Mon.Sep 25, 2017

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The Best Product Management Tools That Will Save You Time

UX Studio: Product Management

After our team at UX Studio started using product management tools, the time spent on communication surprisingly decreased. We all hate email : endless exchanges with our colleagues to reach decisions… We’ve all seen that. As a product manager, you know the drill. Coordinating designer and developer teams simultaneously while reporting to the boss via email becomes a drag.

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What Can Product Managers Learn From Japanese Cigarettes?

The Accidental Product Manager

Is there an opportunity to enter the U.S. market for cigarettes? Image Credit: flickr.com/volver-avanzar !!! No matter how you personally feel about smoking, you have got to admit that the market for cigarettes is huge. You can hardly go into a gas station without being confronted with an entire wall of different brands of cigarettes all of which have just slightly different product development definitions.

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TEI 143: Organization performance improvement for product managers – with Adam Cohen

Product Innovation Educators

Product managers can create a better organization. Product management is the economic engine of society. It drives value creation. Without products, whether they be a tangible item like consumer goods, such as toothpaste, a service such as Uber, a checking account, or any other product form, the economic system we enjoy would not exist. It is through innovation — the creation of new products — that value is created for customers and for organizations.

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Day of reckoning, design sprint day 5

Product Warrior

I was nervous, would the investment of 40 man days, including two of the exec, turn out to be a waste of time? As we entered into the last day of the design sprint there was a sense of excitement coupled with a feeling of sadness knowing it's the last day the sprint team would be working together. As it was our first design sprint at Tes, and I had initiated it, I simply hoped we would end the day with good learnings.

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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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In Product Management, soft skills lead to hard lessons

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: Jince Kuruvilla (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Rishi Kumar]. Regret, sorrow, disappointment – not all team check-ins and spec reviews end like this, but for a while, most of mine did. I mean, I was nearly a year into my first real Product Management position and I still didn’t feel like I knew what I was doing!

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Using Embedded Analytics to Drive Revenue

Mind the Product

Five years ago, including embedded analytics in an application was a powerful way for product teams to differentiate their applications, reduce customer churn, and charge more for their products. Users were thrilled with the bells and whistles of charts, graphs, and dashboards in the applications they already used, and they were often willing to pay more for these business intelligence (BI) capabilities.

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Jake Knapp convinced me to run a design sprint

Product Warrior

Have you heard of “design sprints”, have you tried to run one? Was is a total waste of time? I had read about the design sprint concept, it sounded great. A few years ago, before I worked at Tes, I decided to try it. Unfortunately the outcome was far from great, so when Jake Knapp (creator of design sprints) was listed to present at the conference Mind The Product 2017 I was not excited.

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Why You Need a Collaborative Product Roadmap

Hutwork

Your product roadmap is critical to conveying strategy and vision to those who need to know. Sales, marketing, engineering, production, customer support, executives are all stakeholders, including the end-user or customer. When referring to a collaborative product roadmap , it’s not necessary that everyone should be able to edit and change it.

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