Wed.Sep 09, 2020

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The Guide to Product Analytics is here: behind the scenes

Mixpanel

We just launched the first edition of our Guide to Product Analytics , a book of questions and answers from 25+ product leaders at some of the world’s most successful brands. Click here to get full access to the guide, analytics worksheets, and video tutorials that will help your whole team master the foundations of product analytics. GET THE GUIDE.

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The 5 P’s of Product Management

Product Management Today Submitted Articles

It takes an insane amount of hard work and effort to become a Great Product Manager (I’m very much still on the journey myself). And once you get there, it takes more consistent work to stay at the top of your game.

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Inspiring Strong Product Leaders: A Conversation with Petra Wille

Product Talk

I first met Petra Wille, a fellow product coach, at Mind the Product and was immediately impressed with her work. While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. The people in these roles don’t always come from a product background, so they may need guidance to understand the essentials of product management and what best practices look like in the real world.

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The Five Product Movements Model (5PMM)

Product Management Today Submitted Articles

Over the past decade, I have worked extensively with many B2B enterprise software companies. My role has principally focused on the individual and collective performance of the product management and the development management functions. This has included the assessment, formation, development, and re-engineering of the product management function.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know as a Data or Product Professional

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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Meet Interconnected – Intercom’s customer community forum

Intercom, Inc.

At Intercom, building relationships has always been at the heart of what we do. We’re on a mission to make internet business personal, helping you support and engage with your customers through the Intercom Messenger. This belief in the power of conversation runs deep here, and underpins so much of how we build Intercom and how we support our customers.

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Eliminate Busy-Work to Create Engagement

Johanna Rothman

One of my colleagues, Al, private-messaged me. “I'm so much more effective now that we're remote. I get a ton more work done. I'm so much happier. I love where the product is going. How can I do more of this?” Al feels productive and engaged. Why does he feel this way? When I spoke with him, his managers had eliminated the busy-work he'd previously done.

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A Practical Guide for Agile Teams (2020)

Product Management Today Submitted Articles

This is my complete guide to Product Discovery in 2020.

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A step-by-step guide to creating your first user flow diagram

nulab

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: A picture is worth a thousand words, which is why diagrams come in so handy. They’re a neat way to display complex information in an easily digestible format. Websites and user journeys can be complex, which is where user flow diagrams come in handy. They’re an invaluable tool in the website designer’s arsenal, and, as the name implies, they’re for helping you see how a user makes their way (or ‘flows’) through your website or app.

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The art & science of Product Strategy in a crisis, disruption or acceleration

BrainMates

When everything around you is changing, what’s a Product Manager to do? Go back to the basics and do what we do best. In a Q&A a couple of months ago, someone in the (virtual) audience asked if they should be working on their strategy now, or if they should wait until things calmed down again. All of us on the panel gave the same advice: don’t wait.

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Exploring PerfDog Whitepaper 2024: Unlock the Power of Performance Testing

Key Takeaways Robust Platform & Multi-System Support: Brief introduction to PerfDog's extensive compatibility across various operating systems and hardware platforms including Android, iOS, PC, gaming consoles and more. In-Depth Performance Metrics: Quick view of the extensive range of metrics for system, graphics and rendering, user experience, in-depth analysis, and more.

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The Value of Multiculturalism at Modus

Modus Create

Earlier this year, I found myself looking for the next step in my career. While researching organizations, I was introduced to Modus Create through Fiorella Montero, our People Operations Generalist. I was impressed to learn that Modus was an incredibly diverse company, with team members from over 50 different countries. Distributed, multicultural organizations are rare in much of the world, including Costa Rica.

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The Latest and Greatest in PM Humor

ProductCraft

Welcome to another roundup of the best product management humor on the web. It’s been a while since our last edition, but the jokes these days are too good to pass up. Product managers, have you considered moonlighting as standup comedians? We think you’ve got the chops. Plus, there have been so many meme templates. Read more » The post The Latest and Greatest in PM Humor appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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4 Ways Customer Analytics Software Can Help You Build Better Products

Amplitude

You can’t build a great product without understanding your users, and you can’t understand your users without product data. That’s where customer analytics software comes in. Any product-led company needs the right tools to be able to sift through data and find insights. With the right software, you can get immediate feedback on what’s working with your platform and what’s not.

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Your Research Project Roadmap: Essential Steps for Ensuring for a Thorough Study

dscout People Nerds

Your projects are like journeys. And like any good journey, planning is essential. .

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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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4 Ways Customer Analytics Software Can Help You Build Better Products

Amplitude

You can’t build a great product without understanding your users, and you can’t understand your users without product data. That’s where customer analytics software comes in. Any product-led company needs the right tools to be able to sift through data and find insights. With the right software, you can get immediate feedback on what’s working with your platform and what’s not.

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TSIA STAR Awards for Innovation in Value Creation

TSIA

TSIA is focused on helping our member companies optimize the value propositions of their products and services for customer delight, revenue growth, and business scale. Each year, our members companies submit applications to be considered for STAR Awards in recognition of their innovations in value creation, in addition to other categories. All STAR Award finalists and winners are selected by peer leaders in the technology industry who voted on how the innovation impacted the customer, how it im

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The art & science of Product Strategy in a crisis, disruption or acceleration

BrainMates

When everything around you is changing, what’s a Product Manager to do? Go back to the basics and do what we do best. In a Q&A a couple of months ago, someone in the (virtual) audience asked if they should be working on their strategy now, or if they should wait until things calmed down again. All of us on the panel gave the same advice: don’t wait.

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How to Adapt Your Digital Product Amidst Many Rapid Changes Brought on by COVID-19

Emerge Insights

The Covid-19 pandemic has wrought many things, one of which is a significant weakening of the traditional “stickiness” of the status quo. As a result, a drastically accelerated rate of change has ensued, creating a challenging environment for digital products. As a product owner, in order for your product to evolve and survive in the […].

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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TSIA STAR Awards for Innovation in Value Creation

TSIA

TSIA is focused on helping our member companies optimize the value propositions of their products and services for customer delight, revenue growth, and business scale. Each year, our members companies submit applications to be considered for STAR Awards in recognition of their innovations in value creation, in addition to other categories. All STAR Award finalists and winners are selected by peer leaders in the technology industry who voted on how the innovation impacted the customer, how it im

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ONE THING on the Aftermath

Product Culture

How has your Product practice changed since COVID? What is surprisingly better now - and maybe shouldn’t change even after we get a solid vaccine? I think we’re learning there are more advantages and fewer downsides to remote work than we feared. Some, at least, are finding greater work/life balance (while others are burning out). Running online workshops and forums has been an awesome learning experience for me.

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Three signs you have an outdated user interface

Innovatemap

Business-to-business (B2B) software products, particularly those that have been around a long time, face a unique challenge when it comes to user experience. They may have all the earmarks of success: strong profitability, high numbers of users, thousands of transactions flowing through every day, and high lifetime customer value. And yet they may still have an outdated user interface that’s a ticking time bomb waiting to explode.

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TSIA STAR Awards for Innovation in Value Creation

TSIA

TSIA is focused on helping our member companies optimize the value propositions of their products and services for customer delight, revenue growth, and business scale. Each year, our members companies submit applications to be considered for STAR Awards in recognition of their innovations in value creation, in addition to other categories. All STAR Award finalists and winners are selected by peer leaders in the technology industry who voted on how the innovation impacted the customer, how it im

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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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A PM’s Actionable Guide on Running Effective Sprint Planning Remotely

airfocus

Here are a few tips I’ve been using as a Senior Product Manager at DAZN and TravelPerk to improve the efficiency of my own Sprint Planning remotely.

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Why You Need To Do More Product Experiments (And How To Do Them Right)

Userpilot

Product experiments help product managers and their users get better results. It’s that simple. You need to be running them. In this blog, we’ll show you WHY and HOW. Source: apptimize.com. Experimentation and A/B testing are bread and butter in marketing, but in product…it gets complicated. While most marketers are familiar and well-equipped with code-free tools that allow them to run such experiments, product managers often think they would need to involve development resources each and

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How to start a new business when all hell is breaking loose

BrainMates

Who starts a new business during a pandemic? Actually, a lot of people. It’s interesting that some of the world’s most successful brands emerged during times of crisis, including IBM, Disney, GE and more recently, Groupon. At a recent Brainmates Product Talk, Founder and Principal Facilitator at Bright Pilots , Ben Crothers, presented his ideas on how to tap into the next big opportunities and stay focused in these crazy times.

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Xan IT Solutions improves task management by 50% using Backlog

Nulab

Hear more from our customers and their experiences with Backlog here. Industry: Software development, IT consulting, E-commerce. Location: Myanmar. Number of users: 23. Xan IT Solutions Co. is a software development company that provides IT consulting services and custom software development for mobile and web applications. Their clients include local businesses and banks in Myanmar and overseas companies in Japan. .

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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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How to start a new business when all hell is breaking loose

BrainMates

Who starts a new business during a pandemic? Actually, a lot of people. It’s interesting that some of the world’s most successful brands emerged during times of crisis, including IBM, Disney, GE and more recently, Groupon. At a recent Brainmates Product Talk, Founder and Principal Facilitator at Bright Pilots , Ben Crothers, presented his ideas on how to tap into the next big opportunities and stay focused in these crazy times.