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The Biggest Challenges Facing Product Managers

BrainMates

Product Managers face so many challenges on a regular basis that it would be tough to cover the breadth and depth of issues in one sitting. Product Management is a juggling act of market changes, multiple stakeholder opinions, customer demands, feature bloat, technical complications and debt, and so much more. Here are four common challenges that are facing Product Managers today.

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Just Say No to Mixed Up Chameleon Products

The Product Coalition

Why products shouldn’t be a little of this and a little of that Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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The business value of requirements management

Mind the Product

During the COVID-19 pandemic, much of the globe’s onsite workforce shifted to being fully remote. This ‘new normal’ highlighted that communication and shared project visibility is essential to the success of every organization. Issues in the product development process In the development of complex products, systems, and software, if you don’t have properly implemented communication [.

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340: Lean product development – with Steve Stucky

Product Innovation Educators

Pipeline, Process, and Practice for Product Managers. This is the Product Mastery Now podcast. For seven years it was called The Everyday Innovator, but I recently changed the name to better reflect our mission, which is to help you become a Product Master, creating products customers love. A common question I am asked is, How can an organization speed up its product development?

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Mastering Apache Airflow® 3.0: What’s New (and What’s Next) for Data Orchestration

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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Sales Technology: 3 Trends You Need to Know

Intercom, Inc.

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended entire industries, forcing rapid change in the ways companies do business and dramatically accelerating the adoption of new technologies.

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A culture of safety – Alla Weinberg

Mind the Product

You may have heard about Project Aristotle — an effort by Google that revealed Psychological Safety as the common element in their highest-performing teams. Understanding what that is — and how we can create a culture of safety in our teams — isn’t quite as easy. We spoke with Alla Weinberg, author of A Culture [.] Read more » The post A culture of safety – Alla Weinberg appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How To Prepare For Product Manager Interviews The Right Way

The Product Coalition

You only have one chance in an interview, here is what you need to do to get it right. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Celebrating Pride: Intercomrades share their favorite memories

Intercom, Inc.

?. For the second June in a row, many of us are still celebrating Pride from our own homes (and screens). That’s why our theme for Pride this year is “being out while the world is in.” And with this in mind, we took a very Irish idea and shared it with our colleagues – the concept of being out out. What is “ out out”, you may ask? Well, if you’re going to the cinema, you might say you’re going out.

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Webinar: 5 Mobile Customer Feedback Strategies for Finance Apps

Alchemer Mobile

Banking, fintech, and insurance companies are uniquely positioned to build relationships with mobile consumers—but few tap into their app’s full potential, leaving missed connection opportunities on the table. If you’re in finance, it’s time to reevaluate how you use your app for feedback collection and relationship building. In this webinar, Veronica Rosenberg, Manager of Apptentive’s Customer Success team, and Marta Mueller, Apptentive Customer Success Manager, share the strategies the world’s

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Should you really be using machine learning?

Mind the Product

Used properly and in the right place, Machine Learning (ML) is an incredible tool to bring value to your product and your users. But how can you use the five product risks—value, usability, feasibility, viability, and ethics—to know if the opportunity is right for ML? Andy Kelly on Unsplash Whether it’s checking your online transaction for fraud [.] Read more » The post Should you really be using machine learning?

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A Product Strategy is NOT just a Vision and Roadmap

The Product Coalition

You have a strategy AND a roadmap, they’re two different things. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Hey Product Management, Strategic Direction is Yours for the Taking. Here’s How!

Product Management University

If you’re waiting for someone to crown your product management team the kings and queens of strategic direction, you better get a nice comfy chair with all the reclining, heating and massaging accoutrements because you’re in for a long wait! Strategic direction is all about influence, and influence is all about earning the trust and credibility of your colleagues across the organization from top to bottom.

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How A Product Management Internship Built A Future Career with Home Depot.

Product Management Unpacked

“I’m actually a pretty avid DIY-er,” confides Pranita Ramakrishnan, MS of Product Management, Carnegie Mellon University, Class of 2019. “I grew up in a family where if you didn’t take a trip to Home Depot twice a month to get some type of materials for a project, something was wrong.”. When Home Depot came to the Carnegie Mellon campus to interview Product Management intern candidates, Pranita’s interest was piqued.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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SUNDAY REWIND: Product Discovery or Product Delivery: How do you Decide?

Mind the Product

Today, as we bring our Product Discovery Focus Week to a close, we venture back to 2019 and this post by Philipp Krehl — Product Discovery or Product Delivery: How do you Decide? In it, Philipp answers the question: What’s the fundamental difference between product discovery and delivery or execution? The answer? The degree of [.] Read more » The post SUNDAY REWIND: Product Discovery or Product Delivery: How do you Decide?

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Why Accessibility Matters in a Post-Pandemic, Majority-Digital World?

The Product Coalition

A practical look at how and why software designers can ensure digital services can be used by everyone. For much of the past year, life in countries around the globe have been in a coronavirus-driven lockdown. Friends gathered online instead of in bars and pubs. People who need medicine use apps and websites to order perscriptions and have them delivered to their homes.

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3 Easy Ways to Improve Sales Effectiveness

Product Management University

What are some easy ways to improve sales effectiveness? Here are three areas in which you can improve sales effectiveness that are relatively quick and easy. Discovery & Qualification. Presentations & Product Demonstrations. Negotiations. . 1. Discovery & Qualification. Establish maximum leverage early in the sales process and focus on understanding WHY an organization is evaluating products like yours, and not just at the user or department level, but understanding how the needs o

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Mechanism of change: Getting more from your incident reviews

Intercom, Inc.

You can’t build software without encountering incidents – from critical bugs to full-blown outages, dealing with incidents are an inevitable part of the process. As a result, you’ll find no shortage of articles telling you how to write a review – or as they’re commonly known, a post mortem – of your incident. These top tips are widely practised: Avoid blame.

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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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What makes for effective product management by Nikolaus Horn and Sebastian Ratcliffe

Mind the Product

In a small startup, product managers may find themselves wearing multiple hats. In this ProductTank Vienna talk, Nikolaus Horn and Sebastian Ratcliffe, product managers at Riskine, dispel some of the myths about what it means to be a product manager working in a smaller B2B business and explain how they needed to think outside the [.] Read more » The post What makes for effective product management by Nikolaus Horn and Sebastian Ratcliffe appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Program Increment (PI) Planning With Miro

The Product Coalition

Create with a bit of customization the perfect board for your next remote planning Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Difficult Product Discussions with CEOs

Mironov Consulting

CEOs may not see their role in systematic product/development problems, and product leaders may not know how to frame their concerns so CEOs can hear them. Can we get past buzzwords to difficult organizational discussions?

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With Agile Approaches, No Need to “Meet” or “Enforce” Deadlines

Johanna Rothman

Several of my clients struggle with their deadlines. One of them, Brad, quoted Douglas Adams to me and frowned: “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”. He thought agile approaches would work to “meet” and “enforce” deadlines. I asked him these questions: Do you think people don't want to meet their deadlines?

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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Why do products fail?

Mind the Product

Most products fail, even in the best companies — and for every AdWords there’s a Google Glass. The failure rate for digital products could be as high as 90%, depending on which report you read. It’s a metric that hasn’t moved much in the last few years, despite all we know about the benefits of [.] Read more » The post Why do products fail? appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Pitting API Testing Against UI Testing

The Product Coalition

What is API testing? Before we get to the problem of identifying which of the two, API testing and UI testing, is easier or more difficult, we need to begin by defining them. Especially the former. But it comes with a caveat. API testing can cover several different and distinct concepts and knowing which one you’re interested in is often dependent on your role in a software testing company.

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Moving to “The Next Normal”: How Research Will Evolve in the Post-COVID World

dscout People Nerds

At the end of 2019, we outlined a series of “Moves to Modern Research”—steps organizations were taking to mature their research practice. 2020 changed everything.

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The Influencers Dinner: An Interview with Jon Levy

Nir Eyal

The post The Influencers Dinner: An Interview with Jon Levy appeared first on Nir and Far.

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B2B eCommerce, Self-Service Portals, and PIM Trends for 2024

In 2024, B2B customers expect better quality and service with streamlined experiences that match consumer-grade simplicity—no long calls or meetings required. Our B2B eCommerce Trends Report, surveying 400+ B2B professionals in the US and Europe, reveals how eCommerce has become vital to top companies’ strategies. The report shows how leaders are leveraging eCommerce to break data silos, unify channels, and deliver the personalized experiences that customers demand.

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Service Desk Automation Demands Deep Integration with Monitoring Tools

eG Innovations

What is a Service Desk? ITIL’s definition of a service desk is: “The single point of contact between the service provider and the users. A typical service desk manages incidents and service requests, and also handles communication with the users.”. Service desks such as JIRA, Autotask and ServiceNow , often also support multiple IT Service Management (ITSM) activities.

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Focus On One Goal At A Time: A Product Manager’s Failure Story

The Product Coalition

Fail, Learn and Repeat Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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How to Write Better User Stories With Gherkins (Template Included)

Userpilot

User stories are an Agile technique of defining product functionality and requirements. They focus on telling a story for an action a user will take and what the expectation is when successful. The concept of user stories is widely used, but telling good stories can be quite difficult. User stories have taken a bit of a hit in the last few years though, as they’re slight oversimplifications and lack empathy for the user.