Mind the Product

MARCH 17, 2022

In this post, we will look at the vast concepts of behavioural engineering to help you design better products. [.] Read more » The post How behavioral engineering helps to build better products appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2022

This is especially true for product strategy. It’s impossible to create a winning product strategy without asking basic questions.?—?why, why, what, how, when, and who- and the more complex questions, for example, “What’s the user acquisition strategy?”. Ensure you understand the company’s strategy and objectives.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Eight Core Elements of a Winning Product Strategy “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”?—?Michael After what seemed like months of work, our product was emerging from stealth mode. No choices = no product strategy. The series of choices following a framework = the product strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products. I’m an engineer and I think like an engineer, so I’m looking for frameworks and patterns. I already mentioned the product vision.

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bpma ProductHub

OCTOBER 5, 2018

By Mark Littlewood – Business of Software hosted Marty Cagan, founder of Silicon Valley Product Group earlier this year in London for a talk based around the new edition of his book, Inspired: How to Make Tech Products Customers Love. He made six primary points on making better use of engineering teams.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

As I’ll explain below, the “why” and “where” form your product vision, and your product team (especially your engineers), not only want this from you, but need it in order to do their best work. What is “Product Vision”? Your product vision ultimately answers the questions “why are we building this?” Write code.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In this series, I look at what I wish I had known when I started as Head of Product… Summary Understanding strategy allows you to effectively delegate, motivate and align so you can move from a nice boss to an effective leader. There’s no separate ‘product strategy’ from company strategy?—?strategy

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

Instead, they hand off work from team to team—the back-end engineers design the data model and system architecture, the front-end engineers build the interface elements, the mobile engineers work toward feature parity, etc. These teams can rarely deliver value on their own.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

When I started my career as an engineer, I didn’t set my sights on becoming a product manager. Flash forward fifteen years later, and I’m the Director of Product Management at HG Insights. My Journey Transitioning from Engineering to Product Management. 4 Key Differences in Skills Engineer to Product Manager.

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Sachin Rekhi

JULY 16, 2022

Video: Product Strategy, Systems, and Frameworks with Sachin Rekhi. Slides: LinkedIn Learning: Product Strategy, Systems, and Frameworks. I was recently invited to speak as part of the Product Management Learning Series hosted by LinkedIn Learning. We covered a variety of my favorite product frameworks.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 19, 2023

Product managers focus on the market segments or target customers that are most conducive to their organization’s strategic goals rather than doing it for each product. When customers in named market segments are the focus, it’s easier to prioritize engineering resources and direct marketing, sales, and customer success teams.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

5 Steps to Product Strategy. As product management evolves into a critical strategic function in organisations, its effectiveness in driving both customer and business value will increasingly depend on – and be influenced by – people outside the product team. This is where a well-defined product strategy comes in handy.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 19, 2019

Done right, it fuels a virtuous cycle of benefits that’ll empower everyone from the executive team all the way to each individual contributor responsible for building the products — whether Engineers, Designers or Product Managers.

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Product Warrior

DECEMBER 7, 2022

This is the introduction to my 10-part series to help you execute and continuously improve your product strategy. After explaining to board members we could not acquire the Internet, I quickly learned to execute product strategy fast. We must focus on learning velocity and continuous improvement.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder).

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

How do you create confidence in your product strategy with those that approve investment i.e. c-suite or board members? Unfortunately, without anything better, many product leaders rely on the product roadmap to demonstrate their strategy. This is often referred to as empowered product development teams.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

How do you create confidence in your product strategy with those that approve investment i.e. c-suite or board members? Unfortunately, without anything better, many product leaders rely on the product roadmap to demonstrate their strategy. This is often referred to as empowered product development teams.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 10, 2020

The product growth engine provides a framework for getting up the adoption curve. Join us at MTP Engage Manchester on 6-7th February for two days of amazing insight from epic speakers, deep-dive workshops, and the opportunity to meet your product community! As humans, we are biased towards change. A path up the adoption curve.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 9, 2023

powered Bing search engine. And product management is not immune to this new era of artificial intelligence. Our engineer demoed the prototype of the ChatGPT functionality for the research and development team during a recent all-hands meeting. Well, it worked!

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The Product Coalition

MAY 10, 2023

By tracking this metric, you can evaluate the effectiveness of your user acquisition strategies and identify opportunities to increase new user acquisition. Traffic Sources (Organic, Referral, Paid) — This metric measures the sources of traffic to the website, such as search engines, social media, and advertisements.

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ProductBoard

APRIL 18, 2023

Today, we’re excited to kick off a new interview series on the Productboard blog, delving into the lesser-known aspects of product strategies from top software companies. Our CEO, Hubert Palán, shares a few thoughts on the inspiration behind the series below.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 21, 2019

This may be particularly amplified for those who find themselves in Product roles at companies that still operate in the more traditional ‘Business Analyst/Software Engineer’ paradigm, where ‘requirements’ are cold-bloodily handed from one business unit to another. You’ve guessed it; the Software Engineers.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Jonathan Berg Director of Product Management, Schoology.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 26, 2021

Are you thinking of becoming an engineering manager? That's why we wrote this article; to help candidates work through their process of writing an engineering manager's resume to impress all the hiring managers who see it. How Do Engineering Managers Define Their Role? They also represent engineering cross-functionally.

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280 Group

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Then, when the switch is flipped for the release, it’s as if mad DevOps engineers, their cries echoing into the boiling sky, proclaim with maniacal glee: “It’s alive! ” Escape from the Feature Factory Picture a Feature Factory, a term cleverly coined by the esteemed product guru John Cutler.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2023

However, I’ve learned that cutting corners early in product strategy development leads to significant hurdles later on. However, involving the design team from the outset will help you avoid common pitfalls and streamline product development. Design is strategy mixed with art and execution. Telling stories visually.

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Mixpanel

MAY 20, 2020

Do you ever feel, as a product leader, that you’re unpopular in your company? Having worked with many product leaders over the past 20 years, I’ve repeatedly heard that balancing the needs of users, engineering teams and the business—all while building a successful product function that drives innovation—is tough.

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280 Group

MARCH 2, 2021

The two groups your Product Managers are likely to work with most closely are your engineering/development and sales and marketing teams… Cue the role confusion. Engineering/Development teams. The Product Marketing Manager owns “outbound” communication – messages to the market that drive motivation to acquire the product.

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. As a product person, and the VP of Product at Yesware , I’ve never come to fully embrace the discussion of what each team would deliver, in what sequence and within a long timeframe. This drives greater ownership and accountability.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 23, 2019

What do you do if your engineering capacity is reduced by 30% each year? In this ProductTank Toronto talk, two members from the team at Points , Mihnea Galeteanu – Head of Product and Jane Helman – Head of Scrum, explain their coping strategy. The post Dude Who Stole My Engineering Capacity?

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280 Group

APRIL 19, 2021

We hear from many Product Managers that they are “required” by Engineering to write detailed, solution-oriented requirements. This is a classic pitfall in the product management profession, but let us explain why there’s a better way. Your Job—Empower Your Product Team to be Customer-Centric. Writing Winning Requirements.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2019

Here's a breakdown of how to consider a career in product management versus software engineering As a new grad, I was lucky enough to choose between product management and software engineering amongst other options. As an engineer, you’re responsible for building and shipping software. What do you do everyday?

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280 Group

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

To learn about this topic more in-depth, join our upcoming webinar on Thursday, February 18th, 2021: Fueling Your Product Strategy with Qualitative Research. Because interpreting qualitative data is time-consuming and subjective it is often underutilized or left behind altogether when building product strategy.

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Product Management University

APRIL 8, 2024

Short of corporate strategy roles, it’s not! When product management possesses comprehensive knowledge of the market, it benefits design, engineering, marketing sales and customer experience teams because that knowledge is baked into every aspect of creating products/features, taking them to market and getting customers to use them.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2019

Here's a breakdown of how to consider a career in product management versus software engineering As a new grad, I was lucky enough to choose between product management and software engineering. You are ultimately accountable for the product's success or failure. The first is the strategy component.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Eric Wang, a recently hired software engineer on our product engineering team, shares what it’s like to onboard with Amplitude’s engineering department. I’m a software engineer on the product engineering team. Learn more about the Engineering team at Amplitude. What do you do at Amplitude?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 13, 2024

I loved that stepping into ProductWorld’s Developer Week 2024 in San Francisco a few weeks ago reminded me of the other side of the product development experience. I came out of Developer Week with three key takeaways about how we can work together in their quests to design, build, test, and ultimately ship great products.

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