Radical Product
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Organizational Cactus (And What You Can Do About It) In any company, you hear employees complain about the grunt work that makes their work feel less meaningful. Ever feel annoyed at having to submit a receipt for a $7 expense? Or perhaps you were venting to a colleague about having to create reports for management on a metric that you believe is irrelevant?
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
As I’ve moved through various product roles over the last 10 years, I’ve come to realize that there are two types of product people – builders and optimizers. I fall very naturally and easily into one of these types and have found that it can be helpful to think about my own skills and career progression through the lens of theses two types for the following reasons: Confidence – identifying your inborn talents and strengths helps to build confidence.
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ProductBoard
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
What is the difference between the product owner and the product manager? Does the product manager rank higher in the organization than the product owner? Do we need both? With so much debate over the roles of the product owner and the product manager, it’s finally time to unpack these questions in detail. Defining a product owner vs. a product manager can be challenging as many factors influence.
The Product Guy
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Join us in celebrating and congratulating our recent mentee graduates!Signup to be a Mentor Today! Check it out… 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 goals… Better Decisions.
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
Product Innovation Educators
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Getting product managers inside the mind of a professional inventor. Do you have a good idea for a product? As an Everyday Innovator, I’d say the chances are pretty good. Do you try to develop it yourself? What about joining forces with the company you work for? Or, a third, and very profitable option, is to license it. To explore licensing from the perspective of an Everyday Innovator with a good idea or from that of a company being pitched, this is the discussion for you.
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Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
Matt LeMay tells the story of a meeting he had with author and publisher Mike Shatzkin a long time ago: “I was just out of college, and I was trying to describe what I do. He had a moment of recognition, slammed his hand down on the table, and said, ‘synthesis and articulation, that’s what you do’. I’ll never forget it.”. Synthesis and articulation encapsulate what Matt is about.
The Product Guy
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
Love-Hate and everything surrounding the identification of a problem. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Tanya Koshy.
Piyanka Jain
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
A lesson in behavioral economics will tell you that consumers don’t always practice what they preach. So what better reason is there for product marketers to make testing a key phase in their product lifecycle? Unpeel the Facts Consider the unique predicament of KitchenApplianceCowboy and his Super Peeler. Q : Dear SuperAnalyticsMan , Our new and unique peeler was meant to revolutionize the world!
Intercom, Inc.
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
The shift from serving just consumers to serving consumers and companies is a massive one. The story you tell to the market, the competitive moats you build, the pricing models fueling your growth – everything that got you to where you are needs to be reimagined for your new buyer. It might be the same core product, but it’s a completely different strategy. “The shift from serving just consumers to serving consumers and companies is a massive one” For Udemy, investing in a B2B arm se
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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
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
As an agile product owner, you’re constantly trying to distinguish your products from the competition. Your secret weapon is your ability to prioritize your product backlog by business value, continuously. You’re well aware of this, but we would argue you could prioritize better. As a product owner, what are the first questions you ask yourself when you begin to prioritize your backlog by business value?
First Round Review
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
As he makes the transition from operator to investor, Todd Jackson looks back on his career at Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Dropbox (as well as his own chapter as a startup founder) to offer tactical takeaways and frameworks for company builders and product leaders alike.
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
The unavoidable essence of a Product Manager job and how to succeed as a Change Manager through the power of Narratives Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».
Intercom, Inc.
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
Today we’re delighted to launch our brand new API version 2.0 , which makes it easier for our customers to pull, analyze, and update Intercom contact and conversation data. This will more easily allow our customers to transform their data into valuable performance reports and business insights. It consists of an overhauled Conversations API, as well as brand new Contacts and Data Attributes APIs.
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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.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Emely Übler has been working in product management for six years and as a product manager for Koenig & Bauer Coding in Germany for the last 10 months. Here she explains how she got her job and why she sees herself as a bit of a ‘product mom’ I find what we do at Koenig & Bauer Coding really interesting as we get to work with very modern technology creating coding and marking solutions for different industries (pharmaceuticals, automotive, food and beverage etc).
Product Management University
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
If you use market segments and personas interchangeably, your market aim could be a little off! Use them in conjunction with one another though, and you have higher value targets for product management, product marketing, sales and customer success teams. The Playbook: Think of market segments as the WHO and personas as the WHAT & WHY. Market segments typically consist of the following three components.
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
The best product teams have a stronger analytics set-up than the competition. And if your product team is open to new technology, you can instantly gain an edge on the market. One of those new technologies are mobile heatmaps?—?they are widely adopted on the web, but haven’t been used much on mobile apps yet. What is a Mobile App Heatmap? Here’s a fact: Compared to web, there are not many solutions for mobile app heatmaps on the market.
ProductCraft
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
It’s harder to acquire new customers than ever. According to Profitwell’s survey, customer acquisition cost (CAC) in the B2B industry has grown by more than 70% over the last five years. Therefore, knowing how to retain your customers and making sure that they’re getting the most value from your product is crucial. In today’s market, Read more » The post The Pillars of Product-Led Customer Success appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.
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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.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
If you’ve ever had to fill a role in your team, then you already know how broken most hiring processes are. It’s even harder if you’re competing for top talent but are only able to pay at NGO/charity scales. That’s the situation that Simprints found itself in when they decided to treat their hiring process as a product and start iterating.
Strategyzer
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
We had the pleasure of having Henry Chesbrough, faculty director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at the University of California, join Strategyzer co-founder Alex Osterwalder on our StratChat webinar series to discuss his most recent work - Open Innovation Results: Going Beyond The Hype and Getting Down To Business.
Mironov Consulting
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
I’m often asked what KPIs B2B/enterprise product folks should use, or what OKRs they should choose. This is (of course) an unreasonable question, as every product/ business has its own uniqueness. Vaguely like be asked by a stranger what books they would enjoy: hard to guess unless I know their preferences. But this raises three broad questions: Shouldn’t we spend more time choosing our specific KPIs (or OKRs) than deciding whether to adopt metrics in general ?
The Accidental Product Manager
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
How can product managers get millennials interested in jewelry? Image Credit: Kris Fricke. Being a product manager for a high-end jewelry company would be a pretty good job to have. You really would not have to sell all that much of your product in order to have a good year. However, these product managers have started to run into a problem. It turns out that the next generation of jewelry buyers, the millennials , just don’t seem to be into the pretty, sparkly, things that you wear every once-i
Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System
Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 1, 2020
The process of building products can be challenging and needs to be iterated on as much as the product itself. In this ProductTank San Francisco talk, Rohini Pandhi, Product Manager at Square , shares her thoughts on roadmapping and its role in the product process. Watch the video for her talk in full. Or read on for an overview of her key points: Strategy.
Userpilot
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Onboarding is a crucial part of any SaaS product. It educates your users, and helps them start seeing value from your product right away. It becomes even more important, however, if your product is particularly complex. Platformly is a marketing automation platform. Among its many features is the ability to nurture leads, analyze customer journeys, and develop personal relationships.
Mixpanel
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
In 2019, industry-leading Business Intelligence tools (BI tools), Looker and Tableau, were acquired by Google and Salesforce for over $18 billion combined. These massive deals show that BI tools and data warehouses are a powerful combo that companies across the globe are incorporating into their tech stacks. However, powerful isn’t always useful — particularly for product teams.
Johanna Rothman
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
In my experience, too many projects are under too much pressure. The sponsors want all of the features, completed in too-short time, with no defects. And, if possible, the sponsors think the project should cost nothing, the team should not need any training, and the team can work in any way, regardless of the desired outcomes. I'd like to get something for nothing, too.
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As your company grows and your product matures, so too should your product strategy. Drawing from their decades of experience as product leaders, Stanford Online instructors Donna Novitsky and Laura Marino share best practices for defining your product strategy at each stage of company growth. Get practical, real-world product strategy tips from experts who have lived through the same challenges you’re currently facing.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
In this MTP Engage Manchester talk, Dave Wascha, then Chief Product Officer at Moonpig, shares with us some insight on solving customer problems by mapping them out and then looking forward and back in time as they relate to one another. His key points include: Understanding customer problems. Looking to the left. How far to the left. Watch the video to see Dave’s talk in full.
eG Innovations
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
Managing web applications is not a small task and making sure that these web-based business applications are online when that busy workday starts is a challenge for many enterprises. The ability to proactively test the user experience would go a long way for being able to ensure application stability and performance around the clock. Today let’s dive into some of my real-world experiences with web applications, cover some of the monitoring challenges and then take a closer look at a brand-new fe
Pragmatic Marketing
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Editor’s Note: The following is adapted from co-author David Meerman Scott’s upcoming book, Fanocracy: How to Turn Fans into Customers and Customers into Fans. It released in January 2020. Marketers today recognize how the automation of our world holds tremendous opportunities for their business. However, many of us act as if that’s the only option.
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