Mind the Product

JUNE 10, 2019

Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, here I am, Stuck in the middle with you. Stealers Wheel, 1973. Martin Eriksson made famous the diagram below, showing how product managers are at the cross-section of business, tech, and UX (by the way, I’m not implying any of these groups are clowns or jokers). The first time I saw this diagram I thought: “That’s awesome, it shows product right at the heart of everything, the lynchpin of the whole organisation.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 10, 2019

How product managers should combine flexibility and rigor in an agile stage-gate process. Just about every organization I have worked with this year wants more agility in their product management processes. They want to get new products to market faster and release enhanced versions in less time. Product managers and leaders are feeling the pressure.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 10, 2019

I listened to The Ultimate Metric: Identifying the Right Problems to Solve. The guest, Janelle Klein, said: Technical debt is not a loan. I thought that was brilliant. She went on to explain that when we talk about “debt” managers think they have dials to manage the debt. Uh oh. Wrong. When managers think in cost accounting terms, such as mortgages, they think they can: Predict the cost of maintaining that debt, in both money and time.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 10, 2019

Thank you to everyone who attended the latest roundtable meet-up of The Product Group and discussed Product Managing Up and debated Featured Product, Grailed … And, also, thank you to our awesome sponsors who make everything possible…

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Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 10, 2019

In this ProductTank London talk, Claire Parker describes how the Financial Times built internal tools for editorial use by using a product development approach. She covers how this has grown over the years and discusses the ways in which the FT has helped other companies to grow through partnerships and collaborative projects. Four years ago, the FT built a newsroom analytics tool to see how customers engaged with its news stories.

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First Round Review

JUNE 10, 2019

Onboarding is so much more than the standard-issue IT set-up: It's the foundation for how new hires settle into their roles and their future at the company. We gathered perspectives on how to prime your newest employees for success.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 10, 2019

Dungeons & Dragons might be the most fun way to exercise some of the most important muscles that Product Managers need Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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ProductBoard

JUNE 10, 2019

When you think of release notes, you may think of those few bullet points you see right before you upgrade your iPhone to the latest and greatest iOS. Something along the lines of: Now supports Dark Mode Fixes an issue where using the unicorn Animoji while blinking your right eye causes a complete network outage Bug fixes While Apple writes relatively sparse notes, they have the benefit of their.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 10, 2019

Background Machine learning and data mining seem to be all the rage these days in web-tech circles. Looking back though, there is nothing actually new or cutting edge about the science behind these terms. They’ve been around since the 1960s and were used to get us to the moon. At their core, machine learning and data mining are rooted in simple statistics equations created to assess large data sets in order to find patterns and make predictions.

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BrainMates

JUNE 10, 2019

By Terri Soller, Managing Director Conversus Leaders. With Google showing three billion hits for the term “leadership”, why do we find this so interesting? Sitting in an airport lounge googling leadership surrounded by suited up business leaders all doing important work in the world. Work that impacts many people, often beyond their direct line of sight.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 10, 2019

“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”?—? Dwight D. Eisenhower Credit: quotefancy We want to know everything, us humans. We don’t like surprises. We want certainty. So much so that we often get obsessed with predicting the future?—? don’t believe me? How often do you check the weather forecast?

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Emerge Insights

JUNE 10, 2019

Digital products and services are increasingly becoming a competitive necessity. However, a significant number of businesses today are faced with an unanticipated and very costly challenge. Evaluating product ownership is a crucial component of your digital product strategy, and many companies don’t own their product at all. You might find this statement provocative or utterly […].

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 10, 2019

The foundational decisions that shape data science products Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 10, 2019

David Barrett, Founder/CEO, Expensify. Growth is often measured in terms of market share, customers or revenue, with the onus on marketing and sales to grow the business. Expensify however, has become the fastest-growing ERP software in the world not by growing the sales or marketing teams, but by developing a uniquely user-driven product. In this talk from BoS USA 2017, Expensify Founder/CEO David Barrett shares his insights on building product-led growth, and what it means to create a produc

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Dear Strategy

JUNE 10, 2019

On this week’s episode, host Bob Caporale , founder of Strategy Generation Company and author of Creative Strategy Generation , answers the following TWO questions: Dear Strategy: “Who decides the strategy, and should it be confidential?”. AND. “Should strategy start at the ‘top’ or be a product management-level decision?”. Read The Full Blog Post.

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Piyanka Jain

JUNE 10, 2019

What Google’s and Salesforce’s respective acquisition of Looker and Tableau Software means for CIO’s The BI analytics tool space is consolidating to compete against Microsoft’s ensemble of Business Analytics(BA) products which promises to solve for the entire workflow?—?data generation, data capture, data storage, data access stratified by persona and data visualization.

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Dear Strategy

JUNE 10, 2019

Dear Strategy: “Who decides the strategy, and should it be confidential? AND “Should strategy start at the ‘top’ or be a product management-level decision?”. . Although these were two different questions submitted by two different individuals, I felt that they were related enough to answer them together. The main theme here has to do with where a strategy should be owned within a company; so that’s the bulk of what I’m going to focus on in this post.

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 10, 2019

Chp 4 / 17?—?How to Create User Personas & Customer Journey Mapping Prev?—? Chapter 3: User Research?—?Learning about users & their needs Next ?—? Chapter 5: How to Create Unique Value Proposition [Back to Product Management 101 ] The user is central to all your efforts. The first step to understanding your user is to conduct research about your user and gather information.This may leave you with mountains of data about the user including their background, motivation goals, and needs.

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Michael J. Fordham

JUNE 10, 2019

You raise a fair point and I agree, at the time nobody considered an original iPhone screen to be “tiny”, however I emphasised the size more due to the design challenges from taking an app/website from desktop to mobile. Designers had to put elements that would easily fit onto a desktop layout somewhere in this mobile landscape which didn’t have as much screen real-estate, so I was suggesting that components like the hamburger menu were an answer to that problem as it allowed for a lot of option

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2019

Elasticsearch is a core technology at Intercom. It powers everything from article, conversation and user search to reporting, billing, message delivery and even our internal log management and analytics. Because Elasticserach has been at the core of Intercom for a long time , upgrading it is a challenging problem. Any version upgrade needs to be completely invisible to our customers.

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Userpilot

JUNE 10, 2019

Product led growth marketing is like the business equivalent of really great storytelling. And that is ? Show don’t tell. That’s why we wouldn’t dare tell you what product-led growth marketing is or how to do it. Instead, we’re going to show you how to drive it in your role as head of growth or product marketer. What is product led growth marketing.

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