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3 Creative Levels in Your Product Career

The Product Coalition

Product management is a creative job in the deepest sense: We create products. But the level at which we need to do so changes dramatically over the course of a product person’s career, and the transition is not always easy. Here are three levels — each relevant to a different stage in your career and your product. Where are you now? Photo by Inna Rabotyagina on Pexels I don’t know how, but my daughters turned out to be really good with creative stuff.

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Practical tips for building credibility as a product manager

Mind the Product

Mark Bailes, Technical Product Manager shares practical tips on building credibility as a product manager based on his previous experience of working in product roles. Having joined GE HealthCare as part of the rotational Digital Technology Leadership Program, I learned how to go both broad and deep very quickly to deliver outcomes within a Read more » The post Practical tips for building credibility as a product manager appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Product Demos: Avoiding the Trap of Telling vs. Selling

Product Management University

If you’re a pre-sales solution consultant or sales engineer, falling into the trap of telling vs selling can happen before you even know it, even though your intentions are always on the mark to start the demo. Here’s how to avoid the trap. The Difference Between Telling and Selling Demos Telling Demos The telling demo is an overview of the product section by section, a demonstration of the features in each, and an explanation of how those features work and the benefits.

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How Effective Roadmaps Can Save You Time

Gocious Blog

There's no doubt product management is a complex process. First, you have to identify great products that will perform effectively so you can meet your company goals. Then you have to manage the functions that will get the product built efficiently and on time.

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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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The Perfect Pair: Why Human and Digital-Led Strategies Result in CS Excellence

Gainsight

Peanut butter and jelly, chips and salsa, cookies and cream, some combinations are meant for one another. And although these perfect pairings can be consumed on their own, we can all agree that they are better together. Just like these famous food duos, CS individuals should see how the recipe for customer excellence is a combination of both human and digital-led strategies.

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How Data Led Approach Can Help You Drive SaaS Business Growth

Userpilot

A data-led approach in SaaS is the key to unlocking innovative ideas, more revenue, and faster product growth. In this article, we cover the following: What it means to be data-led and why it helps SaaS companies grow fast. How to make data-led decisions. How to improve user experience by becoming data-led. TL;DR A data-led approach involves using a combination of data, context, research, and human expertise to make business decisions.

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Great Value Proposition Examples

AB Tasty

Your value proposition, or Unique Selling Point, is at the heart of your product or service. Learn more about this essential piece of your business: what a good value proposition looks like and how to write a great one.

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Product Coalition is About Community, Comprehension, Context, and Clarity

The Product Coalition

Why do we believe editing is important? It’s because we believe in quality learning, we believe in our writers, and we want all our readers to succeed in product development — globally. By Tremis Skeete , Executive Editor for Product Coalition Jay Stansell, founded Product Coalition based on the belief that learning about product development should be accessible to everyone, globally.

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Creating a Sales Playbook: 5 Must-Haves

Product Management University

The whole point of creating a sales playbook is to give your sales team “situational sales tools” that make them highly effective in every part of the sales process. The end game is shorter sales cycles where your products and services are the clear choice. What is a Sales Playbook? A sales playbook is a collection of sales tools that help salespeople usher buyers through the sales process with simplicity and greater credibility.

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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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Nichole Mace: Products, pricing, and pitfalls

Mind the Product

Product managers today play an important role in determining the pricing strategy of their products. We speak to Nichole Mace, VP of Product Growth at Pendo, about the history of pricing and product, the struggles, and her tips to influence your pricing model that provide the most value for your users. Product managers and pricing Read more » The post Nichole Mace: Products, pricing, and pitfalls appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Money Buddies: Don’t Go It Alone with Your Wallet

Nir Eyal

Now, more than ever, we have to be smart with our money. Yet navigating our personal finances and adhering to a budget can be a daunting task. However, there’s a free and fun technique that anyone can use to get back on track with their finances: getting a money buddy. The post Money Buddies: Don’t Go It Alone with Your Wallet appeared first on Nir and Far.

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Breaking Into Product Management: The Adventure Begins

The Product Coalition

Part One: I’ve often been asked, “How did you break into product management?” because for many, the path seems mysterious.

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Disruptive Technologies

svpg

NOTE: As many of you know, I am in the midst of publishing a series of articles on the various product competencies. However, I’ve been getting so many questions about the impact of ChatGPT, Midjourney, GPT4, and LLM’s in general that I thought it’s best to interrupt my normal articles to acknowledge the dramatic impact. The post Disruptive Technologies appeared first on Silicon Valley Product Group.

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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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This is not the time for nice-to-have products

Mind the Product

Product leader Sharon Feldstein talks about building nice-to-have products and features as our main product offering - why we need to avoid it, especially in times of financial uncertainty. Read more » The post This is not the time for nice-to-have products appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Do Not Lose Sight of the Goals

The Product Guy

Every quarter go through all the business problems you want to solve as a company. Then, what comes next is amazing! Watch and learn more from product management expert, Amin Bashi.

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Product Gardening

The Product Coalition

What we can learn about your product’s maturation, by observing the evolution of a garden through the seasons.

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Top 7 Reasons For Customer Churn in SaaS and Tips to Address Them

Userpilot

What are the reasons for customer churn in SaaS? And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? As a SaaS company, your ultimate goal is to retain customers and keep them happy with your product. However, sometimes things don’t go as planned, and customers churn. By the end of this article, you’ll have a better understanding of the common pitfalls that lead to customer churn and how to avoid them.

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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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SUNDAY REWIND: The Product Decision Stack by Martin Eriksson

Mind the Product

This week’s Sunday Rewind takes us to a ProductTank Lagos presentation from Martin Eriksson on his Decision Stack framework. Martin explains that his Decision Stack framework is about connecting the dots from vision to action. Increasing the quality and velocity of our decision making comes down to answering three questions: what should we do, why are we Read more » The post SUNDAY REWIND: The Product Decision Stack by Martin Eriksson appeared first on Mind the Product.

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When Writing Has Two Focuses: Invite Ideal Readers to Change and Assure Secondary Readers

Johanna Rothman

Back when I wrote Writing Secret 5: Decide on One Ideal Reader , I suggested there was one primary reader and other secondary readers. That's not wrong, but it's incomplete. Nonfiction writing causes people to decide, rethink, or change their actions, all a change of some sort. That means the ideal reader for a given piece is the person you want to change.

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9 Challenging Participant Types (and How to Reset with Them)

dscout People Nerds

When a 1-1 session isn’t going as planned, how can you get the participant back on track? This article has you covered.

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Closed-Loop Analytics for SaaS: How to Bridge the Data Gap

Userpilot

The SaaS world is filled with product growth analytics and metrics that span the entire customer lifecycle. Today, we’ll be focusing on closed-loop analytics and how they can help you better manage and benefit from data! TL;DR Marketing and sales teams have different goals, which is why they often have different data sources or metrics. Marketing teams may look at Google Analytics while your sales team will likely check their CRM platform.

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Deliver Mission Critical Insights in Real Time with Data & Analytics

In the fast-moving manufacturing sector, delivering mission-critical data insights to empower your end users or customers can be a challenge. Traditional BI tools can be cumbersome and difficult to integrate - but it doesn't have to be this way. Logi Symphony offers a powerful and user-friendly solution, allowing you to seamlessly embed self-service analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting directly into your applications.

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Common transformation pitfalls by Marty Cagan

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank Oslo talk, Marty Cagan, founder and partner at Silicon Valley Product Group shares his thoughts on common transformation pitfalls. It’s no secret that most transformations fail, says Marty. When companies undertake large-scale transformations, 70% fail substantially, he adds. While the odds are stacked against companies embarking on transformation drives, you can easily Read more » The post Common transformation pitfalls by Marty Cagan appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Q2 2023 Writing Workshop Open for Registration

Johanna Rothman

Do you struggle with writing? You'd like to write more and faster, but things are just not working for you. I can help. I have opened the Q2 2023 Free Your Inner Writer workshop for registration. If you want to write easier and faster, read the book. If you want my support in your writing, take the workshop. (If you haven't yet bought the book, I'll give you a copy as part of the workshop.

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Top Mistakes to Avoid When Scaling a Product Team

Gocious Blog

When your manufacturing business starts to grow, it is important to scale production to meet that growth. This can include investing in more production capacity but in the product management space it means new products or expansion of current products to meet new segments needs. While these strategies are all essential to meet this new demand, the ability to grow also comes with the need to scale your product team.

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NPS Survey Template: Best Practices and Examples

Userpilot

Looking for the best NPS survey template to personalize? Keep reading! Creating an NPS survey can be hard sometimes, but using a template simplifies the entire survey process. It saves you time, ensures consistency, and enables easy customization to fit your unique needs and branding. In this blog post, we’ll discuss different NPS survey questions and best practices to collect valuable feedback from your customer base.

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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