Mon.Oct 05, 2020

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Product Roadmap First Principles

The Product Coalition

It’s Product Roadmap Building Time Again! The end of 2020 is nearing and it’s product roadmap building time again?—?at least for those companies that are still dedicated to the old command-and-control model. In the next few weeks, executives and (key) stakeholders will come together and define new functionality that they believe will meet business demands in 2021.

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Building health-tech products when the rules are still being written, by Joe Rinaldi Johnson

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank London talk, Joe Rinaldi Johnson shares what he’s learned in 10 years of navigating the challenging and highly regulated field of healthcare. He is the Chief Product Officer at Zava, a digital healthcare company offering remote diagnosis and prescriptions. If you, like Joe, feel there is a lack of resources about product management in [.].

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Why Do Product Discovery?

The Product Coalition

Many teams and organisations jump into build mode too early. Then they build something that customers reject, they miss the mark, or they need extra budget to get it there. When you suggest a Product Discovery as a way to help get better results it gets rejected. This article is a way to answer the question: “Why do Product Discovery?” In its simplest form, the core reason for doing a Product Discovery is to increase your level of certainty that you’re addressing the right problem, for the right

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TEI 303: A case study for getting the right people on a product team – with Teresa Jurgens-Kowal, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can increase team performance by understanding Team Dimensions. The only thing better than hearing about how an organization improved their product management and innovation capability is sharing it with The Everyday Innovators! I was talking with Teresa Jurgens-Kowal about innovation culture and she shared some work she recently did with an organization that is building their ability to innovate products.

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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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Why You Should Consider a Soft Launch

The Product Coalition

After 2 months of hard work, we were super happy to show the world Airbyte ‘s MVP on September 24th. When we say MVP, we mean it. Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that syncs data from applications, APIs & DBs to warehouses. So our value proposition is directly correlated to the number of connectors we have. On MVP launch date, we only had 3 source connectors and 3 destination ones.

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3 Overlooked Product Skills That Set Apart Leaders from Managers

The Product Coalition

Don’t wait for leadership to happen. Self-lead instead. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Product Ease and the Art of Trapeze: CPO Lessons From Shawna Wolverton of Zendesk

Gainsight

When Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight, interviews company leaders, he often asks them about their favorite games or hobbies. Some play poker or proudly announce their skill in Monopoly. However, when Nick chatted with Shawna Wolverton, EVP of Product of Zendesk , she declared her hobby as the static trapeze. Shawna is one of the many insightful CPOs we have hosted during our Path to Becoming a CPO series.

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Product Operations: Unlock Your Product Team’s Full Potential

The Product Coalition

Building great products is hard. It’s even harder when product managers and engineers are bogged down with work that distracts them from their highest leverage activities of identifying problems and building products people want to use to solve those problems. To unburden their teams, companies like Facebook, Google, and others have turned to product operations, whose job is to help product teams achieve better outcomes.

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Product Positioning Strategy In Economic Volatility: Lessons From The Obviously Awesome April Dunford

Gainsight

It began with a question. April Dunford sat in the back of a marketing class at Northwestern University in Chicago, where her professor gave an example of a product positioning statement. April described it as a “Mad Libs” fill in the blank exercise. . If my product IS a (blank) and my competitors are (blank), then I’m a (blank), UNLIKE (blank) that does or PROVIDES (blank), and this is my benefit (blank). .

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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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Brian Crofts: Product People Are The Future Business People

The Product Coalition

Brian Crofts , over the years, has had a lot of time to unpack what it means to build amazing products. With his unique ability to build great products with analytics ; joining Pendo as their Chief Product Officer made perfect sense for his career. Brian Crofts, Chief Product Officer at Pendo However, for Brian ?—?product management is more than just a career.

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The Number One Quality For Success As A Customer Success Manager

Gainsight

Being in a Customer Success role in Gainsight, a Customer Success company, is akin to being an English professor at Oxford. For a good reason, there is a magnifying glass on us all the time. It also continually pushes us to strive to become better than yesterday and get inspired by the business’s best everywhere. Since my role as a CSM requires me to meet many talented peers in the customer success industry (our end users are often CSMs), I started looking for qualities that make a CSM a superst

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Which Product Managers Are Thriving In A Covid-19 World?

The Accidental Product Manager

Product Managers Who Use Robots Are Doing Well Image Credit: Timothy Neesam. Who among us could have predicted a Covid-19 pandemic would change our world in the ways that it has? I’d be willing to guess that the answer to that question is none of us. However, as much of setback as these turns of events have been, there are some product managers who are doing well even now.

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How Product Teams Can Use Their Community to Close the Customer Feedback Loop

Gainsight

Why should you involve your customers and users in the Product feedback and ideation process? Getting customer feedback isn’t a new concept. Your users interact with your product all day to solve their challenges, achieve their goals, and execute their work. Who could be better suited to give you real insights into the way you’ve built the software and the possible gaps there might be that are making their workdays harder?

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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.