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Level-Up Your Product Management Skills

Indicative

Increase Decision-Making Momentum Through Data — with 5 Analyses to Try. As a product leader, you have one of the best jobs in the world. And why’s that? You’re responsible for turning ideas into tangible value. To get from points A to Z, you need to flex a lot of cognitive muscles — and that’s exciting because every day has the potential to introduce new curveballs.

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Product Manager Tools?—?The roadmap

The Product Coalition

How should you go about communicating the vision for your product, and do you really need a specialist tool to do it. Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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3 common mistakes in product discovery (and how to avoid them)

ProductBoard

Product discovery is the process of deeply understanding the problems customers are having to develop products that perfectly cater to their needs. Rush discovery, or fail to understand its importance, and you risk wasting time and resources building a product that no one ends up using. To help you build products that truly matter – products that solve real-world problems – here are three of the.

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How Lessons From Wargames can Help you Ship Products and Build Strong Teams

Mind the Product

We all know that product is hard , so here are some themes from a very playful activity that will help you get better at it. Shipping products is rough, full of false starts, lousy execution, and a lack of will to kill products quickly. But a bad strategy creates a state of false hope, and can leave you and your team punched in the face after months of work.

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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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Intercom’s response to the spread of Covid-19

Intercom, Inc.

In this unprecedented and uncertain time, Intercom’s first priority is the health and wellbeing of our staff and their loved ones, the communities we work in, and the customers we support. We wanted to share what steps we’ve been taking in recent days to protect these groups. We hope these measures will also contribute, if even in a small way, to slowing down the spread of the virus.

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Your Product Backlog and Your Wishlist Are NOT the Same Thing

ProductCraft

Imagine it’s New Year’s Eve. Old holiday decorations are still scattered around the room, while friends wearing party hats laugh and mingle around you. A TV is on in the background. The screen quickly flashes to a smiling Ryan Seacrest in front of a backdrop of snow falling over Times Square as he prepares his. Read more » The post Your Product Backlog and Your Wishlist Are NOT the Same Thing appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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The Explore-Exploit Continuum

Strategyzer

Senior leaders often want to know how they can build an environment to allow innovation to thrive. In order to do that, they first need to realise that business activities live on an uncertainty continuum - that we call the Explore-Exploit Continuum - and that creating new growth engines and managing existing business(es) are on opposite ends of this continuum.

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Podcast: Execs Don’t Always Know What Users Need

Mironov Consulting

Jay Stansell has been on a European podcast tour : meeting and recording product leaders in Cardiff, London, Copenhagen, Berlin, Munich and Zurich — partly to raise funds supporting bushfire restoration in Australia after their massive fires. Jay generously let me join remotely from San Francisco. We had a freewheeling conversation that included some challenging talk about understanding C-level attitudes: 03:03 London quiz. 08:35 Typical day of the life of the execs. 12:13 Priorities a

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Metrics that matter to Seelk: How B2B eCommerce companies can measure user engagement

Mixpanel

Amazon’s marketplace has over 12 million products in its catalogue, 5 million marketplace sellers, and owns half of the entire eCommerce market. Seelk’s mission is to make sure that businesses who participate in this incredibly competitive online marketplace profit and grow exponentially. With a focus on medium-sized and blue chip companies based in France, U.K., Germany, Italy and Spain, Seelk helps Amazon vendors track business KPIs, analyze product data, and keep an eye on the competition.

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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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Beta Testing vs. User Acceptance Testing: When to use which?

Usersnap

Beta testing and User acceptance testing (UAT) are two of the most common types of tests to validate your development before launching your SaaS product or website. “Do I need to perform both? What’s the difference?” you may ask. In this article, you’ll read about the different use cases of the two and get guidance on setting up these testing processes and their environments.

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Dealing With Short-Attention Span Leaders

Dear Strategy

On this episode of Dear Strategy, we answer the following question…. Dear Strategy: “How do I present my strategy to a leader who has a VERY short attention span?”. In the hope that this post will be appealing to some of the leaders with those short-attention spans in question, I am going to keep my answer as succinct as possible! So here it is…. When presenting to any audience, always remember that the burden of conveyance is borne by the presenter, not by the audience.

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TEI 274: The mindset product managers need to breakthrough barriers – with Dana Wilde

Product Innovation Educators

Train your brain for success in product management. What is holding you back from greater success, from achieving what you want, from getting what you deserve? Now, this is not an infomercial for some new self-help fad. Instead, it is a grounded discussion about how you are holding yourself back and how to change that — to enable your success.

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Dear Strategy 107: Dealing With Short-Attention Span Leaders

Dear Strategy

On this episode of Dear Strategy, we answer the following question…. Dear Strategy: “How do I present my strategy to a leader who has a VERY short attention span?”. Visit our Blog to read the full post that goes along with this episode. Subscribe to Our Mailing List to stay up to date on all the latest episodes. If you’re interested in having Strategy Generation Company deliver a strategy workshop for your business, please visit us at [link].

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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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How to use collaborative learning in the workplace

Nulab

Since before the digital age, team members have been encouraged to work together on company projects. It is generally accepted that sharing expertise achieves better results – two heads are better than one. Thanks to modern technology, more employees than ever are reaching out to one another to solve problems and complete tasks. In fact, a study by the Association for Talent Development called ‘ Building a Culture of Learning’ found that knowledge sharing among employees at high-performing compa

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Can Product Managers Market Furnished Housing Rentals?

The Accidental Product Manager

A furnished apartment means that residents have fewer household tasks Image Credit: Photo by Bench Accounting on Unsplash. So where do you live today? The answer for a lot of us is in an apartment. Now let’s go back and think about what it took to get you into that apartment. First, of course, you had to find the apartment. Then you had to find a way to get the stuff that you owned to the apartment.

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COVID-19: Business Continuity Beyond Working From Home

Modus Create

This is a follow up to our recent article posted last week about the implications of the current worldwide pandemic: Coronavirus: How to Become Remote First, Fast and the accompanying infographic. In this post we focus on the business implications of the current COVID-19 outbreak, which is now affecting global business models, disrupting supply chains, working models, and global economic stability.