Thu.Aug 02, 2018

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The #1 Answer in Product: It Depends

Mind the Product

The internet lends itself to binary positions: you’re either for something or against it, advocating it or decrying it. It’s not just Twitter’s 280 characters that limit us to this black and white thinking, most blog posts and conference talks seem to follow the same trend. And I’m not even talking about politics. Waterfall vs Agile. Qualitative research vs Quantitative data.

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Sometimes Failure is the Best Result

Clever PM

As a Product Manager, it’s in our bones to always do the best job possible, to deliver the best product possible, and to satisfy the most customers possible. But what if I told you that by always succeeding, we’re actually hampering ourselves? While it might feel good to hit a home run every time you […].

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Planning: Risk Management to Manage Uncertainty

Johanna Rothman

Many organizations plan to create certainty, guarantees of some variety. What if we thought about agile planning as a way to manage uncertainty? When I look at long roadmaps with all the “must-do” feature sets and the pressure managers put on teams to commit to delivery, I wonder about this question: How well do we understand the problems we want to solve?

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Mobile Product Manager vs. Mobile Product Owner

Alchemer Mobile

Agile teams have a lot of moving parts, and it can be difficult to understand where product responsibilities fall across team members. And a mobile product manager or mobile product owner role can be difficult for only one person to take on. Mobile product managers spend time straddling two worlds: the external customer’s world and the internal team’s world.

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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.

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What Is Value-Based Pricing?

Pragmatic Marketing

Value-Based Pricing (VBP) means to charge what your customers are willing to pay (WTP). This is a simple concept to understand and probably impossible to implement. Every buyer has a different WTP. Perfect VBP implies we can read each buyer’s mind and charge them that one price exactly equal to their WTP. Using today’s technology, this is still impossible.

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What Is Value-Based Pricing?

Pragmatic Marketing

Value-Based Pricing (VBP) means to charge what your customers are willing to pay (WTP). This is a simple concept to understand and probably impossible to implement. Every buyer has a different WTP. Perfect VBP implies we can read each buyer’s mind and charge them that one price exactly equal to their WTP. Using today’s technology, this is still impossible.

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What Is the Most Effective Way to Interview Product Managers?

ProductCraft Debates

Interviewing product managers is tricky business: how do you cover all the bases for a position so sprawling? The sense that that product managers need to be good at everything makes it incredibly difficult to actually assess their abilities. In this week’s poll we asked you what you think is the most effective method to. The post What Is the Most Effective Way to Interview Product Managers?

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A brief guide to user experience maps in all their various forms

Userzoom

In which we discuss customer journeys and the many ways we can map them in order to make sense of our users’ experiences. In researching this article about creating different experience maps – mainly by sending OJ, our ace head of social, into the UX Slack channel and asking them what they think – we came across the following terms… Customer journey maps.

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Enterprise Products - Roadmap Planning and Development Methodology

Effective Roadmap Planning and Development Process for Enterprise Products

Roadmap Planning process Unlike Consumer products, you have two different types of audience to satisfy in Enterprise world, namely Buyer and User Persona. It’s very important to have a very clear definition of these persona constructs to the most precise form. Ex: If you categorize Buyer persona as just an executive, it’s not going to help. You need to be precise, if it’s the CEO, CFO, VP – Sales, CMO, etc… You need to know as what ROI this user looks out to buy the product and continue to stay

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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What is product excellence?

ProductBoard

Product excellence defined Product excellence is the name of an approach to product management that emphasizes getting the right products to market faster through deep user insight, a clear product strategy, and coherent roadmap. Its name derives from the end goal shared by product managers who strive to make products that matter – products that make a difference in the work, and lives, of users.

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Product Discovery is a Team Sport

The Product Coalition

Discovery is arguably the most important part of modern product management. It’s the secret sauce for how to build great products that your customers will love. It’s also one of the most exciting and rewarding parts of the role. Marty Cagan began championing the concept and its importance over a decade ago. Here are his definition and criteria all the back from 2007: First, you need to discover whether there are real users out there that want this product.

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Upcoming Presentations in Denver and Cleveland; Product Management and Boards

Good Product Manager

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy writing and doing other things related to product management, of course — here’s an update! August 8 in Denver: Product Strategy on a Page. Next Wednesday, August 8, I’ll be in Denver to present at a meeting of Colorado Product , being held at General Assembly Denver.

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Optimizely’s Claire Vo on the power of product experimentation

Intercom, Inc.

If you ask Claire Vo to describe product managers with one adjective, it’s greedy. It’s a term that Claire, VP of Product Management at Optimizely , uses endearingly. After all, PMs want more adoption for their product and more usage of their features, and it’s that greed that drives them to continuously experiment with new and better solutions.

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How to Build an Experimentation Culture for Data-Driven Product Development

Speaker: Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product, Statsig

Experimentation is often seen as an aspirational practice, especially at smaller, fast-moving companies who are strapped for time and resources. So, how can you get your team making decisions in a more data-driven way while continuing to remain lean and maintaining ship velocity? In this webinar, Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product at Statsig, will teach you how to build an experimentation culture from the ground-up, graduating from just getting started with data-driven development to operating

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Upcoming Presentations in Denver and Cleveland; Product Management and Boards

Good Product Manager

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy writing and doing other things related to product management, of course — here’s an update! August 8 in Denver: Product Strategy on a Page. Next Wednesday, August 8, I’ll be in Denver to present at a meeting of Colorado Product , being held at General Assembly Denver.