March, 2023

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Are you tracking the right product metrics?

Mind the Product

Metrics can be a minefield for the unwary - navigating your way to find the right metrics is one of the hardest parts of a product manager’s job. What do you need to know to make a go of it? Read more » The post Are you tracking the right product metrics? appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Focus Time Is Not Impossible to Find: How Product Managers Can Increase Productivity

The Product Coalition

Staying productive can be challenging for those who are navigating through ambiguity. Here are ways to push back against distractions.

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If I Were Building a Product Management Organization From Scratch, It Wouldn’t Have Product Managers

Product Management University

Don’t sweat it, product manager purists. Building a product management organization in this manner gets you into your dream job, the strategic product management role you’ve always wanted, and your new title reflects your actual responsibilities. There’s one catch though. You have to love the market dynamics (yours and the customer’s) and the business operations of your target customers way, way more than you love your products or you will fail miserably!

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Ask Teresa: What’s the Difference Between OKRs and Outcomes?

Product Talk

What’s the difference between OKRs and outcomes ? This is by far one of the most common questions I get and there are lots of ways to answer it. Defining the Terms: OKRs vs. Outcomes We often think of outcomes as the impact of what we build, but the real value comes when we start with our desired outcome and then decide if building something is the best way to achieve it.

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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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What Exactly is a Product Strategy?

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] What Information Should a Product Strategy Provide? I like to think of the product strategy as a high-level plan that helps you realise your vision and that answers the following four questions: Who is the product for? Who are the users and, if appropriate, who are the customers? Why would people want to use and buy it?

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9 Challenging Participant Types (and How to Reset with Them)

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When a 1-1 session isn’t going as planned, how can you get the participant back on track? This article has you covered.

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Great Value Proposition Examples

AB Tasty

Your value proposition, or Unique Selling Point, is at the heart of your product or service. Learn more about this essential piece of your business: what a good value proposition looks like and how to write a great one.

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3 Creative Levels in Your Product Career

The Product Coalition

Product management is a creative job in the deepest sense: We create products. But the level at which we need to do so changes dramatically over the course of a product person’s career, and the transition is not always easy. Here are three levels — each relevant to a different stage in your career and your product. Where are you now? Photo by Inna Rabotyagina on Pexels I don’t know how, but my daughters turned out to be really good with creative stuff.

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Product Backlog 101: How to Build a Winner Using Customer Outcomes

Product Management University

When it comes to innovation and product management, a great idea can only get you so far. In order to make your great idea come to life, you eventually have to prioritize development tasks by collaborating with target customers, stakeholders and other team members. The result is a product backlog, which will take you task-by-task from conception to launch.

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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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Practical tips for building credibility as a product manager

Mind the Product

Mark Bailes, Technical Product Manager shares practical tips on building credibility as a product manager based on his previous experience of working in product roles. Having joined GE HealthCare as part of the rotational Digital Technology Leadership Program, I learned how to go both broad and deep very quickly to deliver outcomes within a Read more » The post Practical tips for building credibility as a product manager appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Building a Culture of Accountability for Empowered Product Teams

Product Talk

I recently sat down with fellow Product Talk coach and instructor Hope Gurion to discuss how leaders can hold empowered product teams accountable to outcomes. You can watch the video of our conversation or check out a lightly edited version of the transcript below. Full Transcript Teresa Torres: Welcome everybody. I’m Teresa Torres. Hope Gurion: And I’m Hope Gurion.

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How to track the protests posing a risk to your company’s assets with Feedly AI

Roy Madden

Market Intelligence Keep up with protests, riots, and strikes across the Web Tracking the ever-changing nature of protests can be a daunting task. Today, we are excited to release two new Feedly AI models: Protests and Violent Protests. They help security analysts track riots, strikes, and rallies that pose a risk to a company’s assets and employees.

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35 Active UX Leaders to Follow on Linkedin in 2023

UserInterviews

Looking for fellow UXers to follow on Linkedin? Here are the top thought leaders actively posting about UX, research, and design in 2023.

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Driving Business Impact for PMs

Speaker: Jon Harmer, Product Manager for Google Cloud

Move from feature factory to customer outcomes and drive impact in your business! This session will provide you with a comprehensive set of tools to help you develop impactful products by shifting from output-based thinking to outcome-based thinking. You will deepen your understanding of your customers and their needs as well as identifying and de-risking the different kinds of hypotheses built into your roadmap.

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Elevate Your Service Blueprint: Integrate Business Processes to Achieve Maximum Impact

The Product Coalition

Business processes are intrinsic to the successful delivery of a good or service and ultimately, the satisfaction and retention of the… Continue reading on Product Coalition »

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Product Management University Launches The Customer Outcome Framework for Product Management, Product Marketing, Sales and Customer Success

Product Management University

One View of the Customer. No Silos. Measurable Customer Value. Today, Product Management University announced the availability of its Customer Outcome Framework for B2B. It’s a simpler approach for bringing quantifiable strategic value to the customer versus the typical approach of focusing solely on customer problems. The Customer Outcome Framework The Customer Outcome Framework employs a top-down view of the customer, their highest-priority business outcomes, and the obstacles standing in the

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Nichole Mace: Products, pricing, and pitfalls

Mind the Product

Product managers today play an important role in determining the pricing strategy of their products. We speak to Nichole Mace, VP of Product Growth at Pendo, about the history of pricing and product, the struggles, and her tips to influence your pricing model that provide the most value for your users. Product managers and pricing Read more » The post Nichole Mace: Products, pricing, and pitfalls appeared first on Mind the Product.

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426: How Science Olympiad prepares the next generation of innovators – with Jennifer Kopach

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can get involved in inspiring the next generation’s workforce Today we are talking about preparing the next generation of innovators. If you are a parent, have a nephew or niece, or want to help influence future innovators, this will be a very helpful discussion for you, especially if the kids you can influence are in grades 6-12 or will be in the future.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Product Core Competencies

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NOTE: The context of this article is that for the upcoming book TRANSFORMED, this overview is intended to introduce the new core competencies that the product model requires. But unlike other descriptions of these roles I’ve published, these are intended to be understandable by anyone in your company, from CEO to a sales person. In. The post Product Core Competencies appeared first on Silicon Valley Product Group.

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Money Buddies: Don’t Go It Alone with Your Wallet

Nir Eyal

Now, more than ever, we have to be smart with our money. Yet navigating our personal finances and adhering to a budget can be a daunting task. However, there’s a free and fun technique that anyone can use to get back on track with their finances: getting a money buddy. The post Money Buddies: Don’t Go It Alone with Your Wallet appeared first on Nir and Far.

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Traditional Buyer Personas Don’t Work: How Matt Lerner Understands Consumers

The Product Coalition

Startup growth expert, Matt Lerner, talks about his million dollar lesson learned while characterizing consumers. By Tremis Skeete , for Product Coalition Product people know that their greatest value lies in how well they understand consumers. It’s because when they are prioritizing product decisions, especially in regard to which products or features to release—understanding what satisfies consumer needs makes all the difference.

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Product Demos: Avoiding the Trap of Telling vs. Selling

Product Management University

If you’re a pre-sales solution consultant or sales engineer, falling into the trap of telling vs selling can happen before you even know it, even though your intentions are always on the mark to start the demo. Here’s how to avoid the trap. The Difference Between Telling and Selling Demos Telling Demos The telling demo is an overview of the product section by section, a demonstration of the features in each, and an explanation of how those features work and the benefits.

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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This is not the time for nice-to-have products

Mind the Product

Product leader Sharon Feldstein talks about building nice-to-have products and features as our main product offering - why we need to avoid it, especially in times of financial uncertainty. Read more » The post This is not the time for nice-to-have products appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Do Not Lose Sight of the Goals

The Product Guy

Every quarter go through all the business problems you want to solve as a company. Then, what comes next is amazing! Watch and learn more from product management expert, Amin Bashi.

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Disruptive Technologies

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NOTE: As many of you know, I am in the midst of publishing a series of articles on the various product competencies. However, I’ve been getting so many questions about the impact of ChatGPT, Midjourney, GPT4, and LLM’s in general that I thought it’s best to interrupt my normal articles to acknowledge the dramatic impact. The post Disruptive Technologies appeared first on Silicon Valley Product Group.

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5 Productivity Myths Ruining Your Life

Nir Eyal

Every time I hear a productivity myth described as fact, I cringe as if listening to a snake oil salesman peddle his cures. Let me tell you, when I was writing my second book, Indistractable, I endlessly researched productivity and time management. I tried a lot of recommended methods and techniques myself. Some of them can be so incredibly helpful in controlling your attention and managing your time.

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The Key to Agile Team Motivation

Speaker: Robert Webber, Author and Innovation Leader

Agile was a grassroots engineering movement that caught most software leaders unprepared. The Agile community was confident that management would recognize the benefits of Agile and adopt its servant-leadership style. Unfortunately, management in larger organizations maintained the directing and controlling management style that had been reinforced throughout their careers, violating the Agile tenet of trusted, self-motivated Agile teams.

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What “Customer Centric” Really Means, According to Rachel Wynn

The Product Coalition

Product leader Rachel Wynn talks about why being customer centric is more than just about gathering consumer feedback. By Tremis Skeete , for Product Coalition Genuine product managers are not just focused on building and delivering services. For many, it goes much deeper. Many product managers are on a mission to improve the lives of their consumers, and principal product consultant, Rachel Wynn feels that as product managers, we need to think twice about taking customer feedback at face value.

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Market Segmentation: The Key to Unlocking Your Product’s Marketing Potential in B2B

Product Management University

If you’re a dog or cat owner and your clothing and furniture are covered in pet hair, do you reach for the generic lint roller, or do you buy the “pet hair pick-up,” a product that’s basically a lint roller with your furry friends on the label? Most pet owners will choose the pet hair pick-up because it speaks to their specific needs.

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3 tips for product managers at companies learning how to do product

Mind the Product

For those who work at a company undergoing digital transformation, there's little advice out there on how to deal with some of the challenges that product managers face in places like that. Based on her experience of being in a similar situation, Product Leader Marta Rolak shares some of her tips to tackle this. [.] Read more » The post 3 tips for product managers at companies learning how to do product appeared first on Mind the Product.