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Lessons learned from managing internal products

Mind the Product

Working on an internal product isn’t different from any other publicly available product. You still have to understand the problem, clearly communicate the value, and make sure people get things done. The only difference is that your users also happen to be your teammates. Early last year, the company I co-founded got acquired by Abstract. [.] Read more » The post Lessons learned from managing internal products appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Five Mental Models to Improve Your Product Sense and Decision-Making

The Product Coalition

Prefer watching your insights? Check out the 10-minute video version of this blog post. [link] Have you ever found yourself sweating bullets staring down a product decision? Executives are pushing urgency. The data is inconclusive. Your support team is asking for more time. Are you being data-driven? What about your product intuition? These types of feelings are not uncommon for PMs.

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Funnel analysis: How to find and fix conversion problems

Mixpanel

Whether you’re trying to measure how effectively you’re acquiring users or trying to make sense of in-product user journeys, funnel analysis is a cornerstone of understanding campaign performance and product health. But before we get ahead of ourselves, let’s take a look at what funnel analysis even is and how Mixpanel can help you make the most of it.

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Invincible Company of the month: Harper

Strategyzer

Innovation is an emerging profession that substantially differs from managing a business and is not the same as traditional R&D. The myth around innovation is that “it’s all coming up with brand new products or services”. In reality, the business model that accompanies the product is just as if not more important to its success - something that organizations tend to forget.

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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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Empathy is (an important) part of your job as a Product Leader

Userpilot

A few weeks ago, I ran a poll on LinkedIn and Twitter asking a simple question: Which human skill do you think is most essential to building great products? Self awareness. Empathy. Influence. Managing conflict. As you’re reading an article on empathy, you probably have a pretty good idea of what came out on top. (Yes, empathy was the clear winner in both polls).

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App Analysis: Gorillas vs. Flink

UXCam Bluespace

A UX app analysis of q-commerce competitors Gorillas and Flink.

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3 Essential Community Management Tips from Microsoft’s Dona Sarkar

Centercode

In this second post of our two-part interview with Dona Sarkar, leader of the Windows Insider program, she unpacks several community management tips for beta program executives, product managers, and other people responsible for Customer Validation.

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Everything You Need to Know About Canary Deployments

AB Tasty

Discover how, with canary deployments, you'll be able to deploy code in a way that minimizes errors and allows you to respond quickly when they do occur. This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as Everything You Need to Know About Canary Deployments.

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Microsoft’s Dona Sarkar on Co-Creation and Leading a Thriving Beta Program

Centercode

Technology is developed to serve people, but those people – customers – haven’t always had their own seat at the product development table. That’s what makes the work of people like Dona Sarkar so compelling.

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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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How much of tech should a product manager really know ?

NextBigWhat

Imagine this. You are a Mexican chef and you have now joined a South Indian restaurant. Will you survive? Will you be able to thrive in the new company? On the same lines, how technical should you be to excel in a product management role sounds like a similar question. It all depends on the company and what they need. For example, if you applying for a role with Google, you are obviously expected to understand quite a bit of technology.

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Onboarding and Customer Experience: How Setup Affects Product Perception

Centercode

It takes seven seconds to form a first impression of someone you meet – can the same be said for a product? If it’s as true for smart devices as it is for people, then ensuring a positive onboarding experience is just as critical to product success as a smile and a firm handshake.

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3 Creative Ways Pulse Everywhere Attendees Can Network and Connect

Gainsight

This year Gainsight is excited to partner with HopIn and their virtual events platform for our annual conference, Pulse Everywhere. If you haven’t gotten your ticket yet, what are you waiting for?? There are 15,000 people who have already saved a virtual “seat” and are planning their agendas. Don’t worry, the show hasn’t started yet. You still have a few days to sign up for FREE.

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Insights, Enhance! Using Product Analytics to Supplement Qual Research

dscout People Nerds

Use these two approaches to support your qual research with the quant data most important to your stakeholders. .

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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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People leaders aren’t the CEO of culture, they’re product managers — Credit Karma’s Colleen McCreary

The Review by First Round

Today’s episode is with Colleen McCreary, the Chief People Officer at Credit Karma. With more than 20 years of experience in HR, operations, recruiting and M&A, Colleen has headed up the people function at companies such as Vevo, The Climate Corporation, and Zynga. She’s also seen the early-stages and scaled through multiple IPOs and acquisitions, which means she has a great perspective on the people problems founders tend to run into as their businesses grow.

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Insights, Enhance! Using Product Analytics to Supplement Qual Research

dscout People Nerds

Use these two approaches to support your qual research with the quant data most important to your stakeholders. .

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It All Starts with Leadership Alignment

Gainsight

“C-suite alignment isn’t just a catch-phrase. It’s a real-life business challenge, and solving it may be the most critical thing you do on your way to success as a company.” When Gainsight decided to create the eight-volume Executive Playbooks ( Playbook #1 is now live ), we were responding to a call from customers, partners, and the customer success community.

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Intercom on Product: Accelerating your strategy after COVID-19

Intercom, Inc.

? ?. Not too long ago (although it honestly seems like a lifetime), we were buckling up to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and all of the tough, unparalleled challenges it forced us to face. We had to adapt overnight, reevaluate our priorities, make some particularly rough decisions – for many of us, it’s been over a year in survival mode. But as vaccination gears up, lockdowns ease, and people slowly get back to their lives, countries all over the world are finally looking at what could be an in

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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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Feature Delivery Unlocks Speed, Safety, and Business Impact

Split

We meet enterprises every day that are in various stages of modernizing their software development technologies and processes. Whether they’re in the middle of adopting agile and DevOps best practices, building a culture of experimentation, or both, they all share the same goal: to safely and rapidly deliver products that keep pace with evolving customer needs and maintain a competitive edge in the market.

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Joel Spolsky – FogCreek, Trello, Stack Overflow, HASH and Business of Software

Business of Software Conference

Joel Spolsky – FogCreek, Trello, Stack Overflow, HASH and Business of Software… Joel Spolsky, founder of FogCreek, Trello, Stack Overflow, HASH – and, with Neil Davidson, one of the original movers behind a thing called Business of Software Conference, announced that Stack Overflow has been acquired by Prosus, a European private equity firm that is the largest shareholder in Tencent, for $1.8 billion.

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Be a more effective product manager by democratizing feedback

ProductBoard

“Broaden where you get feedback from — only then will it be truly representative of your customers and target market.” Sophie Lalonde Senior product manager at Productboard This post was first published on Built In. When you’re building a product, there’s never any shortage of opinions. You’ll hear all kinds of feedback from countless sources, whether it’s a salesperson who knows exactly which.