First Round Review
OCTOBER 20, 2020
Top startup leaders shared their favorite thought-provoking questions for candidates to ask during an interview to stand out from the crowd and gain in-depth knowledge about the company, the team, and the role.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 20, 2020
As a product leader, you’ve likely been in this situation. The sales team needs one specific feature to close a new opportunity with a large new prospect. Your gut instinct tells you that you’ve done right through customer interviews and competitor research. You have a solid roadmap to execute, and you wonder if maybe the [.]. Read More. The post Negotiating with Sales: A Guide for Product Managers appeared first on Mind the Product.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 19, 2020
Product lessons from a meditation app Photo by Le Minh Phuong on Unsplash edited on Photolab.me I was recently reading my post on how to design user registration flows. A couple of thoughts occurred to me. I will illustrate them through using an example. My employer partnered with a meditation app to offer employees a premium subscription for free for a limited period.
Alchemer Mobile
OCTOBER 22, 2020
If you’re in digital product management, 2020 has been a roller coaster. Going back to basics to find inspiration has been one way expert product managers adjusted their strategies to meet rapidly-shifting consumer needs. Solving problems quickly, efficiently, and with customer needs as the north star separated the great brands from the good ones in a year that has completely changed the way we digitally engage with brands we love.
Advertisement
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.
Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 20, 2020
One of our core values at Intercom is “We love people who genuinely want to learn and grow.”. Of course, celebrating and encouraging a growth mindset is all good and well, but how do we put in place structures and processes that actually encourage career growth? In the Engineering org, we’ve thought deeply about how to foster long-term growth opportunities for people.
Product Management Today brings together the best content for product management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 19, 2020
Photo by Matt Noble on Unsplash In the 1990s and 2000s, Blockbuster was the nation’s top video rental company, with over 8,000 stores across the globe. By 2010, the company had shuttered all of its stores (except this one you can rent on airbnb). What went wrong? How did Blockbuster go belly up in less than a decade? Blockbuster failed to see (or ignored) the forces shaping its industry and was overtaken by a more innovative challenger (Netflix).
Product Management University
OCTOBER 21, 2020
The whole point of creating a sales playbook is to give your sales team “situational sales tools” that make them highly effective in every part of the sales process. The end game is a shorter sales process where you’re the clear choice. Here are five staples that should make the shortlist in every sales playbook. The Playbook: 1. The Product Overview. “Can you give me an overview of your products/services?
Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 22, 2020
Today, numerous studies echo this sentiment: a recent report from Forrester found that brands with a superior customer experience bring in 5.7 times more revenue than their competitors. And a recent study from Deloitte found that two-thirds of customers will switch brands entirely due to a poor customer experience. Customer expectations are higher than ever, and this acts as a forcing function, inspiring companies to think about their customers’ entire journey from acquisition to onboardin
Indicative
OCTOBER 23, 2020
Every company, of every size — even organizations of just one person — are navigating a data avalanche problem. There’s more information on hand than organizations know how to use or manage. Every team — from product to marketing, and IT to engineering — is generating data. A strong analytics stack is foundational to being able to make sense of it all.
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.
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 19, 2020
The rift between traditional learning and online learning continues to grow as technology makes inroads in our daily lives. The corona virus pandemic has forced learners across industries to take to online learning, with schools and universities being shut down for the foreseeable future. The advantages of online learning are many; that said, the jury is out on which learning process emerges as the victor in the online training vs traditional training battle.
Product Management University
OCTOBER 20, 2020
The B2B Product Manager October 2020. The product led growth model is gaining tremendous momentum. This month we look at the impact on product management and product marketing. It’s big, or maybe that’s just the way it should have always been. As most companies deal with leaner sales pipelines, your product demos are even more critical to making the shortlist.
Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 21, 2020
Maya Angelou, the poet and civil rights activist, said it best: “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”. That’s a universal truth, but one businesses forget about at their peril. The feelings customers take away from an experience with your company are far more important than any “response time” metric.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 23, 2020
Back in 2016, I was working with the product organization of a larger tech company. They asked me to help every product manager on the team “understand the role of the product manager better,” and to help the product managers understand what “better” would actually look like. This was not an easy challenge and, although [.]. Read More. The post The PMwheel – a Compass for the Product Manager Development Journey appeared first on Mind the Product.
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.
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 17, 2020
Big Tech CEOs testify before a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust Law, July 29, 2020. We’re in the midst of a global ‘techlash’, with the tide of popular opinion turning on the darlings of Silicon Valley?—? in the US 60% of consumers now support more government regulation. Congress just released a damning 449 page antitrust report looking at the monopolistic practices of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.
First Round Review
OCTOBER 20, 2020
In Dan Hockenmaier's and Lenny Rachitsky's experience, founders are often surprised to learn that there are very few routes to scalable new customer acquisition. Here, this duo unpacks the three ways to drive consumer startup growth, offering a detailed framework and set of case studies for accelerating in each lane.
Product Innovation Educators
OCTOBER 19, 2020
How product managers can create product names that make people smile. Not many product managers get involved in naming products, and that is a mistake. If you were involved during the initial idea work and problem solving—creating a product concept that fulfills customers’ unmet needs—then you have valuable insights for the product name. You can be a great brainstorming resource to help Marketing or a naming consulting. .
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 22, 2020
Performance reviews, evaluations, or appraisals are awful, and we need more of them. it’s time to recognize the need for Product teams to evaluate themselves based on the performance reviews of their products. This is meant to establish the mindset that in order to evaluate a Product Manager’s and Product Team’s performance it’s not about [.]. Read More.
Advertisement
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.
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 21, 2020
Symmetrical landing page structures which popular web-building tools offer may not always deliver the conversion you expect if you do not understand the mechanisms behind them. Photo by ?? ?? on Unsplash Background Try recalling your recent visits to landing pages which are trying to sell you something. Chances are, your mind would register a rather common page structure where you would see an impressive “hero image” and a slew of sales-centric information before a final “call-to-action” button
Gainsight
OCTOBER 22, 2020
1. Tell us a bit about yourself and what your role is at Gainsight. I’m responsible for Product Management and Technical Communications. As one team, we provide relevant guidance to users when they need it, whether it is through documentation or inside the product. With a finance background, I am focused on developing our Revenue Optimization solutions, which connects Customer Success to revenue. . 2.
ProductBoard
OCTOBER 21, 2020
We are delighted to announce new additions to our product, customer base, and leadership team, as well as a refresh of our brand! This week, we are hosting our 2020 Product Excellence Summit – a virtual event featuring a panel of product thought leaders and a global audience of 3000+ product professionals. Besides kicking off the very first conference in Productboard history, we have some other.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 21, 2020
“People are hard.” That’s what Mind the Product co-founder Janna Bastow said in her keynote speech at #mtpcon in 2017. As product managers, we have to deal with demanding, unreasonable people who hold us to unrealistic standards and want everything delivered yesterday – and as a parent, you have to deal with stakeholders and team members [.].
Advertisement
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.
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 18, 2020
A good product strategy helps you to acquire happy customers and retain them over time. On your way there, there are many potential weak links that can prevent it from happening. Here is how product strategy helps you overcome them. Photo by Braden Collum on Unsplash Working on product strategy is an iterative process. In the beginning, you reveal the bigger things that need to change in your current strategy (for example, some companies I work with understand that they need to solve a differen
Strategyzer
OCTOBER 18, 2020
In a recent workshop we hosted with close to 100 participants, we asked participants “what organisational problems, obstacles, and risks are preventing you from successfully testing business ideas”? One of the biggest pains iterated by most participants was the lack of time. Most corporate innovation teams we work with are often from multiple disciplines, building and testing an idea on top of their existing workload.
ProductBoard
OCTOBER 21, 2020
I founded Productboard five years ago with a simple mission: to help companies build products that matter, together. Five years may not seem like much, but in the hyper-growth world of startups, it’s a long time. In those five years, we’ve grown from a tiny startup with a handful of people to an established, globally recognized company. Earlier this year, we closed our $45 million Series B.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 20, 2020
“People are hard.” That’s what Mind the Product co-founder Janna Bastow said in her keynote speech at #mtpcon in 2017. As product managers, we have to deal with demanding, unreasonable people who hold us to unrealistic standards and want everything delivered yesterday – and as a parent, you have to deal with stakeholders and team members [.].
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.
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 20, 2020
Photo by Emily Morter on Unsplash I recently came across this article on “ Eigenquestions ” which speaks about the idea of identifying the most important question when looking to make a decision or taking on an initiative (“the question where, if answered, it likely answers the subsequent questions as well”). This got me thinking about ways to frame questions that can help busy PMs quickly get to the root of the matter.
Mixpanel
OCTOBER 20, 2020
This post is written by TWG, a product consultancy specializing in modern application development , data engineering, and product growth. Since 2002, they have helped both scale-ups and large enterprises achieve their conversion, engagement, and retention goals. Simply put, data is at the core of good product management. But making the most of the data that organizations collect is a process that’s often hindered by unnecessary complexity.
ProductBoard
OCTOBER 22, 2020
Easy to use roadmapping, dynamic customer segmentation, and enhanced integrations, including Salesforce, to improve productivity and accelerate innovation. Every product team aspires to build excellent products that fulfill customers’ needs, regardless of industry, use case, or company size. Yet too often, product teams are stuck managing manual processes for analyzing and cataloging customer.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
145 
Let's personalize your content