Tue.May 05, 2020

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Introducing Mind the Product Membership

Mind the Product

Mind the Product burst to life in a London pub in 2010 when we invited 25 product managers to come together to share stories, experiences, and lessons learned. Since then, we’ve put down roots across the globe and are no longer a community of just 25. Today we’re 200,000+, making Mind the Product the largest community of product people in the world, something we’re extremely proud of.

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Six Types of “Product” Owners

Roman Pichler

Overview. The term product owner is commonly used to refer to six different product roles in my experience. These are: The original Scrum product owner who owns a product in its entirety and is responsible for maximising the value it creates. A feature owner who manages a major capability with which end users interact like search and navigation on an online retailer’s website.

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How to Become a Product Manager?—?Networking

The Product Coalition

Tips on becoming a product manager. The importance of meeting product people. Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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Reading list: Platforms, ecosystems, and partnerships

Intercom, Inc.

Helping businesses connect with their customers is what we’ve been doing since the very beginning of Intercom, but we also believe that weaving better interconnections between businesses helps everyone succeed. Over the past few years, we have given a lot of thought to the ingredients of a successful app ecosystem, the effort involved in developing a thriving platform, the consideration required to build fruitful partnerships.

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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.

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3 Ways COVID-19 Will Change the way we Think About Product

Mind the Product

As product and solutions lead at Nifty , as well as a consumer of other software, I have started to piece together how I think the Coronavirus and ensuing remote collaboration phase will affect product development and market positioning for months and years to come. There will come a day where we won’t be lining up (six feet apart) outside of a grocery store at 8am waiting for a customer to exit so the next may enter.

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90% of Everything is Crap – Adrian Howard on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

At ProductCamp Southwest UK earlier this year, Adrian Howard ran a session that focused on something he termed ‘ Sturgeon’s biases ‘ – where he talked about how the experience of being in a community was not evenly distributed, about the fact that like-minded people tend to group together, and that 90% of everything is crap. We enjoyed it so much that we invited him to join us on the podcast to explore the topic in some more detail.

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Yewande’s Journey to Product Management

The Product Coalition

I was in the middle of a one on one with my manager in 2016 and we got stuck on this “where do you see yourself in 5 years” question. I… Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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Digital Accessibility – a Guide for Product Managers

Mind the Product

Ahead of the ninth Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) on May 21st and, at a time where digital products are very much in the spotlight, we’re digging deep into accessibility to better understand how we, as product managers, can improve our digital products. Introduction. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 15% of the world’s population lives with some form of disability.

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Getting out of a learning rut: Product Management 101.

The Product Coalition

I have been taking a number of courses in the last months but recently, I noticed that I don’t seem to remember what I read. This might be… Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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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.

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Let go of past success to achieve extraordinary results by Barry O’Reilly

Mind the Product

In his recent talk, as part of Mind the Product APAC, Barry O’Reilly , author of Unlearn & Lean Enterprise , explained how we can all break the cycle of our learned behaviours to achieve success, even in this time of chaos. In this post, we provide a detailed overview of his talk, sharing his advice, suggestions and examples so that you can start to unlearn today.

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Product Discovery 101 for Product Managers

The Product Coalition

What is Product Discovery Anyway? Product Discovery is the process of figuring out what needs to be built. It validates your vision, gives you a clearer picture of user needs, and gives you key answers to roadmap-building questions. Is the problem worth solving? Will our solution work? Will people pay for it? If the answer to any of these questions is NO, you need to go back to the drawing board.

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Georgie Smallwood on Product Culture, Leadership and Fintech

Mind the Product

Georgie Smallwood has a lot to say about the different ways that product management is practised around the world. In a product career that has taken her from Australia to Hong Kong and to Europe, she’s currently Chief Product Officer for Berlin-based challenger bank N26. She’s spent her eight years in Product working for a variety of digital companies – from startups to publicly listed multinationals.

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How We’re Helping During COVID-19

Indicative

COVID-19 has been tough on everyone. As a company based in New York City and Los Angeles, the Indicative team is living the stories that the media is talking about. But we’re healthy, our partners are resilient, and we want to help. Over the past month, we’ve seen our customers make remarkable judgment calls in spite of uncertain times. These stories are inspiration fuel.

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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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When the Only Door to Your Business Is a Digital One

ProductCraft

In March 2019, a private equity firm announced that it had acquired CorePower Yoga, a popular fitness company with 200 studios in 23 states. The group defined CPY as “life-changing” and highlighted its “variety of yoga classes, convenient schedules and reciprocity across all its studios.” It noted, too, that the company came with an on-demand. Read more » The post When the Only Door to Your Business Is a Digital One appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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8 Reasons to Love Your Product Roadmap as a Gaming Product Manager

ProductPlan

The world is made up of two types of people: Gamers and everybody else. Here at the ProductPlan blog, we advocate strategic roadmapping for product managers in every field. But for the video game industry, in particular, product roadmaps take on added importance. In this post, we’ll offer several strategic reasons that you should embrace your roadmap as a gaming product manager. 8 Reasons to Love Your Product Roadmap as a Gaming Product Manager.

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Webinar Series: Adaptive Leadership

Agile Velocity

What, if anything, about the way people are leading today needs to change in order for leaders to be successful in a complex, rapidly changing environment where we’re faced with seemingly intractable challenges and an insatiable demand for innovation? from Brené Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. Join us for a series of live online conversations exploring the most crucial leadership questions of the day.

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How to Experiment During Extreme Seasonality

Split

When speaking to product managers and data scientists about their A/B testing initiatives, I always emphasize the need to incorporate seasonality into the design and planning of their experiments. That is the idea that visitors’ behavior may differ based on the day of the week or the time of the year and you need to account for that when defining the duration of your experiment.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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Build resilient businesses that compete beyond technology, product and price

Strategyzer

Leaders can inspire their teams to build superior business models. Business models that move beyond the rat race of competing on product, service, technology, and price. It is not the job of senior leaders to provide the answers, rather provide the fertile ground to allow for innovative thinking. By asking their teams better questions, leaders can spark innovative thinking to build superior business models.

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How to Write a Great Product Marketer Resume

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Building your first product marketing resume might seem overwhelming but don't worry. Here at Exponent, we've reviewed thousands of product marketing resumes to provide you with some best practices. Here's my resume when I was accepted to the Google Associate Product Marketing Management (APMM) program. The resume I used to apply to Google Overall Design: Notes on the overall design of your resume.

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Dear Strategy 110: Products vs. Solutions

Dear Strategy

On this episode of Dear Strategy, we answer the following question…. Dear Strategy: “I come from a business that sells products. How do we develop a strategy that moves us into being a more solutions-oriented business?”. Visit our Blog to read the full post that goes along with this episode. Subscribe to Our Mailing List to stay up to date on all the latest episodes.

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Day In The Life: Google Product Marketing Manager

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Robin was a Product Marketing Manager at Google and now a Product Manager at Google. He'll deep-dive on what a typical day as a Google Product Marketing Manager looks like. I worked in Product Marketing at Google for 5 years across 3 different continents across consumer products like Google Search in the U.S to business products like Google My Business and Google Ads in India.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Breaking Through the Dichotomy of the Tech Industry

Radical Product

Photo by Esteban Lopez on Unsplash “Superman does good, you do well.” This was a catchy grammar lesson from the popular TV series, 30 Rock. But for those of us in the tech industry, this hits home. We have accepted a dichotomy: You can do good or you can do well. We see mounting evidence of a generation of disillusioned employees in the technology industry coming to terms with this dichotomy.

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Product Marketing vs. Product Management

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

So, what’s the difference between a Product Manager (PM) and a Product Marketing Manager (PMM)? Both Product Managers and Product Marketing Managers often work very closely together and share project ownership, they generally have different sets of responsibilities that require different skill sets. In this article, we’ll highlight some of these similarities and differences.

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Stop Asking “Would You Use This?”

Modus Create

Stop Asking “Would You Use This?” Building a new product or feature costs a lot of time and money. To avoid wasting time and money building something no one uses, we naturally wonder if people will actually use the thing we want to build. When trying to answer this question, our first instinct is often to just ask people outright: “Would you use this?

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How to write a great PMM resume

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Building your first product marketing resume might seem overwhelming but don't worry. Here at Exponent, we've reviewed thousands of product marketing resumes to provide you with some best practices. Here's my resume when I was accepted to the Google Associate Product Marketing Management (APMM) program. The resume I used to apply to Google Overall Design: Notes on the overall design of your resume.

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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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Essential Skills Every Product Manager Should Have

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Product management is an increasingly popular field in the technology industry. Each year, more people are becoming interested in, and trying to break into the field of product management. However, there are infinite paths to becoming a PM. Some PMs come from business schools, some are former QA, some come from an engineering background, and others just have deep domain expertise.