Roman Pichler
OCTOBER 6, 2020
What is Product Discovery? Product discovery describes the activities required to determine if and why a product should be developed and offered. This increases the chances of creating a product that users actually want and need and achieving product success. Carrying out product discovery involves answering the following questions: What is the specific value the product should create for the users and customers?
Product Management University
OCTOBER 6, 2020
In theory, and I emphasize in theory, the impact of a product led growth model should be very minimal on product management. For product marketing, it pretty much changes everything. What is Product Led Growth? Product led growth is a business model for taking a product-as-a-service (PaaS) or software-as-a-service (SaaS) to market and gaining market share.
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Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 6, 2020
Our work lives are riddled with anxieties. Many of them are natural and fleeting, and we deal with them. One that can haunt people, however, is impostor syndrome. The belief that we are a fraud, doubting our accomplishments and talents. “If you’re anxious about your abilities a lot of the time anyway, you’re 1,000x more so when performance review period comes around” Each year (twice a year in my case), that feeling is amplified considerably by the dreaded performance rev
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 5, 2020
Many teams and organisations jump into build mode too early. Then they build something that customers reject, they miss the mark, or they need extra budget to get it there. When you suggest a Product Discovery as a way to help get better results it gets rejected. This article is a way to answer the question: “Why do Product Discovery?” In its simplest form, the core reason for doing a Product Discovery is to increase your level of certainty that you’re addressing the right problem, for the right
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Mind the Product
OCTOBER 6, 2020
As we’ve got an Ask Me Anything session with Colin Pal coming up soon (October 14th), we’re re-broadcasting this episode from earlier in the year so that you can get to know Colin and prep some questions for him! The AMA is for Prioritised and MTP Leader members so if you’re not a member yet, [.]. Read More. The post Building Products in AsiaPac – Colin Pal and Adrienne Tan on The Product Experience [rebroadcast] appeared first on Mind the Product.
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Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 8, 2020
Freemium’s a great way to acquire lots of customers relatively quickly and easily, but the job of converting them to using a paid product is where the rubber meets the road. And the challenge is a lot harder in an enterprise context, where the buyer and the user aren’t necessarily one and the same person. Many businesses struggle to strike a balance between freemium’s light-touch customer engagement with the more involved enterprise sales process.
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 8, 2020
“adaptable CEOs spent significantly more of their time — as much as 50% — thinking about the long term.” — HBR, ‘What Sets Successful CEOs… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 8, 2020
Pirates metrics have become a popular model for business growth — but what are they and do they actually lead you to that buried treasure? First presented by Dave McClure in his presentation “Startup Metrics for Pirates” in 2007, the AARRR method was originally meant for tracking product marketing and management and focused on acquisition. However, [.].
Amplitude
OCTOBER 4, 2020
At Amplitude, I facilitate lots of workshops. Many of these workshops center around deciding what to measure. This starts, of course, with asking good questions. Good questions help teams focus their measurement/telemetry efforts, and increase the likelihood that what they measure will enable valuable insights. A couple of well chosen events and event properties beat out a firehose of data and/or an autotrack solution any day.
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.
Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 7, 2020
In the not-too-distant past, customer support was seen as a hassle, a cost that had to be borne but which was really just a tax on success. If it wasn’t for those pesky customers with problems, profits would be through the roof, right? There is no escaping the fact that supporting your customers costs money. But with customers expecting faster and more personalized experiences, providing great conversational customer support is no longer optional – it’s essential to business survival. “Sup
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 3, 2020
It’s now been nearly one year I’ve discovered that my family back home had a Spotify Family plan with an empty slot and jumped on it! I’ve been a heavy Soundcloud and Mixcloud user for 10 years and mainly use them at home while listening to DJ mixes. Spotify just replaced my usage on mobile, thanks to their huge catalogue and recommendation system which helps a lot finding new gems ??
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 5, 2020
In this ProductTank London talk, Joe Rinaldi Johnson shares what he’s learned in 10 years of navigating the challenging and highly regulated field of healthcare. He is the Chief Product Officer at Zava, a digital healthcare company offering remote diagnosis and prescriptions. If you, like Joe, feel there is a lack of resources about product management in [.].
Indicative
OCTOBER 8, 2020
Gaming data is one of the most valuable sources of information out there. . With 2.7 billion video gamers around the world — and 16% of U.S. gamers’ weekly leisure time going to playing games as of 2018 — companies are sitting on treasure troves of insight. You need an analytics solution and data strategy that can help make that information useful. .
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.
Amplitude
OCTOBER 4, 2020
At Amplitude, I facilitate lots of workshops. Many of these workshops center around deciding what to measure. This starts, of course, with asking good questions. Good questions help teams focus their measurement/telemetry efforts, and increase the likelihood that what they measure will enable valuable insights. A couple of well chosen events and event properties beat out a firehose of data and/or an autotrack solution any day.
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 3, 2020
It all started a decade ago on a family trip from the US to India. En route, I had a two-day halt at a relative’s house in Abu Dhabi. It was a weekend and I woke up to a lazy Sunday morning. We still had to make the trip to India later in the day. To my surprise, I found everyone in the house busy and getting ready for a day at work. I was unaware until then that the weekend in the Emirates is on Friday and Saturday.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 7, 2020
In this MTP Leader panel discussion, leaders Adaora Asala, Jen Taylor, and Jeremy Toeman joined Emily Tate to discuss empowered teams and decision agility. They cover how and where leaders should get involved in decisions, the struggles all leaders have in letting go of decisions as we move into leadership roles, and what our roles [.]. Read More. The post Empowered Teams and Decision Agility appeared first on Mind the Product.
First Round Review
OCTOBER 6, 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 drive consumer startup growth, offering a detailed framework and set of case studies for accelerating in each lane.
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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.
Mironov Consulting
OCTOBER 7, 2020
I talk with lots of executives from the go-to-market side of the house who think that building serious software is as easy – and easily estimatable – as building a fence. Would that it were so. One destructive side effect of this misunderstanding can be repeatedly changing the #1 top priority part-way through development, before there’s much to show the world but after spending significant discovery/design/architecture/development time on the previous #1 top priority.
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 9, 2020
Dependencies are an epidemic in software development. Rate your org and learn how to evolve from Level 1-to Level 5. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 6, 2020
Product management is a field that continues to evolve from the early days of desktop software to where we are currently. Many companies like Pragmatic, 280 Group offer product management training and even certification. They do a great job in laying out fundamentals like personas, understanding your customer, market problems, requirements and so on.
Johanna Rothman
OCTOBER 8, 2020
Back in Part 1 , I wrote about how stage-gate approaches were as agile as we could use at the time. We had one delivery, so our agility was about canceling the project if we couldn't finish it. However, some smart people also realized that we had another lever, aside from estimation, to replan the project. We could get feedback on prototypes—from the customer.
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.
ProductPlan
OCTOBER 7, 2020
Roadmaps are a unique tool for creating and maintaining stakeholder alignment, resource planning, and budgeting purposes. But what happens when you’re managing a product that is being continually updated? This is the situation for countless SaaS product management professionals lucky enough to manage products via this model. When the only things standing between you and your customers seeing an update is deciding to push code to production, things can get fast and furious in a hurry.
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 5, 2020
Building great products is hard. It’s even harder when product managers and engineers are bogged down with work that distracts them from their highest leverage activities of identifying problems and building products people want to use to solve those problems. To unburden their teams, companies like Facebook, Google, and others have turned to product operations, whose job is to help product teams achieve better outcomes.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 9, 2020
As someone once said, technology companies are quick to focus on what they can do, but not so quick to examine “the how they do it”. Predictive technology may be speeding up digital transformation and be an integral part of our digital lives, but it comes with implications for data privacy and the potential to [.]. Read More. The post Predictive Tech and Data Ethics: Part 1 – the Pros and Cons appeared first on Mind the Product.
Johanna Rothman
OCTOBER 6, 2020
Are you trying to make an agile framework or approach work? Maybe you have technical or schedule risk. Maybe you've received a mandate to “go agile.” Maybe you'd like to experiment with better ways of working. Or, maybe you're trying to fit an agile framework into your current processes—and you've got a mess. You're not getting the results you want.
Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee
As a concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry. It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. As product managers, we need to understand how a good DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction.
AB Tasty
OCTOBER 8, 2020
You use WordPress, and you want to attract visitors and convert them into leads and customers. One of the big advantages of WordPress is the large variety of templates that you can use for your landing pages. Check out our selection. This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as 10 Best WordPress Landing Page Templates.
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 6, 2020
People today consume content through more channels than ever before, and they’re also using media channels to talk about the TV shows and movies they watch. And when they’re talking about these shows, sharing their favorite moments, quotes, reactions, opinions, and creating content for fellow fans to respond to?—?a lot of feelings are being shared and exchanged.
PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview
OCTOBER 7, 2020
This is a guest post from Alexis and Adrienne's Product Managers at Work. I know people who are really good at strategic thinking. One of my friends can instantly take a problem that at first appears intractable, like “How would you drive down the cost of Tesla’s autopilot system to increase profit?” and then instantly break the question down, identify the most important levers, and separate signal from noise to drill down at an airtight strategic plan.
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