April, 2023

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The Chocolate Cake Problem

Mironov Consulting

In my experience, there’s usually a fundamental misalignment between two broad groups at software companies – especially B2B/enterprise companies — that I’ve been thinking/writing for a while.  One group (sales, implementation/customer success, professional services, account-based marketing) is trained and paid and rewarded to focus on one customer at a time , with current-quarter timelines.

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Q&A: How to Grow Your Product Management Career in an Uncertain Economy

280 Group

TLDR Joe Ghali answered 5 audience questions that he and Elad Simon (of Craft.io), did not have time for in our recent “How to Grow Your Product Management Career in an Uncertain Economy” webinar. How to Switch Your Product Management Career from One Domain to Another? Product Manager vs Product Marketing Manager How to Get Started in Product Management with No Experience?

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Should a Head of Product Make Strategic Product Decisions?

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] The Head of Product Role in a Nutshell A head of product manages a group of product people —individuals who look after one or more products and who may be called product managers or product owners. Depending on the company size and org structure, the role might also be referred to as Director of Product Management, VP Product, and Chief Product Officer.

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How I Survived the Lifestyle of a Product Manager as an Introvert

The Product Coalition

“I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.” — Laurie Helgoe When I first started working as a Product Manager, the number of meetings on my calendar jumped from a few to a few hundred. That’s not factually true, but that’s how it felt like. Bing’s AI helped to create this illustration of me Before product, I was a designer or an engineer, so most of the work happened in a collaboration between me and my computer.

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The Executive Guide to Generative AI

Generative AI is taking the world by storm, but the questions that all CEOs, data leaders, and AI leaders are being asked are: What are we going to do about it, and what is our plan? The business and creative possibilities are practically limitless with generative AI. From productivity gains to finding new routes to revenue generation, generative AI is going to radically transform how we work.

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AI and Product Management – The Possibilities Are Endless

Product Management University

(Artificial Intelligence) AI and product management is a white-hot topic that runs the gamut, from the countless benefits to product managers all the way to replacing product managers…and everything in between. As with any new technology, there’s a maturation curve. Nevertheless, it’s always fun to think, dream and speculate about what AI and product management might or might not look like when it’s all grown up.

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Key Product Manager Skills

The Product Guy

Understand that communication is the biggest muscle a product manager can build. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Meghan Nesta.

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How to build an MVP that matters

Mind the Product

A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a powerful tool, but is often misinterpreted as the lowest quality thing you can build. Robert Schlaff explains how he's built MVPs that matter. Read more » The post How to build an MVP that matters appeared first on Mind the Product.

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433: Research finds “both/and” thinking is best for innovation – with Marianne Lewis, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

The ABCD framework for dealing with tensions in product management and innovation As product innovators, we encounter many tensions. To name just a few of these, perhaps meeting this quarter’s objective or creating the breakthrough of the future, perhaps the team building we want to do or having more personal flexibility, or what about process improvement or just getting the job done that is in front of us right now.

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Use Body Language to Strengthen Your UXR Interviews

dscout People Nerds

What is often a subconscious act can have unexpected implications on your research. Here’s how to use body language to everyone’s advantage.

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Apache Cassandra® NoSQL for the Relational DBA

Unleash the power of NoSQL with "Apache Cassandra® NoSQL for the Relational DBA." Learn from Lewis DiFelice, an experienced Professional Services Consultant at Instaclustr, as he shares his journey transitioning from SQL to managing a 40-node Cassandra cluster. Gain insights into Cassandra's architecture, configuration strategies, and best practices.

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Using ChatGPT to Perform Competitive Analysis

280 Group

This is part 2 of 3 on our series of using ChatGPT in your day-to-day job as product managers (PMs). In this entry, we’ll explore ways PMs can leverage ChatGPT to help with product discovery. ( Read Part 1, “Using ChatGPT as a Product Management Tool”, here ). TLDR Using the example of a new product manager at a challenger bank, (a smaller and newer bank), Jake uses ChatGPT to quickly do competitive analysis Specifically, Jake uses ChatGPT and Porter’s Five Forces to build

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Creating a Value Based Resume – Stop TELLING and Start SELLING

Product Management University

Creating a value based resume means it’s time to treat yourself as a product that has strategic (employer) value. The hard part is avoiding the trap of TELLING employers what the product (you) does versus SELLING its value. Here we are in the early part of 2023 and so many of my talented friends, former colleagues and customers have fallen victim to the mass layoffs in high tech.

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Understanding How Product Outcomes Connect to Revenue and Costs

Product Talk

Product teams need to understand how the work they are doing impacts the business. It’s up to product leaders to share this strategic context with their teams. Our 2022 CDH Benchmark Survey exposed some gaps in this area. Product teams need to understand how the work they are doing impacts the business. It’s up to product leaders to share this strategic context with their teams. – Tweet This We asked teams: “Is your product intended to grow revenue, reduce costs, or other?

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A case study: The journey to becoming a product-led company

Mind the Product

In this deep dive case study, Kirsten Mann, Chief Product Officer at Prospection, shares some learnings so far on the journey that their team to transition from a service-led to a product-led company. Read more » The post A case study: The journey to becoming a product-led company appeared first on Mind the Product.

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10 Keys to AI Success in 2023

An organization’s path to AI success can be full of obstacles, from a proper assessment of its own AI maturity, to a better alignment between business and technical teams, many factors can influence the outcomes. All of this is tightly intertwined with a myriad of complicated technical decisions that can make or break any long-term AI strategy. While AI progress is hard, companies don’t have to get stuck in an endless loop of inertia on their path to value-driven AI.

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Solving a Real Problem Isn’t Enough.

The Product Coalition

TLDR: In Motives to be Met , we learn what motivates our (ideal) customers to make a decision that helps us achieve our business and impact goals. This seems obvious, but it turns out many product people are wrong about what these motives are. I recently asked a PM what was driving people to trial his product, which is aimed at team leads to help them track performance on their teams.

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Updated Mobile SDKs, Android React Native Integration, and Account Login

Alchemer Mobile

Latest Mobile SDKs deliver new features and customizations By Mel Fox, Product Manager for Alchemer Mobile, and Vanessa Bagnato, Director of Product Marketing at Alchemer We’ve made some key enhancements to Alchemer Mobile (formerly Apptentive), which includes new features and improvements in the 6.0 versions of the iOS and Android SDKs. These new features are the direct result of customer requests and are available immediately when you upgrade to iOS SDK 6.1 and Android SDK 6.0.4 We continue to

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Trailblazing Women in Product Management: Jennifer Marx, Vice President of Product Management at Sythentaic?

280 Group

For our next installment of our Women in Product Management Series, I connected with Jennifer Marx , Vice President of Product Management at Synthetaic.  To read the entire series on Women in Product Management make sure to sign up for our newsletter.  TLDR Jennifer studied to work in finance but ended up in technology, which resulted in her interacting with software users & buyers, acting as the voice of the customer (VOC).

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Middle Management Guideline: Only Plan for as Long As Your Management Can Commit

Johanna Rothman

Sherry, a middle manager in a relatively small organization, said, “We can’t plan for an entire quarter at a time. Our managers need to change what they want more often than that. But I'd like to plan for a quarter at a time and I really don't want to ask people to multitask. What do I do?” “How long can the managers commit to their decisions?

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Product Leader: Learn a proven framework for building B2B SaaS and IoT products. Lead with confidence knowing you have the skills to reduce uncertainty, increase alignment, and maximize impact!

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Tools of the Trade: Using Personal Knowledge Management to Solve Problems and Boost Creativity

Product Talk

The world of digital products is evolving quickly. Whether you’re trying to keep track of everything you learn about your customers during continuous discovery , keep tabs on the latest thought leadership and learnings from others in the industry, or keep on top of all the newest products on the market, you can quickly get overwhelmed. So how do you keep up?

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What B2B companies can learn from Duolingo’s growth strategy

Mind the Product

As B2B companies build their PLG strategies, they can take lessons from how B2C companies have succeeded. In Pendo’s PLG Teardown web series, the panel of experts take a deep dive into how the app Duolingo has scaled growth so well and why it continues to delight users. Here's what they learned. Read more » The post What B2B companies can learn from Duolingo’s growth strategy appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Unlocking the Secret to a Winning Product Strategy: The Power of a Positive Mindset

The Product Coalition

“The clearer and more focused our mind, the more effective and insightful our decision-making becomes. Mindfulness is a powerful tool for cultivating clarity, focus, and insight.” — Janice Marturano Picture yourself staring at an opportunity with negative thoughts streaming through your head like an endless Netflix series. You want to engage. Yet, your brain is telling you to run.

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News consumption: This framework will help you decide what to focus on and what to ignore

NextBigWhat

In today’s world, we are constantly bombarded with news and information from various sources, including social media, news outlets, and online platforms. While some of this information may be relevant and useful, a significant amount of it can be overwhelming and may not necessarily have an impact on our lives. This can lead to feelings […] The post News consumption: This framework will help you decide what to focus on and what to ignore appeared first on nextbigwhat.

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Untangle the Complexity of Your Digital Transformation With Roadmapping: Confidence and Clarity for the Journey Ahead

Digitalisation is one of the biggest issues faced by companies worldwide and across all industries. The most common motivations for digital transformation include: defending your business against competitors maintaining/increasing your customer base without increasing costs increasing value creation and capture (through changing external and technology contexts) re-evaluating your business model and working out how to reconfigure it to ‘win’ in envisaged future ecosystems and landscapes However,

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How Using ChatGPT for Product Management is a Valuable Time-Saver

Usersnap

Product managers have a lot of ground to cover. From staying on top of market trends, user needs, customer feedback , and industry insights to managing their resources, and planning what’s ahead for their product. It’d be nice if there were a helping hand sometimes that could take over the more tedious and repetitive tasks. With the release of ChatGPT, it seems like a digital assistant has arrived.

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Update regarding the Feedly Twitter Integration

Roy Madden

Twitter has discontinued the API we use to let Feedly Pro+ customers follow tweets in Feedly. As a result, we are sad to announce we have to retire the current Twitter integration. We know this isn’t ideal, and we are exploring different ways to help the community connect to their favorite creators and sources of information. Pro+ users can already follow Newsletters and use our RSS Builder , and some of the content you were following on Twitter may be accessible in this way.

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The Definitive Guide to Creating Perfect Product Listing Pages in 2022

AB Tasty

Product listing pages are the results of either category pages or internal searches. They play a huge role as a “catalogue”. Learn how to optimize them.

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3 tips to ensure a flexible product roadmap

Mind the Product

In product management, a roadmap is the source of truth, the shared prioritisation tool of a product team. Here are 3 tips that will help you build a roadmap that's set up to conquer the unknown. Read more » The post 3 tips to ensure a flexible product roadmap appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Personalization: The Key to Success for Financial Services Product Managers

According to data from EY, financial customers strongly connect personalization with trust. Rapid technological advances & high consumer expectations have changed the game for financial institution products. User experience now matters just as much—if not more—than the value-add. Listen up, Product Managers! The key to a solid UX is now personalization.

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Scrum: A Simple Guide to Agile Product Development

The Product Coalition

Product Management Technology If you’re unfamiliar with software development, you may not have heard of Scrum. Scrum is an Agile methodology that can help teams work together more efficiently to develop products. Here’s how it works: Image Credits Scrum.org The Basics of Scrum Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products. The framework consists of Scrum teams, roles, events, artifacts, and rules.

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10 App Onboarding Best Practices to Drive User Retention [+ Examples]

Userpilot

App onboarding best practices will boost your first impressions and show what your app can do for your users. But how do you make sure that your users stick around and get the most value out of your product? There’s no one-size-fits-all solution. That’s why you need to follow the best practices to design an engaging onboarding experience that retains users.

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Custom Buckets: Bringing more easy-to-use analysis power to Mixpanel

Mixpanel

When competition is tight, it’s common for companies to invest heavily into making their product the more “powerful” option available. For example, your microwave probably has interesting features (popcorn mode, reheating, and defrosting) that make the microwave more powerful, but do you really use them all? Even worse, those extra buttons probably turn the simple task of heating up leftovers into a complicated endeavor.

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