ProductCraft

MARCH 4, 2019

For 30 minutes three times a week, the team at 15Five gets together for all-hands meetings. Wednesdays start with a 5-minute meditation. And Fridays are reserved for questions and storytelling—the opportunity to connect as human beings working toward the same goal. If that seems like a lot of getting together for a software company of. The post Building and Managing an Effective Remote Product Team appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 4, 2019

Maps are the Foundations on which Adventures are Built. When I was a little boy, I truly loved all things pirate. Even as an adult, I very much enjoyed reading pirate books with my children. One of them even came with a separate treasure map that could be unfolded to discover a hidden treasure. Coming up with a set of tools to capture important strategic decisions reminded me of treasure maps: It should guide you to product success, bearing in mind that not all treasure is silver and gold, as Ca

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 4, 2019

How can you make sure, on a Monday, you’re doing the right things all week long – not just as an individual, but as a manager, across your team and organization? How do you help your team focus and make meaningful progress, so that at the end of the week, you go home knowing you spent energy on the most important work? Finding the answers to these questions and putting them into practice is critical to scaling your impact as a manager and individual.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 4, 2019

Mona Patel is the customer experience expert behind the UX-led innovation and design company Motivate Design. She uses her knowledge of design research and ergonomics to deliver “mind-spinning” solutions to companies with customer-related research problems. But how does she spin their minds? How does she find the insights inside their data? She naturalises the research contexts.

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Speaker: Jason Tanner

While growth of software-enabled solutions generates momentum, growth alone is not enough to ensure sustainability. The probability of success dramatically improves with early planning for profitability. A sustainable business model contains a system of interrelated choices made not once but over time. Join this webinar for an iterative approach to ensuring solution, economic and relationship sustainability.

Development

First Round Review

MARCH 4, 2019

Punit Soni cut his teeth as a product leader at large companies such Google, Motorola and Flipkart before venturing out on his own to found Suki, a healthcare startup. Here, he shares his observations on the differences between the two experiences, noting what surprised him, what he felt unprepared for, and what aspiring entrepreneurs should consider as they look to make a similar leap from big to small.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 4, 2019

Hamsa Pillai is a senior at Duke University and will be heading off in the fall to join Google as an Associate Product Manager. In this Path to PM blog post, Hamsa and Stephen discuss how to ace the undergraduate associate product management interview. Tell us about your current PM career. I’m still a senior in college at Duke, but I’m going to be an associate product manager (APM) at Google starting this fall.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 4, 2019

I just finished a series for my Pragmatic Manager newsletter about Agile Transformation Secrets: Part 1: Manage for Change. Part 2: Emphasize Collaboration. Part 3: Principles Over Practices. I wrote this series because I find that many people get a little confused about an agile transformation. They think an agile approach will work because they can predict and commit better.

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ProductBoard

MARCH 4, 2019

Scott Baldwin is someone who absolutely enjoys life. In our eBook, The Path to Product Excellence: Stories and Advice from the Field, Scott talks about his most delightful day, which includes a jazz-filled evening with wine and friends. As a product manager, he’s also always on the lookout for how to replicate that sense of delight in the products he builds.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 4, 2019

Product managers need to be aware of the impact of changes to their product Image Credit: Monito – Money Transfer Co. As product managers, the one thing that we’d all like to have is more customers. We dream of the day that we’ve created a product development definition that will cause our customers think about our product and then as quickly as they can take action to get their hands on it.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2019

The surprising ways middle managers can drive innovation and product management. I love hearing how companies improve their innovation capabilities and foster a culture of innovation. Anytime I hear such stories, I always find lessons for how other organizations can also improve their capability. In my experience, this best occurs by enabling the largest number of employees to participate in innovation activities.

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Business Acumen Institute

MARCH 4, 2019

Business Acumen and Soft Skills Relate. Several reports in recent years tell the same story: The business world is desperate for a serious uptick in soft skills. Employees with stellar work histories are not enough to help businesses achieve the degree of business acumen they need to succeed in today’s increasingly collaborative-driven workplace. When a Google survey of its management found soft skills ranked number-one as the skills most lacking by employees, David Payton , VP of FedEx Services

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 4, 2019

Hamsa Pillai is a senior at Duke University and will be heading off in the fall to join Google as an Associate Product Manager. In this Path to PM blog post, Hamsa and Stephen discuss how to ace the undergraduate associate product management interview. Tell us about your current PM career. I’m still a senior in college at Duke, but I’m going to be an associate product manager (APM) at Google starting this fall.

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Amplitude

MARCH 4, 2019

In the digital product-led era users expect seamless and exceptional experiences from the products they integrate into their lives. Digital has become the fastest, and often only, growth opportunity for enterprise companies and disruptive competition has never been more fierce. In order to succeed companies have to systematically build for growth and be prepared for rapid adaptation to user needs and trends as they change.

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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.

Product Management

Business Acumen Institute

MARCH 4, 2019

Business Acumen and Soft Skills Relate. Several reports in recent years tell the same story: The business world is desperate for a serious uptick in soft skills. Employees with stellar work histories are not enough to help businesses achieve the degree of business acumen they need to succeed in today’s increasingly collaborative-driven workplace. When a Google survey of its management found soft skills ranked number-one as the skills most lacking by employees, David Payton , VP of FedEx Services

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UserTesting

MARCH 4, 2019

Recently, I hosted a webinar with Forrester Sr. Analyst Chris Condo. We discussed how Product Managers can remove the guesswork from their process and build the right product in less time. I’ve learned the hard way that the days of … The post Build the right software in less time, a Q&A with UserTesting’s VP of Product, Tanya Koshy appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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UX Studio

MARCH 4, 2019

Web designer vs web developer – as a UX designer, I counter this match daily. But truly, the phrases don’t stop here, we have visual designers, front-end developers, back-end developers, UX designers (like me), et cetera. We will shed a light on what each of these roles mean. A developer friend of mine met with a client a couple of months ago.

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