June, 2023

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From LaLa Land to The Matrix: Can AI replace product management?

Mind the Product

In this post Jing Hu looks at the astounding pace of the evolution of AI and how the marriage of human expertise with AI capabilities could potentially revolutionize the way we manage products Read more » The post From LaLa Land to The Matrix: Can AI replace product management? appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Infographic: 5 common mistakes that lead to product disconnect

ProductBoard

Effective cross-functional collaboration is crucial for product managers as their work goes beyond just managing products. They also play a pivotal role in driving business and customer outcomes by working closely with their customer-facing peers. The success of any business depends heavily on the ability of EPD and GTM teams to work closely together in order to bring new products and features to.

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Finding Great Product Managers

The Product Coalition

In the few short years before we aren’t mostly replaced by AI, we’ll still need to hire a few humans. Here are some classics on product manager hiring along with value-added commentary. Plus a bonus. Here's Google's Secret to Hiring the Best People The “Google way” of hiring, as presented in a widely-read article, is often cited as a model to follow.

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Product Activation vs Adoption in SaaS: What’s the Difference?

Userpilot

Curious about the differences between activation vs adoption? They’re both prerequisites to a customer enjoying your platform and staying for a long. However, the two terms aren’t the same. In this article, we expanded on the differences between an activated user and someone that has adopted your tool. You’ll also see metrics to track and strategies to increase activation and adoption.

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The Best Product Strategy Is a Customer-Facing Portfolio Strategy

Speaker: John Mansour - President, Product Management University

You know that sinking feeling. You’ve come up with a winning product strategy, everyone’s on board and energized, and you’re halfway down the path to execution only to have it submarined by something someone convinced your leadership was more strategic! It’s a scenario that’s all too familiar and it exemplifies one of the biggest struggles with individual product strategies.

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Viewing ChatGPT through the lens of product sense

Mind the Product

Senior product manager Todd Lewandowski evaluates the hot new trend of ChatGPT that we’re all familiar with. Read more » The post Viewing ChatGPT through the lens of product sense appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How to Test Infancy Product Concepts Faster with Generative AI

The Product Coalition

Entrepreneurs and product managers are prone to overconfidence bias.

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Product Marketing vs Product Management | Productboard

ProductBoard

Product marketing and product management are two critical and distinct roles in a business, each with unique goals and approaches. Understanding the differences between these two functions is crucial for optimizing product strategies. Product marketers and product managers have divergent skill sets, responsibilities, and mindsets, each contributing key perspectives that support a product’s.

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Peacetime CPO VS. Wartime CPO

Dragonboat

Ben Horowitz penned an article of Peacetime CEO vs Wartime CEO, in which he called out different approaches needed in leading companies during different times. As we know, when product wins, business has a chance to win; and when product fails, business will fail soon after. It’s not too far of a stretch to apply […] The post Peacetime CPO VS.

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What is Product Management?

280 Group

While product management has been around a long time, it’s only in more recent years that the role has become more popular. More and more the business world is embracing the value of product managers, and yet the role still often goes misunderstood. In this post we hope to clear up any confusion about what product management is, what exactly product managers do, and the immense value they bring to their organizations.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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Product Talk is Growing: Meet New Instructor Ellen Brandenberger

Product Talk

Product Talk’s North Star metric is to increase the number of product trios who adopt a continuous discovery cadence to their work. This is what inspired Teresa to write the Continuous Discovery Habits book and shift Product Talk to a course-first business. And this outcome is also the reason why we continue to expand the team of Product Talk instructors—the more instructors we have, the more cohorts we can offer, the more students we can serve, and ultimately, the more people who will feel empo

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Measuring the user experience by Tomer Sharon

Mind the Product

In this #mtpcon San Francisco 2023 keynote, Tomer Sharon Co-founder and CXO at workplace experience platform anywell, talks about measuring the user experience and the advantages of high-level metrics. Watch the video in full of read on for his key points. Read more » The post Measuring the user experience by Tomer Sharon appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Can Adobe Make a Master Move to Capture Chatting with Documents?

The Product Coalition

Era of interactive, conversational documents is just around the corner, ready to transform the way we search, learn, and work. The corporate landscape is teeming with PDF documents. In the realm of clinical trials, for instance, the lion’s share of documentation is stored in this format. The same is true for product manuals, the latest scientific research papers, and a multitude of other knowledge resources.

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What Do We Owe Our Teams?

Mironov Consulting

Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model.  Last week, though, in my product leadership workshop , we had an extended discussion about the core people-and-organizational obligations we have toward those who work for us.

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Identify Assumptions, Hypothesize Quickly: Generating Useful Feedback to Improve Your Product

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst - President of Tyner Blain, Product Management and Strategy Consultant

What we build are features, intended to add value for our customers and advance our company's financial goals. To know what to measure, you have to unearth your assumptions of how each feature will make things better, and form testable hypotheses. See how to build an impact map, understand leading indicators, and write disprovable hypotheses - which are the inputs to your experimental design.

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How Product Risks Differ from Project Risks

Johanna Rothman

Up until now, when thinking about risks, I defaulted to the risks in the project pyramid. That's because each project offers different value over the product's lifetime. (See Product Roles, Part 4: Product Orientation and the Role of Projects for images of why we want ever-increasing product value, but why we might space the projects out.) If we understand our boundaries and constraints, we can trade off the various risks in the project.

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Introducing the 280 Group Product Management Starter Pack

280 Group

Whether you’re new to product management or a seasoned veteran, all product professionals should work off a solid foundation. Knowing the outcomes you’re working towards is the best foundation that product managers can work from, so how do you get yourself and your team aligned on the right outcomes from the start? Say Hello to the 280 Group Product Management Starter Pack The 280 Group Product Management Starter Pack provides product professionals with 3 free assets to help get product teams w

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Product in Practice: One Product Manager’s Quest to Adopt Continuous Discovery at Her Company

Product Talk

Adopting continuous discovery can feel like a big, audacious goal. If you’ve never spoken with a customer, how will you be able to set up interviews every single week? If you don’t currently work in a product trio at all, how will you be able to work and make decisions cross-functionally on a regular basis? If you’ve never used an opportunity solution tree before, how will you incorporate this tool into your daily workflow?

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5 strategies to conduct effective customer interviews for better product insights

Mind the Product

Practical advice for maximising the opportunity for insights from customer interviews Read more » The post 5 strategies to conduct effective customer interviews for better product insights appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Value-Driven AI: Applying Lessons Learned from Predictive AI to Generative

Speaker: Data Robot

Enterprise AI maturity has evolved dramatically over the past 5 years. Most enterprises have now experienced their first successes with predictive AI, but the pace and scale of impact have too often been underwhelming. Now generative AI has emerged and captivated the minds and imaginations of leaders and innovators everywhere. Join our DataRobot experts to reflect on lessons learned from helping hundreds of enterprises grow their AI maturity over the past 5 years.

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Product-Led Growth Is a Misleading Name

The Product Coalition

Everyone wants to be product-led these days. But does that mean that you are doing product-led growth? And speaking about growth, how strong is this promise? Here is a disambiguation guide to help you understand what product-led growth really means, and what it doesn’t. Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels When I started Infinify, I told the world I am shifting to product consulting.

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Of Bloody Daddy, Jio Cinema and how to do MVP at scale

NextBigWhat

Ladies and Gentlemen – this is 2023 and it feels quite weird that JioCinema isn’t really close to Netflix or Amazon Prime experience. If you were hired as a product leader at JioCinema, you probably will explore one of the 2 options below ? 1. Fix the product. Delay the marketing promo That is, spend […] The post Of Bloody Daddy, Jio Cinema and how to do MVP at scale appeared first on nextbigwhat.

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20+ Powerful AI-Based Tools for UX Research Toolkits in 2023

UserInterviews

Want to simplify complex data analysis and time-consuming tasks? There’s an AI tool for that. Here are 20+ AI tools for UX.

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Thanks for downloading the 280 Group Blueprint for Product Managers

280 Group

Just One More Step Access The Blueprint for Product Managers E-Book Join Over 35,000 Product Management Professionals On Our 280 Group LinkedIn Group and Facebook Group Want the full playbook? In-Person Training: Optimal Product Management and Product Marketing Training This three-day training teaches the flexible and comprehensive 280 Group Optimal Product Process.

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Keep the Competitive Edge and Reduce Churn

Speaker: Johanna Rothman - Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

When customers leave your product ecosystem, they often leave you puzzled about the reasons behind their departure. Maybe your product was once the best option on the market, but due to missing features and difficulties, its competitive edge has dwindled. Alternatively, customers might encounter challenges in using the product, thereby undermining the initial value proposition that drove their adoption.

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You Can Have Your Retirement Fantasy Today

Nir Eyal

Imagine your retirement. Are you picturing long, lazy days on a tropical beach under coconut trees? Maybe you’ve opted for a life of adventure, traveling to all the places you haven’t been to yet. Perhaps the science fiction novel you’ve always wanted to write is finally pouring out of you. But why should you wait until you retire to pursue those things?

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Navigating different org sizes as a product leader

Mind the Product

Product leader Liz Clow introduces an holistic approach to product leadership, covering strategy, customer centricity, agility, leadership, and execution Read more » The post Navigating different org sizes as a product leader appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Cloud Service Platforms: What Software Teams Need To Know

The Product Coalition

A thing to define: AWS vs AZURE vs Google Cloud AWS, Azure and Google cloud platforms are the top of mind cloud service platforms in recent years, yet many software development start-ups do not have the ability to distinguish them. First of all, let’s explore what these cloud service platforms really mean. About Amazon Web Services (AWS): Cloud service platform for startups Amazon’s AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a cloud computing platform that includes infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform

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The Best AI Writing Assistant of 2023 (Top 19 Compared)

Userpilot

Which is the best AI writing assistant available for marketing and customer success teams in 2023? There’s no simple answer to this question. Plenty of AI copywriting tools are in the market (and by the time I finish writing this article, there will probably be more) and each of them could be a good choice depending on your needs or budget. This article provides an overview of 19 popular AI content-writing tools that will help you create different content types, from in-app messages to lon

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Powering Customer-Centric Experiences with Data

We know that today’s customers prioritize experiences over other aspects of a brand. Customers' expectations for digital interactions are constantly rising, which puts pressure on brands to continuously optimize their digital strategies in order to stay ahead of the competition. When it comes to unlocking a new level of digital experience, data-driven experimentation is the key.

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Inside Warehouse-native Amplitude: A Technical Deep Dive

Amplitude

Experience a new era of Amplitude implementation. Take a closer look at how we built warehouse-native Amplitude and discover the opportunities it brings to your data analysis.

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Consulting Tip #2: Avoid Unsolicited Offers of Help from Strangers

Johanna Rothman

Here are several unsolicited offers I received in email and various messaging today: An unsolicited email explaining my site was slow and not high-ranking in SEO. Another unsolicited offer to totally redo my social media. And yet a third unsolicited offer to make my consulting business much more successful by allowing AI to write content for me. (Me!!

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Unlocking API Potential: Embracing the API-as-Product Mindset

Emerge Insights

As a digital product leader, you are constantly seeking new methods to expand your product platform’s reach and augment its value. A popular approach to enhancing one’s product involves expanding the product’s Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Historically, APIs were considered merely tools or conduits for integration; however, there’s an increasing recognition of APIs as products […] The post Unlocking API Potential: Embracing the API-as-Product Mindset appeared