Mind the Product

JUNE 9, 2020

If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that predicting the future is hard and in this episode, sponsored by Amplitude, we turn to Margaret Heffernan to learn how to do it better. The post Making Better Predictions – Margaret Heffernan on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. Like our theme music?

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 26, 2021

To give you a general idea of where the mobile playing field is today, here are a few 2020 stats from our friends at App Annie : App Annie’s State of Mobile report is a fantastic place to start when looking for a general lay of the land and high-level stats. Sound good? Stop talking about customer-centricity; turn it into action.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 13, 2020

Product Managers are often called “Product CEOs” or “Mini GMs”, but they rarely have direct control over the inputs that lead to successful products. Bachelor’s in Marketing, an MBA, or a technical degree depending on which company you’re targeting.) Technical expertise. You need to work on a product.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In the past 10 years, we have grown to a team of 30 product design professionals who strive to help clients create outstanding digital products. In April 2020, we became an official Zeplin agency member as one of the youngest and fastest-growing product design companies in the world. Wandr Studio.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. The biggest, in August, we turned 10.

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Bain Public

JULY 13, 2020

Since meeting at Techstars Montréal AI Accelerator in 2019, we’ve worked with Blaise Transit to provide them with the product leadership consulting, coaching, advice and support they need to bring their entire technical roadmap to the next level. The Product Strategy: How We’ve Helped Blaise Transit.

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Arpit Rai

MAY 31, 2020

I moved from Bombay to Bangalore in Feb 2020 to join ThoughtSpot. This post is about what one should do in the first 30–60–90 days of joining a new product management job. Have 1-on-1s with key members across different teams to help build a better understanding of the market, the product, the company culture etc.

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Arpit Rai

MAY 31, 2020

I moved from Bombay to Bangalore in Feb 2020 to join ThoughtSpot. This post is about what one should do in the first 30–60–90 days of joining a new product management job. Have 1-on-1s with key members across different teams to help build a better understanding of the market, the product, the company culture etc.

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Alchemer Mobile

JANUARY 28, 2020

With digital transformation and customer experience at the forefront of most enterprise brand strategies in 2020 , product-focused roles are changing drastically. Executive teams recognize the critical role product and road mapping can play in the overall customer experience. The role of product manager is changing.

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Amplitude

JANUARY 23, 2020

Teams need to move fast in a competitive landscape, and they need the guidance of a data governance manager to maintain the data taxonomy, and keep up with teams rapidly iterating on the product and running concurrent experiments. By the start of 2020, Amplitude users had logged more than 23 trillion actions in our platform.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Product managers don’t want to spend time worrying about security. Yes, you, the product manager, you have to worry about cybersecurity, too. Requiring users to agree to a set of terms and conditions might give some product managers a false sense of security. Full, thorough code reviews rarely occur anymore.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2020

It is very common to confuse your product’s core functionality or your company’s truly innovative technology with your value proposition. As a product leader, your job is to make sure they are distinct and to make sure that the product delivers on its value and not just great technology. Make yourself an octopus.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

But it doesn’t tell you where to go and how to get there—that’s what the discovery and strategy work does. 2 Use Scrum for Products that Experience Uncertainty and Change Scrum is often seen as the standard way to create digital products, and I have met more than one company where the product managers were told to be agile and do Scrum.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

How did Amazon’s product strategy fare during the pandemic? Short answer: Amazon’s product strategy example lead the way). Amazon’s product strategy example has rewritten the book on convenience, easy access, and speed, and in doing so, embedded itself in the daily lives and routines of consumers.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

We have reviewed Berlin design studios’ competency, portfolios, and experience to define the best web design Berlin companies to work with. . The value we deliver to our clients and the positive impact from our work has been recognized by Clutch, the top rating and review platform for business services providers. Phoenix Design.

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Surya Suravarapu

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

If you are in the business of building products, do yourself a favor -- read @alanklement 's 'When Coffee and Kale Compete.' link] — Surya Suravarapu (@surya_s) February 5, 2020 Jobs to be Done has several interpretations, which is leading to more confusion. Doing product work is hard.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

2019 was a great year to be in product management. LinkedIn listed Product Designer and Product Owner in the 10 most promising careers of 2019 , with 80 percent more job openings year-over-year and a career advancement score of 9 out of 10. Industry, The Product Conference, Cleveland, OH. Mind the Product.

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Arguably, killing portions of a product is one of the most challenging aspects of leadership. Even the most experienced product managers have little to no experience and craft in reverting decisions after a feature has already made it live into production. ” Neil Rahilly – VP of Product and Design at Mixpanel.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes. No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. The best product managers are in a continuous state of discovery and know that?—? neither the product nor roadmap are ever static.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 7, 2022

Writing a great product manager resume helps you stand out when recruiters or hiring managers start to interview candidates. Given the often ambiguous nature of product management, it may feel pretty challenging to write an effective product manager resume.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2020

They cover the concept of the Product Owner role, product discovery, how to deal with external and internal stakeholders, product portfolio and product roadmap planning, and the Product Backlog refinement. 58 Product Owner Theses Do you want to get this article in your inbox? Source: Scrum Guide 2020.)

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

To learn more about how real product leaders are approaching this challenge, I recently sat down with fellow Product Talk instructor Ellen Juhlin (who’s also a product coach, consultant, and Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs ). How did that product manager get access to those end users?

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Product management isn’t for everyone. For example, some product managers might love hearing product management is “responsibility without authority.” There’s a lot that product managers dislike about their product management jobs. A quick silver-lining moment….

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Whether your product finds a market or falls flat, your team needs to understand why this outcome occurred. In my years as a product manager and product leader, I’ve seen many product teams draw the wrong conclusions from both failures and successes. Your work on the product is not contributing to your KPIs.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 24, 2021

Narrowing Down the Battlefield Figure 1 shows the ‘Technology Adoption Life Cycle’ for discontinuous innovations. The mistake most Product Managers make is to focus on a too broad and large market segment because they fear a niche market will not be profitable enough. Harvard Business Review, January, 1980. (2)

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Whether your product finds a market or falls flat, your team needs to understand why this outcome occurred. In my years as a product manager and product leader, I’ve seen many product teams draw the wrong conclusions from both failures and successes. Your work on the product is not contributing to your KPIs.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Whether your product finds a market or falls flat, your team needs to understand why this outcome occurred. In my years as a product manager and product leader, I’ve seen many product teams draw the wrong conclusions from both failures and successes. Your work on the product is not contributing to your KPIs.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 3, 2021

. Product managers are usually outnumbered in an organization. There will always be far more salespeople, technical types, operations folks, and administrative staff due to the work’s nature. This usually means there’s a small team of product people. In some cases, there’s a product team of one.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 3, 2021

Product managers are usually outnumbered in an organization. There will always be far more salespeople, technical types, operations folks, and administrative staff due to the work’s nature. This usually means there’s a small team of product people. In some cases, there’s a product team of one. Company Size.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Highlights from my ProductX talk “The 24/7 Product Manager” Image by annca from Pixabay Raise your hand if you are not extremely busy. When you say that to a room of product managers, nothing happens. The old saying that the product manager is the CEO of the product seems to be in the heart of heated debate these days.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 17, 2020

Mobile product managers no longer simply oversee the product backlog or just organize their team’s tasks. In 2020, PMs play a massive role in product strategy and determining the overall customer experience. Due to rapidly-changing technology, customers have high expectations for the products they use.

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Bryce York

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

P.S. I’m writing a book on product management, learn more. For most product managers, it’s nowhere near the top of the favorite things to do. Speaking to users is one of the single highest leverage activities a product leader can do. Tech debt itself can even be seen as an internal paper cut problem.

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