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The 5 P’s of Product Management

Product Management Today Submitted Articles

It takes an insane amount of hard work and effort to become a Great Product Manager (I’m very much still on the journey myself). And once you get there, it takes more consistent work to stay at the top of your game.

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Eliminate Busy-Work to Create Engagement

Johanna Rothman

One of my colleagues, Al, private-messaged me. “I'm so much more effective now that we're remote. I get a ton more work done. I'm so much happier. I love where the product is going. How can I do more of this?” Al feels productive and engaged. Why does he feel this way? When I spoke with him, his managers had eliminated the busy-work he'd previously done.

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The Five Product Movements Model (5PMM)

Product Management Today Submitted Articles

Over the past decade, I have worked extensively with many B2B enterprise software companies. My role has principally focused on the individual and collective performance of the product management and the development management functions. This has included the assessment, formation, development, and re-engineering of the product management function.

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Product Manager’s Secret 2020 Weapon: Remote Workshops

Mind the Product

As product managers we are, at our core, facilitators. It is ultimately up to us to get all interested parties to align and collaborate on building the right thing for our business and making sure we understand our users so it’s the right thing for the market. As such, we spend a lot of our [.]. Read More. The post Product Manager’s Secret 2020 Weapon: Remote Workshops appeared first on Mind the Product.

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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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The appliance of science: Mark Roberge’s formula for scaling

Intercom, Inc.

What kind of information drives that decision: is it subjective and qualitative, or objective and quantifiable? It’s the classic conflict: left brain versus right brain; art versus science. Mark Roberge knows which he prefers. As an engineer by training, in pressure situations he tends to “lean to the quant.” It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years.

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Build the B2B Product Manager Organization

Product Management Today Submitted Articles

Congratulations! You’ve been promoted! On your first day as a new B2B exec, your company’s Director of Public Relations wants to chat. Something about a press release. She says you’ll want to address stockholder concerns. To provide hope despite the weak economy and sluggish sales. To give a reason to believe. A reason to have faith in future profits.

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Testing Business Ideas, By David Bland

Mind the Product

David Bland, co-author of Testing Business Ideas, spoke about his process in writing his book. True to his craft, he tested the content of his book as it was written. Watch the video to see David’s talk in full. Or read on for an overview of his key points. Build, Measure, Learn A repeating theme [.]. Read More. The post Testing Business Ideas, By David Bland appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Meet Interconnected – Intercom’s customer community forum

Intercom, Inc.

At Intercom, building relationships has always been at the heart of what we do. We’re on a mission to make internet business personal, helping you support and engage with your customers through the Intercom Messenger. This belief in the power of conversation runs deep here, and underpins so much of how we build Intercom and how we support our customers.

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Use This Startup's Playbook for Running Impactful Virtual Offsites

First Round Review

Many team retreats have the tendency to leave participants feeling exhausted, sick of slide deck presentations and itching to get back to the emails that have been piling up in their absence—and virtual offsites add marathon Zoom sessions and interruptions at home to the mix. Here, the Sitka team shares how they planned an intentional, engaging virtual offsite, delving into the framework, agenda and tactics they used to pull it off.

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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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A Practical Guide for Agile Teams (2020)

Product Management Today Submitted Articles

This is my complete guide to Product Discovery in 2020.

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Using Product EQ to Hire the Best Product Managers – Kate Leto on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

Product people love to study frameworks, techniques, and approaches that have worked at other companies. In Kate Leto’s new book, Hiring Product Managers: Using Product EQ to go Beyond Culture and Skills, she gives an overview of how to actually use those tools – both in building a team and day-to-day, as a product professional. [.]. Read More.

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Fake Product Market Fit: The Signs.

NextBigWhat

You either have a product market fit or you build fake metrics to get there (even unintentionally). But then, how can one be truthful towards PMF and not get into the fakeness of it? Great perspective by Indus. » NextBigWhat’s #Threadmill brings you curated Twitter threads on product, life and growth. Got lucky to attend @mwseibel’s @SaaStrAnnual session: How Not to die after raising your seed round.

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TEI 299: Better product team performance by understanding introverts – with Jennifer Kahnweiler, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

Why product managers need to understand introverts and extroverts. If you work with other people, and I think that is just about all of us, you are going to love this episode. People are either extroverts or introverts. For everyone leading a team or working in a team, you can improve the team performance by improving how introverts and extroverts interact.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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A step-by-step guide to creating your first user flow diagram

nulab

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: A picture is worth a thousand words, which is why diagrams come in so handy. They’re a neat way to display complex information in an easily digestible format. Websites and user journeys can be complex, which is where user flow diagrams come in handy. They’re an invaluable tool in the website designer’s arsenal, and, as the name implies, they’re for helping you see how a user makes their way (or ‘flows’) through your website or app.

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Teresa Torres Answers Your Product Discovery Questions

Mind the Product

In the latest Prioritised AMA, we were joined by Teresa Torres who took questions from the audience covering a long list of juicy discovery topics. From how to keep track of your team’s discovery efforts and why the process of discovery is just so damn hard, to effective ways to share discovery results and tips [.]. Read More. The post Teresa Torres Answers Your Product Discovery Questions appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Relocation stories – what our international team loves about life in Prague

ProductBoard

Relocation can be challenging, but it can also be the start of an amazing journey. If you decide to move countries to join productboard, don’t worry, you won’t be alone! Our team is made up of 27 nationalities and counting, with so many incredible people and stories coming together in one company. Here are just a few examples of people who packed their bags and relocated to join our team in Prague.

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The art & science of Product Strategy in a crisis, disruption or acceleration

BrainMates

When everything around you is changing, what’s a Product Manager to do? Go back to the basics and do what we do best. In a Q&A a couple of months ago, someone in the (virtual) audience asked if they should be working on their strategy now, or if they should wait until things calmed down again. All of us on the panel gave the same advice: don’t wait.

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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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Three Ways to Boost Your Product Engagement Score

ProductCraft

Given the current COVID-driven market changes, keeping an eye on how users are engaging with your product is more crucial than ever. Doing so can help you answer critical questions, such as which features are driving the most value, where users are getting stuck, and how frequently customers are interacting with your application. The answers. Read more » The post Three Ways to Boost Your Product Engagement Score appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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Mindset – Being empowered to manage your stakeholders with Papa Akuffo

Mind the Product

Watch on YouTube | Listen on Soundcloud | Watch on Vimeo | View other Mindset episodes Rosemary King welcomes Papa Akuffo to Mindset. Papa is currently Product Management Lead at Ideo. He previously held senior product roles at Pivotal Labs. In this episode, Papa and Rosemary discuss stakeholders, the importance of qualitative, human data, and [.].

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New @mentions make notifications easy

Nulab

Making it easy to keep your team in the loop about updates is crucial for transparency. With our new @mention feature for notifications, you can quickly tag the right team members inline in your comments and issue descriptions. Mentions in Backlog. Rather than adding users to the notification box to bring attention to updates, you can now mention users directly in your text using the @ symbol and their Unique ID.

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Learn to Calculate Your Risk Metrics to Make Data Influenced Decisions

Strategyzer

In our previous blog post, we discussed the need for exploration projects to track four main key performance indicators (KPIs): risk and uncertainty, expected profitability, time spent, and cost. In this article, we will zoom in on calculating risk and uncertainty at the hypothesis level to help you make data influenced decisions to inform your next business idea.

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Challenges of a Product Manager In Cybersecurity Identity and Access Management projects

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The Value of Multiculturalism at Modus

Modus Create

Earlier this year, I found myself looking for the next step in my career. While researching organizations, I was introduced to Modus Create through Fiorella Montero, our People Operations Generalist. I was impressed to learn that Modus was an incredibly diverse company, with team members from over 50 different countries. Distributed, multicultural organizations are rare in much of the world, including Costa Rica.

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The Latest and Greatest in PM Humor

ProductCraft

Welcome to another roundup of the best product management humor on the web. It’s been a while since our last edition, but the jokes these days are too good to pass up. Product managers, have you considered moonlighting as standup comedians? We think you’ve got the chops. Plus, there have been so many meme templates. Read more » The post The Latest and Greatest in PM Humor appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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Upskill with People Nerds: A Resource for Any Research Roadblock

dscout People Nerds

Whatever you’re struggling with in your research practice—be it interpersonal, organizational, logistical, or methodological—we have a guide, workshop, or template for you. .

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4 Ways Customer Analytics Software Can Help You Build Better Products

Amplitude

You can’t build a great product without understanding your users, and you can’t understand your users without product data. That’s where customer analytics software comes in. Any product-led company needs the right tools to be able to sift through data and find insights. With the right software, you can get immediate feedback on what’s working with your platform and what’s not.

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Use Cases for Apache Cassandra®

There’s a good reason why Apache Cassandra® is quickly becoming the NoSQL database of choice for organizations of all stripes. In this white paper, discover the key use cases that make Cassandra® such a compelling open source software – and learn the important pitfalls to avoid. From understanding its distributed architecture to unlocking its incredible power for industries like healthcare, finance, retail and more, experience how Cassandra® can transform your entire data operations.

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Managing portfolio and platform

Under 10 Consulting

How is managing a portfolio different from managing a product? How is managing a portfolio different from managing a product? It isn't. Your portfolio of products is just another product. The portfolio has “customers”—that is, the people who put their capabilities in the portfolio or on the platform. What problems are they expecting the platform to solve?

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What’s Your Work-From-Home Personality?

ProductCraft

Happy Friday, everyone! We made it. As a treat to help you start the weekend on the right foot, we’re sharing this fun little quiz made by our friends over at Pendo. A lot of companies have been remote since April, and we’ve all struggled with how to make the most of working from home. Read more » The post What’s Your Work-From-Home Personality?

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Your Research Project Roadmap: Essential Steps for Ensuring for a Thorough Study

dscout People Nerds

Your projects are like journeys. And like any good journey, planning is essential. .

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