Mon.Jan 08, 2018

article thumbnail

Product Management Is Not Project Management

Mind the Product

As a product manager, it’s easy to get caught up doing the wrong job. With so much time and energy going into shipping great products, the project management demands of it all often create a center of gravity that’s hard for even the most veteran product managers to escape. But the most successful product managers know how to stay focused on what matters most.

article thumbnail

Top 40 Product Management Influencers 2017 [Highlights]

The Product Guy

I’m completely psyched to have made this year’s list of Top 40 Product Management Influencers of 2017 for the THIRD CONSECUTIVE YEAR! The list exists to recognize the many influencers who helped to establish best practices and enlighten the industry this year. Following are a few of my excerpted Influencer highlights from the list…. Julie Zhuo // Facebook Julie is the VP of Product Design at Facebook where she manages the design team responsible for the core Facebook experience.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Voice-Enabled Design – Will Drama Teachers Replace All Product People?

UX Studio

In November I attended the Web Summit Conference in Lisbon for the first time, where I heard a lot of great stories and interesting presentations on topics about voice-enabled design, from self-driving cars to smart healthcare apps. One little one stuck especially in my mind. On the second day, I went to a talk by x.ai CEO Dennis Mortensen about conversational interfaces.

article thumbnail

Email Communication Etiquette for Product Managers

The Accidental Product Manager

How should product managers use email? Image Credit: William Iven. Note: this post was written by Jackie. Being able to communicate with coworkers and clients face-to-face is the best way to get your message across, but it is also time consuming. When there is a lot to get done during the day, email communication is often the quickest, easiest and most cost-effective way of getting in contact.

article thumbnail

Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

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.

article thumbnail

Airtable’s Chief Product Officer on Building Products that Amplify Our Creative Potential

Amplitude

We’re thrilled to feature this guest post from Andrew Ofstad, Chief Product Officer at Airtable. Humans are preternaturally skilled at amplifying their inherent abilities through tools. We chisel rocks, we ride bicycles, we use computers. Most products out there today, however, aren’t working to expand or amplify the range of our abilities or creative potential.

More Trending

article thumbnail

TEI 158: Effective virtual meeting skills for product managers – with Dan Hoffman

Product Innovation Educators

Six steps to run a productive meeting and build a team that gets things done. Every week I’m involved in virtual meetings and the same is true for many Everyday Innovators. If it’s not yet true for you, virtual meetings are almost certainly in your future as more teams become virtual. Facilitating virtual meetings and making them productive takes specific skills that product managers should know.

article thumbnail

Listen to the Agile Uprising Podcast with Me

Johanna Rothman

I had a great time recording with two of the guys from the Agile Uprising Podcast. See Create Your Successful Agile Project with Johanna Rothman. We discussed the book. I had an opportunity to rant and rave about many things: agile project managers (no, the term is not an oxymoron). a little about why the titles of master, chief, and uber make me nuts. and why managers don’t know enough about flow efficiency.

Agile 40
article thumbnail

The feeling’s mutual: How an acquisition accelerated Northwestern Mutual’s digital transformation

DISQO

Two distinct operational models collide to form a blended third culture and deliver meaningful financial innovation to consumers. “The name Northwestern Mutual was created when Milwaukee was the most northwestern part of the United States…9 years after the state of Wisconsin joined the union,” Charles Worman says with a slight chuckle. The company’s product director and unofficial historian considers how drastically the world has changed since then.

article thumbnail

Integrating Revulytics Usage Intelligence with Server Applications

Revulytics

Providers of on-premise server applications can fully benefit from the advanced usage analytics provided by the Revulytics Usage Intelligence solution. The implementation will depend on the type of application, and whether you are interested in tracking aggregate product usage by server installation or if you would like to track the individual users using your application.

article thumbnail

Exploring PerfDog Whitepaper 2024: Unlock the Power of Performance Testing

Key Takeaways Robust Platform & Multi-System Support: Brief introduction to PerfDog's extensive compatibility across various operating systems and hardware platforms including Android, iOS, PC, gaming consoles and more. In-Depth Performance Metrics: Quick view of the extensive range of metrics for system, graphics and rendering, user experience, in-depth analysis, and more.

article thumbnail

The feeling’s mutual: How an acquisition accelerated Northwestern Mutual’s digital transformation

DISQO

Two distinct operational models collide to form a blended third culture and deliver meaningful financial innovation to consumers. “The name Northwestern Mutual was created when Milwaukee was the most northwestern part of the United States…9 years after the state of Wisconsin joined the union,” Charles Worman says with a slight chuckle. The company’s product director and unofficial historian considers how drastically the world has changed since then.

article thumbnail

The feeling’s mutual: How an acquisition accelerated Northwestern Mutual’s digital transformation

DISQO

Two distinct operational models collide to form a blended third culture and deliver meaningful financial innovation to consumers. “The name Northwestern Mutual was created when Milwaukee was the most northwestern part of the United States…9 years after the state of Wisconsin joined the union,” Charles Worman says with a slight chuckle. The company’s product director and unofficial historian considers how drastically the world has changed since then.