Mon.Apr 13, 2020

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Christina Wodtke: Working with Mindfulness and Compassion

Mind the Product

Christina Wodtke’s path to her current standing as an established authority on the attributes of high-performing teams and the use of OKRs has been a roundabout one. As she puts it: “I took the scenic route.”. Today she’s a lecturer in the computer science department at Stanford University, teaching a range of classes in HCI (Human-Computer Interaction), as well as being a best-selling author and an international speaker.

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Why This Global Disrupiton Is A Catalyst To Product-Led Growth

Gainsight

5 Ways to calibrate your product & GTM strategy with Product-led growth. It feels like someone pulled the plug on the world’s economy and we’re on the verge of a downturn. As humans, during times of uncertainty, our mindset is quickly changing towards short-term goals and sustainability. The market instantly becomes volatile and companies are focusing on the fundamental business metrics.

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The Four Keys to Data-Informed Product Management

ProductCraft

Product leadership requires exceptional decision-making skills. Depending on your team culture and environment, the number and difficulty of these decisions can vary. In agile development paradigms, key product decisions are made more frequently, with each sprint requiring clear action items. On decentralized/globalized development teams, product decisions tend to be more complicated.

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Coronavirus Business Impact: A Startup Disaster or a Big Opportunity to Innovate

The Product Coalition

Probably, not so many of us are talking about it, although the web is crowded with discussions sparkling around the novel coronavirus outbreak. How will it look like?—?the Postcoronavirus Business World? How many startups will survive the COVID-19 economic crisis ? How not to give up during the global crisis ? And what’s most important?—?what are the undeniable reasons proving that the “ black swan of 2020 ” can be not only a big business disaster but also a big opportunity ?

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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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Pivoting Your Product Line for the Greater Good: Lessons from New Balance, Dyson and Others

Pragmatic Marketing

It is no longer uncommon for companies around the world to cease production on the products that made them famous in favor of manufacturing tools needed to fight COVID-19. Since before the virus was declared a global pandemic, companies were shifting gears to meet the exploding need for formerly commonplace objects like hand sanitizer, protective face masks and disinfectants. “The demand is so great, that we’re not prepared for the supply,” said Gretchen Hover, co-founder and m

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The Difference between Impact Mapping and… – Product Thoughts #164

Tim Herbig

Over the years, I’ve developed and refined my own interpretation of Impact Mapping (learn more about that here). But especially during my training and talks, I often get questions about how Impact Mapping relates to other frameworks out there. So, this email is an attempt to clarify some of these questions. Both, from my perspective, … Continue reading "The Difference between Impact Mapping and… – Product Thoughts #164".

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TEI 278: Creating the courage to succeed at anything – with 4-decade Olympian Ruben Gonzalez

Product Innovation Educators

How anyone can persevere and reach their goals even in difficult times. The Everyday Innovator Online Summit recently ended. It was April 8-10, 2020. The speakers were absolutely incredible! Twenty-five top experts shared their strategies, practices, and tips to help product managers and product VPs gain higher performance and get more success. You can still get the wisdom they provided.

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Product Managers Get Familiar With Microbrands

The Accidental Product Manager

Microbrands are changing how new products can be introduced Image Credit: Vektorlogo. As product managers, the one thing that I believe that most of us feel that we have a pretty good handle on is how new products are created and introduced. I mean, we’ve worked at companies where this was probably part of our job and so we’ve had to sit through all of the planning meetings, review designs, work with sales, and find ways to get the product actually manufactured.

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April 14: “Ask Us Everything” with Steve Portigal

Mironov Consulting

What: “Ask Us Everything with Rich and Steve” live, open discussion. When: April 14, 10:00 am Pacific. Where: Google Hangout. Topics: leadership, product management, design, user research, everything! Steve Portigal is a veteran user researcher who helps companies harness the strategic power of insights, and author of two important books in the space: Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights and Doorbells, Danger, and Dead Batteries: User Research War Stories.

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Platform Product Management Beyond Features: Introducing B-MAP for Platform Ecosystem Success

Traditional PM struggles with the complexities of platform ecosystems. B-MAP framework tackles this challenge. B-MAP goes beyond features, focusing on building, managing, adapting, and partnering to foster a thriving platform ecosystem.

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Choosing User Research Projects that Drive Product Strategy

UserInterviews

How to choose the right research projects to drive change at the right time.

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Product Managers: Are Your Building for Users or People?

Izenda

People vs Users. Aren’t they just different names for the same thing? Most probably don’t consider the differences between the two. But for product managers, it’s worth thinking about. Especially if you consider how using one over the other can influence product development. And it’s been debated before. In 2012, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey even urged the tech industry as a whole to completely abandon the term “user.

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It's Time to Double Down on Service Marketing to Mitigate Churn

TSIA

The service marketing leader is someone who can rally colleagues and customers to think creatively about your company’s service offerings and brand. They collaborate with your services portfolio or services product leader to craft and execute launches, and create content to promote the service offers. The position focuses on understanding the service portfolio, its aspects and competitive advantages, and how it creates business benefits and improved outcomes for your customers.They then tr

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Balancing Dreams with Plans

Dear Strategy

On this episode of Dear Strategy, we analyze the stories of two failed ventures – Theranos and the Fyre Festival. Both of these stories started with big dreams and ended in scandal. So how can leaders tell when their own lofty goals are actually bordering on becoming lofty lies? And what should they do about it? I’m a pretty conservative person. Not exactly in a political way (although not exactly not either), but in the way that I am actually quite reserved when it comes to taking risks, puttin

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Driving Business Impact for PMs

Speaker: Jon Harmer, Product Manager for Google Cloud

Move from feature factory to customer outcomes and drive impact in your business! This session will provide you with a comprehensive set of tools to help you develop impactful products by shifting from output-based thinking to outcome-based thinking. You will deepen your understanding of your customers and their needs as well as identifying and de-risking the different kinds of hypotheses built into your roadmap.

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Why the Product Manager Should Also Play Dumb

Bain Public

According to Alpha’s 2020 Product Management Insights Report , product management has entered the c-suite. As product management influences more high-level decisions and business strategies, partner alignment/collaboration becomes key. Yet the time and rigor required to gather/validate consumer insights are often at odds with the agility required to maneuver internal politics, leaving a huge window of opportunity for improved collaboration between c-suite executives and product teams.

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Changing the Wheels on a Moving Car: 4 Keys to Managing CSM Transitions

Gainsight

There is an old joke: A car mechanic was performing routine service for his trusted client, a cardiac surgeon, while the surgeon waited in the lounge. At the end of it, while settling the bill, the mechanic turned to the cardiac surgeon and said “I don’t know why you are paid so much more than me, doc. Both of us change valves on an engine”. The surgeon smiled and replied “True.

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What Is Your Best Interview Question for Product Leaders?

Fearless Product

Are you seeking a new product leader role? Or are you a CEO trying to hire a product leader? In this episode, you’ll learn how 6 experienced product leaders interview candidates for product leader roles, what they're looking to learn, and what great answers sound like. Episode transcripts with more resources can be found at Fearless Product Leadership Podcast.

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Pivoting Your Product Line for the Greater Good: Lessons from New Balance, Dyson and Others

Pragmatic Marketing

It is no longer uncommon for companies around the world to cease production on the products that made them famous in favor of manufacturing tools needed to fight COVID-19. Since before the virus was declared a global pandemic, companies were shifting gears to meet the exploding need for formerly commonplace objects like hand sanitizer, protective face masks and disinfectants. “The demand is so great, that we’re not prepared for the supply,” said Gretchen Hover, co-founder and m

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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What Is Your Best Interview Question for Product Leaders?

Fearless Product

Are you seeking a new product leader role? Or are you a CEO trying to hire a product leader? In this episode, you’ll learn how 6 experienced product leaders interview candidates for product leader roles, what they're looking to learn, and what great answers sound like. Episode transcripts with more resources can be found at Fearless Product Leadership Podcast.

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You Need to Take a Break— If You Love Data, These 5 Podcasts Will Help

Indicative

Our eyes need rest — so do our brains. Tech professionals who spend their workdays analyzing data, searching for information, learning about processes, writing reports, reading information, and troubleshooting problems are particularly prone to mental fatigue. . The biggest lesson that many of us have learned in the first months of 2020 is that no matter how advanced our society has become due to the availability of technology, we cannot outsmart our physiology.

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What Is Your Best Interview Question for Product Leaders?

Fearless Product

Are you seeking a new product leader role? Or are you a CEO trying to hire a product leader? In this episode, you’ll learn how 6 experienced product leaders interview candidates for product leader roles, what they're looking to learn, and what great answers sound like. Episode transcripts with more resources can be found at Fearless Product Leadership Podcast.