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The Best Bang For Your Discovery Buck – Customer Advisory Boards

Product Management University

Customer Advisory Boards (CABs) are still the best bang for the buck when it comes to “customer discovery,” not to be confused with user or product discovery! Take the following approach and you’ll forever endear your customers to your company and its products. More on that later. It doesn’t start with them.

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How Compare and Contrast Decisions Lead to Better Product Outcomes

Product Talk

This past week I was in London speaking at Mind the Product. As usual, the Mind the Product team hosted a phenomenal event. When Mind the Product releases the video, I’ll add it to this post. Teresa Torres presented ‘Critical Thinking for Product Teams’ at Mind the Product London on September 8, 2017.

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Breaking the internet – Sudhir Venkatesh on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

In 2008, Columbia University sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh published his first book, Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes To The Streets. A few years later, that got the attention of Mark Zuckerberg, which led to a role working in Integrity for Facebook, and later, as Director of Social Science Research and Health Research [.]

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Systems Thinking and its Relevance to Strategic Planning in UX Research

UX Planet

In the field of UX research, Systems Thinking can bring many benefits to strategic planning, allowing for a broader and more integrated view of the user ecosystem. Feedback loops: a system’s outputs affect its inputs, creating loops. Considering the broader social, cultural, and environmental context of product use.

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Indecision in Product: How to Avoid Becoming a Bottleneck

Mind the Product

He researched for hours, Googling “best toothbrush” and reading articles on the pros and cons of bristle strength. I researched every purchase – headphones, winter jackets, coffee grinders – in painstaking depth before making a decision. And if you’re leading product, the sooner you learn this lesson, the better.

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Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Leading to Failure

The Product Coalition

TL; DR: Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product efficiently as its Achilles heel has always been the product discovery part. Participation is free.)

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479: Beyond the pint glass–Learnings from creating the new Molson Coors Non-Alcohol portfolio – with Marlon Hernandez

Product Innovation Educators

Product management insights from Molson Coors’s non-alcohol portfolio transformation I am interviewing speakers at my favorite annual conference for product managers, the PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference. Also, this episode is sponsored by PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. Pace yourself. [15:31]