Feature-less Roadmap: The Balance Between Delivering Concrete Features vs. Planning with High-level Themes
Amplitude
AUGUST 27, 2019
The Product Coalition
AUGUST 29, 2019
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Gainsight
AUGUST 30, 2019
As a customer success professional, you talk to your customers every day and gather a ton of feedback straight from the frontlines. This is real-time, super-rich data. It comes directly from the people who use your product—it’s gold! But … what happens to it? What’s really happening to product feedback? I dug into this burning question with customer success (CS) leaders at Pulse 2019.
Product managers have long relied on the Minimum Viable Product (MVP), but in the age of AI, a minimum AI-Ready Product (MAP) – an evolution of the MVP that ensures a product is not just functional but ready to leverage AI from day one has become crucial
Mind the Product
AUGUST 29, 2019
What’s a partial product manager? We’ve all met one, and many of us have been one – a partial product manager is someone who holds the product manager title, but isn’t doing the full job. It can happen really easily, because great product management encompasses a great deal and is constantly evolving. I’ve categorized some common types of partial product managers to make it easier to identify and fix gaps.
Product Management Today brings together the best content for product management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
The Product Guy
AUGUST 25, 2019
Managing upper management requires a special, broader, more inclusive way of thinking and communicating. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Amin Bashi.
Product Innovation Educators
AUGUST 26, 2019
Know how to test a product by measuring risk through desirability, viability, and feasibility. I’m someone who enjoys learning from books. I often find great tips I can apply from a good book, and that is just what I have for you. We are discussing a valuable new book titled Testing Business Ideas. It is full of practical experiments we can do as product managers to help us with problem-solution fit.
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 29, 2019
? ?. In this week’s episode we’ve dug down into the podcast vaults to bring you some of the best insights shared by our guests about scaling sales. It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. How quickly you’re able to accelerate growth depends on your ability to build a nimble sales org and develop a strong sales strategy.
Mind the Product
AUGUST 27, 2019
A few years ago, I worked with a client in a very hierarchical organization. Position and title were very important at the organization, and everything was done in strict accordance with operating procedures. My team had been brought in to teach a new way of working, and to show how it’s possible to move quickly. We quickly discovered what we were up against when we attempted our first small task: scheduling user interviews.
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.
The Product Guy
AUGUST 30, 2019
Guest Post by: Gregory Rakovsky (Mentee, Session 10, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Nis Frome ]. Finding the right product management job can be tough, as product management is a multi-faceted discipline that doesn’t lend itself well to classification. Regardless of title, be it Product Owner, Product Manager, or some other fanciful title, what a product person does in one organization may not be the same thing he or she does in another.
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 26, 2019
Today we’re releasing a brand new book, Intercom on Sales. If you work at a high-growth company, you’ve likely heard the saying, “What gets you to $50 million won’t get you to $100 million.” You could swap in any numbers you’d like, and the sentiment would still hold true: scaling sales is incredibly hard. I joined Intercom three years ago to do just that, to take our nascent sales team to the next level.
Mind the Product
AUGUST 30, 2019
Can putting a product into the world really be harder than launching a spacecraft? In her keynote at #mtpcon San Francisco, Tricia Wang, Co-founder of Sudden Compass, says it can. While launching a spacecraft seems more complex, it all boils down to math, and there is scant unpredictability in the calculations. But you have to deal with a lot of external complexities that are completely out of your control when you ship a product, so the end result is highly unpredictable.
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.
The Product Guy
AUGUST 27, 2019
Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2018, Brian Crofts. Watch now and see why he is counted amongst the ranks of the best in product management. More to Come. The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group.
Miro
AUGUST 27, 2019
10 must-read books for developing and shipping better productsProduct development is a highly cross-functional, collaborative process. As a result, knowing how to best navigate people and product obstacles is crucial to shipping faster, delivering the right products for users, and working better as a product team.We were curious what the core strategies are for tackling […].
freshtrax
AUGUST 27, 2019
To be successful in any market, properly marketing your business to the right audience and choosing the right marketing tactics are very important factors to consider. In this age of technology, social media has become a very powerful and popular marketing tool that can reach a large population and a variety of users. However, it’s important to remember that each social media platform caters to a different demographic and creates a unique experience for its users.
Mind the Product
AUGUST 30, 2019
Every year, for MTP Engage Hamburg, we invite speakers from outside the mainstream product scene and ask them to contribute an additional perspective to stimulate discussion among our audience. This year we were very pleased to welcome Marie Louise Gørvild , Director of Techfestival Copenhagen, to present her view on the profound influence of product managers and other people who make decisions in tech, and the responsibility that comes with it.
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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.
The Product Coalition
AUGUST 29, 2019
Everyday, product managers all over the world open their laptops and prepare to take on the challenges of product development with their teams. There will be setbacks, there will be leaps ahead, and there will be moments of flowing innovation. In this hectic, yet intensely rewarding career, there are also many habits you can adopt that will help you in each hurdle, support each sprint and keep development moving forward.
ProductPlan
AUGUST 29, 2019
We are excited to welcome guest writer John Cutler to the ProductPlan blog. John is a product coach with Amplitude, where he collaborates with internal teams, customers, prospects, and the broader product public. Product teams are no stranger to the ever-changing and continuous demands of consumers and executives alike. When you create and update a particular product, it’s important to make sure the product does “things” that people need it to do.
dscout People Nerds
AUGUST 29, 2019
If you want see your participants up close and in-context—diary studies should be a part of your methodological toolkit. Here’s how to run one with fewer hiccups and more impact. .
Mind the Product
AUGUST 27, 2019
We’re taking a short break from releasing new episodes for the month of August. We’ll be back with new interviews in September. But don’t despair! We’ve asked a few friends to pick some of their favorite episodes to re-broadcast in the meantime. This week’s pick comes from Mind the Product co-founder, Martin Eriksson. Martin Eriksson’s Pick.
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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
The Product Coalition
AUGUST 26, 2019
Credit Henrik Kniberg & Crisp When you start to scale and have multiple products and/or teams, alignment becomes paramount. The general trap is to try and control things to stop misalignment form every happening by adding many layers of bureaucracy?—?or as I like to call “forced-alignment”. This stifles creativity, does very little to keep your people motivated and usually degrades team velocity.
UX Studio
AUGUST 27, 2019
The value proposition of a product provides one of the most important meeting points for user experience design and marketing. Although it deals mainly not with serving the customer but selling, it involves matching their needs with your product. Also, it usually gets better conversions and comes with additional benefits as well. It can set a common goal for your company, something easy to refer to when you have doubts on which feature to develop and much more.
Johanna Rothman
AUGUST 28, 2019
Does your team have to keep two sets of “books”? You have an agile roadmap to see where you're headed. You have a smallish backlog of the near/upcoming work. You're delivering on a frequent basis. And, someone on your team keeps a Gantt chart because a manager wants to see the team's progress in a form they feel comfortable with. Your team hates having to translate the agile planning into more traditional planning.
UserInterviews
AUGUST 29, 2019
Whether you’ve run a study before or are a complete beginner, this post is a great refresher on UX research supplemented by advice from our own learnings over the years.
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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.
The Product Coalition
AUGUST 26, 2019
pyramidions.com If you think that the emergence of cutting edge security technologies and tools helped reduce security concerns, you are wrong. Actually, the same techniques are available to the hackers and all those behind the curtain malware producers as well. So, the latest security technologies actually work more like double-edged swords. This is why following best data security practices are so important for the mobile app developers and strategists.
dscout People Nerds
AUGUST 29, 2019
TED’s Thaniya Keereepart on the right way to ask “why” and the moments that reframe the way we think about our impact.
ProductPlan
AUGUST 27, 2019
There is no shortage of prominent male product leaders populating social media with their wisdom. But well-rounded product managers should be hearing from a diverse chorus of voices. No two product managers are the same. That’s why we need to curate our feed and follow the best and brightest, that also provide a unique perspective on the evolving product landscape.
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