UserVoice
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
What would you say if I told you that your product backlog is hindering your product and engineering teams from building the software your customers actually want? What if I said that by eliminating your backlog entirely and beginning each development cycle with a blank page you will reap tremendous benefits? It turns out, the majority of the time and energy spent in your backlog is wasteful and a.
Nir Eyal
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
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ProductCraft
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
Engineering time is one of your company’s most valuable resources—and as a product manager, it’s on you to use it wisely. Chances are you’re already well versed in the classic build vs. buy dilemma, relying on quantifiable insights about your customers, product, and team to decide when to invest those precious engineering resources in a. Read more » The post To Build, Or To Buy?
280 Group
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
To learn about this topic more in-depth, join our upcoming webinar on Thursday, February 18th, 2021: Fueling Your Product Strategy with Qualitative Research. Because interpreting qualitative data is time-consuming and subjective it is often underutilized or left behind altogether when building product strategy. You have been dutifully interviewing customers and observing focus groups, producing mountains of notes.
Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science
Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.
Intercom, Inc.
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
It’s no secret that when it comes to support, customer expectations are higher than ever before – but how are support leaders and teams adapting to these increased demands? Our recent report showed that while 73% of support leaders say customer expectations are increasing, only 42% of them believe that they’re actually meeting those expectations. That’s a significant gap between expectations and reality – and one that it’s all too easy for your support team to fall into.
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The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
We’re kicking off a new venture with an enterprise tech product at its core. I’m eager to see the founding team we’ve put together succeed, so I’ve put together a list of books that contain the ideas that I’ve found most useful for a new product venture at this stage (getting from 0.1 to 1). Putting together the list was harder than I thought. I wanted to keep the list short and focused enough that it was digestible and usable as fast as possible, also broad enough to cover the key ideas the tea
Product Management University
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
SWOT analysis is far from a new concept, especially for individual products. In B2B though, assessing your product portfolio’s S trengths, W eaknesses, O pportunities and T hreats should be an annual ritual. Why? It offers a macro view of your portfolio’s performance and provides valuable insights that drive your go-to-market strategy and ultimately impacts your product, marketing and sales investment priorities.
Mixpanel
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
Why do smart product teams often build products with mediocre or no impact? Often, the answer is found in the discipline with which a product team measures the product. . Choosing your metrics: metrics categories. When selecting your metrics, you’ll want to consider a few different categories. These categories cover multiple granularities and perspectives that will help you make rigorous product decisions.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
Goals are important. They can give us a sense of purpose and direction. They aid us in prioritizing where we spend our time. They can empower teams and individuals. They can align us to achieve our most ambitious dreams. Goals can also divide us, be divisive and see people incentivized with conflicting goals and self-serving with individuals fighting [.].
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Strategyzer
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
2020 has been an incredibly disruptive year for the restaurant industry with losses of over $240B in the US market alone. Supply chains have been cut, the way people consume and order food has been turned upside down by the pandemic. These constraints also represent an opportunity for businesses to rethink how customers engage, how to mobilize people and resources to achieve faster results and how to leverage new technologies to their advantage.
First Round Review
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Former Amazon execs Colin Bryar and Bill Carr helped build the "invention machine" that enabled the company to successfully launch everything from AWS to the Kindle. Here, they share granular advice and concrete takeaways for startups looking to alter their own trajectories.
UserInterviews
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
The third annual State of User Research report uncovers trends in UXR methods, tools, salaries, and remote work. Includes data from 525 user researchers in 44 countries.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
In this interactive AMA session for Prioritised members, Jackie Bavaro, author of Cracking the PM Career, shares what she knows about effectively managing your career in product. Watch the recording in its entirety or read on for the highlights, including: The Phases of a Product Career Making the Move From Director To VP What People [.]. Read More.
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The product management job market in 2024 reflects the fast-growing and ever-evolving nature of the field. For product managers looking to future-proof their careers and take advantage of new opportunities, staying informed about the professional landscape is a smart move. In this comprehensive career guide from Regis College, you’ll learn about: The current job outlook for product managers in 2024 Six professional pathways and the average salaries for these roles in the U.S.
Product Innovation Educators
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Secrets for working with customers to create products they will love. This podcast is getting a new name to better reflect our objective here—helping product managers become product masters. That new name is Product Masters Now. You don’t need to do anything to keep listening, but I want you to know the name change is coming in a few weeks, and it will show in your podcast player not as The Everyday Innovator but as Product Masters Now.
First Round Review
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Former Amazon execs Colin Bryar and Bill Carr helped build the "invention machine" that enabled the company to successfully launch everything from AWS to the Kindle. Here, they share granular advice and concrete takeaways for startups looking to alter their own trajectories.
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
If I knew these 20 things when I started as a product manager, I wouldn’t have stressed so much, I would’ve focused on the right things… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
In this November 2020 #mtpcon Digital session, Sara Wood, CEO of Kaluza and ex EVP Product of Farfetch, explained how to use change to your advantage as you progress through your career in Product. Watch the 30-minute session in full, or read on for the highlights. Time Moves Forward Sara explains that time and circumstance are [.]. Read More. The post Embracing Change as a Career Advantage by Sara Wood appeared first on Mind the Product.
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.
Intercom, Inc.
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
A lot has happened in the last 12 months. The world experienced exponential change and began navigating its way towards the “new normal,” and the way that companies support and engage their customers has rapidly evolved. Here at Intercom, we doubled down on building and shipping features across our conversational support and engagement solutions that would fundamentally shift how our customers communicate with their own.
Mironov Consulting
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
VPs of Product and VPs of Engineering need a strong, trusting, collaborative working relationship so that their teams can succeed. What does that look like?
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
TL; DR: Forensic Product Backlog Analysis Garbage in, garbage out: No matter whether your team chose Scrum for the right purpose?—?solving complex, adaptive problems. No matter whether your Scrum Team’s product quality is top-notch or whether your teammates embrace self-management to the fullest. If your Product Backlog is not up to the job, all of these accomplishments will account for little, as your team will provide less value to its customers than possible.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
Over the last decade in the public sector, there’s been a global explosion in citizen and resident-centered design and development, with movements in the UK, Estonia, Australia, Canada, USA, and many more strengthening their approaches. Where it’s been done well, it’s made a huge difference. At the same time, civil services are always facing budget [.].
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The Accidental Product Manager
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Do customers want to trust Alexa with their health data? Image Credit: Jeff Eaton. The product managers at Amazon have a bit of a problem on their hands right now. They have a popular voice activated device called Alexa that can play music, look up things on the web, add things to a shopping list and a lot of other things all using voice commands – no typing, no screen swiping.
Johanna Rothman
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
I had a terrific time with Scott Hanselman on his podcast, Hanselminutes. Listen to our conversation on Modern Management Made Easy with Johanna Rothman. I started listening to Scott's podcast a couple of years ago. I regularly listen because he: Selects people I've never heard of before. Organizes the interview in ways that clarify the ideas. Makes his guests sound smart.
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
AI Revolt In Mobile Apps Aimed at the next-generation marketing mobility elucidation, new innovations such as Virtual Reality Augmented Reality, IoT, as well as Artificial Intelligence has been covered up. Of all such important innovations, owing to its growing importance of mobile application development usage across the globe, AI has found a separate position in the making of mobile applications.
Userpilot
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
The two prevailing schools of thought for the Freemium Business Model are either: Freemium is dead (ok…when was the funeral?) Freemium works depending on certain conditions (some say it might be best to use in the seed stage ). However, our State of SaaS Product Onboarding study we did in 2020 (2021 report coming soon!) found something interesting to add to this debate.
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.
ProductBoard
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
When I was Head of Product for a startup a few years ago, I must have spent more than 60% of my time on operational tasks. When not running product team meetings, having one-on-one conversations with individual product managers, or getting feedback from customers, I was busy creating presentations and writing emails to share what we were doing with the company’s executives and other departments.
Good Product Manager
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
Happy 2021! I’ve been behind on posting here (it’s been almost 6 months!) so I apologize for the delay, but I’ve got a lot of great things to share. Recent Blog Posts. I wrote two posts for the Forrester blog that touch on popular subjects in recent client discussions: Roles and Responsibilities for Product Management and Portfolio Marketing: How Much Do They Matter?
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
I’ve done the hard work for you. I have pulled out the 17 customer-focused methods from the 84 overall. We talk a lot about being… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».
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