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Strategy in an Agile Environment

The Product Guy

Strategy for agile teams is about how they link the high level decisions that leaders make with the day-to-day actions that team members make. In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Strategy in an Agile Environment”. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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How to make product improvements

Intercom, Inc.

To truly adhere to Kaizen, product managers need to balance two goals: firstly, find improvements that will benefit the business and its customers, and secondly, ensure that these improvements don’t get lost on a whiteboard somewhere and actually make it out the door. Ways to increase user engagement.

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10 All-Star Project Managers to Follow on Twitter

The Product Coalition

If you’re a project manager , you know what it’s like to wear multiple hats. With responsibilities such as planning, budgeting, and overseeing numerous project details, project managers must master the art of organization. Simplify your project management software and watch employee productivity soar.

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Pricing and packaging your software does not have to be hard.

The Product Coalition

There’s much research to be found on pricing strategies, especially for SaaS products, so I won’t write about it here. And software products/tools that do exist, typically are solving the monetization problem through CPQ tools, billing and contract management systems like Zuora, Intacct, Oracle Financials, SAP, Chargify, Chargebee etc.

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From Developer Experience to Product Experience: How a Shared Focus Fuels Product Success

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

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. In this talk, Anne Steiner and David Laribee will delve into the interconnectedness of Developer Experience and Product Manager Experience.

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Product Leadership at News UK by Jo Wickremasinghe

Mind the Product

This means there is a lack of strategy to develop digital products which meet the needs of users and generate revenue. Jo’s plan to break News UK out of this way of working was to build a strategy-focused product team, manage loved products, and work up a new approach to product development. You Have to Kill Some Products.

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The art of the Side Hustle by Jonathan Lai

Mind the Product

Product manager Jonathan Lai understands the distinction between his full-time job and his side hustle. Product managers are always looking for inspiration, and side hustles will widen that lens. Jonathan believes the better strategy is to work with others. It helps you connect the dots. It inspires you. Start a Side Hustle.

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Apache Cassandra® NoSQL for the Relational DBA

Learn from Lewis DiFelice, an experienced Professional Services Consultant at Instaclustr, as he shares his journey transitioning from SQL to managing a 40-node Cassandra cluster. Gain insights into Cassandra's architecture, configuration strategies, and best practices. Download now and revolutionize your database operations!

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

Gain inspiration from real-world success examples from top digital companies, offering invaluable insights into their winning strategies. Discover how the symbiotic relationship between product managers, UX/UI designers, and developers can transform pitfalls into opportunities, propelling your product outcomes to unprecedented heights.

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Driving Business Impact for PMs

Speaker: Jon Harmer, Product Manager for Google Cloud

Understand how your work contributes to your company's strategy and learn to apply frameworks to ensure your features solve user problems that drive business impact. Grow your user empathy skills: Better understand users and the problem space they are working in through Journey Maps that are customized for Product Managers.

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Navigating the Product Tightrope: Balancing Innovation and Current User Demands

Speaker: Jason Brett - Founder & Chief Product Officer, Product Coffee

In today's rapidly evolving market, product managers face the challenge of driving innovation while also meeting the needs and expectations of their existing user base. This webinar aims to equip you with strategies and insights to successfully navigate this delicate balancing act.

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Feedback Frenzy: Restoring Customer and Internal Alignment for Product Success

Speaker: Evan Leong - CEO & Founder, Product Signals

Customer feedback is integral to effective problem management and product development for senior product professionals. Join our webinar as we delve into customer feedback strategies and explore diverse methods for gathering and organizing feedback. July 26, 2023 at 11:00 am PT, 2:00 pm ET, 7:00 pm GMT

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

47% of marketers said they have a database management strategy in place, but there is room for significant improvement. As buyer expectations to receive this type of relevant engagement continues to heighten, database management strategies are of high importance.

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Building User-Centric and Responsible Generative AI Products

Speaker: Shyvee Shi - Product Lead and Learning Instructor at LinkedIn

These products, with their unique capabilities, bring fresh opportunities and challenges that demand a fresh approach to product management. Attendance of this webinar will earn one PDH toward your NPDP certification for the Product Development and Management Association.

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Ask the "Right" Questions: Your Analytics-Guided Product Strategy

Speaker: Yoav Yechiam, Founder and Head Instructor, productMBA

Analytics are highly important for product managers - and yet, analytic implementations often fail to actually help us. Join Yoav Yechiam, Founder and head instructor at productMBA, as he explains best practices for a data-guided strategy that helps product managers get to the "why" of their biggest product goals.

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How Product Managers Can Learn to Love Reporting

Speaker: Eric Feinstein, Professional Services Manager, Looker

For a long time, Product Managers have found it challenging to design interfaces inside their products that users could use for reporting. Eric Feinstein, Professional Services Manager at Looker, has done workshops with product managers who are looking to add effective reporting. Building a team to support your deployment.

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Best Practices for Accelerating the Sales Process

Think about it: with outbound prospecting, requests from management, scheduled demos, and inbound calls, chaos can quickly work its way into your strategy, deeming a “speed wins” selling mentality downright ineffective. This eBook takes a look at three headache-free strategies you can employ today to accelerate selling the right way.

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Shaping the Future: Product Strategy in the Age of Uncertainty

Speaker: William Haas Evans - Principal Consultant, Product Strategy Practice Lead, Kuroshio Consulting

In this webinar, we’ll explore the 4 key pillars that a value-driven product organization leverages to ensure they are connecting their strategy to execution to deliver business outcomes: The Product Roadmap (What it is and what it’s not). Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours!

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Tough Bosses, Unrealistic Goals, and Other Corporate Challenges That a Customer-Centric Product Strategy Can Empower You to Solve

Speaker: Bob Caporale, Founder of Strategy Generation Company

As product managers, we’ve likely all faced this situation at some point in our careers. By driving your company’s “top-down” goals with a clear and well communicated “customer-up” product strategy! In this talk, you will learn how to: Empower both yourself and your company by developing a truly customer-centric product strategy.

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If You Build It, They Will Come: A Guide to Customer Onboarding

Speaker: Jamie Bernard, Sr. Product Director and Product Management Practice Lead at Nexient, an NTT Data Company

Examples of successful product onboarding strategies. How "doing this, not that" can benefit product managers and help them avoid the negative response that a clunky onboarding experience provides. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours!

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Measure the Immeasurable: Beyond Vanity Metrics

Speaker: Sari Harrison, Product Management Instructor, Product School

As a product manager, it's your job to realize your product’s vision by executing your chosen strategy. You'll come away ready to: Make sure your metrics are aligned with your vision and strategy. It’s also your job to deliver value to the business. Immerse your team in data to understand your users and generate insights.

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Selling Data and Decisions to your Team

Speaker: Cait Porte, SVP Product and Customer Experience, Zmags

Gathering support for a product feature or enhancement is a critical skill for Product Managers. Join Product Management expert Cait Porte as she covers how to sell your ideas internally by leveraging data to drive decision making. Strategies for getting to commitment, not consensus.

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Building a Research Flywheel: A Helpful Guide for Product Managers & Their Teams

Speaker: Jessica Hall, Product Strategy & Design Leader and Co-Author of The Product Mindset

But no one tool or method can create a thriving research practice for product managers. Join Jessica Hall, Product Strategy & Design Leader and Co-Author of The Product Mindset, for this illuminating discussion on the Flywheel Effect, and discover how it can help you supercharge your product process.

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A PM's Guide to Building a Culture of Product Innovation

Speaker: Bob Webber, VP Product Flow Optimization, Construx

This webinar is for engineering and product leaders who are struggling to find an innovation strategy that works. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours! Attendance of this webinar will earn one PDH toward your NPDP certification for the Product Development and Management Association.

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Product Analytics, Prioritization, and Decision-Making - What We Can Learn from Einstein and Drucker

Speaker: Nils Davis, Principal, NPD Associates

As a Product Manager, a big part of your job will always be to balance which features to develop, and which to scrap. How do you trade off multiple excellent options to choose the one option that’s best aligned with your strategy and which will deliver the most value to the market with the resources you have? And much more!

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From Feature Factory to an Outcome-Driven Product Team

Speaker: Matt LeMay - Product Coach and Consultant, Author of Product Management in Practice and Agile for Everybody

And yet, most organizations remain stuck in a world of Gantt charts, long lists of features masquerading as "product strategy", and an unshakeable focus on deadlines and deliverables. How the same product managers who often complain about working for a "feature factory" often perpetuate this very problem.

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Your 2-Part Metrics Audit for High-Value Products

Speaker: Sam McAfee, Product Development Consultant, Startup Patterns

As product managers we're in a golden age of being able to get all sorts of metrics and run all sorts of experiments. First, you'll learn how to make sure your measurements actually align with your product strategy. You'll come away with the ability to: Align your organization on a product strategy that serves your vision.

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How ZoomInfo Enhances Your ABM Strategy

For marketing teams to develop a successful account-based marketing strategy, they need to ensure good data is housed within its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. More specifically, updated data can help organizations outline key accounts for their campaigns.

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Managing Product Feedback at Scale

This practical 26-page eBook provides product managers with the strategies needed to deal with the common pitfalls that come with opening up the inevitable floodgate of data that comes with asking your customers and internal stakeholders for their input.

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Innovating and Driving Agility with Tech: No-Code Development

Speaker: Gautam Nimmagadda, CEO, Quixy

Product Managers: are you wondering how your teams will work in the future? How to recognize emerging trends in tech today and leverage them to stay agile for a holistic business strategy. If so, it's time to look to no-code development. With it, you can leverage hyper automation, strengthen and accelerate growth, and drive value.

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Managing Product Feedback at Scale

This practical 26-page eBook provides product managers with the strategies needed to deal with the common pitfalls that come with opening up the inevitable floodgate of data that comes with asking your customers and internal stakeholders for their input.

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How to Sell Your Roadmap to Your Leadership Team

Speaker: Brett Truka, CEO, Devetry

A product roadmap needs to both capture your product’s strategy and outline your execution plan. Because these documents are such an essential component of your job as product manager, you also need to strategize your roadmap presentation. In other words, you need to speak your executive suite’s language.

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Scaling to the Masses - Fit Your Product for a Larger User Base

Speaker: Dustin Smith, Sr. Product Manager, Incubator

Join Dustin Smith, Senior Product Manager of the Innovation Incubator at Indeed, and learn how to scale your product for greatness. Strategies to get internal support for your product. In this webinar, you will learn: Making the choice to scale. How to scale economically and efficiently.

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Power Hour with the Community Team at Mural

Speaker: Beth Vanderkolk, Lindsay Olson, & Amanda Peterson, The MURAL Community Team

Beth Vanderkolk and Community Managers Lindsay Olson and Amanda Peterson will be conducting a power hour to explain how they have used Vanilla to build such a wonderful community. How community has become integral to the MURAL strategy. The MURAL community team is joining us on August 24th at 12 pm EDT to discuss just that!

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The Magic of Intent: Start Knowing The Goals of Your Users

Speaker: Terhi Hanninen, Senior Product Manager, Zalando, and Dr. Franziska Roth, Senior User Researcher, Zalando

Join Terhi Hanninen, Senior Product Manager, and Dr. Franziska Roth, Senior User Researcher at Zalando, as they explain how they were able to reach a new level of user understanding - by taking their user research and segmenting their users by point-in-time intent.

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Beyond the Findings: The Case for UX Research in Digital Transformation

Speaker: Marina Foglietta-Tereo, Head of UX Research, AXA Insurance

Business leaders, product teams, and technology organizations (or those in the process of becoming technology organizations) can help their strategies and teams succeed by maximizing their UX Research. As a product manager, designer, or UX researcher - convince your leadership of the need to invest in this competency.

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To Build or Not to Build: Creating Great Products and Avoiding Overengineering

Speaker: Mark Ridley, Owner and Founder, Ridley Industries

In most cases, actually building software should be the last avenue that companies explore to deliver great products, as software engineering, data science and product development are complex, uncertain and hard to manage. Engaging with technical talent.