The Product Cafe

MARCH 22, 2023

Hello, all you product-loving folks! 💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, and more. Riddle of the Week 🧩 What product can you sell even if it's broken? 👇🏻 That’s all folks!

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ChatGPT Product Research Customer Experience Document 52

The Product Coalition

APRIL 6, 2020

Google, still just a scale-up in 2001, managed to come out stronger from the dot com bust and made a successful IPO in 2004. What’s our strategy? The situation is challenging for sure, but we’ve put a strategy in place that will help us not just cope, but flourish (as we know every challenge is also an opportunity in disguise).

Customer Experience 78

Customer Experience Development Team Review Systems Review Workshop 78

Mind the Product

JUNE 20, 2018

Famously, back in 2001, inventor Dean Kamen was going to change the world. South Park devoted an episode to making fun of the hype before the product was released. And that’s a hugely important lesson for startups and product managers alike.

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Transportation Technology Customer Experience Startups 98

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

That crucial difference in strategy ultimately made Amazon the global leader that it is today. Ben Foster, who was the company’s PM of Findings between 2001–2004, was in charge of that effort. The two companies approached the situation in completely different ways. So, what went wrong for eBay?

Customer Experience 95

Customer Experience User Testing Software Review Article 95

Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

I “went agile” in 2000/2001 – I was writing software and leading teams at an enterprise software company at the time, and we adopted elements of XP and other agile practices in what we branded (internally and externally) as Fast Cycle Time (FCT). Getting Faster at Building the Wrong Thing. At the last responsible moment.

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Agile Feedback Software Weak Development Team User Testing 150

ProductBoard

DECEMBER 20, 2017

At productboard we aim to bake best practices of product management straight into the interface, so you can improve the way you manage your products right out of the box. In the meantime, we’ll continue publishing thoughts and ideas we’ve learned from great product managers here. Read more… ??

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Technical Review Customer Experience Customer Feedback Data Visualization 40

Pragmatic Marketing

MAY 23, 2017

Unfortunately, in 2001 as the dot-com boom went bust, Fujitsu, for the first time in the company’s history, lost money. Just like in a product lifecycle, though, there will be times when your industry and technology evolve. What you need is a product strategy. I thought I’d be there for 35 or 40 years.

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Branding Product Research Roadmap Customer Experience 70

Product Talk

JANUARY 20, 2016

Maps aren’t a new concept in the world of product management. Despite the prevalence of maps in the world of product, they are often under utilized. A business model canvas might be created once during a strategy session and never used again. ” Maps as Artifacts of the Problem Space. Tversky, B., Tversky, B.

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Data Visualization Vision Customer Experience Reporting Tools 136

CardBoard

OCTOBER 6, 2023

It’s a moment of high collaboration, strategy, and quick decision-making. Sounds a bit like a productive development team, right? In Rugby, a ‘scrum’ is a method of restarting the game. Players pack closely together with their heads down and attempt to gain possession of the ball.

Agile 52

Agile Feedback Software Software Review Systems Review 52

Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

Relating to digital product management, the poster child of the Lean methodology is the minimum viable product, or MVP. It says that the development of every new product, service or product feature is an experiment to be learned from. The entire manifesto can be found at.

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User Testing Customer Experience Technical Review Customer Feedback 59

ProductPlan

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The product management function in any given industry has both similarities and differences. In all cases, product managers drive the development of products and are ultimately responsible for the success of those products. Moreover, they communicate the product vision to the organization.

Data Visualization 52

Data Visualization Analytic Tools Feedback Software Artificial Inteligence 52

Product Management University

MAY 22, 2017

The answers to this question are the priorities for your portfolio strategy and product plans. I’ve worked with a lot of highly successful organizations since 2001. Great News for the Product Management & Product Marketing Profession. The common denominator in the best of the best is their focus.

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Product Marketing Customer Experience Customer Feedback Marketing 113

The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 28, 2022

If you were a product manager at Walmart’s Sam’s Club , there is one thing that would keep you up at night: Costco. You’d know that your product development definition was broken because the customers that you wanted to come into your Sam’s Club stores all too often were heading over to shop at Costco. The Smaller Strategy.

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Product Management Product Manager Management Management 65

The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 13, 2020

In some fields like product management and project management, every single person is expected to display leadership qualities. Learn how to become a Product Manager. The individual tasks of a Product Manager may be different from those of a Project Manager, but the leadership qualities should remain the same.

Leadership 75

Leadership Definition Reporting Tools Agile 75

The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

It’s a core principle of Lean Startup, Design Thinking, and other modern product development methods, and the default mode of operation for many successful tech companies today. In product management circles the term “Product Discovery” has become most synonymous with evidence-driven product development.

Customer Experience 74

Customer Experience Product Research User Testing Data Visualization 74

Product Management University

MAY 11, 2018

Since 2001 the Proficientz has offered the only product management framework and training programs that help B2B and B2B2C organizations drive growth by managing, marketing and selling integrated solutions that have exponentially more value than any single product.

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Marketing Differentiation B2B Healthcare 100

The Product Bistro

JANUARY 31, 2017

This strategy lead to a lot of duplicated effort. When the bubble burst in 2001 or so, a lot of that gear ended up on eBay , for pennies on the dollar. When the bubble burst in 2001 or so, a lot of that gear ended up on eBay , for pennies on the dollar. Sun servers weren’t cheap, but you needed them for your backend.

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Agile User Testing Startups Data Visualization 150

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2018

I was at an agency for a while and then moved to the Bay Area in 2001. I did interaction, visual design, and then got into management. ” to “I’m having to influence my product manager. Vanessa: The second bucket is really just focused on the product strategy. What should I ask them?”

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Customer Experience Research Software Leadership User Testing 149

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

So is research, marketing or sales; but, without a product, there is really no outcome of the whole process. Here, we have covered the differences between Project and Product Management. Famously, in 2001, around twenty tech personalities published the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. This is vital.

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Agile User Testing Development Analytic Tools 61

Product Talk

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Product management is evolving quickly. The days of gathering requirements from business stakeholders and documenting them in long product requirements documents are vanishing. Instead, product teams are experimenting their way to viable solutions. We no longer take months or years to release value to our customers.

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Product Research Research Software User Testing Reporting Tools 100

Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 11, 2019

By the way you can tell I’m a product/program manager because there’s an agenda for every meeting – I don’t go into anything without telling people where we’re going to go. So it’s like okay you’re a product manager what is your potential. If you’re an H.R.

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Agile Weak Development Team Feedback Software Reporting Tools 61