Mind the Product

JANUARY 23, 2018

At the #MusicMonday edition of ProductTank Oslo , Davide Vitiello , then the director product – listener experience at SoundCloud, talked about his experiences on the topic of focus. For organizations, finite resources translate into need for focus – a challenge that frequently affects product managers. In addition to describing three key steps to achieve this, he outlined a few ongoing experiments with ways of working at SoundCloud.

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First Round Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

XO Group CEO Mike Steib built his fast-track career on the power of his network. Here's his incredibly granular and specific advice for how to do the same.

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Amplitude

JANUARY 23, 2018

As VP of Product at Amplitude, I get the opportunity to work with hundreds of different products teams every year?—?ranging from startups with only a handful of engineers to large enterprises with thousands of PMs. Each of them works with Amplitude because they believe we will help them build a better product. . But this naturally raises a simple question: why do companies need help building better products?

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ProductBoard

JANUARY 23, 2018

10 must-reads suggested by successful product managers The most successful people read. In fact, many influential entrepreneurs and those looking to better their craft have a habit of reading on a daily basis. But reading that often is easier said than done. It’s not just the time it takes to read. Finding quality content takes time as well. We wanted to help you out.

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Balsamiq

JANUARY 23, 2018

Joel Klettke is a copywriter and entrepreneur who runs Business Casual Copywriting. We discovered him through his entertaining and informative video called "Wireframing With Balsamiq for Copywriters Who Don't Suck.". In the video he makes a strong case for using a wireframing tool like Balsamiq for presenting copy to clients. By showing words in the context of the page they fit into, he sees (and can show) a much clearer picture of how effective they'll be.

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Revulytics

JANUARY 23, 2018

You’ve likely heard of the office furniture giant Steelcase. Perhaps you’re even sitting in a comfy yet productivity-inspiring Steelcase chair as you pore over this blog post. A huge part of the 100-plus-year-old company’s staying power is its ability to continue to revolutionize the way we think about office furniture. Working with Microsoft, Steelcase recently revealed technology that exposes data from sensor-connected office furniture and rooms that, as a first use case, aim to help optimize

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Birst BI

JANUARY 23, 2018

Data governance is a broad topic that people seem to agree is important, but still argue about the details. Specifically, it’s hard to find an IT professional or BI and Analytics user who doesn’t believe that good execution on data governance will yield the “single version of the truth” required to make confident, accurate business decisions. But what exactly is a “single version of the truth?

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Balsamiq

JANUARY 23, 2018

Joel Klettke is a copywriter and entrepreneur who runs Business Casual Copywriting. We discovered him through his entertaining and informative video called "Wireframing With Balsamiq for Copywriters Who Don't Suck.". In the video he makes a strong case for using a wireframing tool like Balsamiq for presenting copy to clients. By showing words in the context of the page they fit into, he sees (and can show) a much clearer picture of how effective they'll be.

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TSIA

JANUARY 23, 2018

Professional services automation (PSA) platforms have continued to mature and expand since these tools were first introduced more than fifteen years ago. As noted by TSIA’s John Ragsdale in a previous post , the adoption of PSA applications continues to grow at a rapid pace, including expanding the definition of what PSA tools can deliver for services organizations.

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Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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Dear Strategy

JANUARY 23, 2018

On this week’s episode, host Bob Caporale answers the following question: Dear Strategy: “As a product development team, how can we best reinforce technology driven strategy?”. Read the full blog post. Original Music by Bob Caporale. The post Dear Strategy: 034 Technology Driven Strategy appeared first on Dear Strategy Podcast.

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UserInterviews

JANUARY 23, 2018

Tim Nayar, Ph.D., shares advice on designing for a multitude of internal and user stakeholders with an emphasis on user need.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2018

A reader recently reached out: “It would be great to hear your thoughts on the impact of currency fluctuations on pricing in B2B market with long-term contracts. How about oil and exchange rate variations?”. Pricing is about willingness to pay, not about costs. But the other side is: What is your company willing to accept to do a piece of business?

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UserInterviews

JANUARY 23, 2018

Tim Nayar, Ph.D., shares advice on designing for a multitude of internal and user stakeholders with an emphasis on user need.

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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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UX Studio

JANUARY 23, 2018

As a product person, have you ever dreamt about having a positive effect on society? To save the world as a UX designer or product manager? To create a product which really has an impact on other people’s lives? Well, of course many of us want to. But how can a product, an application or whatever digital creation solve poverty, human-traffic or whatever social problem?

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