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How Do Product Managers Stay Close to The Customers at WePay

The Product Coalition

Product Management is all about being the voice of the customer. Customer discovery is an important part of how products are imagined and… Continue reading on Product Coalition ยป.

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Effective Meetings vs. Pointless Meetings

Product Management Today Submitted Articles

In the early days of a companyโ€™s growth, things are a lot simpler. You can rely more on "serendipity as a service" to keep projects and initiatives organized, and everyone has a decent idea of what people are prioritizing from week to week.

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The data says your website sucks โ€“ Rachel Obstler on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

How do people make bad products? We chatted with Rachel Obstler, Heap's VP of Product, to understand how we can use metrics to suck less. [.] Read more » The post The data says your website sucks – Rachel Obstler on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Personal productivity: tools worth giving a try

Product Management Today Submitted Articles

Exploring the tools that help to stay productive at work and maintain a healthy work-life balance

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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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Prioritised Fireside Chat: Make better product decisions with JTBD

Mind the Product

In this Fireside Chat for Prioritised members, product author and coach, Joe Leech and our Managing Director, Emily Tate explore how the Jobs to be Done (JTBD) toolkit can be used to make better product decisions. Watch the entire session in full or read on for the key points and tips including: JTBD for start-ups [.] Read more » The post Prioritised Fireside Chat: Make better product decisions with JTBD appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month and the first anniversary of Inter-Amigos

Intercom, Inc.

When we started Inter-Amigos, Intercom’s employee resource group (ERG) for Latinx collegaues, this time last year, we had one common goal: create a space to explore our shared cultural background while elevating our voices across Intercom. โ€œWhy didnโ€™t we call it Latino/a/x Heritage Month?โ€ was one of the questions asked as we finalized the details of our Hispanic Heritage Month 2021 celebrations.

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Dreams of a Common Engineering Database

Product Management Today Submitted Articles

In working with geographically distributed teams, integration of the team members is critical to communicate effectively and to avoid misunderstandings or setbacks.

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How I got into product โ€“ Alexandra Craciun

Mind the Product

Alexandra Craciun is a senior product manager at the Ministry of Justice (Moj) Digital and Platforms. She was previously at Sainsburyโ€™s as a product manager. Hereโ€™s how she got into product. Roles and responsibilities I’m part of a team formed of 4 DevOps Engineers, 2 Python Engineers and a Delivery Manager. My typical day usually [.] Read more » The post How I got into product – Alexandra Craciun appeared first on Mind the Product.

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37 Digital Tools for Running Business Experiments

Strategyzer

There are so many tools out there for running business experiments online. It can be a little bit daunting to orient yourself. So here are 9 experiments from Testing Business Ideas by David Bland and Alex Osterwalder, along with 37 digital tools to get you started.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

โ€œReimagined: Building Products with Generative AIโ€ is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Retrospective as a silver bullet

Product Management Today Submitted Articles

Frankly speaking, you wonโ€™t have a good process if you donโ€™t have retro practice.

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Building better products through continuous product discovery

ProductBoard

The Product Discovery Playbook. The most effective product teams constantly identify, test, and validate new ideas throughout a product’s lifetime—without sacrificing product delivery. Here’s how you can build a continuous product discovery practice in your organization. Discovery isn’t just a box you can check—product teams can unlock greater value in their work by uncovering new ideas and.

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A Playbook to Properly Implement Pay As You Go Pricing

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A Playbook to Properly Implement Usage-Based and Pay As You Go Pricing

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The Critical Importance of Finding Time for Strategic Thinking and Planning

ProductPlan

In our 2021 State of Product Management report , 97% of senior leaders said being strategic is the most important thing for their organizationโ€™s success. But at the same time, 96% of those same leaders say they donโ€™t have the time for strategic thinking and planning. So why is it so difficult to find time for strategic thinking and planning? I threw this question to the crowd in a LinkedIn post and received some surprising and insightful responses.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure youโ€™ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzingโ€™s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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The Key Metrics That Fintech Product Managers Canโ€™t Live Without

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Motorcycle Product Managers Shift Strategy To Survive

The Accidental Product Manager

As sales slip, product managers have to hit the highway to be successful Image Credit: Justin Ennis. Let’s face it, nobody probably needs to own a motorcycle. However, that being said, there are an awful lot of people out there who want to own a motorcycle. In fact, if you really want to own a motorcycle there is a very good chance that what you really want to own is a Harley Davidson motorcycle.

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Software Economics and Slippery Slopes for Product Companies

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Key Points To Becoming A Product Manager with Shivangi Srivastava of Swiggy #FWDRadio

NextBigWhat

What are some of the key points that one has to keep in mind before choosing to become a Product Manager? Here’s Shivangi with her thoughts on this question that will no doubt provide clarity to many seeking to choose this path. Shivangi Srivastava is a VP @ Swiggy overseeing New Initiatives. She was earlier the VP of Product at Khatabook and also held another Product role at Swiggy in the past.

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Embedded Analytics: A Force Multiplier for Business

The possibilities for embedded analytics to drive real value for businesses, end users, and society are as fascinating as they are limitless. No matter the industry, brand after brand is finding that analytics can be the solution to a multitude of business challenges. Go deep with five insightsoftware customers as they share the details of their analytics journeys and discuss the transformative power of data.

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Agile - everything you need to know

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How To Differentiate Between a Product Strategy and a Go-To-Market Plan

Dear Strategy

On this episode of Dear Strategy, we talk about the difference between a product strategy and a go-to-market plan, and why itโ€™s important to have both of these key planning tools working together in harmony. On this monthโ€™s podcast ( Episode 130 ), I provided some tips on how to differentiate between a product strategy and a go-to-market plan. But before we dive into those differences, we first need to understand exactly what a product strategy is โ€“ or, more appropriately, what it is NOT.

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How to Ace Technical Program Manager Interview Questions at Facebook

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Being one of the largest tech companies on the planet, it should come as no surprise that landing a job at Facebook is not necessarily a walk in the park. This is especially true if you're looking to join the technical program management team. There's no denying that the technical program manager interview at Facebook is a difficult one. The questions are both challenging and Facebook-specific.

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Ozy Media Hit with First Investor Lawsuit

DevelopmentCorporate

The first investor lawsuit in response to the crisis at Oxy Media has been filed. On Monday LifeLine Legacy Holdings of Beverly Hills, Calif., which put more than $2 million into the Oxyโ€™s Series C fundraise, filed suit in Federal Court. The suit alleges multiple fraud violations associated with Ozyโ€™s dealings with Lifeline during their Series C raise where Lifeline invested $2 million.

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A Comprehensive Checklist to Revamp Your Website & Increase Profitability

Unlock the power of a well-designed website with our eBook, 'Comprehensive Checklist: A Guide to Website Redesign.' Crafted by Brucira and ruttl founders, it's your ally in reshaping your digital presence. Welcome to a transformative journey!

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ONE THING on OKRs andย Ethics

Product Culture

A whistleblower has released tens of thousands of pages of internal Facebook documents, alleging the company was " negligent in eliminating violence, misinformation and other harmful content ," favoring increased profits. The whistleblower was.a product manager. This reminded me of multiple studies showing that Facebook actually makes its users unhappy, something Iโ€™m sure the very data-oriented folks at the company know.

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How To Use Discovery To Define Pricing Packages for a SAAS Product

airfocus

Learn how to use discovery to define pricing packages for a SAAS product.

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New Venture Design Playbook

The Product Coalition

Ambitious growth plans often require addressing new customer needs, entering new markets, selling dramatically different products or applying new technology. Any single one of these represents a challenge, put them together, and you need some thinking to make sure youโ€™re set up for success. This is where the New Venture Design Playbook comes in. The New Venture Design Playbook is for when you have identified that there might be an opportunity that you want to pursue.

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Representing Customer Segments on Your Opportunity Solution Tree (Teresaโ€™s Take)

Product Talk

There is no single right way to do continuous discovery. I canโ€™t emphasize this enough. Recently, Hope Gurion walked through three scenarios where she argued teams might benefit from including customer segments on their opportunity solution trees. In that post , she wrote: Opportunities are written as first-person statements like โ€œI wishโ€ฆโ€ or โ€œI needโ€ฆโ€ This means knowing who said these statements is a critical factor when prioritizing opportunities and evaluating potential solutions.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Application Modernization Isnโ€™t Just Fighting Legacy Tech

Modus Create

When radical innovations were rare, businesses could afford to treat application modernization as a sporadic reaction to change. A decade ago, most organizations modernized only when they were compelled to. However, in the era of open-source and continuous innovation, modernization canโ€™t be an isolated, one-off project. Businesses need to embrace a culture that celebrates change to thrive in the digital age.

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User behavior analytics for SaaS: best tips and examples for 2021

Usersnap

User behavior analytics are part of the puzzle for a SaaS companyโ€™s success. They unlock the insights, both said and unsaid, by customers, and create better product decisions for customers over time. Ever so often, a morning for a SaaS product manager could look like this: Grab a stimulating morning beverage (I like coffee myself) Check the customer feedback received Monitor customer support tickets Look at the roadmap Dig deeper into heatmaps and user behavior analytics Align with colleagues on