Product Management Unpacked

AUGUST 15, 2019

Greg Coticchia, the executive director of Carnegie Mellon University’s new Master of Science in Product Management program, was recently a guest on The Pitchwerks Podcast , a weekly audio show hosted by Scot MacTaggart that talks about sales, marketing and startups. During the show, the dynamic duo discusses some of the nuances related to a career in product management including why leading by trust is critical for being a great product manager.

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ProductBoard

AUGUST 15, 2019

Written by Scott Baldwin, Director Product Management at Thinkific, for our ebook, The Path to Product Excellence: Stories and Advice From the Field. Here’s my most delightful day: going for an early morning long mountain run (yeah, I’m that guy who’s fully alert and productive and running up a mountain at 5:00 am that you all hate); coming home, having a warm bath, and then taking a nap in the.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 15, 2019

As a product manager you’re the monkey in the middle. You have multiple stakeholders, all with different and sometimes competing demands, and it’s your job to manage these. A successful product manager will remove themselves as a barrier, and bring people to a shared understanding through a customer mindset. In this ProductTank London talk, new product and market growth consultant Laura Scanga shares some thoughts on how best to do this and which tools and exercises can be useful.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

? ?. If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. Author Jeff Gothelf sees this all the time in his work as a consultant for medium- and large-sized companies, and it inevitably leads to a culture clash where designers feel unvalued.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 15, 2019

Practical techniques for increasing team success Teamwork is a key factor when it comes to creating workplace success. No doubt individuals with incredible talent can accomplish great things on their own.

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Miro

AUGUST 15, 2019

Andreas Klinger on why remote teams have an unfair advantageThe number of remote teams is growing, and they have specific needs. In this market, AngelList, a platform for startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups, has a special position — it has a remote team spread all over the world and also creates digital products for other distributed companies.

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First Round Review

AUGUST 15, 2019

Even the smallest startups have a lot to gain from getting internal comms right. We've rounded up the Review's six most effective tactics for crafting crystal-clear messaging and facilitating feedback from your most important audience.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 15, 2019

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. Part 1 was about the 4 big problems I see. Part 2 was why we need managers. This part is about how people want a recipe, The Answer, for how to get better at “Agile.” Before we can address what an answer might be, your need to know your why for an agile approach. Why do you or your organization want to use an agile approach?

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Centercode

AUGUST 15, 2019

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. While your community may not be at the scope and scale of Dona’s program at Microsoft (and not many are, given the approximate 17 million users currently enrolled in the Windows Insider program), the wisdom she shares is relevant to beta programs of

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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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DISQO

AUGUST 15, 2019

If you’ve been following cryptocurrency for the past few years, you’re no stranger to the flood of news coverage about its fluctuating market cycles, price crashes, exchange security breaches, and potential for illegal transactions. In fact, this time last year, experts were busy predicting the inevitable Bitcoin bust after its price had soared to all-time highs.

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TSIA

AUGUST 15, 2019

When B2B companies first start experimenting with utilizing data to enhance their sales efforts, they often take a very product-centric approach. The temptation is to create an Amazon.com-style correlation engine, where they can make suggestions based on what “customers like you also bought” However, in the B2B world, where sales are based on outcomes and complex solutions, a different approach is needed.

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DISQO

AUGUST 15, 2019

If you’ve been following cryptocurrency for the past few years, you’re no stranger to the flood of news coverage about its fluctuating market cycles, price crashes, exchange security breaches, and potential for illegal transactions. In fact, this time last year, experts were busy predicting the inevitable Bitcoin bust after its price had soared to all-time highs.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 15, 2019

Have you ever asked your boss if you can attend a conference, only to be told that someone else in your team is going, and they’ll report back what they’ve learned? It’s disappointing, isn’t it? While there is a lot of value in someone reporting back to a team, it assumes that the only reason to go to a conference is to learn. In reality, it’s about much, much more.

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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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airfocus

AUGUST 15, 2019

In this article, we focus on the responsibilities to answer the question: what exactly is it that product managers actually do?

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DISQO

AUGUST 15, 2019

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 15, 2019

Guest Post by: Hannah Kim (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Patrick Hoffman]. Before my first year of product management, I had lots of preconceived notions about product management. These came from watching other product managers, reading books, attending meetups, and talking to other people in the tech industry about what product managers did.

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Userzoom

AUGUST 15, 2019

Remote unmoderated usability testing is a flexible and versatile methodology that caters to various research needs. It’s known for its economy with time and money in comparison to a lab-based study, and it can provide statistically valid quantitative data, as well as immediacy to usability issues with video, qualitative, and behavioral data. In the following article, we’ll take you through the seven steps you need to follow to create an effective project plan for all remote unmoderated usa

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Arkenea

AUGUST 15, 2019

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 15, 2019

Leaders in technical organizations that want to advance their agendas must be able to communicate a strong vision and rationale for their implementation and technology choices. Among those filling non-executive technical roles, enterprise architects, in particular, must be able to speak to a broad audience about a variety of topics. In these conversations, unlike discussions with their technical peers, enterprise architects need to provide adequate context and connections to get their points acr

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