Mind the Product

AUGUST 14, 2017

A year ago I wrote an article about the explosion of Pokemon Go. According to ComScore , PoGo scored 28 million active daily users at its peak and has stabilized at five million. Niantic, the game maker, confirms this. The game rakes in about $2 million every day and at the time of writing sits at #7 top grossing game in the iTunes store. Given this, I wanted to revisit my original article and talk about how the game has evolved in the last year, and what lessons there are for us product manage

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 14, 2017

Out of the hundreds of nominations, and amazing finalists, the 7th annual winner of The Best Product Person is … Chris Butler. The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group. Take a moment and congratulate The Best Product Person of 2016: Chris Butler. ( tweet ).

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2017

Amidst it’s countless definitions in the tech industry, let’s all agree to one point?—?product management can either be vision-driven, or it can be execution-driven. Of course, there are overlaps and there’s no rule that makes the two exclusive?—?but in terms of ideology, as a PM, you will either be driven by a greater good that your product aims at serving, or you will be driven by smaller, tighter, one-step-at-a-time executables that your product arms solves your customer problems with.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 14, 2017

How will Pepsi product managers make people want Crystal Pepsi? Image Credit: DVNET. Over at Pepsi the product managers are facing a bit of a problem. In the U.S. the amount of cola that is being drunk is currently at a three decade low point. What appears to be happening is that their customers are changing their drinking preferences and are now starting to select bottled water and other non-cola beverages.

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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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ProductBoard

AUGUST 14, 2017

productboard helps UX-driven organizations deliver a superior experience When Matt Stein first found productboard, he was looking for a better way to visualize their team’s roadmap. At the time his team was using a variety of tools to categorize user feedback and manage the roadmap?—?from spreadsheets to presentations. As Director of Product Design, Stein was also looking to improve his system for.

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ProductBoard

AUGUST 14, 2017

productboard helps UX-driven organizations deliver a superior experience When Matt Stein first found productboard , he was looking for a better way to visualize their team’s roadmap. At the time his team was using a variety of tools to categorize user feedback and manage the roadmap — from spreadsheets to presentations. As Director of Product Design, Stein was also looking to improve his system for deciding what went on the roadmap in the first place.

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Bogdan Coman Says

AUGUST 14, 2017

During the time, I have been part in some debates about the right term to use when pitching your company. Lifestyle entrepreneurship, tech startup, scale-up, IT&C company, or just a regular business… You can easily be lost in translation. Been there, got a t-shirt. So here are my thoughts about different stages and/or positioning from my 20 years tech career perspective.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2017

Listen to the Interview for Product Managers and Innovators. Have you noticed leaders in your organization sound and look different from other employees? It’s not always true for all organizations, but leaders often talk differently — they are optimistic when they speak, they ask insightful questions, and they tend to focus on what is most important.

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