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Product Strategy and Product Discovery

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] What is Product Discovery? Product discovery is the process of “figuring out a solution to a problem we’ve been asked to solve,” writes Marty Cagan. [1] It involves understanding and selecting user needs, exploring solutions, and choosing the most appropriate one. Let’s make this more concrete by looking at a popular product discovery tool, Teresa Torres’ Opportunity Solution Tree (OTS). [2] Before I proceed, let me point out that I am neither

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The Simple Way To Marry Company Strategy and Product Strategy

Product Management University

Here’s the easiest way to marry company strategy and product strategy. The first order of business is to make a clear distinction between your company’s financial goals and strategic goals. They’re often conflated. Financial goals are just that. While meeting those goals is critical to your organization’s success, financial goals themselves aren’t the same as strategic goals.

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Navigating the Product Manager Role: Salaries and Career Advancement

280 Group

In the dynamic realm of technology and business, Product Managers continue to play a pivotal role, guiding organizations through an ever-evolving landscape. As we usher in the year 2024, the role of a Product Manager remains indispensable. This comprehensive blog post will delve into the current state of Product Manager salaries in 2023, shedding light on the evolving demands of this profession and providing valuable insights for aspiring Product Managers on how to excel in their careers.

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Top product management reads in November

Mind the Product

From questions about how technical a product manager should be, or how to manage your career or how to master cross-disciplinary collaboration, here’s a look through our most-read posts in November. Read more » The post Top product management reads in November appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Use Cases for Apache Cassandra®

There’s a good reason why Apache Cassandra® is quickly becoming the NoSQL database of choice for organizations of all stripes. In this white paper, discover the key use cases that make Cassandra® such a compelling open source software – and learn the important pitfalls to avoid. From understanding its distributed architecture to unlocking its incredible power for industries like healthcare, finance, retail and more, experience how Cassandra® can transform your entire data operations.

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The age of AI-based Copilots has arrived?—?but does this mean for the future?

The Product Coalition

With thousands of tech companies rushing to adopt or integrate AI, we’re finally seeing AI-enabled products such as “Copilots” entering… Continue reading on Product Coalition »

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Unlocking Success: A Comprehensive Guide to Product Manager Salaries in 2024

280 Group

In the dynamic realm of technology and business, Product Managers continue to play a pivotal role, guiding organizations through an ever-evolving landscape. As we usher in the year 202 4 , the role of a Product Manager remains indispensable. This comprehensive blog post will delve into the current state of Product Manager salaries in December of 2023, shedding light on the evolving demands of this profession and providing valuable insights for aspiring Product Managers on how to excel in their c

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Product Demos: How to Sell Solutions Versus Products

Product Management University

Here’s a simple three-step approach for your product demos that will help you sell solutions versus products. It’ll make differentiation easier and improve your sales win rates. In many cases, the product silos that exist within product management become transparent to buyers during the sales cycle, creating the perception you’ve got a bunch of fragmented products instead of integrated solutions.

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Interviewing customers has never been more important – here’s how you do it

Mind the Product

A how-to guide for product managers on structuring customer interviews Read more » The post Interviewing customers has never been more important – here’s how you do it appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Understand How A Business Works and Makes Money

The Product Coalition

The best product managers are business managers. I hosted an event recently where a panel of experienced product management professionals discussed the state of product management. One of the topics that surfaced as part of the discussion is that the best product managers are business managers. Product managers can only be great by understanding how a business works and makes money.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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Feature Scoring in Product Development: When to Do It and Why

Gocious Blog

Choosing between two great options is a struggle for anyone. When faced with the decision, there can be a feeling of loss for the choices not selected. When it comes to ideas and group discussion, it can even feel personal. The more options thrown into the mix, the more challenging the decisions become.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Product Manager Salaries in 2024

280 Group

In the dynamic world of agile development, the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Product Management stand as key players, each with its own set of principles and practices. While both are committed to delivering value to customers and responding to market needs, the intersection of these frameworks can be both a source of collaboration and a breeding ground for challenges.

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Positioning Value – The Simplest Things Are The Hardest to Say

Product Management University

To all of you product marketers out there, you totally understand this situation! When it comes to positioning value, sometimes the simplest things are the hardest to say. A good friend of mine is leaving his corporate job and going out on his own as a consultant with an amazing track record of success. He put up a website and asked me to give it a look.

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How to keep your head about generative AI (when everyone is losing theirs) by Claire Woodcock

Mind the Product

In her keynote at #mtpcon London 2023, Claire Woodcock, Director of Product, ML, at Mozilla explains how to keep your head about generative AI, when everyone else loses theirs. Read more » The post How to keep your head about generative AI (when everyone is losing theirs) by Claire Woodcock appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How to Deliver a Modern Data Experience Your Customers Will Love

In embedded analytics, keeping up with the pace of innovation is challenging. Download Qrvey's guide to ensure your analytics keep pace so you can solve your user's biggest challenges, delight them, and set your product apart from the competition. The guide outlines how to use embedded analytics to: Increase user satisfaction Go to market faster Create additional opportunities to monetize your product It also shares what to look for to ensure your embedded analytics are keeping up with the lates

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The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2?—?Rounds A, B, and Later)

The Product Coalition

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. At some point, the results you expected and even produced in the past aren’t replicating. You add features, you replace salespeople, but it doesn’t help. You blame the market, but often that’s just overlooking the real problem.

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4 Types of Mixpanel Reports to Explore [+ Better Alternative]

Userpilot

Mixpanel reports help you keep track of key metrics in your product analytics portfolio. That said, there are four different types of reports that you can generate with Mixpanel in just a few clicks. This guide will cover the different types of Mixpanel data! TL;DR Mixpanel lets you gather, analyze, and visualize data through different types of analytics reports.

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Unlocking Success: A Comprehensive Guide to Product Manager Salaries in 2024

280 Group

In the dynamic realm of technology and business, Product Managers continue to play a pivotal role, guiding organizations through an ever-evolving landscape. As we usher in the year 202 4 , the role of a Product Manager remains indispensable. This comprehensive blog post will delve into the current state of Product Manager salaries in December of 2023, shedding light on the evolving demands of this profession and providing valuable insights for aspiring Product Managers on how to excel in their c

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466: Use the 4 leadership motions to be more effective – with Janice Fraser

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can navigate leadership challenges Today we are talking about four leadership motions that enable increased organizational effectiveness and productivity and alleviate organizational friction, waste, and indecision. The motions reflect a need for leadership change as organizations struggle for higher performance while supporting employees.

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From Whims to Wins: How a Customer-Centric Portfolio Transforms Product Strategy

Speaker: John Mansour - President, Product Management University

You know that sinking feeling. You’ve come up with a winning product strategy, everyone’s on board and energized, and you’re halfway down the path to execution only to have it submarined by something someone convinced your leadership was more strategic! It’s a scenario that’s all too familiar, and it exemplifies one of the biggest struggles with individual product strategies.

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Navigating the AI job market – Hoang Nguyen (Director of Product)

Mind the Product

Navigating the job market, finding your specialization, and making career decisions that suit your needs can be a complex process. That's why we sat down with Hoang Nguyen , Director of Product at Westwing, to dig into these intricate topics and offer some insight. In the realm of AI, not only do we discuss its fascinating aspects, but we also delve into how to discover innate talents and develop a passion for product management within it.

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How Subway’s Product Managers Are Going To Come Back

The Accidental Product Manager

Subway product managers have to come up with a comeback plan Image Credit: Mike Mozart I’m pretty sure that even if you didn’t know it, there are more Subway sandwich restaurants out there than there are McDonald’s restaurants. With the chain being that large, you would expect that they must be doing quite well. In the past that has been the story.

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Performance Reporting: Definition, Types, Process & More

Userpilot

Performance reporting is essential for product and project managers to make data-driven decisions. In this article, we explore: What performance reporting is Why it is important What to include in a performance report How to create performance reports The best analytics tools for performance reporting Let’s get right to it! TL;DR Performance reporting is the process of collecting , analyzing, and presenting data on product or project performance.

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How Value and Cost of Delay—Not Cost Savings—Applies to Centralization Decisions, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

In the first post, How Centralization Decisions Create Friction, Increase Cycle Time, and Cost Money, Part 1 , I explained how centralizing even relatively small decisions to centralize has high costs. Why do organizations centralize? To supposedly capitalize on “economies of scale.” That's the problem of understanding the cost of work—but not the value of that work.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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A Primer on Talking to Customers From Rob Fitzpatrick's The Mom Test

Sachin Rekhi

Everyone knows that a critical part of developing a new product is talking to potential customers. So most product managers and founders dutifully have customer conversations as part of their product development process. But what's insidious about the way that people talk to customers is that they often fail to glean any new insights or worse, get a false positive, causing them to over invest their cash, their time, and their team in an unvalidated product idea that ultimately doesn't sell.

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A year with ChatGPT and product innovation: Navigating the AI landscape

Mind the Product

We recently had the pleasure of hosting an AMA that delved into the topic of AI and product. Emily Tate, Managing Director at Mind the Product, was joined by Chris Butler, Group Product Manager - Machine Learning at Google. Watch the video in full, or read on for their key points. Read more » The post A year with ChatGPT and product innovation: Navigating the AI landscape appeared first on Mind the Product.

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What is Workforce Mobility?

TurnKey Labs

“Why did the spreadsheet apply for a comedy club membership? It wanted to excel in humor! Now that we’ve cracked a joke, let’s dive into a topic without any punchlines – Workforce Mobility in R&D. In a world where offices are becoming as outdated as floppy disks, workforce mobility is reshaping how we innovate.

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What is a Retention Specialist and What Does One Do?

Userpilot

Tired of the increasing customer churn rate? Looks like it’s time to call in a retention specialist. A dynamic retention specialist will implement proactive strategies to improve the customer experience and increase loyalty, thus improving customer retention. In this article, we highlight the job responsibilities of a retention specialist, the skills needed to become one, and the resources these professionals can benefit from.

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Lessons Learned in PostgreSQL®

In today's digital landscape, the threat of ransomware demands proactive defense. This paper, inspired by a real PostgreSQL® database incident, offers vital strategies for effective mitigation. Instaclustr expert Perry Clark outlines immediate actions to minimize risks, ensuring a swift response to ransomware threats and protecting critical data assets.

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How Centralization Decisions Create Friction, Increase Cycle Time, and Cost Money, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

Some company is buying your company (or vice versa). Why? They claim it's “Economies of scale,” and the combined organization will save money by centralizing “overhead” and flattening management. You know who that “overhead” is: the people who support the business, such as finance and HR. And, the managers. Worse, the new management asks managers to “reapply” for their old jobs, the jobs they have right now.

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Should You Leave Academia? Advice for Researchers from a Former Professor

UserInterviews

A former history professor turned UX researcher explains his decision to leave academia for the private sector, and shares practical advice for others looking to make the transition.

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Mastering team charters: Empowering your teams for success

Mind the Product

Mohammed Vaghef shares his experience of the benefits of team charters as a tool for empowering teams and leading them towards success. Read more » The post Mastering team charters: Empowering your teams for success appeared first on Mind the Product.

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