The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Impostor Syndrome is a myth — and businessman and “Diary of a CEO” podcast host Steven Bartlett alludes to reasons why. By Tremis Skeete for Product Coalition Something tells me that when it comes to pursuing success, Steven Bartlett has initiated a dialogue that’s worth real engagement. Steven seems to be someone whom after years of applying igenuity while overcoming adversity, and not shying away from experimentation, hard work and determination — he knows how to be successful in business and

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 27, 2023

If 2023 - broadly - has been a year of generative AI, layoffs and questions about the future of product management, what lies ahead in 2024? Read more » The post What does 2024 hold for product managers? appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The Product Manager

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Give the product manager in your life the holiday season of their dreams with the gifts they'd never admit they want. The post Last-Minute Gifts for The Product Manager That Has Everything appeared first on The Product Manager.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Good data has never been more important to effectively interact with customers both in and outside your product. Knowing how deep (or shallow) customers’ product adoption may be is critical to driving them to achieve value, engaging at the right moment in the right channel, and improving overall customer and user experiences. And this data can only come from effectively capturing and acting on insights measured through product analytics.

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Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Customer experience management vs customer relationship management? Both are important for affecting your customers, but what exactly are they, and how do they differ? Read on to find out their key differences and how they work together to help grow your product. TL;DR CEM focuses on the entire user journey with a brand, addressing needs and expectations at all touchpoints.

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UserInterviews

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Our panel on artificial intelligence technology in UX highlights many reasons researchers should be cautiously optimistic about this technology. Here are five.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In 2023, there were approximately 26.3 million software developers worldwide. This vast pool of talent showcases a wide range of experience and portfolios, quality of work, and inquisitiveness. Given this diversity, it's important to be selective in the development services company with whom you choose to partner. In the 25 years that TechEmpower has been in business, we’ve seen thousands of companies come and go.

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dscout People Nerds

DECEMBER 5, 2023

User research can help us understand and utilize GenAI both effectively and ethically. But GenAI can also provide opportunities for UXR at a pivotal time.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] What is Product Discovery? Product discovery is the process of “figuring out a solution to a problem we’ve been asked to solve,” writes Marty Cagan. [1] It involves understanding and selecting user needs, exploring solutions, and choosing the most appropriate one. Let’s make this more concrete by looking at a popular product discovery tool, Teresa Torres’ Opportunity Solution Tree (OTS). [2] Before I proceed, let me point out that I am neither

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Opportunity solution trees help product teams chart the best path to their desired outcome. They keep the team aligned as they manage the messy cycles of continuous discovery. Opportunity solution trees help product teams chart the best path to their desired outcome. – Tweet This In this article, we’ll cover what an opportunity solution tree is, the benefits of using one, how to create one, and so much more.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 18, 2023

How product managers can create authentic demand Today we are visiting the topic that is at the heart of this podcast—creating products customers love. To do that, we are joined by one of the co-authors of the new book The Heart of Innovation: A Field Guide for Navigating to Authentic Demand. Our guest is Dr. Merrick Furst, a Distinguished Professor and the Director of the Center for Deliberate Innovation (CDI) at Georgia Tech.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Uncover strategic insights on how product managers can seamlessly integrate AI/ML into their products to stay ahead. Read more » The post The product manager’s playbook for AI/ML integration appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Melissa Perri

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Since publishing my second book, Product Operations, in October, I’ve been reflecting on what I learned writing two business books and wanted to share those insights that I wish someone had shared with me before I started. Escaping the Build Trap has sold over 75,000 copies in 5 years, and my second book Product Operations came out just a few months ago.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

“Purpose is not the sole pursuit of profits but the animating force for achieving them. Profits are in no way inconsistent with purpose — in fact, profits and purpose are inextricably linked.” — Larry Fink, CEO BlackRock Over my career, I’ve had many conversations about purpose and a similar number about value. Yet, those conversations rarely intersect despite being a perfect pair for a product.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Listen to events from HRIS, CRM, marketing, and e-Commerce software systems to trigger surveys within context of your employee’s or customer’s experience By Justin Falk, Alchemer Product Manager, and Vanessa Bagnato, Alchemer Director of Product Marketing During December, we added to the library of Alchemer Workflow Initiators so that you can listen to events in even more systems your business runs on—such as CRMs, marketing automation, HRIS, and e-Commerce software—and automatically trigg

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Let’s say you’ve got a good thing going with continuous discovery. You’re creating a regular habit of talking to customers , you’re identifying opportunities and assumptions and building out your opportunity solution tree and starting to run small tests to explore different ideas. Everything is going great right up until one of your stakeholders , like your CEO, approaches your team with a shiny new idea.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Unpacking the BRIDGeS framework for product managers Today we are talking about strategic product planning, which involves decision-making, problem-solving, feature prioritization, and product vision creation. Our guest is Yaroslav Lazor, Founder and CEO of Railsware. He created the strategic product planning tools and frameworks that Railsware continues to apply on projects for customers as well as their own products.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This article describes a collaborative workshop designed to help product teams better visualise their metrics. Read more » The post Build your very own metric tree appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The word roadmap usually conjures up thoughts of a product roadmap for people in a technology product company. For customer success managers though, the intent of a customer account roadmap, while similar, is bit more surgical than a product roadmap when it comes to defining success and leading customers to it. Think of the customer account roadmap as the perfect blend of account strategy, execution tactics, and a metrics dashboard that simplifies everything for both the customer success manager

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Building effective teams with people from different disciplines can be challenging due to various circumstances. Let’s explore strategies for how we can tackle these challenges. In the product management discipline, cross-functional collaboration is more than a buzzword — it’s a critical strategy. It’s about gathering together professionals from different functions such as engineering, business, design, marketing, legal, and others.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Improve your customer feedback programs to reduce churn By Jasper Lipton, Alchemer Senior Product Marketing Manager, and Vanessa Bagnato, Alchemer Director of Product Marketing   Customers leave. That’s just part of life and business. However, U.S. companies lose  $136.8 billion  or more each year to consumers switching that is completely avoidable.

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Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We often hear from people that building an opportunity solution tree is hard work. And perhaps one of the most challenging parts of building opportunity solution trees is defining the outcome that you put at the top. One of the most challenging parts of building opportunity solution trees is defining the outcome that you put at the top. – Tweet This As a quick reminder, your outcome should be something the product team is able to directly influence, but it also needs to connect to a business ou

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 25, 2023

How product managers can turn customer dissatisfaction into innovation I am interviewing speakers at my favorite annual conference for product managers, the PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference. This discussion is with Tony Belilovskiy, whose session is titled “Voice of Customer in Product Design.” Tony will be sharing with us how you can turn customers’ perceptions (that is, their feelings) into numerical, objective data that can be injected into the product design and used as

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In the closing keynote at #mtpcon London 2023, Randeep Sidhu talks about the framing of heroes and villains for the product world and why creating an impact is so hard. Watch the video in full, or read on for highlights from his talk. Read more » The post Heroes and villains in the product world by Randeep Sidhu appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Here’s the easiest way to marry company strategy and product strategy. The first order of business is to make a clear distinction between your company’s financial goals and strategic goals. They’re often conflated. Financial goals are just that. While meeting those goals is critical to your organization’s success, financial goals themselves aren’t the same as strategic goals.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Including free access to a customized JTBD GPT and printable checklist, this is the only guide you’ll ever need for your product discovery. Over the past few months, I’ve been on a deep dive into the world of customer discovery and the Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) framework. This comprehensive, step-by-step guide is the result of extensive research, several experiments, and even a custom GPT designed for JTBD. ?

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Improve customer adoption and onboarding with continuous feedback By Jasper Lipton, Alchemer Senior Product Marketing Manager, and Vanessa Bagnato, Alchemer Director of Product Marketing Successfully onboarding a new customer has long term impacts on your business, and can improve adoption, reduce churn, and increase revenue. With the ability to automate manual steps and customize the Alchemer Platform to fit your onboarding needs and business, you can collect the information you need to help cu

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 27, 2023

How often have you read a book or article and been inspired to take action on it? And how often have you actually taken action on it? Chances are there’s a big gap between how inspired you feel and which concrete actions you end up taking. If that’s the case for you, you’re not alone. Reading a book is (relatively) easy. Changing our behavior is much harder.

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