March, 2016

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The Rise of Modern Product Discovery

Product Talk

I love that Marty Cagan and Jeff Patton have long been advocates of dual-track development. Their efforts have helped to shape the ongoing conversation about the evolution of product discovery. If you aren’t familiar with dual-track development, it’s the separation of product discovery from product delivery. Cagan defines discovery as “figuring out what to build” and delivery as “then building it.” – Tweet This.

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Do You Have A Problem Worth Solving?

Street Smart Product Manager

In order to pursue any product idea — a new product, or a new feature for an existing product — you must make sure it’s a problem worth solving. If it doesn’t solve a tangible, real problem that lots of people are facing, and are willing to pay to have solved, it’s not worth spending … Continue reading "Do You Have A Problem Worth Solving?".

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Good Products Start With Good Questions

Nir Eyal

Nir’s Note: My friend Jake Knapp just published a fantastic book titled, Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days. The book details a process he and his colleagues at Google Ventures use to quickly go from idea, to prototype, to live test. Jake put together an exclusive excerpt from the book for NirAndFar.com […].

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How Product Teams Understand Customer Needs for Innovation; Upcoming Product Management and Product Marketing Events

Good Product Manager

How Product Teams Understand Customer Needs for Innovation. My colleague Rachel Young and I have been conducting research for the past year on how b-to-b organizations understand customer needs and apply them to product innovation. We will be unveiling this research at SiriusDecisions Summit in May as part of our presentation The Art and Science of Identifying and Prioritizing Customer Needs.

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Provide Real Value in Your Applications with Data and Analytics

The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.

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Video: The Hunt for Product/Market Fit

Sachin Rekhi

Video: The Hunt for Product/Market Fit. Slides: The Hunt for Product/Market Fit. Last month I was asked to come by Pivotal Labs to share my learnings on finding product/market fit. The team recorded the video and I wanted to share that here for those interested. The hunt for finding product/market fit in an early-stage startup is an elusive one, often fraught with chaos, and certainly never easy.

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How Internal Tools Can Make or Break Your IoT Solution

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

Internal tools are one of the most overlooked parts of any robust IoT solution. Product Managers usually focus on the customer-facing parts of the solution and leave internal tools as an afterthought. However, IoT solutions typically require a significant amount of monitoring, controlling, and behind-the-scenes operation. Related article: Internet of Things: A Primer for Product Managers If you don’t plan ahead and build […] The post How Internal Tools Can Make or Break Your IoT Solu

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Discovery Coaches

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In my last article on Discovery Sprints I mentioned the concept of Discovery Coaches and several people asked me about that, so I thought I’d describe more about what this role is and when it’s helpful. For many years, as teams move to Agile methods (they usually start with Scrum), many companies decide to contract with or hire an Agile Coach.

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The Dead-weight Loss in Loyalty Programs

The Product Coalition

Can the world live without loyalty programs? To the business this means more loyal customers, more repeat purchases and more transactions to understand customer behavior so that the shopping experience can be improved. So everyone wins, doesn’t it? Certain businesses believe loyalty program is the dynamo behind higher customer life-time value. However, creating this loyalty requires a form of “customer retention” spend.

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Understanding and Prioritizing Customer Needs for Innovation; Product Leadership Exchange; Recent Product Management Interviews

Good Product Manager

Survey: Understanding and Prioritizing Customer Needs for Innovation. One of the most important things that product managers need to do is understand customer needs in order to drive new products and enhance existing offerings. However, we know that that’s often a major area where companies and product teams struggle. We’ve been conducting research for some time now at SiriusDecisions on this topic and I’d appreciate if you can take 5 minutes to fill out this short survey and p

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Secure SaaS Success: Embedded Finance as a Competitive Advantage

Speaker: Ian Hillis, SVP of Growth at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms

Join us for an exclusive webinar hosted by Ian Hillis, SVP of Growth at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms, where he’ll explore the significant impact of embedded finance on the software industry! This session is designed to provide you with the strategic insights needed to navigate the future of SaaS successfully, all while gaining a deeper understanding of how these trends can enhance your competitive edge, boost revenue, and deepen customer loyalty.

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Hooked for Good: How Habit-Forming Products Improve Lives

Nir Eyal

Last week’s Habit Summit was amazing! It was wonderful to see so many blog readers and friends enjoying the keynotes — not to mention the Stanford sunshine. Below is my opening presentation highlighting examples of companies changing user behavior for good. Let me know if you can think of more examples in the comments section below. BTW – […].

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How I Manage My Inbox – Bringing the Donuts 03/30/2016

Ken Norton

How do you keep your email under control? -. Click for larger version A friend once joked that product management is 20% talking and 80% email. Even with modern collaboration tools like Slack, most PMs I know still send and receive lots of email. In my years at Google, I’ve developed a system that works for me. Several have.

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Why killer products don’t sell

Product Bookshelf

Even the best products cannot overcome a poor sales process. Match your sales culture to your customer’s buying culture to successfully introduce your product and close opportunities. Identify your product’s sales needs and select the right approach to one of four buying cultures. Why Killer Products Don’t Sell by Ian Gotts and Dominic Roswell.

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The state of growth hacking (Guest post)

Andrew Chen

[Hi readers, I recently met some amazing folks at Mixpanel – Justin Megahan and Amelia Salyers – who interviewed me for their “Grow and Tell” series. This was originally published on the Mixpanel blog , and I’m excited to re-publish it here too. Thanks to Suhail , founder/ceo of Mixpanel, for helping set this up. Hope you enjoy the interview.

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10 Rules for Managing Apache Cassandra

It’s no surprise that Apache Cassandra has emerged as a popular choice for organizations of all sizes seeking a powerful solution to manage their data at a scale—but with great power comes great responsibility. Due to the inherent complexity of distributed databases, this white paper will uncover the 10 rules you’ll want to know when managing Apache Cassandra.

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How do you overcome internal politics to build great products in a large organization?

DISQO

It’s a pressing question for many product managers within large organizations: how do you deftly navigate the thorny landscape of internal politics to get stuff done? That was the topic of a recent panel we hosted featuring Mark Hurst, Founder and CEO of Creative Good and author of “Customers Included”; Jeremy Horn, former Head of Product, Data Strategy, Content Management and Distribution at Viacom; and Ed Jen, Head of Product for NeoCare Solutions, an Aetna company.

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How Product Teams Understand Customer Needs for Innovation; Upcoming Product Management and Product Marketing Events

Good Product Manager

How Product Teams Understand Customer Needs for Innovation. My colleague Rachel Young and I have been conducting research for the past year on how b-to-b organizations understand customer needs and apply them to product innovation. We will be unveiling this research at SiriusDecisions Summit in May as part of our presentation The Art and Science of Identifying and Prioritizing Customer Needs.

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Broad and Deep Customer Adoption: What's the Difference?

TSIA

As adoption becomes the most important objective for education services organizations, it's important to keep in mind that not all adoption is created equal. Adoption falls along a gradient consisting of low, to high, to effective consumption of a product or service. When it comes to education services, the best way to gauge where someone is on the adoption gradient is to think about it in terms of the content you're providing, and how it's being consumed by your learners.

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Three. Two. One. Go – Bringing the Donuts 03/16/2016

Ken Norton

How do you make sure your new PM is successful? -. After much discussion, your startup – or division at a larger company – has decided it’s time to hire its first product manager. You can finally breathe a sigh of relief. How do you make sure they’re successful? I’ve written about the first days at a new company from the.

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How To Manage Multiple Product Teams For Successful Development & Delivery

Speaker: Leslie Grandy, Product Executive & Drew Weaver, Senior Program Manager

Effective management of multiple product teams necessitates a skillful coordination and guidance with the objective of aligning efforts towards shared goals. This entails constant communication, efficient task management, and ensuring that each team aligns with the broader organizational objectives. We can think about this like conducting an orchestra, where diverse efforts are harmonized toward a unified outcome. 🎯 Proficiency in these skills empowers product managers to navigate comple

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iOS Google sign-in not working [fixed]

Roy Madden

April 14th [fixed,updated]. The fixed app is now ready. You can update it directly in the App Store [33.0.4]. April 6th [submitted for review]. We’ve fixed the issue and submitted the app for review. It should be available for update within 7-10 days. March 29th [Issue reported]. We’re receiving emails from users who have had trouble logging into their feedly accounts on iOS using Google Authentication.

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Build, Buy or Partner: Choosing the right innovation strategy

Product Management 2.0

Product managers always feel the pressure to grow their business through innovation. When they can successfully create competitive differentiation, fill a gap in product technology or offer a more complete solution, they can drive business growth and gain market share. While innovation is key to business growth, so is time-to-market. That’s why smart product managers consider all their options for their innovation strategy.

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Product Owner Survival Camp

Tyner Blain

Product owners are likely to find themselves alone in the organizational wilderness. Their organizations expect them to connect the towers of long-term strategic planning with the frontiers of great new products. Iterative and incremental development of solutions can bring these two worlds together. There’s always a gap between strategy and execution – and product owners are ideally positioned to help fill that gap.

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Understanding and Prioritizing Customer Needs for Innovation; Product Leadership Exchange; Recent Product Management Interviews

Good Product Manager

Survey: Understanding and Prioritizing Customer Needs for Innovation. One of the most important things that product managers need to do is understand customer needs in order to drive new products and enhance existing offerings. However, we know that that’s often a major area where companies and product teams struggle. We’ve been conducting research for some time now at SiriusDecisions on this topic and I’d appreciate if you can take 5 minutes to fill out this short survey and p

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr

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Fast Cars and Fast Data: Formula One Lays Out a Winning Circuit for the Modern Enterprise

TIBCO - Thought Leadership

Big data drives the modern enterprise. It is now routinely collected, shaped, and deployed to power applications spanning all aspects of operation—from production to ERP to supply chain to CRM, the list can go on and on. And the speed at which all of this transpires is astounding: Fast Data now drives near real-time customer interactions, instantaneously adjusts processes for optimization, and curbs security breaches automatically.

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Welcome New TSIA Members! March Edition

TSIA

At TSIA, we are dedicated to helping services organizations both large and small grow and advance in the technology industry. We'd like to take the opportunity to welcome our newest members, as well as acknowledge companies already a part of the TSIA community who have recently expanded their membership to include additional service disciplines TSIA has to offer.

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Did your patient engagement platform catch a cold start?

Oren Steinberg

Patient engagement platforms are becoming more and more popular with healthcare providers and even pharmaceutical companies. The concept of patient engagement addresses unmet needs around a patient centric approach: empowering patients and family members to better manage their health and care. Sounds great, doesn’t it. So how come so many patient engagement platforms are still far from delivering on the promised value and ROI?

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How do you overcome internal politics to build great products in a large organization?

DISQO

It’s a pressing question for many product managers within large organizations: how do you deftly navigate the thorny landscape of internal politics to get stuff done? That was the topic of a recent panel we hosted featuring Mark Hurst, Founder and CEO of Creative Good and author of “Customers Included”; Jeremy Horn, former Head of Product, Data Strategy, Content Management and Distribution at Viacom; and Ed Jen, Head of Product for NeoCare Solutions, an Aetna company.

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Leading the Development of Profitable and Sustainable Products

Speaker: Jason Tanner

While growth of software-enabled solutions generates momentum, growth alone is not enough to ensure sustainability. The probability of success dramatically improves with early planning for profitability. A sustainable business model contains a system of interrelated choices made not once but over time. Join this webinar for an iterative approach to ensuring solution, economic and relationship sustainability.