BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Self-styled ‘visionary’ Product Managers are dangerous – which is why I advise against hiring PM candidates who fire off (Steve Jobs) quotes during job interviews. 71 percent of Product Managers reported participating in workshops, roughly 65 percent in both online and in-person courses, and 55 percent in webinars.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The product allows its users to create quality visuals like banners or background graphics without technical skills, and this is possible thanks to templates. Of course, this means that they get a percentage of the revenue that your product could generate for you. The Canva ecosystem is built around templates.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

BrainStation offers Online Live Certificate Courses in data, design, development, marketing, and product management. Speak to a Learning Advisor. Perhaps you need someone with an uncanny design eye, or razor-sharp technical skills, or deep experience in analytics? Do Some Soul-Searching.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

In this Path to PM blog post, Kevin shares his journey breaking into a product role as a new grad hire at IBM. I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo.

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Dear Strategy

JANUARY 4, 2019

Of course, like most things, there are actually a few different variations of SaaS products, with the most typical being a piece of software that is both hosted and accessed completely in the cloud. As an example, I mentioned in the previous blog post that I am a huge fan of music technology – especially synthesizers and electronic keyboards.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

“Product Management is fundamentally a white space role, so the skills you need will depend on what skills you already have and what your company does,” advised Jackie Bavaro, Head of Product Management at Asana. Perhaps you need someone with an uncanny design eye, or razor-sharp technical skills, or deep experience in analytics?

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UX Studio

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

They focused too much on their technical side or even visual design, but nothing about the communication. ” Maybe I’m the leader because I opened the group or because I decided to give more to the community – to open a website that will be dedicated to the community, a blog for a community. So I gave them a course.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

TalkTalk was fined £400,000 in 2016 for failing to have appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to secure its customers’ personal data, and for keeping their personal data for longer than necessary. Why am I writing about this for the Mind the Product blog? Under the GDPR this fine could have risen to £35 million.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 21, 2019

While there are lots of content out there advising on this subject, I would just like to call out one thing which I believe has helped me time and again: having empathy towards my interviewer. Were there specific things that you learned from the course materials, coaching sessions, and the community? Q: Favorite PM resource or blog?

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Mixpanel

MAY 26, 2020

Mixpanel: How have you seen product analytics evolve over the course of your career? Rohit Gossain: I started off my career in 2010 as a technical analyst working with a product manager. If you’re a PM, I’d advise that you have discussions with various teams (marketing, data, operations, finance, etc.) Highly recommended.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

Numerous conferences later, talking with peers and reading many blogs like this only left with more questions than answers. Later whilst being an adviser at Stanford university Neil H. The rise of the internet, smart phones and all kinds of technical advancements, saw many monolithic empires crumble through disruption?—?leaving

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

That’s why we often advise SaaS companies to segment users prior to their walkthrough, to make sure that customers only see features during their walkthrough that make sense for their individual use case. Of course, setting up a system this automated requires the right tools. You can read more about Kontentino’s walkthrough here.

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Mixpanel

MAY 26, 2020

Mixpanel: How have you seen product analytics evolve over the course of your career? Rohit Gossain: I started off my career in 2010 as a technical analyst working with a product manager. If you’re a PM, I’d advise that you have discussions with various teams (marketing, data, operations, finance, etc.) Highly recommended.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Darragh: You wrote a blog post recently about the impact of having sponsors during your time at Microsoft. The challenge with this, of course, is we already have a ton of existing Redditors, so we have to make sure their old experiences translate well into this new experience. That translates into missions that we carry out day to day.

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All About Product Management

MAY 13, 2008

It’s been over a year since the product management team went on a series of agile/scrum training courses. Agile/Scrum Training On-line Product Managers, Web Editors and Business Owners spent a few days on a scrum master and product owner’s training course. Many issues where down to a change in test working practices.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 7, 2021

The problem here of course is that the lousy sales performance is then rewarded and reinforced and becomes part of the company sales canon. Alex A may have little patience to deal with awkward technical queries, and may be willing to make unrealistic promises to get deals to cross the line. People Make it Harder.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

Finally, the term Development Team seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers. Ignoring technical debt: The Development Team is not demanding adequate capacity to tackle technical debt and bugs during the Sprint. Read more on technical debt and Scrum.) Team leads?

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UX Studio

JANUARY 24, 2024

But I also advise designers not to oversee the business side of the relationship. 00:04:00] Then much, much later, after dropping out from architecture school, I opted to take a more generic course in multimedia and communication technologies, and it was there when I was introduced to the disciplines of ergonomics and usability.

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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

Who does technical leadership? He now advises startups on how to scale their product development organizations. Jade writes about product development on his blog, and has a free (or paid) course of engineering (and product development) leadership. One example of structural work that aids in onboarding is role definition.

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eG Innovations

JULY 2, 2021

We had the opportunity to answer several questions during the session but there are always many more that we simply can’t get to, and of course there are always a few that we wish we had answered better. What is [eG’s] Standard SLA for technical help required for customer? Questions & Answers. link] gives some information.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2021

Rather than drain yourself by doing too many things at once, it’s strongly advisable to focus on one channel and find an agency that specializes in that. Classically, SEO is broken down into the following sub-areas: Technical SEO: includes ensuring pages are indexed, creating site maps, Knowledge Graph optimization and improving site speed.

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eG Innovations

AUGUST 11, 2022

We had the opportunity to answer several questions during the session but there were a few more that we simply didn’t get to, and of course a few that I wish I had answered better. George (Spiers) has reviewed Citrix Analytics and compared it with monitoring tools, such as eG Enterprise in an earlier blog: [link].

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Product Talk

AUGUST 10, 2016

So I’m going to scratch the surface in this blog post. I hope to have the book ready by early 2017 and I’ll be blogging bits and pieces along the way. I’ve written twelve blog posts about this book—you can find them here. We ignore the advice of Chip and Dan Heath where they advise us to avoid “whether or not” decisions (i.e.

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Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

As we discussed in the blog post Yes, Product Managers are Superheroes , product management is a combination of both art and science. I was a product manager myself, then led product teams and have over the past several years been advising organizations’ product groups on the skills needed to be successful.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Video, Slides, Transcript and Rahul’s blog about this follow… Understanding Customers. One of the themes that emerged over the course of the conference was the importance of understanding the needs of customers and the metrics you can use to better understand and act on their real, rather than stated, needs.

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Product Talk

APRIL 7, 2021

I am a former chief product officer and now coach and advise product leaders and teams. She is my blog editor and also helps out with a variety of content marketing activities for Product Talk. And of course, we can answer that question with prototyping and experimenting. Is it technically feasible?”

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