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How to Write Fewer Requirements

Ask Benny

Free your time to be more strategic Requirements are overrated In Are Requirements Overrated and Your Role is not to Write Requirements I explained why writing requirements should be a minimal task. I talked about 3 major reasons why it is good for everyone: Your time is valuable. Every minute you spend in perfecting the details of a solution, for a problem you already know you need to solve, is a time you don’t spend trying to find the next one.

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Demystifying Product Management’s Role in Pricing Strategy

ProductPlan

Technology pricing can be tricky, particularly for software and services. When there’s no traditional cost of goods sold (COGS) to recoup, the pricing strategy for a SaaS product can go in a lot of different directions. Do you give the product away and try to monetize traffic and users through other channels? Should you offer bargain basement prices to capture as many users as possible?

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How A Giving Mentality Can Lead To Great Product

The Product Coalition

When you’re thinking of others, you can’t help but make great stuff Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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The power of pause in leadership

Lead on Purpose

The most effective leaders know there’s only one thing they have complete control over: “the way in which I respond and react to another human.” They know their success depends on the unity and determination of their team members.

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The 25 Types of Innovation Dominating R&D Today

Innovation varies widely across sectors and organizations, creating value in diverse forms. Understanding different types is crucial for R&D teams to foster creativity and uncover missed opportunities. This guide explores 25 key types of innovation in management frameworks.

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

As we cross the threshold from one decade to another, it’s natural to look back at the previous 10 years and try to make sense of events. Putting narrative order on the past decade, a 10-year-period that has somehow remained stubbornly nameless, is quite the challenge, but it’s impossible to make sense of the 2010s without understanding the role of software.

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Improving the Accessibility of the iTaxi Mobile App: a Case Study

Mind the Product

The accessibility of digital content is often an afterthought, but every user deserves to have convenient access to services. This is how we’ve adapted our iTaxi ride-hailing app for the visually impaired and blind. Overview. iTaxi is a platform that connects users and licensed cab drivers (like FreeNow, Lyft, Uber, or Bolt) in major cities in Poland.

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Product Manage Your Way to a New Job

The Product Guy

How to treat yourself as a product to find a job and, in parallel, refine your product management skills. It’s meta. In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Andrew Hsu, lead a conversation on this topic. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Check it out… About The Product Mentor.

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Proper botiquette – five rules for designing impactful chatbots

Intercom, Inc.

More and more companies are reaching the tipping point where their human teams can’t keep up with their growing volume of support conversations. Chatbots are supposed to be the fix – providing basic help to customers while taking pressure off the team behind the scenes. But there’s some tension at play. We need these chatbot interactions to be frequent enough to make a real impact on team capacity but thoughtful enough that they protect our hard-won customer relationships.

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9 Types Of Power In Product Management

The Product Coalition

Super Man used his powers to help people. But we know that he could become the embodiment of destruction. I’ve described 9 powers that can… Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Leveling Up in the Product World by Asha Haji

Mind the Product

In her ProductTank London talk, Asha Haji, COO at Founders Academy explains how and why to treat your product management career like a video game. She teaches us how to level up in the product world by following these steps: Learn who you are. Learn the moves. Win boss battles. Upgrade your gear. Explore the world. Watch the video to see Asha’s talk in full.

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Integrating Engineering and Product Teams

The Product Guy

How do you bring your engineering team into the product process? Watch and learn more from product management expert, Benny Reich.

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6 trends that will shape product management in 2020

ProductBoard

As we detailed in a recent blog post, digital product management is one of the hottest and fastest-growing roles in business right now. In just two years, the number of product management roles in the US have grown by an astounding 32%, outpacing the increase in demand for overall roles by 5x. We’ve coined this rise to prominence the “Golden Age of Product Management.

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How My Startup Got a Meeting with the Pentagon: a Report from the Valley of Death

The Product Coalition

For academics in the midst of a technology commercialization project, the Valley of Death exists because governments don’t fund products… Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Crazy Busy Product People – Rian van der Merwe on The Product Experience [Rebroadcast]

Mind the Product

We’re taking a short break from releasing new episodes over the holidays. We’ll be back with new interviews in early January. But don’t despair! In the meantime, we’re re-running two episodes that fit the theme of the season: reflection and planning for 2020. Randy’s Pick. ‘Tis the season to make a list of resolutions for how we’re going to be better in the new year – start new habits, stop old ones, be more productive, etc.

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How to Write Fewer Requirements

Ask Benny

Free your time to be more strategic Requirements are overrated. In Are Requirements Overrated and Your Role is not to Write Requirements I explained why writing requirements should be a minimal task. I talked about 3 major reasons why it is good for everyone: Your time is valuable. Every minute you spend in perfecting the details of a solution, for a problem you already know you need to solve, is a time you don’t spend trying to find the next one.

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productboard powers UiPath, the fastest growing IT company in history

ProductBoard

Interviewed by Milan Lostica You may have heard the common refrain that robots are coming to take our jobs. This is a slight exaggeration, but it is fair to say that robots have the ability to replace some of the mundane and repetitive work we do every day. Tasks like processing invoices or Excel files, moving data between Excel files and third-party apps, and sending emails are all ripe for.

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Embrace Personal Evolution, Invest in Yourself

The Product Coalition

Finding ways to make ourselves better is pretty much linked with our existential, spiritual, and emotional growth. What we do?—?our traits, our habits?—?have noteworthy impact on how we see the world, and it also influences our well-being in both our personal and professional lives. Investing in ourselves is critical to our professional growth, but really, it’s just as important in everyday life, too.

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Pricing for Profit: How to Set, Negotiate, and Succeed

Speaker: Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader

In today’s competitive market, pricing is more than just a number — it’s the cornerstone of profitability. The right pricing strategy ensures that you capture the true value of your offering, paving the way for sustainable growth and long-term success. Join Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader, in this exclusive session where he will explore how a well-crafted pricing approach balances customer perception with business objectives, creating a powerful tool for securing both competitive advantage a

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Rethinking the Product Mindset by Sandhya Hedge

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank San Francisco talk, Sandhya Hedge , Global VP of Marketing at Amplitude , tells us how to become a better product manager by rethinking your mindset. Watch the video to see her talk in full. Or read on for an overview of her key points: How d you know if you’re a good manager? The right questions to ask. The Socratic method.

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Is Tech Ruining Kids? How to Safely Manage Screen Time

Nir Eyal

The post Is Tech Ruining Kids? How to Safely Manage Screen Time appeared first on Nir and Far.

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What is a Chief Experience Officer?

AB Tasty

What's a Chief Experience Officer (CXO)? Well, they're a catalyst, designer, orchestrator, and champion, all in one! This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as What is a Chief Experience Officer?

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The many paths of a product manager

The Product Coalition

Nietzsche and the career plan My old boss Jim Barksdale was fond of saying, “We take care of the people, the products, and the profits?—?in that order.” It’s a simple saying, but it’s deep. As organizations grow large, important work can go unnoticed, the hardest workers can get passed over by the best politicians, and the bureaucratic process can choke out the creativity and remove all the joy.

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Maximize Supply Chain Spend & Asset Utilization with Innovative Test Automation

Connected devices are emerging at an explosive rate exerting pressure on larger operators; however, some organizations cannot continue to purchase the latest & greatest devices without ramifications. The introduction of automated test technology drives the optimization of supply chain expenditures leveraging forward & reverse logistics paths. Adopting innovative test automation tools addresses these challenges by providing robust solutions for testing the interoperability, performance, & securit

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Most Popular Software Product Management Articles of 2019

Revulytics

As we close out 2019, I wanted to share some of our most popular software product management articles. Please let me know what you think and if there are topics you would like us to cover in the comments below! Moving Applications to the Cloud and Adopting Cloud-Like Business Models. Learn why on-premise software vendors are incorporating cloud-like business models and subscription-based pricing that make them more competitive and best meet the needs of their customers.

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From Museums to Fintech by Amy Carmichael

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank London talk, Amy Carmichael, Head of Product at Crowdcube , tells us about her strange path from studying art and museums to become the Head of Product at a fintech startup. She takes us through the four themes she discovered along the way. Do the job you want before anyone asks. Lean on your strengths outside of product. The key to influence is empathy.

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Six (More) Product Management Podcasts to Listen To

ProductCraft

Welcome to 2020, everyone. Like many of you, I’ve made a few New Year’s resolutions. Along with the usual ones (eating healthier, watching less TV, exercising more, etc.), I’ve made it a 2020 goal to listen to more podcasts. If you’ve made a similar resolution, we’ve got some great product-focused ones to recommend. Last January, Read more » The post Six (More) Product Management Podcasts to Listen To appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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Creating a Product Discovery Track: A Pratical Guide

The Product Coalition

Creating a Product Discovery Track: A Practical Guide In the last decade we have evolved a lot in terms of agile development, Agility has become its own concept and we have lots of books and conferences for this subject. Despite this movement, when we look at the complete development cycle of a product, from conception of initial ideas and assumptions to final delivery, we have tremendous productivity bottlenecks.

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Enhance Customer Value: Unleash Your Data’s Potential

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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Why You Need to Move Beyond PM Interview Frameworks

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Struggling to ace your senior PM interview? Looking to bring more of your depth and experience into your answer, but not sure how to fit it in? There’s a common issue I've seen in PM candidates with lots of practice behind them, where they find themselves at a certain plateau. When given a product design question, they know they need to start by defining the user, then list their pain points, prioritize, find solutions, etc.

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TEI 262: A look at this podcast through the lens of leadership coaching – with Russell Verhey

Product Innovation Educators

Lessons for product managers from the story of The Everyday Innovator. This was an extra fun discussion to have because it gave me an opportunity to share some important insights from f2f interviews I have done but have not talked about much or ever on this podcast. It is also a special interview, as a leadership coach and friend, Russel Verhey, interviewed me for his podcast, Advance Leadership Conversations.

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Our Five Favorite Product Love Episodes of 2019

ProductCraft

Just like that, another year has wrapped up! I’ve had the pleasure of talking to so many amazing product people this past year. The podcast remains a huge source of inspiration for me in many ways. I even wrote an entire keynote presentation about the lessons I’ve learned from chatting with product leaders and influencers. Read more » The post Our Five Favorite Product Love Episodes of 2019 appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.