Melissa Perri

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In late March of 2018, Shelley Perry of Insight Venture Partners reached out to me about an opportunity. Product is the only position that touches everything across the organization and helps pull it together to create a compelling offering for its customers. Little did I know that would soon become a reality.

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bpma ProductHub

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

On January 23rd, Pragmatic Marketing hosted a webinar entitled “Six Ways Product Management’s Role Will Change in 2018.” But Butzow and Boduch posited that the PM and PO functions can rarely be performed by the same person effectively. And we’re not alone. In case you missed it, a full replay is available here.

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Innovatemap

MARCH 17, 2021

When I think about the many things that drew me to Innovatemap, the presence of women in leadership roles comes to mind immediately. Generally speaking, men are more prevalent in leadership roles, are paid more and promoted faster than women, and make up more of the tech workforce as a whole. percent in 2018 and 26.2

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bpma ProductHub

DECEMBER 28, 2017

As we gear up for 2018, here’s a look back at the past year with Boston Women in Product! – and positioned our organizing crew for great success in the future. Boston Women in Product 2017 Year in Review: By Emera Trujillo. 2017 has been an exciting year for Boston Women in Product. By the numbers.

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Product Management Unpacked

APRIL 3, 2020

According to a Gartner report “How to Cultivate Effective ‘Remote Work’ Programs Refreshed 14 May 2019, Published 16 January 2018,” three of the four key challenges are: Mutual lack of trust undermines good remote work intentions. In this post, I focus on the first one: trust. How do you build trust in the workplace?

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

In 2018, McKinsey published their Business Value of Design report summarizing how organizations with higher Design Index scores saw a correlation with higher revenue growth and, for the top quartile, higher returns to shareholders. About 90% of companies in their 2018 research aren’t fully realizing the full potential of their design teams.

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BrainMates

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Only five global leaders at the national level have ever identified as LGBTQ+ and just four occupy the CEO position of the largest US corporations. Beth Ford, appointed CEO of Land O’Lakes in 2018, is the first and only open lesbian to run a Fortune 500 company. Whether you agree with it or not, the data doesn’t lie.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

We’ve identified nine common business outcomes, all of which are positively influenced by Agile+DevOps. Reference: Harvard Business Review Analytic Services Survey, Sept 2018). In our experience leadership tends to “Want them all, equally. Transformation Leadership – Where to Lean In. Adaptive Leadership Support.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. While the outward image that an organisation projects needs to be positive and confident, organisations can forget that reality is more nuanced than their marketing would suggest.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 18, 2018

We’ve since scaled to more than 35 in Dublin the past 2 years – and 110 globally in the first half of 2018. We’re in a position now where we can hire people who have potential and match our values, but who need a nurturing environment. Comfortable giving constructive feedback to leadership.

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The Review by First Round

MARCH 18, 2021

Finally, Russ gives us 13 recommendations for leadership reads for managers. Finally, Russ gives us 13 recommendations for leadership reads for managers.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

In 2018, Perri published a popular book entitled “ Escaping the Build Trap : How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value ”. Follow her for a good dose of career advice combined with a neverending supply of positive energy. Harvard Business School appointed Perri to teach product management in their MBA program in 2019.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 30, 2020

Latest studies note that only 35% of product manager roles are filled by women, and most of those roles are entry-level positions, meaning they are often removed from influential decision making. In fact, from 2015 to 2018, gender representation had only increased by 2 percent. Rebecca Cooper.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

After working in marketing for four years in London, Negar moved back to Vancouver in late 2018. Having vaguely connected this interest with the work of a product manager, she inquired with the career services team at Lighthouse Labs about open positions for a product manager at their partner companies. Unfortunately, there were none.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

In fact one of the guys that we used to create a remix for the bands he progressed by himself and he’s now in a position where. And then I think I was in a position where again wondering what to do next. We were in a position where. A difficult position of decline. They’re not exactly mainstream. So more fail.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 23, 2018

We heard many speakers focus on empathy with our users and our colleagues, to help them solve real problems in simple ways, leadership that comes not from authority, but by enabling others to be their best, and diversity that brings multiple viewpoints to the table, removing barriers to collaboration in our teams.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Before you say, “ thank u, next ” to 2018, check out Gainsight’s top blog posts, webinars, and resources of 2018. Top 5 Customer Success Blog Posts of 2018. Retention is inextricably linked to the amount of effort you put into delivering positive outcomes and experiences to your customers.

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

This new digital positioning of the Métro brand also allows them to solidify their commitment to the public good. Bain Public is a product leadership firm that helps companies make informed decisions and deliver superior quality products that appeal to customers and achieve business goals. About Bain Public.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In giving back, we’ve established a way to positively impact the Canadian startup ecosystem. We’re proud to say that we’ve given over 900 hours of pro bono work since 2018 and take corporate responsibility very seriously. How else does Bain Public have a positive effect on the Canadian startup ecosystem?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

As we know it today it has very much become a leadership role?—?servant servant leadership one to be exact?—?a a role which is focused on people and process leadership. Agile expertise aside this leadership style of coaching and cultivating culture does not need to be defined to a particular role, nor do I think it should be.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

According to Crunchbase, in 2018 there were 5,000 startups relying on machine learning for their main and ancillary applications, products, and services. For example, SEO is a way to “game” search algorithms and create content that would be shown on the first position in SERP. Just one year later, there have been almost 9,000 of them.

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People-First Product Leadership

JANUARY 22, 2024

” In a 2018 study at the University of Pennsylvania , Professor Damon Centola conducted experiments with online communities to determine the threshold for cultural change. Margaret Mead famously said: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 8, 2019

Source: HubSpot Research, State of Inbound 2018. With the advent of word of mouth marketing, she along with the HubSpot leadership team is steering the company to do things differently. Source: HubSpot Research, State of Inbound 2018. And yet, bafflingly, 66% of companies aren’t asking their willing(!)

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Hopefully you had a great 2017 and (soon) a very happy 2018! A quick recap for UserZoom – in early 2017 we redesigned the entire UserZoom product and have consistently improved it throughout the year, and will continue to do the same in 2018. So, lots more progress would be needed in 2018 and 2019 to launch consumer grade UX.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

So late in 2018, a few engineers within our infrastructure group decided to do something a little bit different. Of course, we still needed to convince leadership that this wasn’t just going to be a very expensive boondoggle that would fail to deliver on what was promised. Sharding our data. Testing our hypotheses.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

If anything, this was the decade they collectively became leaders not just of the technology industry, but of industry itself – Apple overtook ExxonMobil as the world’s most valuable company by market cap in August 2011 (that month again), and then became the first trillion-dollar company by market cap in 2018.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Strategy documents and presentations are not thought-leadership handed down by the product manager from on high, but used as a discussion point in order to get consensus amongst a variety of stakeholders: engineering, sales, marketing, business development, executive management, and so on. About Julian Dunn.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 15, 2020

Product-led growth strategy is a methodology that positions the product as the primary driver of growth for the company. While it’s unclear how many of those are paid, 37% of Slack’s 8 million users were paying customers in 2018. Effective leadership. Let’s examine this “new” trend… What Does Product-Led Growth Mean?

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We’re proud to say that we’ve given over 1000 hours of pro bono work since 2018 for young up and coming startups and entrepreneurs; we take corporate responsibility very seriously. How else does Bain Public have a positive effect on the Canadian startup ecosystem? 2021 has been a year full of growth and prosperity for Bain Public.

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Mind the Product

JULY 19, 2018

After a day of workshops and leadership discussions, the main conference presented 10 amazing speakers who shared their insights and gave the crowd new ideas to think about and new techniques to apply when they got home. She posited that we have the best jobs in the world – we are problem finders and problem solvers.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2019

If 2018 was the year of the Product Manager, then it looks like 2019 will be the year that the Customer Success Manager steals the limelight. Customer Success has grown in stature over the past couple of years. It’s a job title that used to be met with “ Huh? ” but is now a mainstay in software companies, and perhaps even further afield.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Toxic positivity has weakened the UX field. It was already long gone when I added it to my list of UX fails back in 2018. Killed by bad algorithms, bad content, bad UX, and bad leadership. And yet, companies show contempt for the discipline that makes technology controllable. ᴠᴇʀᴅɪᴄᴛ ᔕTu¶iD ? Medium is dead.

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Mind the Product

JULY 5, 2018

We easily fall for the notion that we as product managers are the hub in the big wheel and all other disciplines such as sales and support are just the spokes which we gladly connect and glue together from our supposedly central position. We are not the centre of the world (and we are also not the CEO of the product).

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

We’ve been really happy with the positive feedback we received for this year’s premiere – it’s great to know so many people took so much away from the event. Here’s a video with some impressions from this year’s event: What to expect for 2018. The post Get Ready for MTP Engage Hamburg 2018 appeared first on Mind the Product.

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TIBCO - Thought Leadership

APRIL 9, 2019

In November 2018, TIBCO unveiled Spotfire ® X, combining visualization, analytics and real-time data streams to create a fully streaming, real-time business intelligence (BI) platform. Sure, it’s faster and better to use Spotfire, but we happily support whatever tools matter for our customers. Streaming Business Intelligence.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

See Parity Consulting’s 2018 Product Management Salary Survey. ). Associate Product Manager (APM) is an entry-level position, usually reporting to a more senior Product Manager. This is often a mentorship position and the start of a product manager’s career. Common Product Management titles and role descriptions.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

As the Lead Designer at Imaginary Cloud , I conduct most of the interviews for design positions. Edited by the IMT press (first in 2018, and then in a new format in 2019), this book brings the question of “ what humans exactly are we putting at the center of human-centered design? ”.

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