Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Product/Market fit Cannot be Planned. 72 percent of innovative software projects are not successful. Chaos Report 2015. In the end it is almost always about finding product/market fit. You want to build a solution that matches your business goals with customer needs. Reduce the Costs of Failure. Reachability.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

Many local and international design thinking companies offer similar services. As a product design consulting firm , we often get questions from our clients who look for reliable design, development, or marketing partners. On a call, we will discuss your challenges and motivations to craft a customized solution for your organization.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Do we have any smart solutions available? It is a cost-effective and real-world multi-platform testing approach. Industries are being disrupted by digital technologies today. Mobile apps, gaming software and new software product launches are front runners in crowdtesting. But, that’s not feasible, right?

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Mixpanel

MAY 26, 2020

For today’s post, we spoke with Rohit Gossain , who has held multiple product management and data science roles over the last decade with technology companies such as Shutterfly, OpenTable, Adobe, and Expedia Group. . Rohit Gossain: I started off my career in 2010 as a technical analyst working with a product manager.

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

BrainStation offers Online Live Certificate Courses in data, design, development, marketing, and product management. Speak to a Learning Advisor. Self-styled ‘visionary’ Product Managers are dangerous – which is why I advise against hiring PM candidates who fire off (Steve Jobs) quotes during job interviews.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

Challenge definition A challenge could be responding to customer feedback, introducing a proposition, or overcoming a technical problem. Exploration The first step after identifying the problem is to explore what solutions are available: What is already available in the market, and what is the product market fit?

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Mixpanel

MAY 26, 2020

For today’s post, we spoke with Rohit Gossain , who has held multiple product management and data science roles over the last decade with technology companies such as Shutterfly, OpenTable, Adobe, and Expedia Group. . Rohit Gossain: I started off my career in 2010 as a technical analyst working with a product manager.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. It’s seldom their ability to do the job technically?—?to interpersonal, emotional intelligence, etc?—?that

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo. Technical experience is not required. This is exactly what our tools do.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 4, 2022

As we found in our research for ProductPlan’s 2022 State of the Product Report , only 25% of businesses with 20 to 100 employees have a product operations role or team. Unfortunately, we can’t advise you on specifics here. Examples might include: Business intelligence tools. Project management tools.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Others were consultative, or they advised about technical needs. There were even some hired as administrators of the new CS or CRM platform. From Data and Processes to People and Systems, their responsibilities mirrored Sales Operations, step by step. Some may report to the Sales VP.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

One is competency in the processes, practices, and tools of product management. It is this sphere that many people find more difficult to master, especially those of us from technical backgrounds. Product managers are the nexus in companies because they work at the intersection of many functions from engineering to marketing.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

TalkTalk was fined £400,000 in 2016 for failing to have appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to secure its customers’ personal data, and for keeping their personal data for longer than necessary. I imagine many of you get more than 5,000 people signing up and using your service each year.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 31, 2020

It is a stationary bike system built with a large screen at the front, enabling users to live stream or follow on-demand workouts at home. working on radar systems. In a recent webinar with Denise Stokowski, Group VP of Platform Products at Gainsight , Amy shared that she identified that she wanted to be more involved with people.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 9, 2020

Software development is one of the few highly skilled occupations that doesn’t require any professional certification. Course Report’s Top Schools of 2019-2020. Course Report has followed the coding bootcamp industry since 2013. Focus Areas: Software Engineering, Data science, UX/UI Design and Cybersecurity.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

Clearly, companies are seeing the value in hiring product gurus who can oversee and guide a product’s life development from ideation to market, all while efficiently managing teams of drastically diverse backgrounds and developing a sound distribution plan. Speak to a Learning Advisor. Do Some Soul-Searching.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

Clearly, companies are seeing the value in hiring product gurus who can oversee and guide a product’s life development from ideation to market, all while efficiently managing teams of drastically diverse backgrounds and developing a sound distribution plan. It’s easy to teach factual information and tools,” Bavaro said. “On

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 10, 2017

While there are a large number of tools which claim to help you to create value, for me, quite frankly, it boils down to only a few secret weapons which do not (most of the time) involve buying fancy software or subscribing to the latest project management doodads. Templates to Report Issues. Are you flooded by a ton of issues?

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Can you afford local market rates? This means any kinds of integrations, small side projects, large new feature sets or separate micro services. If you want your local and remote teams to work together closely on the same parts of the system, then you should put some more effort into structuring your development process.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Is your customer success platform up to scratch for 2022? If your customer engagement levels are not where they need to be, maybe it’s time to look at the customer success software you’re using again? When choosing customer success software, consider: (i) ease of adoption, (ii) is it no-code?, (iii)

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

Your company will rely on you to be the most knowledgeable about your product so never take your eye off the market and establish an objective framework to guide your decisions. The book starts with Sean agreeing to be the first product manager at Alpha Technology Ventures. Take Charge Product Management by Greg Geracie.

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Userzoom

AUGUST 24, 2017

Executives, Marketers, Designers, and Product Managers all want to make an informed decision and manage risk intelligently. It’s no wonder, then, that the number of research studies on the UserZoom platform are doubling every eighteen months (new Moore’s Law). We live in a fast-moving world where everyone has questions.

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Userzoom

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Technically there are an infinite number of ways you could attempt to recruit participants for your user research. However, it is advised to proceed with caution because sometimes response quality can be a tad questionable when you’re blasting out emails to relative strangers (remember – screeners are your friends).

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 18, 2024

  Out of scope means they can advise, counsel, suggest, offer to help… but don’t own the decision/action.  Let’s imagine a Director of Product responsible for a portfolio, with 5 product manager direct reports matched to 5 stable maker teams.    With lots of gray space between the two.

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

Which means at some point, every product must reassess its position in the market – and the strategic decisions that underpin it – to decide whether to evolve and adapt to new emerging market trends, or to ignore them. It is extremely difficult (and probably not advisable) to attempt to stay on top of all trends.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Our State of SaaS Onboarding report for 2021 found that 96% of SaaS businesses are using at least 1 in-app onboarding element. This suggests that the market as a whole is increasingly aware of the value of onboarding. The more your new customers activate, the better the job your product marketing team is doing on onboarding.

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All About Product Management

MAY 13, 2008

Here’s a report on the journey, progress, issues encountered and experiences to date. All this resulted in Product Managers being more reactive to situation as opposed to being proactive in delivering new products to market and improving on developing the feature set of their current product portfolio.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 19, 2021

” Then it goes all the way up to, “You should arrange cross-functional things with sales, marketing support, and legal,” and then before you know it, you’re sitting in annual planning FY24. Every team has their own TPS reports and all that sort of stuff. What are you talking to me for?”

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eG Innovations

JULY 21, 2022

Recently, we hosted a great joint webinar with the team from AVD TechFest to present the results of a survey we conducted jointly to assess real-world Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) usage and industry and customer sentiments towards the AVD technologies. Where can I get technical details of real AVD deployments at scale?

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

For instance, in large companies like Google and Facebook, product managers collaborate with dedicated researchers, analysts, and marketers who assist them in different stages of the product lifecycle. Conduct market and competitive research. Work with marketing and sales. Monitor market trends and feedback.

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eG Innovations

AUGUST 11, 2022

Citrix monitoring refers to the ability to monitor Citrix services end-to-end. It includes the ability to monitor user experience – from logon time to application launch time to screen refresh latency so administrators can easily monitor and track if they are meeting their service levels (SLAs). 1 About Citrix Monitoring Tools.

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Prior to this position, Neil was VP of Engineering, after working as a Software Engineer and leading Infrastructure Engineering. He was the Director of Product at Slack, focused on growth in the freemium, self-service business. He advised companies like Tinder, Hipcamp, Reddit, Canva, and Pocket. Incompatibility. Tech costs.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

Finally, the term Development Team seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers. However, in my experience, given proper support by the Scrum Master, even lawyers and marketers can get comfortable with the designation “developer” when utilizing Scrum for their purposes. Team leads?

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This will change the way that a lot of people think about product market fit, BS metrics, understanding the needs of the people that really matter. Jared Spool’s excoriation of the use of NPS by marketing departments had struck a chord earlier in the week. So I’m going to talk about Product-Market Fit. Transcript.

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Amplitude

JUNE 8, 2017

I had become pretty active as a mentor and advisor to various startups and really enjoyed it! Social Capital’s work consists of helping solve the world’s largest problems which it does by investing in technology in sectors such as healthcare and education, and companies both within and outside of the United States.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

He’s also co-founded Color Genomics and invested in and been an adviser to companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Instacart, Square, Stripe and more. I stuck around for another year as an advisor, so I really saw extreme growth in both of those cases. So don’t worry about it.”. There are trade-offs. Do you have a COO or not?

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