Thu.Jun 07, 2018

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Sean Ellis on charting a path toward sustainable growth

Intercom, Inc.

When Sean Ellis joined Dropbox as the company’s first marketer, he was tasked with creating a culture of growth and experimentation. This wasn’t just a line item on a goals sheet; it was written into Sean’s contract. Where Dropbox went from there is well documented. Meanwhile, Sean has used that same approach to growth at LogMeIn, Eventbrite, Lookout and Qualaroo.

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Assumptions, Risks, and Constraints – The Keys to Success

Clever PM

One of the most important parts of being a Product Manager is making sure that your stakeholders and developers understand not only what you’re trying to do, but the surrounding circumstances in which you’re trying to do it. Often, this is a matter of discussing and managing scope; at other times, it’s making sure that people […].

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Strategy in an Agile Environment

The Product Guy

The team makes progress sprint-over-sprint, but how do they know if you are always headed the right direction? Strategy for agile teams is about how they link the high level decisions that leaders make with the day-to-day actions that team members make. In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Strategy in an Agile Environment”.

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Product Leadership at News UK by Jo Wickremasinghe

Mind the Product

The Times and The Sun, flagship brands of News UK, are on a journey to become more product led in how they develop and maintain their digital assets. To move them forward, Jo has introduced product lifecycle thinking, shared KPIs, product portfolios, and a lean process for testing new ideas. Along the way she’s learned that you shouldn’t call yourself an owner, you need to show people, not tell them, get some air cover, and constantly be telling people about your successes.

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Product Management Careers: Job Prospects, Pathways, and Must-Have Skills (2024)

The product management job market in 2024 reflects the fast-growing and ever-evolving nature of the field. For product managers looking to future-proof their careers and take advantage of new opportunities, staying informed about the professional landscape is a smart move. In this comprehensive career guide from Regis College, you’ll learn about: The current job outlook for product managers in 2024 Six professional pathways and the average salaries for these roles in the U.S.

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How I PM: Rose Yao, Director of Product for Google Maps Platform

Amplitude

I’m 99.9% sure Rose Yao’s work has directly affected your life. If you’ve viewed a photo on Facebook, sent an email with Gmail, or used Google Maps to find your way, you’ve interacted with a product Yao has worked on closely. At the 11th hour, she applied for a scholarship that sent her into the vast world of product management. We were so lucky to have Rose on our panel discussion at ROADMAP | SF Product Summit in May.

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Does Every Product Team Need a Data Scientist?

ProductCraft Debates

Product teams are growing and with them a plethora of product suffixes: there are now product managers, owners, designers, analysts, strategists, and others all sitting on product teams. Product managers now also have more adjectives attached to their titles, whether it’s based on their seniority or their field, and as the discipline evolves, so will job.

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How to Determine Product-Market Fit using Cohort Retention Analysis

Aptrinsic

A cohort retention analysis is a helpful tool for product teams to understand how many of their users return to their product and after what period of time. In this article we’ll cover four specific questions you can answer using a cohort retention analysis, “has my product achieved product market fit?”, “what is my window of opportunity to deliver an aha moment to my users?

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2018 Revulytics Software Piracy Statistics and Thoughts on the BSA Global Software Survey

Revulytics

BSA | The Software Alliance recently released its 2018 Global Software Survey and I thought it would be useful to review some of the findings and their implications for software vendors and end user organizations. The commercial value of unlicensed software globally is $46.3 billion, and 37% of software installed on personal computers is unlicensed.

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When, why and how often to use NPS

Aptrinsic

The NPS or Net Promoter Score survey is a method of measuring your customers’ overall satisfaction with your company’s product or service and a proxy for brand loyalty. The survey itself is simple. Customers are asked one single question, “On a scale of 0–10, how likely are you to recommend this company’s product or service to a friend or colleague?

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From Developer Experience to Product Experience: How a Shared Focus Fuels Product Success

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

As a concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry. It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. As product managers, we need to understand how a good DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction.