A Product Manager’s Guide to Saying no
Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
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Thinking About “Beating” a Team’s Goal
Johanna Rothman
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Shaun's comment on Measure Cycle Time, Not Velocity suggested a team might be better off measuring both cycle time and velocity. Why? For two reasons: “Beating” the last sprint goal. Assisting the PO in a forecast of when things might be done. Let's examine these ideas. Clarify Story Points. Why even bother with story points? (If you haven't read the original ideas, as in Essential XP: Card, Conversation, Confirmation, please do.).
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Five Ways to Make the Most of Your Product Conference Experience
ProductCraft
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Eat beforehand. Get there early. Bring a notebook. Don’t forget your business cards. There are a lot of suggestions out there about best practices for attending a product conference. Events like these can be really valuable for everything from making connections to learning about new tools to expanding your professional horizons. However, they’re also a.
Announcing the next AMA – with Jason Fried, Basecamp Founder and CEO.
NextBigWhat
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Ladies and Gentlemen: The core philosophy behind NextBigWhat community is to enable you to build, grow (and repeat ) – meaningfully and sustainably. Our weekly AMA sessions deliver a lot more insights, perspectives and actionable wisdom from some of the best global product leaders. We are extremely happy to announce the next AMA – with none other than Jason Fried, founder and CEO of Basecamp.
How To Get Promoted In Product Management
Speaker: John Mansour
If you're looking to advance your career in product management, there are more options than just climbing the management ladder. Join our upcoming webinar to learn about highly rewarding career paths that don't involve management responsibilities. We'll cover both career tracks and provide tips on how to position yourself for success in the one that's right for you.
Starbucks Product Managers Try To Get Their Customers To Come Back Later
The Accidental Product Manager
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Afternoon visitors are what Starbucks needs in order to continue to grow Image Credit: kmf164. Clearly product managers at the Starbucks coffee chain have no problems getting customers to drop by their stores in the morning and purchase coffee. However, as is the case with product managers everywhere, the Starbucks product managers are under pressure to keep growing the firm’s profits.
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Scrum in 1000 words for PMs and POs
The Product Coalition
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
A featherlight explanation that captures the essence of Scrum for Product Managers and Product Owners. According to the Scrum Guide: Scrum is a process framework for solving complex problems. We can rewrite this as: Scrum is a lightweight process for solving problems where you initially lack enough information to solve them. Scrum is a process, albeit with very few rules.
TEI 246: Spur your creativity with these ideation tools – with Chad McAllister, PhD
Product Innovation Educators
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
How product managers generate new ideas and solve problems in a meaningful, productive way. If your go-to tool for generating ideas with a group is traditional brainstorming, it is time to learn some new tools. Ideation tools are specifically for generating new ideas, such as ways to create additional value for customers, how a problem could be solved, or exploring directions for radical innovation.
2020 Product Management Priorities; Product Management Excellence E-book
Good Product Manager
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Last Chance: Product Management Leader priorities survey. As part of some ongoing research I’m leading at SiriusDecisions to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of b-to-b product management organizations, we’re conducting a short 5-question survey of product management leaders to gather more data on their challenges and priorities. We conducted a similar survey in 2014, so this will allow us to see trends and changes over the past five years.
4 Reasons You Must Use Metrics to Determine Feature Decisions
ProductPlan
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Any good goal is measurable, so organizations with properly defined objectives will establish metrics and KPIs to track their progress and momentum. KPIs attach measurability to what matters most and provide a North Star for the entire organization. A quick glance at the stats tells you if things are getting better, worse or standing pat, which is far more efficient and consistent than other, more subjective methods.
Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Co-worker conflicts
Nulab
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
As much as we’d all like to think high school cafeterias are far different from the offices we go to every day, at the root, they have a lot in common. A building full of a diverse group of people with different personalities coming together for a common goal applies to each scenario, and, given the variety, there is bound to be conflict. While the workplace relies heavily on teamwork and cohesiveness , dealing with co-workers is one of the most common obstacles.
What are few things a Product Manager should do at a new firm?
NextBigWhat
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Every business is a mathematical function. Master the variables and you are golden. Eg: A super simplified example. Rate of growth of revenue for Netflix = (rate of growth of new users – rate of churn) x pricing. It’s your standard mathematical form of f(g(x)), really. So I strongly recommend understanding the levers of growth of the company you have joined.
4 Phases of a Successful One-on-One with Your Product Team
ProductPlan
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
We are excited to welcome guest writer Carlos González de Villaumbrosia to the ProductPlan blog. Carlos González de Villaumbrosia is the Founder of Product School, originally based in San Francisco. Product School was founded in 2014 and now maintains 20 campuses around the world where they offer certifications in Product Management. They organize events discussing innovations in the software and technology space.
How Levels.fyi Brought Salary Transparency to the Tech Industry
PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Jacob interviews Zuhayeer , co-founder of Levels.fyi, to discuss careers in tech, launching MVPs, and negotiating salaries. J: What motivated you to build and launch Levels.fyi ? Z: Around 2 years ago, my co-founder Zaheer and I were chatting about what I'd do after college. I was looking at companies to apply to and had just joined an app called Blind (an anonymous community forum for chatting about the workplace).
Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them
Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst
We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.
Cost Differentiators: Resource Dodgers - Harness the Power of Idle Assets
Strategyzer
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
In our upcoming book, The Invincible Company , we investigate a series of business model mechanics that have propelled companies to success.
The Most Common UX Writing Mistakes (And How To Avoid Them)
Userpilot
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Recently, more and more SaaS companies have started to see the value in great UX writing. The copy that you use in your product (often referred to as “microcopy”) can have a dramatic effect on your users. We’re going to look at some of the biggest UX writing mistakes you can make. Great microcopy often goes unnoticed. That’s because it blends so effortlessly with the product.
?Tracking ‘One Metric That Matters’ (OMTM)
The Product Coalition
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Ever looked at your analytics dashboard and wondered “what am I going to do with this torrent of data thrown at me? How will I make sense of and act on all these numbers popping out daily?” Well, we tend to track everything from cradle to grave and it is absolutely impossible to work on every metric simultaneously. Moreover, it’s not even necessary to do so.
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