The Product Guy

APRIL 26, 2018

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2017, Melissa Perri. In the Now. > What are some items that great product managers do every day? To me, the difference between a good Product Manager and a great Product Manager is a shift from an output to an outcome mindset. Great Product Managers focus on the end goal and challenge their assumptions every day.

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Clever PM

APRIL 26, 2018

I’m often asked by in both formal and informal discussions whether I think that Product Managers are stuck in whatever industry they start in, and if not how to break into a new one. And through all the years of having these discussions I’ve determined that the vast majority of the skills that make someone […].

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TSIA

APRIL 26, 2018

According to TSIA's PS Benchmark Study from Q2 2018, it takes about 38 days for a technology services proposal to get to a customer. What if it only took a few days or a few hours? First, it would make customers and Sales teams a lot happier! Next, it would drive revenue due to significantly increased sales capacity. Finally, it would reduce the cost of sales operations.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 26, 2018

The most successful products aren’t always the ones that win. Often, it’s the products that are first to mind. The products that create habits. Some habits, however, are much healthier than others, so what’s the secret to designing healthy patterns of behavior? As author Nir Eyal has learned, it requires a rigorous commitment to ethics – and empathetically questioning even your best intentions.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 26, 2018

Both in life and at work, we tend to come up with solutions before defining the problem they solve. From “I need to stop eating chocolate” to “let’s add Facebook Login to our online checkout”, we can’t help it. It’s natural – solutions and features are easy to imagine and talk about with other people. And coming up with a solution is a rewarding experience, it makes us feel like we have everything figured out.

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UserTesting

APRIL 26, 2018

At UserTesting, we supplement our data analytics with qualitative human insights to make decisions at every stage of our development process. We’ve been successful because we have organizational buy-in, our designers and product managers are motivated and empowered to do … The post Democratizing CX research: How our product team relies on human insights at every stage appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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UserTesting

APRIL 26, 2018

At UserTesting, we supplement our data analytics with qualitative human insights to make decisions at every stage of our development process. We’ve been successful because we have organizational buy-in, our designers and product managers are motivated and empowered to do … The post Democratizing CX research: How our product team relies on human insights at every stage appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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