Mind the Product

MARCH 18, 2019

As a product consultant and trainer, I hear a lot of similar questions over and over. Many are what you might expect and are regularly debated on Twitter: “What’s the difference between a product manager and a product owner?” “How should I manage my roadmap?” “Do product managers need to know how to code?”. But beyond these hot topics, there’s one question I think comes up even more consistently: “How should I manage bugs?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2019

The MoSCoW method. How to prioritize product backlog and get most valued functionality faster You won’t find any rocket science here. Instead, you’ll know a technique that is really helpful for product building. But first things first (we are talking about the priorities, huh?). It’s called MoSCoW and has really nothing to do with the capital of Russia:D In the startup environment, MoSCoW is a way to prioritize stories, features, tasks or requirements.

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Product Management University

MARCH 18, 2019

This product manager job description is written specifically for B2B. What makes the product manager role unique in B2B? There are two key differences between a traditional text book product manager and a B2B product manager. A traditional product manager focuses primarily on the needs of users and the success of product itself. A B2B Product Manager: Has to consider the dynamics of the customer organization from the top down, their strategic goals and priorities, and the impact those goals and

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 18, 2019

What should a product manager do when their new product is followed by a similar one? Image Credit: Andrew Macpherson. How many of you have ever been involved in a water balloon fight? I’m willing to bet that most of us have at some point in time. Do you remember how that went? You got some balloons, then it seemed to take forever as you used the hose to fill the balloons, and then you proceeded to run around your yard throwing your balloons at your friends trying to get them as wet as you

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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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Good Product Manager

MARCH 18, 2019

Survey: The State of Agile Across the Organization. I’m conducting some research related to the current state of agile adoption within b-to-b organizations — please take 10 minutes to take part in this survey. My SiriusDecisions colleague Cristina De Martini and I are looking at agile adoption — not just within product management, but across multiple functions/departments including marketing and sales.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 18, 2019

Focus on customers, not competitors, to drive product success. Are your products not generating the revenue they should be just because you didn’t price them right? Pricing is a key concern of not only product managers and leaders but also the executives of organizations. Knowing the right price for a product is a challenge, especially if the product is new to the market.

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ProductCraft

MARCH 18, 2019

On March 12th, U.S. News & World Report released its list of the five hottest jobs for new MBA grads. While the expected titles of “consultant” and “financial manager” made their appearance, a surprising entrant topped the list: product manager. With the exponential growth of the technology sector and the SaaS business model, more and. The post The Rise of Product Management on Business School Campuses appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2019

[link] I’m continuing some short videos about A/B Testing and how to improve it at your company. The transcripts for the video are below: How many rounds of testing should a company plan for before they are successful? I never advise companies that they need to plan for a certain number of rounds of testing. I actually focus more on a few specific key principles.

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Good Product Manager

MARCH 18, 2019

Survey: The State of Agile Across the Organization. I’m conducting some research related to the current state of agile adoption within b-to-b organizations — please take 10 minutes to take part in this survey. My SiriusDecisions colleague Cristina De Martini and I are looking at agile adoption — not just within product management, but across multiple functions/departments including marketing and sales.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2019

Have you ever taken a global perspective? Have you thought about the world at large?—?the world that lies far beyond this moment, stretches beyond our sight, beyond what can be easily imagined or comprehended? Let me ask a slightly different question: have you ever thought about the ecosystem that lies beyond your product or service? Have you ever considered why people would use it?

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Gainsight

MARCH 18, 2019

Do you know where your users are? And the last time they were in your product? And what they did? And if they saw your newest feature? And if they used it? And for how long? Understanding how your customers are using your product is essential to helping them maximize the value they get out of your product. It can also help product leaders guide future decisions and demonstrate the impact of decisions to date.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2019

There are many definitions of product manager, right from CEO, Editor to Janitor. And the role varies depending on the organization and type & phase of the product. Below is the most widely accepted one. “A great product manager has the brain of an engineer, the heart of a designer, and the speech of a diplomat.” I would add, a great product manager is a minimalist.

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eG Innovations

MARCH 18, 2019

Most Citrix professionals are well aware that when desktop or application performance is slow, the first finger tends to get pointed at the Citrix team. But even for complex ecosystems like Citrix, ITIL guidance like a Service Desk continues to be a long-standing ‘best practice’ and can help if IT staff work together. This post will outline some of the ITIL guidance from the perspective of eG Enterprise and a Citrix-based digital workspace.

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DevelopmentCorporate

MARCH 18, 2019

The Rule of 78 is helpful in planning annual SaaS revenue targets, but under performance early in the fiscal year can have dire consequences. This post explores three tactics you can use to counter sales under performance. The post Did the Rule of 78 Doom Your 2019 SaaS Revenue Plan? appeared first on Development Corporate.

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Dear Strategy

MARCH 18, 2019

On this week’s episode, host Bob Caporale , founder of Strategy Generation Company and author of Creative Strategy Generation , answers the following question: Dear Strategy: “You could have the best strategy, but what are some best practices to implement it effectively?”. Read The Full Blog Post. The post Dear Strategy: 079 Implementing Your Strategy Externally appeared first on Dear Strategy.

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Gainsight

MARCH 18, 2019

Imagine a world where your computer didn’t have any folders, only files crowding your desktop. That’s the feeling of analyzing usage of your product’s features without any hierarchy to organize them. As the former CS Ops Director for a business intelligence software company, I invested a lot of time making the most of our usage analytics application, which was originally built for measuring general web traffic.

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CardBoard

MARCH 18, 2019

Getting feedback and the opinions of your team is very important when looking to get products to market. Your shared understanding and work flow matter to us. We’ve made some changes to the Voting feature. We improved the functionality, and added an option to limit the number of votes cast per person, and added a convenient way to see view the results of voting.

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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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Andrew Chen

MARCH 18, 2019

Dear readers, I recently hosted an AMA on Quora where folks asked a bunch of really fantastic questions. Thanks to Adam D’Angelo and Alecia/Adrienne for getting this set up. Wanted to share a couple of the most upvoted answers below: What do you look for in an investment? How long should a founder be without salary? What distribution channels should a new consumer internet startup consider in 2019?

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Dear Strategy

MARCH 18, 2019

Dear Strategy: “You could have the best strategy, but what are some best practices to implement it effectively?”. . Last week, in Episode 78 , I answered a question that had to do with implementing strategies internal to your company (i.e. turning your strategy into programs, projects, and products). This week’s question is a bit broader in context, but, because I’ve already covered the internal element, I’m going to focus my answer this week on the external part of strategic implementation.

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Andrew Chen

MARCH 18, 2019

Dear readers, I recently hosted an AMA on Quora where folks asked a bunch of really fantastic questions. Thanks to Adam D’Angelo and Alecia/Adrienne for getting this set up. Wanted to share a couple of the most upvoted answers below: What do you look for in an investment? How long should a founder be without salary? What distribution channels should a new consumer internet startup consider in 2019?

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