The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! View the live stream…. About The Product Mentor. The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals̷

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UserVoice

APRIL 4, 2017

It’s no secret that product managers wear a lot of hats. They must simultaneously work as strategists, liaisons, analysts, and salespeople…and that’s all before lunch (working lunch , that is). The litany of tasks on a PM’s plate can seem overwhelming at a glance, but the market has responded to these challenges with a number of specialized solutions that many PMs now consider indispensable in their day-to-day.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 4, 2017

What is Dual-Track Agile? Dual-Track Agile is an IT development methodology where figuring out what to build is as important as the building process. You start with a discovery track to find out if a product idea is good and if it makes sense to build. Successful findings from the discovery track are added to the backlog of the delivery track. So how do you know if your product team has a good idea?

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Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

APRIL 4, 2017

I recently spoke at the Enterprise IoT Summit in Austin, Texas. It was a great event that brought together IoT thought leaders from around the country, as well as product and business leaders from companies working on industrial and enterprise IoT applications. Below is a link to view the recording of my talk, which focused on how to create a […].

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Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Product Management University

APRIL 3, 2017

What are some ways we can get unbiased customer feedback to validate product ideas? Getting customer feedback on product ideas can be a double edge sword. If you’re not asking the right questions, this process can create more headaches than it alleviates. The secret to valuable unbiased feedback lies in how the questions are asked. Here are a few simple tips that should yield more useful customer feedback.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 7, 2017

Co-founder and former Creative Director at Ribot – a design agency in Brighton – Jerome Ribot is also the creator of Cognitive Lode , a resource that distills the latest behavioural research into helpful product advice to help humanity understand itself better. He will take you through the design decisions made during the development of the site, with a specific focus on the psychological research applied during the design process to increase engagement and learning.

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DISQO

APRIL 7, 2017

Insights from interviews with product leaders from Intercom, Drift, InsightSquared, and Betterment. Building a product is a cross-functional endeavor. The problem is that, as Martin Eriksson recently and definitively concluded , the product manager is “ultimately responsible for the success or failure of a product” but doesn’t have authority over any of the people involved in the collective effort.

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The Accidental Product Manager

APRIL 3, 2017

Comcast product managers have discovered how to get more customers Image Credit: Mike Mozart. By now I would think that you’ve heard about the so-called “cord cutters” who are out there. If you are a product manager working for a cable company these people are the bane of your existence. The cord cutters are the people who have decided that they no longer need to subscribe to cable television and so they are canceling their cable TV subscriptions.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 5, 2017

SC Moatti excerpted five of her recent Product That Count podcasts with product management thinkers: Marty Cagan, Teresa Torres, Jeff Gothelf, Dan Olsen and me. This podcast compiles some favorite interview moments… my small segment touched on Jobs to be Done, scaling up product teams, and empowering product/engineering teams by removing organizational obstacles.

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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

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Mind the Product

APRIL 5, 2017

The chatter at SXSW this year was all about the chatbot. Several sessions and a lot of side conversations were aimed at helping companies understand what chatbots are and how to use them. I got the sense that everyone wants to have one of these in their product right away. But while everyone talked about the ways in which these are going to revolutionize user engagement, it sounded too much like “me too!

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Roy Madden

APRIL 4, 2017

Feedly is home to a vibrant community of experts, students, and trailblazers. We all have our own reasons for reading what we do. Maybe you want to gain a deeper understanding of a topic or discover something new. Whatever your motivation, the power of information lies in your ability to harness it. Today we are sharing three new features we hope will make your Feedly experience even better: Boards, notes, and highlights.

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TSIA

APRIL 6, 2017

When we talk about “ organizational convergence ,” we’re referring to the blending of traditional service lines. Encouraging better collaboration between functions within your company can have many benefits, including increased recurring revenues, a more streamlined service offer portfolio, improved resource utilization, and more! In this infographic, you’ll get a glimpse at three tactics for breaking down silos within your organization and achieving successful organizati

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 5, 2017

This episode of Karthik’s DesignYour Thinking podcast pulled together thoughts on product mistakes from Roman Pichler, Steven Haines, Chad McAllister, Cindy Alvarez and me. (A pleasure to be part of this group!) My short segment touches on good practices: selling the value of product management to the executive team; helping stakeholders remember why we have specific items on the roadmap; and setting up trade-off discussions.

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UserTesting

APRIL 7, 2017

Ever wonder what it’s like to be a product manager at one of the world’s most iconic streaming music services? In a recent webinar, we caught up with Product Manager Suzanne Sharlock for a behind-the-scenes look at how a PM … The post Q&A with Napster Product Manager Suzanne Scharlock appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Roy Madden

APRIL 3, 2017

We just released a new version of the Feedly Mobile application for both iOS and Android. You can download them for free from the App Store and Google Play Store. Here is a quick overview of the new features included in this release. New Richer Cards. We enhanced the design of the card view. The new design is more readable and more modular. It allows us to surface notes and highlights when needed.

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TSIA

APRIL 4, 2017

Generating a profit is the goal of every cloud business. Yet for many, achieving it remains elusive. As companies walk the path toward creating a profitable cloud-based business—or transitioning from a product-based to a service-based business—many challenges exist in this still-emerging market. And those challenges are amplified when operating through an indirect channel sales model.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2017

Let’s be honest. We have no idea what is going to happen a year, a week, or even five minutes from right now. And what’s worse, believing we do means we are not only kidding ourselves, but it’s almost certain we will not achieve our desired result. Rarely do predictions come true. We live in a complex world that frequently and without warning changes around us.

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Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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UserTesting

APRIL 7, 2017

Ever wonder what it’s like to be a product manager at one of the world’s most iconic streaming music services? In a recent webinar, we caught up with Product Manager Suzanne Sharlock for a behind-the-scenes look at how a PM … The post Q&A with Napster Product Manager Suzanne Scharlock appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Brian Balfour

APRIL 4, 2017

This is the Data Wheel of Death: Data Isn’t Constantly Maintained -> Data Becomes Irrelevant / Flawed -> People Lose Trust -> They Use Data Less If the above looks familiar, you’re not alone. I estimate that greater than ? of data efforts at companies fail. This is trouble because data plays a key horizontal role in the growth process and mindset.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2017

Some years ago, I wrote a blog post noting that small teams are more creative and productive than big teams. I suggested that this might be because, like a band, they were self organising, communicated easily and informally and had autonomy over what they played. Band vs Orchestra. I contrasted this to an orchestra, which has a formal hierarchy, where communication happens in a top-down way from a conductor and where the performers, who may be hugely accomplished musicians, are given a part to p

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