seen as the owner and driver of holistic customer engagement projects.

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Mind the Product

JULY 11, 2017

How quickly your definition of “ambitious” can change. Five years ago getting a dog, starting a web company, working on huge projects here at Invoke all would have seemed hugely ambitious to me, but I’ve done them all. Building an effective real-time chat that syncs perfectly between consumers and supports e-commerce would have been ambitious five years ago.

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Roadmunk

JULY 13, 2017

Here’s a word we didn’t expect to hear in a conversation about product velocity: “voodoo.” Although velocity can be considered a hard measure of time, the factors that impact velocity are a lot more mercurial. And during our chat with Yammer product manager Anna Marie Clifton , she made it clear that product delivery is not just a function of a well-oiled dev team.

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TSIA

JULY 14, 2017

This fall, TSIA will be digging deep into the topic of the Art and Science of the Customer Journey at our annual Technology Services World conference in Las Vegas. To introduce this theme, the rest of the TSIA research team and I will be sharing our thoughts on how it relates to our specific area of research, which in my case is expand selling. In this entry, I’ll be sharing a look at the journey from lead to closed deal for new opportunities with existing customers, how this process is di

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 14, 2017

What: Executive Certificate in Productizing Innovation. Where: Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University. When: Six day program on Sept 8-9, Sept 15-16, and Sept. 22-23. Information/Registration. Rich is excited to be an instructor for this new program at Santa Clara/Leavey. It is designed to deliver “next day” skills that participants can put into immediate use, plus data analytics and empirical theory around the product innovation process.

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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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Oren Steinberg

JULY 13, 2017

I always had a hard time asking people for favors. I guess it was a mix of embarrassment of admitting my shortcomings coupled with a strong aversion of owing someone. I always preferred to be the one giving and the one being owed to, rather than knowing that I owe someone and I may forget to pay back…The change started when I read the book Give and Take by Adam Grant.

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ProductBoard

JULY 10, 2017

Anand Subramani shares hard-earned product wisdom At the latest San Francisco Fintech Devs & PMs meetup , Anand Subramani shared some wise words based on years of experience working in product at Dropbox and Zynga, leading up to his current role as Product Lead at Gusto : Subramani’s point is that good ideas can come from anywhere, and it’s up to us as product managers to equip our colleagues to think like PMs.

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TSIA

JULY 13, 2017

While the healthcare technology industry is still relatively strong, we’re seeing many of the same trends crop up that have drastically impacted other industries, mainly enterprise IT and industrial equipment. It all starts with the slowing down of CapEx revenue as new product feature innovations take a backseat to value realization. Suddenly, the business model that was built on high growth rates and high profitability needs to adapt to be in the business of delivering outcomes, not just

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