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Five Product Owner Myths Busted

Roman Pichler

Myth #1: The product owner must ensure that the stakeholders are satisfied. Stakeholders can be powerful and influential individuals. But the value a product creates is ultimately determined by its users: No product will be successful in the long run if it does not solve a specific user problem, create a tangible benefit, or help the users achieve a specific goal.

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A Tale of Two Products: BigVision vs. HyperNarrowFocus

The Product Coalition

First, let me introduce our two products along with some context and background to set the scene. You could think of them as businesses, ventures, or departments as well, the same logic applies. For the purposes of our thought experiment here, both businesses are starting at the same time, have the same capital available, the same quality of people and the same resources (e.g. distribution, etc).

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How Mobile Product Managers Can Increase Productivity

Alchemer Mobile

Mobile product managers handle an extremely long list of competing tasks—sometimes resulting in progress paralysis. When you’re able to get clear about how to tackle your long list of to-dos, the result is more efficiency, more effectiveness, and ultimately, a more productive product planning process. If you feel like you have too much to do and need a new method for quick, effective prioritization, our new guide The Mobile Product Manager’s Productivity Quadrant is here to help.

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Building high-performing teams through continuous improvement

Intercom, Inc.

At Intercom, we’ve always focused on building excellent products which our customers value and love. Continuing to meet this goal as we scale means constantly re-evaluating how our teams work to keep performing at our very best. There is no “one size fits all” approach to building high-performing teams. Once you find a winning formula, it doesn’t stay relevant for long.

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Provide Real Value in Your Applications with Data and Analytics

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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Five Product Owner Myths Busted

Roman Pichler

Listen to this article: [link]. Myth #1: The product owner must ensure that the stakeholders are satisfied. Stakeholders can be powerful and influential individuals. But the value a product creates is ultimately determined by its users: No product will be successful in the long run if it does not solve a specific user problem, create a tangible benefit, or help the users achieve a specific goal.

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Free Product Management Course: Outcome-Based Enhancement Process

Product Management University

Implementing an Outcome-Based Product Enhancement Process in 5 Steps. Learn how in this free product management course. It’s your first step to eliminating constantly changing priorities and creating a culture of customer value across product, marketing, sales and customer success teams. Enroll in the Free On-Demand Course Who doesn’t want to hijack your roadmap?

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Gong’s Linda Lin on customer success strategies for moving upmarket

Intercom, Inc.

Few people have more experience with this move than Linda Lin , Director of Customer Success at the revenue intelligence platform Gong. Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. Moving upmarket means larger customers and higher revenue, but it’s not without its challenges.

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My journey from Software Engineer to Product Manager

Mind the Product

ADVERTORIAL Throughout my career, I’ve met many people looking to make a jump into product management from a variety of other roles. I try to give them whatever advice I can, but the transition I can speak to the best is that of Software Engineer to Product Manager, as it’s the career move I made [.] Read more » The post My journey from Software Engineer to Product Manager appeared first on Mind the Product.

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COVID-19: The Never-Ending Minimum Viable Product (MVP) of 2020 In Europe

The Product Coalition

Image: Miguel A. Padrinan @pexels I still remember when the first case in China became known. It was December, I was grabbing a coffee with a colleague in the kitchen area at our offices in Düsseldorf and we were casually discussing this. Back then we couldn’t have imagined of course that two months later, cases would also initiate in Europe and things would evolve the way they have till today.

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Secure SaaS Success: Embedded Finance as a Competitive Advantage

Speaker: Ian Hillis, SVP of Growth at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms

Join us for an exclusive webinar hosted by Ian Hillis, SVP of Growth at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms, where he’ll explore the significant impact of embedded finance on the software industry! This session is designed to provide you with the strategic insights needed to navigate the future of SaaS successfully, all while gaining a deeper understanding of how these trends can enhance your competitive edge, boost revenue, and deepen customer loyalty.

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The Principles of Experiment Flow

Strategyzer

This is a guest post from David J Bland, co-author of our best selling book Testing Business Ideas. Testing Business Ideas explains how to increase the success of any venture by providing a practical guide to rapid experimentation.

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Health Care Product Managers Deal With Privacy Issues

The Accidental Product Manager

Product managers have to deal with patient data privacy laws Image Credit: Stock Catalog. Every product manager wants to be in charge of a product that customers want. However, it turns out that some of us have to deal with situations in which our customers want what we have, but they are also afraid to give us what we need in order to deliver our product to them.

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Setting up research ops for customer discovery

Mind the Product

There were a lot of sessions at our recent MTPCon APAC on Discovery. Really nothing represents the core of our craft more than connecting with customers and building empathy for their struggles. Following a round table, I thought I’d take some time to write down some recent tips/tricks that I’ve used for scaling discovery. Lucky [.] Read more » The post Setting up research ops for customer discovery appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Top Eight Cloud Storage Platforms For Businesses To Store Data

The Product Coalition

“Pixabay” Businesses these days leverage advanced technologies as they continue to thrive in this competitive world. Several technologies make our lives easy, not only at a personal level but also at a professional level. These technologies impact business so much that every sector wants to reap its benefits. In this blog, we shall discuss cloud storage technology, a secure way to save your businesses’ data easily, from anywhere and at any time.

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10 Rules for Managing Apache Cassandra

It’s no surprise that Apache Cassandra has emerged as a popular choice for organizations of all sizes seeking a powerful solution to manage their data at a scale—but with great power comes great responsibility. Due to the inherent complexity of distributed databases, this white paper will uncover the 10 rules you’ll want to know when managing Apache Cassandra.

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Contribute Meaningfully: The Power of a Research Strategy

dscout People Nerds

Chris Geison walks us through the distinctions between “strategic research” and “research strategy” to unpack how the latter is the key to improving team bandwidth and securing a seat at the table.

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How to Hire a Product Manager

Ken Norton

The classic essay that defined the product manager role -. What is product management? What does a product manager do? What makes a great product manager, and how do you become one? Updated in 2021, this is the classic essay by Ken Norton that defined the role of product management and launched thousands of PM careers. It’s been a while.

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How to create a product strategy – Nacho Bassino on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

In his new book, Product Direction: How to Build Successful Products at Scale with Strategy, Roadmaps, and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), Xing Product Director Nacho Bassino details the parts of the job that any senior product person needs to master – but which are really difficult to learn before you’re responsible for them. We chatted [.

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“We Don’t Run AB-Tests Any more.”

The Product Coalition

Why People Abandon the Most Important Tool in Product Development Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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How To Manage Multiple Product Teams For Successful Development & Delivery

Speaker: Leslie Grandy, Product Executive & Drew Weaver, Senior Program Manager

Effective management of multiple product teams necessitates a skillful coordination and guidance with the objective of aligning efforts towards shared goals. This entails constant communication, efficient task management, and ensuring that each team aligns with the broader organizational objectives. We can think about this like conducting an orchestra, where diverse efforts are harmonized toward a unified outcome. 🎯 Proficiency in these skills empowers product managers to navigate comple

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The Practical, No Nonsense Guide to Starting a Career in User Research

dscout People Nerds

There is no “right” path for becoming a user researcher. We walk through tips for accumulating the skills you need to get started in UX with a flexible budget and schedule.

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The 1% Trap: Product Managers, Stop Building Features Just for Your Power Users!

Userpilot

It’s a sad state of affairs when you dig into app metrics. A quarter of all mobile apps are only used once – and 85% of us use 5 apps regularly. Think about your own day, how many apps do you use and how many have you tried once and then never opened again? Although these are Mobile App statistics, other consumer products or freemium/free-trial B2B SaaS products aren’t that much better.

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The 3 stages of product development at a high growth tech company by Cameron Adams

Mind the Product

In this #mtpcon Digital APAC keynote, Cameron Adams, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Canva shares the strategic tools needed to understand and manage products through the various phases of an organisation’s growth. Watch the talk in full or read on for the overview. Mind the Product members can also watch the recordings of all our #mtpcon [.

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User Experience in Product

The Product Coalition

How User Research and Analysis can Help our Products Deliver Value Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Deliver Mission Critical Insights in Real Time with Data & Analytics

In the fast-moving manufacturing sector, delivering mission-critical data insights to empower your end users or customers can be a challenge. Traditional BI tools can be cumbersome and difficult to integrate - but it doesn't have to be this way. Logi Symphony offers a powerful and user-friendly solution, allowing you to seamlessly embed self-service analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting directly into your applications.

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Secure Monitoring – Open TCP Ports are a Security Risk

eG Innovations

Regardless of the features, price, or support, there is one thing you need from any EUC product, monitoring or otherwise – it should not be a massive security risk. I’ve been updating some of our security documentation explaining what we do to ensure our product is suitable for the security models in regulated industries, such as finance and healthcare.

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Why the Illusion of Control Is Hurting Your Goals

Nir Eyal

The post Why the Illusion of Control Is Hurting Your Goals appeared first on Nir and Far.

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Tools for agile product teams by Gavan Moule

Mind the Product

In this #mtpcon Digital APAC session, sponsored by Lucid, the company’s customer success manager Gavan Moule takes us through ways we can facilitate Agile workshops and team working using Lucidspark virtual whiteboards. With so many of us working remotely, tools such as these are really coming into their own. Watch the talk in full or [.] Read more » The post Tools for agile product teams by Gavan Moule appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Product Owners, You Are Part of The Scrum Team

The Product Coalition

Learn how Product Owners should collaborate with development teams to deliver working software incrementally. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr