Department of Product

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

SaaS Pricing Models for Product Managers 6 ways to price your SaaS product using leading SaaS businesses as inspiration Pricing a product is a critical part of product management; it’s rarely something product teams will or should do themselves and will typically involve a blend of product, marketing and sales. And rightly so.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Hypercroissance Quebec - an initiative of Startup Montreal developed in collaboration with Apexe Global with the support of the Quebec government, Desjardins Entreprises and BDC - is the first program to focus entirely on Quebec's high-growth companies (also known as scaleups). www.startupmontreal.com

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Where else will you find SoundCloud, the BBC, TransferWise, and Pivotal Labs, talking alongside new players in fantech (that’s technology for devotees, not air conditioners)? Its digital commerce success stems from developing its own technology, THG Ingenuity. Nilan also advises a number of early-stage startups.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

When we founded BreezoMeter, many businesses and governments were not ready to answer the public demand for solutions that protected them from harmful air quality. As data scientists and environmental engineers with our own air quality technology and APIs, we realized we were equipped to answer this demand?—?and

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Userzoom

JUNE 9, 2020

I’m in the unusual position of seeing directly (and indirectly) how hundreds of businesses’ digital departments across different industries have reacted to COVID-19, through my role as a UX research partner at UserZoom. Ugly research practices are rearing their heads. Image by Nick Bolton.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Armed with the proper tools, guidance and methods of communication, you should be able to convince anyone within your organisation about the value of user research and the positive impact it will have on the bottom line – without resorting to cattle-prods, lies or locking yourself in the stationery cupboard and having a very loud cry.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The opportunity solution tree helps visualize all the work that goes into continuous discovery. And while opportunity solution trees have become increasingly common among product teams, there’s still plenty of room for customization, both in the way you set up your trees and the tools you use to build them.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 20, 2020

Melissa begins by describing how there are over 11,000 open Head of Product positions available in the EU today – one of which could be yours. How can you position yourself well now for a future as a product leader, and, once you get the job, what do you do? Operational. She believes that product people have dynamic skills.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Generally, organizations develop product operations roles as needed to offload non-core tasks from product managers. A product operations manager at a smaller technology company may engage in different activities than someone at a larger firm. How developed are the organization’s processes?

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bpma ProductHub

OCTOBER 16, 2016

There are examples of companies doing both across many industries: Tesla drives the electric-car industry forward with range, luxury, style, battery technology and radar-based self-driving technology. Due to government regulations, execution and high standards of quality for their existing products is essential for their business.

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Mind the Product

JULY 6, 2018

Failing is an eventuality in software development. Product managers are asked to look after all facets of a product’s development, from conception to launch. From software design to user experience. More and more the technology community likens failing to falling down on a trampoline and jumping right back up.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 19, 2021

I’ve known Greg for several years, as we both volunteer with PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. The study researches the factors that differentiate successful product teams from the rest of the pack. Companies of all shapes and sizes from around the world participate in our research.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 28, 2017

Jamie Parkins is a senior product manager at JustGiving, the online fundraising platform that enables people from all round the world to raise money for their cause of choice. Jamie was brought into the company to improve the usability of its charity account and to establish features that would drive more charities to use the platform.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 14, 2021

For instance, in India or some other Asia countries, software outsourcing services are currently vibrant and prospective. Five years ago, HTC, a Taiwanese smartphone producer, took a high position in the market, which threatened many competitors. It needs to start with market research in consideration of internal company powers.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Product analytics keeps your team close to customer wants and needs throughout the product development process. Adience’s research highlights the power of product analytics. Data management is the process of collecting actionable data to inform the decisions you make throughout the product development process.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 25, 2022

They also play a significant role in product development and growth after being launched. They look at listening trends at both the platform level and the individual user level. Over my career, I've done my best to shape my engineering skills to be able to one day work directly in autonomous vehicle technology.

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UX Studio

MARCH 11, 2024

With over 17 years of experience as a designer, he primarily assists others in their career growth by providing thoughtful, concise tips and tricks, whether related to tools or any form of communication. You have surface level: you’re completely dir ected, you are given a solution and you design the solution.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2018

Where SaaS companies get prioritization wrong and a new approach to get it right There are many ways to prioritize what makes it onto your SaaS product roadmap and most of them are incredibly time-consuming and only done by your product teams. We also looked at some other research by Mind the Product and by Richard Banfield.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

I’m sharing my insights and surprising parallels that I encountered during the courses on Systemic Design and Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems. It was a really insightful and encouraging journey through complex systems! Systemic design I’ll not go into details on what systemic design is.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Digital consultancy Red Badger designed and built ShareThyme, a platform to connect generations through cooking, at speed. We considered a number of hot topics, trends, technology and life certainties, and generated 150 ideas. The positive feedback we got was overwhelming, and we knew we had validated our idea.

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UX Studio

JULY 27, 2017

Here we have collected some tips and tricks about international usability research. When I started working at UX studio as a researcher, I was lucky enough to be a member of an international design team on my very first project. Conducting usability research in a different culture can be an exciting experience as well.

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Userpilot

JUNE 3, 2021

I strongly believe that human skills like those listed above are meta skills that are just as essential to product management and leadership as more traditional skills like strategy development, data analytics, roadmap development, etc. I’m a bit of a research nerd. 5 things that I bet you didn’t know about Empathy.

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ProductPlan

JULY 9, 2019

The Americans with Disabilities Act requires accessibility, which includes some digital products and is often a fundamental requirement for large enterprises and any government or government-related operation. Does the funky new app UI strand a user that relies on voice navigation?

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Indicative

MAY 25, 2018

The event featured leaders in tech, media, and government talking about how technology will impact our world. Becoming a data-driven company is about two things; technology and culture. Jewell’s talk was based on Pearson’s research project by the same name, which explored the skills that will be needed most by 2030.

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Userpilot

JULY 14, 2023

We also look at: Different types of analyses to include in your framework How to develop a product analytics framework And, the best product analytics tools. Cohort analysis tracks and compares the in-app behavior of specific user groups over time, providing insights into user retention, engagement , or the impact of product changes.

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freshtrax

JUNE 20, 2022

Adobe Stock is a stock photo service that provides designers, businesses, educational institutions, and government agencies with tens of millions of carefully selected, high-quality royalty-free photos, videos, illustrations, vectors, 3D, and templates that can be used for any creative project. (

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Hackathons, also called hackfests or sometimes codefests, are events for software developers to come up with a demonstrable MVP in a short time based on a particular theme or addressing a certain problem. But I’m a Product Manager, what does this have to do with me?” Since then, the phenomenon has grown wildly. What’s the structure?

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 22, 2022

A lot of research by these firms has gone into understanding how customers make their buying decisions. Grocery store product managers are taking a look at their product development definition and taking control over what goes where on their shelves. However, now things are changing. Product Managers Take Back The Grocery Shelves.

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Product Bookshelf

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Product management takeaways : If you’re responsible for developing a strategy for your company, product, or feature, this book will help you create a good strategy rather than a mashup of vision, goals, and mission. ” Many times, strategy is confused with inspiration or action, which lends it an emotionally positive feeling.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 22, 2019

Here are five quick takeaways: Content design is a young discipline , and the ways in which it’s practiced change so often that people are inventing new rules, tools and approaches all the time. Improv gave me those tools I needed to get along in daily life. Short on time? I was never a great improviser. And that’s it.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 29, 2019

Everything we know about work changes with technology. Then, the invention of technology and modern work required the development of management processes. Projects have explicitly defined targets, along with an exhaustive description of timeframes, tools, teams and any other elements that are required.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 19, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. Using the Lean Canvas is one tool I recommend to help product managers think through the business model while crafting new product concepts. good-products-bad-businesses/.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

There is a framework for almost every stage of our Product development lifecycle, but one of the only transversal things is that we need people to make things happen. We have to develop an appetite for generating fresh ideas. Innovation Being comfortable with novel ideas, approaches, and new information. Change is the only constant.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 28, 2019

Paul Kenny is no stranger to the Business of Software Conference stage. A sales coach with experience working with software companies including Redgate and StackExchange, Paul has a huge amount of experience and insight to share on the process of selling your software. Paul Kenny, Founder, OceanLearning. Upcoming Events.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This is why it’s important to develop this hierarchy consciously. We can highlight certain elements like: size, color, position, texture, form and orientation. We will talk about this more in the chapter about research. And don’t forget to offer a solution. These de facto standard solutions are called conventions.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2018

This collection established a design aesthetic for technology products that is tactile, bold, emotional and undeniably Google. Ivy has also been a contributing author to numerous books, including The Change Champion’s Field Guide and Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organizational Change. Get your workshop tickets.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Known as the Martech 5000 — nicknamed after the 5,000 companies that were competing in the global marketing technology space in 2017, it’s said to be the most frequently shared slide of all time. The reasons for this growth – high-velocity economics of software innovation, the migration of money from old media to new media, etc.

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