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Opportunity Solution Trees: Visualize Your Discovery to Stay Aligned and Drive Outcomes

Product Talk

Opportunity solution trees help product teams chart the best path to their desired outcome. They keep the team aligned as they manage the messy cycles of continuous discovery. Opportunity solution trees help product teams chart the best path to their desired outcome. – Tweet This In this article, we’ll cover what an opportunity solution tree is, the benefits of using one, how to create one, and so much more.

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Product Strategy and Product Discovery

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] What is Product Discovery? Product discovery is the process of “figuring out a solution to a problem we’ve been asked to solve,” writes Marty Cagan. [1] It involves understanding and selecting user needs, exploring solutions, and choosing the most appropriate one. Let’s make this more concrete by looking at a popular product discovery tool, Teresa Torres’ Opportunity Solution Tree (OTS). [2] Before I proceed, let me point out that I am neither

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Navigating the Intersection of SAFe and Product Management: Finding Harmony in Complexity

280 Group

In the dynamic world of agile development, the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Product Management stand as key players, each with its own set of principles and practices. While both are committed to delivering value to customers and responding to market needs, the intersection of these frameworks can be both a source of collaboration and a breeding ground for challenges.

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Strategic alignment in product – Martin Eriksson (Product Partner, EQT, Mind the Product)

Mind the Product

Join us for an insightful conversation with Martin Eriksson, EQT Product Partner and Co-founder of Mind the Product. Martin unveils The Decision Stack, a model to empower product teams in making more effective decisions. We dissect the five steps of this model, demonstrating the power of a defined vision, cohesive strategy, and an understanding of objectives, opportunities, and principles.

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Use Cases for Apache Cassandra®

There’s a good reason why Apache Cassandra® is quickly becoming the NoSQL database of choice for organizations of all stripes. In this white paper, discover the key use cases that make Cassandra® such a compelling open source software – and learn the important pitfalls to avoid. From understanding its distributed architecture to unlocking its incredible power for industries like healthcare, finance, retail and more, experience how Cassandra® can transform your entire data operations.

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The Simple Way To Marry Company Strategy and Product Strategy

Product Management University

Here’s the easiest way to marry company strategy and product strategy. The first order of business is to make a clear distinction between your company’s financial goals and strategic goals. They’re often conflated. Financial goals are just that. While meeting those goals is critical to your organization’s success, financial goals themselves aren’t the same as strategic goals.

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466: Use the 4 leadership motions to be more effective – with Janice Fraser

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can navigate leadership challenges Today we are talking about four leadership motions that enable increased organizational effectiveness and productivity and alleviate organizational friction, waste, and indecision. The motions reflect a need for leadership change as organizations struggle for higher performance while supporting employees.

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Navigating the Product Manager Role: Salaries and Career Advancement

280 Group

In the dynamic realm of technology and business, Product Managers continue to play a pivotal role, guiding organizations through an ever-evolving landscape. As we usher in the year 2024, the role of a Product Manager remains indispensable. This comprehensive blog post will delve into the current state of Product Manager salaries in 2023, shedding light on the evolving demands of this profession and providing valuable insights for aspiring Product Managers on how to excel in their careers.

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Reaching 1 million customers with Theodore Sotiriou (CPO, Mishipay)

Mind the Product

At Web Summit 2023, we caught up with Theodore Sotiriou, Chief Product Officer at Mishipay, who shared his journey into the world of product and his experiences with reaching the 1 million customers milestone. Read more » The post Reaching 1 million customers with Theodore Sotiriou (CPO, Mishipay) appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Product Demos: How to Sell Solutions Versus Products

Product Management University

Here’s a simple three-step approach for your product demos that will help you sell solutions versus products. It’ll make differentiation easier and improve your sales win rates. In many cases, the product silos that exist within product management become transparent to buyers during the sales cycle, creating the perception you’ve got a bunch of fragmented products instead of integrated solutions.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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The age of AI-based Copilots has arrived?—?but does this mean for the future?

The Product Coalition

With thousands of tech companies rushing to adopt or integrate AI, we’re finally seeing AI-enabled products such as “Copilots” entering… Continue reading on Product Coalition »

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Customer Experience Management vs Customer Relationship Management

Userpilot

Customer experience management vs customer relationship management? Both are important for affecting your customers, but what exactly are they, and how do they differ? Read on to find out their key differences and how they work together to help grow your product. TL;DR CEM focuses on the entire user journey with a brand, addressing needs and expectations at all touchpoints.

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Unlocking Success: A Comprehensive Guide to Product Manager Salaries in 2024

280 Group

In the dynamic realm of technology and business, Product Managers continue to play a pivotal role, guiding organizations through an ever-evolving landscape. As we usher in the year 202 4 , the role of a Product Manager remains indispensable. This comprehensive blog post will delve into the current state of Product Manager salaries in December of 2023, shedding light on the evolving demands of this profession and providing valuable insights for aspiring Product Managers on how to excel in their c

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Top product management reads in November

Mind the Product

From questions about how technical a product manager should be, or how to manage your career or how to master cross-disciplinary collaboration, here’s a look through our most-read posts in November. Read more » The post Top product management reads in November appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How to Deliver a Modern Data Experience Your Customers Will Love

In embedded analytics, keeping up with the pace of innovation is challenging. Download Qrvey's guide to ensure your analytics keep pace so you can solve your user's biggest challenges, delight them, and set your product apart from the competition. The guide outlines how to use embedded analytics to: Increase user satisfaction Go to market faster Create additional opportunities to monetize your product It also shares what to look for to ensure your embedded analytics are keeping up with the lates

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Feature Scoring in Product Development: When to Do It and Why

Gocious Blog

Choosing between two great options is a struggle for anyone. When faced with the decision, there can be a feeling of loss for the choices not selected. When it comes to ideas and group discussion, it can even feel personal. The more options thrown into the mix, the more challenging the decisions become.

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Understand How A Business Works and Makes Money

The Product Coalition

The best product managers are business managers. I hosted an event recently where a panel of experienced product management professionals discussed the state of product management. One of the topics that surfaced as part of the discussion is that the best product managers are business managers. Product managers can only be great by understanding how a business works and makes money.

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Web Designer vs UX Designer: Main Differences

Userpilot

In the dynamic world of digital design, the roles of the web designer vs UX designer stand out as pivotal contributors to the online landscape. Despite the similarities in title, these are very different roles. This article explores the roles and responsibilities of the web designer and the UX designer. It further explores their similarities and differences, helping you to decide which one you need for any given task.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Product Manager Salaries in 2024

280 Group

In the dynamic world of agile development, the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Product Management stand as key players, each with its own set of principles and practices. While both are committed to delivering value to customers and responding to market needs, the intersection of these frameworks can be both a source of collaboration and a breeding ground for challenges.

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From Whims to Wins: How a Customer-Centric Portfolio Transforms Product Strategy

Speaker: John Mansour - President, Product Management University

You know that sinking feeling. You’ve come up with a winning product strategy, everyone’s on board and energized, and you’re halfway down the path to execution only to have it submarined by something someone convinced your leadership was more strategic! It’s a scenario that’s all too familiar, and it exemplifies one of the biggest struggles with individual product strategies.

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10x Product X Design: Product and research team collaboration by Jane Austin

Mind the Product

In this great keynote at #mtpcon London 2023, Jane Austin, Chief Product Officer at Juniver, offers some ways to get product and design teams working together better. Watch the video in full, or read on for highlights from her talk. Read more » The post 10x Product X Design: Product and research team collaboration by Jane Austin appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How Subway’s Product Managers Are Going To Come Back

The Accidental Product Manager

Subway product managers have to come up with a comeback plan Image Credit: Mike Mozart I’m pretty sure that even if you didn’t know it, there are more Subway sandwich restaurants out there than there are McDonald’s restaurants. With the chain being that large, you would expect that they must be doing quite well. In the past that has been the story.

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The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2?—?Rounds A, B, and Later)

The Product Coalition

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. At some point, the results you expected and even produced in the past aren’t replicating. You add features, you replace salespeople, but it doesn’t help. You blame the market, but often that’s just overlooking the real problem.

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Product Dogfooding in Software Development: A Quick Guide (+Best Practices)

Userpilot

Dogfooding means eating your own dog food. Wait! What? What does it have to do with product management or product design? That’s what you’ll find out from this article. Let’s dive in! TL;DR Product dogfooding is a testing practice. It involves teams using their own product internally to identify issues and opportunities for improvement.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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Unlocking Success: A Comprehensive Guide to Product Manager Salaries in 2024

280 Group

In the dynamic realm of technology and business, Product Managers continue to play a pivotal role, guiding organizations through an ever-evolving landscape. As we usher in the year 202 4 , the role of a Product Manager remains indispensable. This comprehensive blog post will delve into the current state of Product Manager salaries in December of 2023, shedding light on the evolving demands of this profession and providing valuable insights for aspiring Product Managers on how to excel in their c

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How to keep your head about generative AI (when everyone is losing theirs) by Claire Woodcock

Mind the Product

In her keynote at #mtpcon London 2023, Claire Woodcock, Director of Product, ML, at Mozilla explains how to keep your head about generative AI, when everyone else loses theirs. Read more » The post How to keep your head about generative AI (when everyone is losing theirs) by Claire Woodcock appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How Value and Cost of Delay—Not Cost Savings—Applies to Centralization Decisions, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

In the first post, How Centralization Decisions Create Friction, Increase Cycle Time, and Cost Money, Part 1 , I explained how centralizing even relatively small decisions to centralize has high costs. Why do organizations centralize? To supposedly capitalize on “economies of scale.” That's the problem of understanding the cost of work—but not the value of that work.

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How to Safeguard Employee Personal Information: Offshore Team Case

TurnKey Labs

Ever wondered about the true cost of leaving your offshore team’s data unprotected? Picture this: cybercrime is estimated to cost the world a staggering $10.5 trillion annually by 2025. Cybercrime is no longer a distant threat; it’s an impending financial storm.

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Lessons Learned in PostgreSQL®

In today's digital landscape, the threat of ransomware demands proactive defense. This paper, inspired by a real PostgreSQL® database incident, offers vital strategies for effective mitigation. Instaclustr expert Perry Clark outlines immediate actions to minimize risks, ensuring a swift response to ransomware threats and protecting critical data assets.

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4 Types of Mixpanel Reports to Explore [+ Better Alternative]

Userpilot

Mixpanel reports help you keep track of key metrics in your product analytics portfolio. That said, there are four different types of reports that you can generate with Mixpanel in just a few clicks. This guide will cover the different types of Mixpanel data! TL;DR Mixpanel lets you gather, analyze, and visualize data through different types of analytics reports.

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Should You Leave Academia? Advice for Researchers from a Former Professor

UserInterviews

A former history professor turned UX researcher explains his decision to leave academia for the private sector, and shares practical advice for others looking to make the transition.

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A year with ChatGPT and product innovation: Navigating the AI landscape

Mind the Product

We recently had the pleasure of hosting an AMA that delved into the topic of AI and product. Emily Tate, Managing Director at Mind the Product, was joined by Chris Butler, Group Product Manager - Machine Learning at Google. Watch the video in full, or read on for their key points. Read more » The post A year with ChatGPT and product innovation: Navigating the AI landscape appeared first on Mind the Product.

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