The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Brain Wiring (by Wellcome Images, CC licensed). In part 1 I introduced mental models and some reasons they are important. And I provided a few “general purpose” examples. In this part we dive into what you really came here for – product management-specific mental models. Why are product management-related mental models different? The mental models I’m going to talk about share two key characteristics: They are about about products.

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UserVoice

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

As your product management team grows, you will inevitably bring on some more junior product managers. Some may have a couple of years under their belt, while others may be fresh out of school or recent converts from engineering, design, analysis, or project management. It would be easy to view these new product managers as a distraction from your own daily grind, or even as competition, but this.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

If you are a great product person looking for a great product job, or vice versa, check out our job board. Thousands of employers across all areas of product, from management to design, from digital to physical, are looking to fill positions from our community. Each week we highlight some of the recently posted openings. Check out this week’s newest, below….

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Are there times that product managers need to be disobedient – not do what they were asked to do? To explore the topic I spoke with Bob McGannon who has great experience with this through the lens of project management. As the purpose of a project is to develop a product or service, product managers and innovators have much they can learn from the field of project management.

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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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Nir Eyal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Larry Page, CEO of Alphabet (the company formerly known as Google), has a quirky way of deciding which companies he likes. It’s called “The Toothbrush Test.” According to the New York Times, when Page looks at a potential company to acquire, he wants to know if the product is, like a toothbrush, “something you will […]. The post How Two Companies Hooked Customers On Products They Rarely Use appeared first on Nir and Far.

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The Accidental Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Sometimes you gotta go looking for your funding… Image Credit: dotpolka. Have you ever been broke? I mean really, really broke? If you have, then you know what you have to do when you need to buy something. It could be something as simple as toilet paper, or coins to do your laundry. You need money and you have none. When this happens, you go on a search – you turn over everything in your home in order to find those few coins that may have gotten away from you.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. Leveraging marketing, customer service, and customer communities to build better products. This is a brief but helpful look at Belkin and how they use insights from multiple sources to create new products. As you might expect, they want to be close to the customer and market trends.

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Product Management 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Perhaps your VP of Products has decided to join a hot startup or you just realized that it’s time for your product management group to have its own seat at the leadership table. Regardless of the circumstance, you find yourself in need of a product management leader. You can picture who you want to step into this role: someone in sync with the company vision and goals. an effective leader who will focus the product management team. someone who can earn the respect of development. a professional

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Product Warrior

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

Growth is the focus for most companies, unfortunately margin levels and cost of customer acquisition frequently presents the limiting factor that simply doubling marketing spend is not an option. Reviewing product strategy to design a growth engine for established business is a common ask of product leadership, although few businesses achieve it. This post shows you where do you start so you can design powerful and successful growth engines?

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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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TSIA

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The world has been changing over the past 10 years for hardware companies. Today, faster innovation cycles and falling barriers to entry are driving commoditization, virtualization is fueling demand for software running on industry standard hardware, and everyone is chasing higher margin, recurring revenue offers. Hardware companies are responding to these shifts by augmenting their portfolios to include more software and services offerings, but many are struggling with the transition.

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dscout People Nerds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

A People Nerds interview with Myles Proudfoot.

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DISQO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

As organizations recognize the value of customer-centricity as a mindset and discipline, they’ve begun to invest in a dedicated product organization. But finding and recruiting talent remains a pressing challenge. On the flip side, there is considerable interest in entering a product role from employees within other departments, from marketing to client success.

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dscout People Nerds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Introducing instant cut-and-paste magic in the dscout platform.

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Effective risk management in product development balances safety, compliance, and opportunity. Risks can't be eliminated, but they can be mitigated through structured assessments, clear documentation, and expert guidance. Engaging specialists ensures efficiency, regulatory adherence, and product security while reducing costly oversights. A well-executed risk management plan includes frequent evaluations, defined assessment criteria, and a structured decision-making process.

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TSIA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Through TSIA's comprehensive benchmarking program, you can measure your company's performance against your industry peers, identify your strengths, and see where you need to improve to ensure future success. For a sample of the type of insight you will receive by taking advantage of this valuable resource that comes with TSIA membership, take a look at this SlideShare featuring 4 key research trends from TSIA's Professional Services Benchmark Study.

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DISQO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

As organizations recognize the value of customer-centricity as a mindset and discipline, they’ve begun to invest in a dedicated product organization. But finding and recruiting talent remains a pressing challenge. On the flip side, there is considerable interest in entering a product role from employees within other departments, from marketing to client success.

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DISQO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

As organizations recognize the value of customer-centricity as a mindset and discipline, they’ve begun to invest in a dedicated product organization. But finding and recruiting talent remains a pressing challenge. On the flip side, there is considerable interest in entering a product role from employees within other departments, from marketing to client success.

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