March, 2022

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Six Qualities of a Great Product Vision

Roman Pichler

Listen to this article: [link]. Inspiring. An inspiring vision creates a meaningful purpose for everyone involved in making the product a success including the stakeholders and development team members. It helps people understand how their work relates to a bigger whole and how their efforts create a positive change. It also allows you, as the person in charge of the product, to understand if dedicating your time and energy to the offering is worthwhile and sustainable.

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Burnout in product teams

Mind the Product

In this article, we’ll explore the product management best practices that turn into pitfalls in our culture of burnout, plus how we can better engage these skills to sustain our careers. [.] Read more » The post Burnout in product teams appeared first on Mind the Product.

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7 Different Product Roadmap Formats

The Product Coalition

There are many different types of roadmaps and different formats that roadmaps can take. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Ask Teresa: How Do You Select Customers for Customer Interviews?

Product Talk

Welcome to the next installment of Ask Teresa, the column where I address common questions about continuous discovery. If you’d like to see the other posts in this series, you can find them here. Creating frequent touch points with customers is one of the core tenets of continuous discovery. I’ve often said that I believe interviewing customers frequently and consistently is a keystone habit.

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Mastering Apache Airflow® 3.0: What’s New (and What’s Next) for Data Orchestration

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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On Uncertainty

The Product Guy

So, you want to be a product manager? You better make yourself comfortable with uncertainty. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Tanya Koshy.

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375: What product managers should know about the future of leadership – with Anne Loehr

Product Innovation Educators

Trends influencing the future of leadership – for product managers. Today we are talking about what product managers should know about the future of leadership. By the nature of the role, product managers are leaders, as they must influence others, and many product managers will be in senior leadership roles in the future. Consequently, we should be looking at what it takes to be an effective leader now and in the future.

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Building products in Fintech – Deepika Adusumilli on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

Since January 2020, Fintech has seen a 337% increase in active users. We spoke with Deepika Adusumilli, Senior Vice President, Product Management at King to hear more about what it's like to have a product role in this fast-growing sector. [.] Read more » The post Building products in Fintech – Deepika Adusumilli on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Why customer engagement is the key to business growth in 2022 and beyond

Intercom, Inc.

How do you set your business up for consistent, continuous growth? It’s the million dollar question that businesses face every day. To answer it, we believe that there are three recurring trends that are shaping the future of business: First, businesses across all industries are facing pressure to become digital businesses. While this shift was already underway, the rate of digital transformation is now happening much faster than previously predicted due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Discovering Solutions: Quickly Determine Which Ideas Will Work (And Which Won’t)

Product Talk

Visualizing discovery work with an opportunity solution tree has been a game-changer for both me and the teams that I work with. It’s a simple visual that packs a lot of power. At the top, we start with a clear outcome. This sets the scope for our discovery. From there, an effective team is doing two key research activities week over week. They are interviewing to discover opportunities and they are assumption testing to discover the best solutions.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Collaborate About Product

The Product Guy

It’s time to accelerate your product process. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Meghan Nesta.

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Mobile App Retention and Loyalty: 2022 Customer Engagement Benchmarks

Alchemer Mobile

While customer acquisition, ratings and reviews, and social proof are externally-visible success indicators of a brand, mobile app retention plays the biggest role in increased customer lifetime value and improved ROI. In 2021, brands talked to more of their consumers than ever before, while clearly shifting their strategies toward retention. As a result, they produced extreme year-over-year gains.

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376: The nuances of pricing B2B software products – with Chris Mele

Product Innovation Educators

What product managers need to know about value-based pricing. Today we are talking about product pricing, specifically the best practices for pricing B2B software products. Joining us is Chris Mele, who has spent his 25+ year career in software products, with much of that time as a pricing specialist. He is the Managing Partner at Software Pricing Partners, which focuses on helping software companies develop better pricing strategies.

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3 tips for a more successful discovery phase

Mind the Product

Delivering products is about high-performing teams building the right things and building them right. To get that right, the discovery phase is a critical part of bringing a new product or feature to market. Read on for three tips on making the discovery phase a success. [.] Read more » The post 3 tips for a more successful discovery phase appeared first on Mind the Product.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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New at Intercom: Hear all about the next generation of customer engagement

Intercom, Inc.

Intercom was born out of a simple idea – to make internet business personal. And ever since that first release over 10 years ago, we’ve stayed true to that mission. But the technology, market, and customer needs have evolved since then, and for businesses to thrive, they need next-generation tools that are purpose-built to meet these evolving needs.

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The Multiple Hypothesis Testing Problem

The Product Coalition

If you test for significance enough, you’re going to find something significant Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Don’t Ignore Your Gut

The Product Guy

Planning to completely change your product’s backend? Watch and learn more from product management expert, Amin Bashi.

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QSRs, Food Services, and Restaurants: Mobile Customer Engagement Benchmarks

Alchemer Mobile

Subcategories: Restaurant, Food Services. In our 2022 Mobile Customer Engagement Benchmark Report , a study of more than 1,000 apps across a billion mobile app installs, we take a close look at apps in the Food and Drink category. In our research, Food and Drink apps are separated into two subcategories: Restaurants (both QSR and sit down) and Food Services (grocery, food delivery, digital recipes, etc.).

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Your Guide to Product Management Interviews: Top Questions with Answers

Stand out in your product management interview with guidance from Priyanka Upadhyay, an experienced product leader and Stanford Online program coach. In this guide, Upadhay dives into five key competencies interviewers will likely want to assess. She provides sample questions with detailed answers spanning: Product strategy Product design Execution Market estimation Teamwork Confidently land the product management role you want by pre-empting what interviewers are looking for and demonstrating y

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Special: What Product Leaders Need To Know About Sales VPs And Working Well Together – with Keith Hawk

Product Innovation Educators

Special Episode From the 2020 Summit. This is a special podcast episode, sharing an important discussion from The Everyday Innovator 2020 Summit. The Summit brought together 24 experts who spoke on topics for product managers and product VPs. Many of the topics are truly timeless and this speaker, Keith Hawk, impressed the Product VPs who attended with his sales and organizational leadership experience.

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Mistakes to avoid while creating a product roadmap

Mind the Product

As a product manager when you put so much effort into creating a product roadmap, seeing it fail due to common mistakes can be heartbreaking. Let’s go through the common pitfalls which you can avoid while creating a product roadmap to ensure it is going to serve the intended purpose. [.] Read more » The post Mistakes to avoid while creating a product roadmap appeared first on Mind the Product.

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New at Intercom: 5 highlights from our virtual launch event

Intercom, Inc.

We’ve just wrapped up an incredible day of New at Intercom , our first global virtual launch event, where we discussed our vision for the future of customer engagement and unveiled some incredible new products. If you were there, you know first-hand how much news we shared throughout the event. If you weren’t, you’re probably wondering what you missed – read on to discover the biggest highlights from New at Intercom.

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Regulated Products

The Product Coalition

Creating a product in a regulated industry has significant ramifications for product teams. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Effective Risk Management: Balancing Safety, Compliance, and Opportunity

Effective risk management in product development balances safety, compliance, and opportunity. Risks can't be eliminated, but they can be mitigated through structured assessments, clear documentation, and expert guidance. Engaging specialists ensures efficiency, regulatory adherence, and product security while reducing costly oversights. A well-executed risk management plan includes frequent evaluations, defined assessment criteria, and a structured decision-making process.

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Prioritization is a Political Problem as Much as an Analytical Problem

Mironov Consulting

Most of our tools and processes around product/feature prioritization are heads-down analytical: RICE, opportunity trees, Kano, weighted 16-column spreadsheets, WSJF, Eisenhower, whatever.  Our (hidden) assumption is that choosing the objectively best work is hard, but getting organizational buy-in is not so hard.  That once we have a brilliant answer, we can walk internal stakeholders through our logic and they will agree – bowing to our superior tools and intellect and data.

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4 Steps to Boost Mobile Customer Retention

Alchemer Mobile

We all know that retaining customers costs less than acquiring new ones. So, why does it often get deprioritized in favor of customer acquisition and app downloads? Frankly, the answer to that question is this: For most brands, customer retention is a nut they still haven’t cracked. What many don’t realize is that customer retention can be largely managed with a few simple improvements to their app’s customer experience.

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377: Get your product’s go-to-market strategy right – with Karthik Suresh

Product Innovation Educators

What product managers need to know about launching products. Today we are talking about go-to-market planning and what is involved in planning the launch of products. Helping us learn about this is Karthik Suresh. He is a technology product leader who has led teams as founder, early hire, and executive at companies including Facebook, Craft.co, and KCG holdings.

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The advantages of declarative user stories

Mind the Product

What exactly is the difference between declarative user stories and imperative user stories and when should you use which? In this post, we'll delve into the advantages and disadvantages of both. [.] Read more » The post The advantages of declarative user stories appeared first on Mind the Product.

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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The values behind our first virtual launch event, New at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

We are in the midst of a complete transformation in how companies and customers interact with one another. As all businesses become at least partially digital businesses, customers expect those online interactions with companies to be convenient, effective, and personalized. That sort of engagement between businesses and customers is now happening on a scale that was impossible to imagine not so long ago.

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Founders: What Are the Signs It’s Time to Evolve Your Core Customer Benefit?

The Product Coalition

Recently one of the founders of a hot startup asked me, “How do we know if we should add new value props for existing customers or continue to invest in existing ones? What would that balance look like? Given that we have finite engineering and product resources, what is the path forward?” Founders with fresh capital and ambitious growth plans are deciding whether or not to double down on the core value proposition and find repeatable sales/marketing strategies for acquiring new customers.

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Atlassian stands with Ukraine

Atlassian

To our customers, vendors, partners, and investors: We are appalled by the actions of the Russian Government in its invasion of Ukraine. We condemn the actions of the Russian Government, and we stand with Ukraine and its people in their fight to maintain their freedom and sovereignty. This attack is unprovoked and a clear breach of the Geneva Convention.