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5 Questions to Supercharge Your Ideation and Co-Creation

dscout People Nerds

Don’t settle for open-ends in your research designs. Adding closed-ends can improve data quality and promote the ease and efficiency of your co-creation and ideation research.

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Product Leader Manifesto: We Believe In Making Products That Improve The World

The Product Coalition

As a product leader, I aim to ensure my team is motivated daily to drive maximum impact for our customers in a way that impacts the business goals. First and foremost, I am a builder — I love building and scaling products. I took my past experiences as an individual contributor that created products to product leadership positions — leveraging these past experiences and scaling expertise to lead teams effectively.

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How to Incorporate Customer Feedback Into Your Product Planning

Gocious Blog

As any great product manager knows, creating an amazing product means understanding your target audience. It is important to know what your potential customers are looking for from the type of product you are planning. In-depth customer research is something that can take a product from good to great, which is why customer research cannot be an afterthought.

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Product Managers Prepare For The Metaverse

The Accidental Product Manager

Product managers have to get ready for what the future holds Image Credit: Roland Legrand As though you didn’t think that you already had enough to do, now you have to get ready for the metaverse. Look, over at Facebook they are investing millions of dollars into creating virtual worlds for visitors to come to and interact with each other in. If Facebook thinks that this is going to be a big deal, then they are probably on to something.

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From MVP to MAP (Most AI-ready Product)

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

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Product analytics vs embedded analytics – why you need both with Insightssoftware

Mind the Product

In this spotlight session at #mtpcon San Francisco, sponsored by Insightssoftware, Dustin Richardson, Senior Product Manager, Embedded Analytics, and Natasha Callender, Director, Solutions Engineering, Embedded Analytics, examine the difference between product analytics and embedded analytics, and discuss why it’s beneficial to consider using both. What is product analytics?

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The Biggest Challenges facing Digital Product Leaders and How to Overcome Them

Emerge Insights

Running digital products isn’t easy—it calls for a crystal-clear game plan, speedy action, and keeping a close eye on your wins. Recently, Productboard published their Product Excellence Report all about the hurdles product leaders are dealing with, and how they’re turning uncertainties into opportunities. We’ve taken a good, hard look at this report, and in […] The post The Biggest Challenges facing Digital Product Leaders and How to Overcome Them appeared first on EMERG

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How to Predict Customer Needs in SaaS

Userpilot

The SaaS market is complex and dynamic: product managers who can successfully predict customer needs are a valuable commodity. In this article, we’re going to explore what customer needs are, how you can analyze customer behavior to extrapolate them, and ultimately how you can use your findings to predict the future. Let’s make a start! TL;DR Customer needs are the wants and desires that motivate a customer to use a particular product or service.

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Resources for Product Managers: Top Podcasts on Product Management

Gocious Blog

Where do you search for inspiration as an aspiring or curious product manager? Whether you are breaking into the industry, finding your footing, or simply looking to keep up with ever-evolving digital product management trend s, there is always something new to learn.

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445: Three simple decision-making practices to thrive in continuous disruption – with Alexis Gonzales-Black

Product Innovation Educators

How product management teams can better make decisions Today we are talking about disruptions that impact our product work. Whether it’s supply chain disruptions, the great resignation, AI impacts, market competition or something else, continued disruption is expected. How can we navigate such an environment? To help us make decisions in this environment, Alexis Gonzales-Black joins us.

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Your Guide to Product Management Interviews: Top Questions with Answers

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

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Renaissance in Mobile Products

The Product Guy

It is really cool to see the future of mobile and the impact of small changes on a product’s users. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Meghan Nesta.

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Product org maturity model: A suggested framework for success

Mind the Product

Yohay Etsion, VP Product at Cognyte shares a suggested product maturity framework that can set teams up for success. Read more » The post Product org maturity model: A suggested framework for success appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Public vs. Private: A Million Dollar Roadmap Question

The Product Coalition

In today’s dynamic software landscape, product managers face the crucial task of maintaining the product roadmap.

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UX Research Training Courses, Certifications, and Bootcamps (2023)

UserInterviews

Great user researchers never stop learning. Explore 15+ UX research training courses to help grow your user research expertise.

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Signal-Based Selling: How to Leverage 4 Key Buying Signals

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

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How to Measure Growth of a Company [+ Metrics]

Userpilot

Are you trying to find out how to measure growth of a company? Growth is the lifeblood of any company, and it is paramount for any SaaS company. Measuring a company’s growth helps you understand how much you progressed and where you stand. It informs you whether your product growth is fine or if you should make tweaks to improve results. In this article, we’ll go through how to measure growth of a company by delving deep into the basics, relevant metrics, and each necessary company g

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Modern-day leadership by Janice Fraser

Mind the Product

Silicon Valley veteran and author Janice Fraser dives into the essentials of effective modern-day leadership and takes us through some of the findings in her book Read more » The post Modern-day leadership by Janice Fraser appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How Often Should a Product Manager Change Teams?

The Product Coalition

Technology employees are notorious for their shorter tenures at respective employers. Product managers are no different.

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Test-Driven or Feature Flag-Driven Development: What’s Best For Your Team?

Split

The need for efficient and effective software development methodologies has never been more paramount. Amid this incessant search for perfection, two paradigms have become prominent: Test-driven development (TDD) and feature flag-driven development (FFDD). Both have their distinct benefits and challenges, and both have proven to be transformative in the quest for software excellence.

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Actionable Insights for Your Product Team

Great product management starts with great teams. Our free assessment tool reveals where your team excels and uncovers opportunities for growth across six key dimensions: Context, Investigate, Define, Create, Deliver, and Leadership. In just 10 minutes, gain actionable insights that show you exactly where to focus to improve performance, drive outcomes, and strengthen your team in key areas.

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Customer Satisfaction Survey Best Practises, Examples & Questions

Userpilot

Embracing customer satisfaction survey best practices is critical to driving business growth. You’ll consistently generate quality feedback and see how to act on them to improve the user experience. This, in turn, will motivate users to stay with your brand, driving long-term loyalty and retention. What are some of these best practices, and how can you implement them?

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Unlocking your potential: Strategies to reignite passion for product managers

Mind the Product

Phani K Vuyyuru, Senior Product Manager, explains how we can reignite our passion for building great products in his guest post. Read more » The post Unlocking your potential: Strategies to reignite passion for product managers appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Anna Russo: Strike A Balance between Generative AI and Data Science

The Product Coalition

Product leader Anna Russo explains what’s important when making data-driven decisions with Generative AI. By Tremis Skeete , for Product Coalition Much of the debates we read on social media about generative AI and its capabilities to transform how we deliver solutions, seems to cast a shadow over two critical discussion components — the need to capture the right kinds of data in the right ways, and the need for a stable and scalable data architecture.

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How Feature Flag Management Helped an EM Gain Efficiencies

Split

Meet Engineering Manager, Matt Winchester. In the following interview, he discusses the many industry challenges his team overcame with a feature management platform. By using Split, Matt and his team have been able to decouple release from deploy and are accelerating features into production with little worry. As a result, they can get back to the things they love like spending time with family.

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Why Should Companies Transition Towards a “Product Operating Model”?

Technical Product Manager at GPC Global Technology Center in Krakow. She has extensive experience in the area of Product Delivery and close cooperation with development teams. In her work, she tries to implement the scrum approach.

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Product Usability 101: How to Measure It for a User-Friendly UX?

Userpilot

How do you evaluate product usability to guide the product design process? If you’re after the answer to this question, you’re in the right place, because that’s exactly what the article explores. Ready to dive in? TL;DR Product usability describes how easily customers can use a product to achieve their goals. User experience covers all customer interactions with the brand and focuses on aspects like customer satisfaction, enjoyment, and perception of the product value.

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Airbnb’s product management shift: the view from product leaders

Mind the Product

I’m sure you noticed the remarks of Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky a couple of weeks ago and have seen the attendant furore they caused: it was reported that he told the audience at Figma’s annual conference that Airbnb had got rid of its product management function. Chesky later clarified what he’d said in a tweet: in Read more » The post Airbnb’s product management shift: the view from product leaders appeared first on Mind the Product.

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4 Types of ‘Moats’ to Make Your Product/Business Bulletproof!

The Product Coalition

(FYI this was originally published as part of my newsletter — subscribe here [link] Continue reading on Product Coalition »

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Fun Conversation with Dave Prior About Successful Independent Consulting

Johanna Rothman

Dave Prior interviewed me for his podcast, the Drunken PM. You can read and see the podcast on: Projectmanagement.com, in Dave's Reluctant Agilist column. See Successful Independent Consulting with Johanna Rothman. Or watch it on YouTube. Or hear it on DrunkenPM Radio. While I use Overcast for my podcast subscriptions, you might like Soundcloud or Apple.

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Build Your Best Product Strategy: An Action Plan You Can Start Now

As your company grows and your product matures, so too should your product strategy. Drawing from their decades of experience as product leaders, Stanford Online instructors Donna Novitsky and Laura Marino share best practices for defining your product strategy at each stage of company growth. Get practical, real-world product strategy tips from experts who have lived through the same challenges you’re currently facing.

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Double-Barreled Question Examples & How to Avoid Them

Userpilot

Learning to identify double-barreled question examples is key to avoiding them in your surveys. To accurately capture user sentiment with your surveys, you must avoid any question that leads to confusion or frustration. In this article, we examine what double-barreled questions are, why they're harmful to your survey, and what you can do to avoid them.

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SUNDAY REWIND: Embracing the art of prioritisation by Emily Tate

Mind the Product

Mind the Product's managing director Emily Tate gives a talk full of practical advice for product managers on how to embrace the art of prioritisation Read more » The post SUNDAY REWIND: Embracing the art of prioritisation by Emily Tate appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How to Write the Best User Stories

The Product Coalition

Sometimes it’s nice to go back to the basics. Let’s talk about story writing!