The Accidental Product Manager

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Is it possible that new sources of data will help product managers in hard times? Image Credit: Wonderlane. Let’s face it: pandemics suck. Your best laid plans for how you were going to boost the success of your product at the beginning of the year got turned on their heads. As a product manager, you still have the same goals, it’s just that the rules of the game seem to have been changed.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Fanni Fejes shares a powerful coaching tool that is used at Founders Factory to help entrepreneurs develop a strong product mindset. They realised early that product management doesn’t scale, but that successful startups hinged on the founders developing a strong product mindset. To move from that problem statement to the desired outcome, they decided to help [.].

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A common question for product managers, project managers, technical program managers, and software developers alike is what methodology to use given a project. There is plenty to choose from, whether it be Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, or Kanban. By and large, however, the two most popular for today's organizations are the Waterfall and Agile methodologies.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 14, 2020

What product managers need to know about the journey from idea to product. This is another episode in the series on the product management body of knowledge I’m doing every other week. We are exploring the Product Development and Management Association’s (PDMA) guide to the body of knowledge for product managers and innovators. If you are unfamiliar with PDMA, they are the longest running volunteer-led professional association for product managers, existing since 1976.

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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.

Product Research

Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Having trouble finding people to fit your remote team? Not sure if or how to distribute the hiring responsibilities? Pretty sure your in-person hiring approach won't translate to remote work? Mark Kilby and I have you covered. We collaborated with LucidMeetings to create this wonderful new class about hiring: How to Discover, Interview, and Hire Amazing Remote People.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 14, 2020

“Companies were planning for months and years to do their digital transformation. It happened overnight” – Dr. Christopher Ahlberg, CEO and Co-Founder, Recorded Future. Since the pandemic has shifted work and school to more home based activities, time spent on the internet, even for recreational activity or daily tasks like shopping, has soared.

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NextBigWhat

DECEMBER 14, 2020

2) Rajni Bector is the founder and CEO of Mrs. Bector’s Cremica, a maker of biscuits and bread in India and a key supplier of McDonald’s, KFC and Burger King. Rajni was born in Karachi, and had moved to Delhi with her family post partition. 3) She married into a business family in Ludhiana while in college. Like most women then, most of her adult life was spent being a housewife and a doting mother.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Welcome to Gainsight’s ‘Change the Game in Five Minutes’ series. Our Chief Customer Officer, Ashvin Vaidyanathan , talks to customer success trailblazer Garin Landry in this conversation. Garin is the Insight Strategy Manager for Customer Operations and Strategy at Planview , a global leader in work and resource management (WRM). Planview, a company with a strong track record of acquisition, was acquired by the private equity firm Thoma Bravo in 2017 and has been on an incredible journey since

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First Round Review

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Top startup leaders share their best tips for managing up, including communication tactics, building trust, and goal setting with your manager.

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User Testing

Split

DECEMBER 14, 2020

There’s a hazard that teams adopting feature flags very often trip over – too many flags! Feature flags are useful and easy to create. Unfortunately, removing flags requires a bit more effort than creating them. This means that, without a conscious effort to manage them, the number of flags in the system will grow over time. And while they’re valuable, these flags aren’t free.

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NextBigWhat

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Do you ever get called upon to give design or product feedback? A guide below. Step 1: Recap for the feedback receiver your take on… a) what problem this project is solving for users. b) who the primary users are. c) what success for the project is. Get aligned on this before giving any feedback, otherwise you might speak past each other. Step 2: Put yourself in the shoes of someone who is the primary user, and go through the flow step-by-step.

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