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Mental Health as a Product Person – Let’s Talk

Mind the Product

Today is World Mental Health Day , and as we both struggle with mental health it’s a good opportunity to speak out and reflect on the issue of mental health at work. In this blog we’ll share our own personal experiences, and consider how mental health problems such as imposter syndrome, anxiety, depression, or stress affect us as product people.

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What Your Executives Want to See When You’re Presenting Your Roadmap

ProductPlan

As a product manager who now sits on the other side of the table as an executive, I’ve had lots of experience both presenting executive-facing roadmaps and receiving those presentations. I understand how much thought (and possibly anxiety) goes into these roadmap presentations. They’re the culmination of months of work, customer conversations, and experience.

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The importance of knowing user intent when conducting behavior analysis

Userzoom

When trying to understand customer behavior on your website, a true intent study can help you uncover your visitors’ intentions. This should help answer questions such as, “Why are they coming to the site?” and “What are they trying to do?” Web analytics solutions, such as Google Analytics, will provide statistics on web traffic including number of visitors, page views, bounce rates, where visitors are going etc, but does not answer the why question i.e., the purpos

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Making it Official: When to Hire for Product Ops

ProductCraft

While product operations has been around in some shape or form for years, the title itself is currently on the rise. In fact, nearly 5,700 individuals on LinkedIn have “product operations” in their job titles. With so many organizations working to bring on this role, now might be a good time for your product team. Read more » The post Making it Official: When to Hire for Product Ops appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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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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From customer problems to product features: how to use feedback to create a roadmap

Mixpanel

One of the best things I learned at Amazon was that customers are always “beautifully, wonderfully dissatisfied,” and no matter what you give them, they’ll tell you why it doesn’t work for them. These customer requests or complaints—we call them “product gaps”—are a true gift if you effectively capture and prioritize them. At Mixpanel, we’ve developed a system where everybody in a position to talk to a customer can log a product gap.

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Product Positioning Tip 6 of 7: Structuring a Positioning Presentation

Product Management University

You’ve surely experienced this scenario. You’re inquire about a product or service. A salesperson contacts you. The first thing they talk about are the benefits of doing business with their company. Your primary interest on the other hand is to discuss your own situation first. The Playbook : Keep this in mind when creating presentations for marketing and sales events.

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Banking on bad UX: Finance website designs are failing gens Y & Z

TryMyUI

Financial institutions are mired in bad design and even worse PR. Now, younger generations aren't buying in. How are financial website designs failing? How can financial institutions hope to rebound in the eyes of these tech-savvy and socially aware customers? The post Banking on bad UX: Finance website designs are failing gens Y & Z appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.

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The User Research Primer

UserInterviews

9 thoughtful answers to the internet’s most frequent questions about UX research.

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How to Involve the Entire Organization in Your Agile Transformation

Mind the Product

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From Developer Experience to Product Experience: How a Shared Focus Fuels Product Success

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

As a concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry. It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. As product managers, we need to understand how a good DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction.

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We’re Conducting Research at the Speed of Agile. Here’s a Case for Slowing Down.

dscout People Nerds

[OPINION] You’re not “falling behind”—you’re doing too much. It’s time we set the expectations straight.

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The Proliferation of Pumpkin Spice: Has the Trend Gone Too Far?

DISQO

It’s that time of the year again: We are firmly back in pumpkin spice’s grip. Back in August, before kids went back to school and a full month before the fall season officially started, Starbucks and Dunkin’ dropped their respective pumpkin-spiced products. And these two chains weren’t just stocking the now-expected and eagerly anticipated pumpkin spice latte.

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What is Your IoT Strategy?

TSIA

Long before the Internet of Things (IoT) was a conceptual buzzword being tossed around, the idea of remotely tracking the performance of a machine has been well established in both the industrial equipment and healthcare technology industries. The idea of tracking the data captured by this equipment, and even having a localized network of these machines being connected to one another is not new.

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The Proliferation of Pumpkin Spice: Has the Trend Gone Too Far?

DISQO

It’s that time of the year again: We are firmly back in pumpkin spice’s grip. Back in August, before kids went back to school and a full month before the fall season officially started, Starbucks and Dunkin’ dropped their respective pumpkin-spiced products. And these two chains weren’t just stocking the now-expected and eagerly anticipated pumpkin spice latte.

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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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From customer problems to product features: how to use feedback to create a roadmap

Mixpanel

One of the best things I learned at Amazon was that customers are always “beautifully, wonderfully dissatisfied,” and no matter what you give them, they’ll tell you why it doesn’t work for them. These customer requests or complaints—we call them “product gaps” —are a true gift if you effectively capture and prioritize them. At Mixpanel, we’ve developed a system where everybody in a position to talk to a customer can log a product gap.

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The Proliferation of Pumpkin Spice: Has the Trend Gone Too Far?

DISQO

It’s that time of the year again: We are firmly back in pumpkin spice’s grip. Back in August, before kids went back to school and a full month before the fall season officially started, Starbucks and Dunkin’ dropped their respective pumpkin-spiced products. And these two chains weren’t just stocking the now-expected and eagerly anticipated pumpkin spice latte.

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Using Custom Annotations

CardBoard

We’ve added a new feature to customize your boards even more. CardBoard now supports custom annotations. Annotations provide a clear visual to the front of your cards to give your board more ways to collaborate real-time, visualize your stories, and give your team more shared understanding. To use custom annotations, head up to the settings icon.

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Project Manager vs Product Manager

BrainMates

by Nick Coster, updated October, 2019. These days, businesses are under constant pressure to do more with less. One common ‘solution’ is for a single person to perform multiple roles. In the early days of a business, when it has very few employees, this is more of a constraint than a choice, but as the scope of each activity is generally small it can be manageable.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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Contextual Onboarding: What is it, and Why Should I Care?

Userpilot

We talk a lot about contextual onboarding here at Userpilot, but we realized that a lot of you might not quite understand what it is. This article is going to tell everything you need to know about contextual onboarding: What is it? Why do you need it? How do you add it into your product? We’ll also share some of the best contextual onboarding examples along the way.