Mind the Product

APRIL 12, 2019

Why are CEOs crazy? This is the question that Amanda Richardson , CEO of Rabbit, tackled at #mtpcon Singapore. With extensive experience working with CEOs, and now being one herself, Amanda has come to the conclusion that even good CEOs are crazy. Moving from leading product teams to leading a company has given her the perspective to really understand why CEOs drive product managers crazy, and what product managers can do to make things better.

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Tyner Blain

APRIL 8, 2019

In our continuing series on managing the risk in your backlog, we look at the risk of kidding ourselves. Specifically, we use cause and effect and hypotheses to identify the assumptions in our plans, but if we don’t do it the right way, we will lie to ourselves by validating our assumptions instead of responding to the truth when we see it. Steps in a Journey to Managing Risk.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 11, 2019

Product management owns the roadmap. They spend more time than anyone in the company poring over this important strategic blueprint. But that doesn’t mean the roadmap is an internal document for the product team’s eyes only. If they want their products to succeed, product managers need to share their roadmaps with other teams across the company.

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The Product Bistro

APRIL 7, 2019

An interesting topic today, what it must be like to sell to someone who lives and breathes products, and all aspects therein. This post revolves around selecting a realtor as the trustee of my Stepfather’s estate. Synopsis: In late 2018, my Stepfather, my father figure for over 40 years, passed away. He had been ill […].

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2019

Whenever I conduct research with customers on how they onboard users to their product, I’m always fascinated by how often the term “aha” moment comes up. Customers consistently say they want their users to get to their product’s “aha” moment, the interaction that fills their users with a feeling of delight and reveals the true value of the product to them.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Guest Post by: Eric Wang (Mentee, Session 8, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Chris Butler]. Journey Into the World of Strategy. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. After all, many product managers tend to treat a strategy as something that’s scared and driven top-down from the executive management level.

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The Product Bistro

APRIL 7, 2019

An interesting topic today, what it must be like to sell to someone who lives and breathes products, and all aspects therein. This post revolves around selecting a realtor as the trustee of my Stepfather’s estate. Synopsis : In late 2018, my Stepfather, my father figure for over 40 years, passed away. He had been ill for a while, so it wasn’t a surprise that his health deteriorated and he slipped off this mortal coil, it was a turning point for me personally.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2019

Few people have more experience in leading product teams than Joff Redfern. Now the VP of Product at Atlassian, he’s held similar roles at LinkedIn, Yahoo!, and Fidelity Investments. Joff’s team at Atlassian creates the products that many of us use to manage our own product and development processes; he’s got a unique viewpoint on the state of product management.

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Amplitude

APRIL 11, 2019

At Amplitude, we often use the phrase “product-led” because it represents something we are really passionate about, and it inspires why we’re building the product we are building. We acknowledge that the phrase is prone to misunderstanding. In this post, we want to explain where we’re coming from, and hopefully start a dialogue. What does it mean to be “product-led”?

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Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 11, 2019

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2018, Brian Crofts. Watch now and see why he is counted amongst the ranks of the best in product management. More to Come. The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group.

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First Round Review

APRIL 8, 2019

Zainab Ghadiyali's extraordinary career has taken her from nonprofit work in Peru to life as Product Lead at Airbnb. With tactical advice on building transferable skills and beating impostor syndrome, she shows entrepreneurs how to embrace the unconventional path and forge a career fueled by curiosity.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 11, 2019

Last year I started my product management career full time, with a startup called Split Software. Previously I was a growth experimentation manager at Skyscanner, and while there I got to work closely with product managers and designers and generally dipped my toes into the product world whenever I could. My current role has been challenging but thoroughly rewarding.

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Usersnap

APRIL 12, 2019

Google’s tech alone didn’t build them into a top company, User Research matters too! Creatively exploring market preferences is critical for success. Google first gained an initial foothold and held onto it through such evaluations. Such insight, and their acquisition of such continues broadening, then helps informs competitive user engagement strategies.

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Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 8, 2019

Thank you to everyone who attended the latest roundtable meet-up of The Product Group and discussed The Best Product Person of 2018 and debated Featured Product, Alpha … And, also, thank you to our awesome sponsors who make everything possible…

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First Round Review

APRIL 9, 2019

Zainab Ghadiyali's extraordinary career has taken her from nonprofit work in Peru to life as Product Lead at Airbnb. With tactical advice on building transferable skills and beating impostor syndrome, she shows entrepreneurs how to embrace the unconventional path and forge a career fueled by curiosity.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 12, 2019

Everyone knows about technical debt. But we often stay silent about the emotional debt product managers can build up while building products they love. In this talk from #mtpengage Manchester, Tomek Wlodarek explores the topic of emotional debt, and what product managers can do to mitigate it. Being a product manager can be like riding a bike, except the bike is on fire – you’re on fire, everything is on fire.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 8, 2019

Commit to the process and work through challenges to achieve product success. Many of the companies I have worked with this year want to make their product development and management capability more agile. They sometimes express their current process is too linear, rigid, and heavy as well as not providing the shorter time-to-market they want. Most often they are using something that is of a stage-gate nature, but being more agile doesn’t mean throwing away a stage-gate framework.

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Pragmatic Marketing

APRIL 9, 2019

Much of what product managers do on a daily basis is prioritize a long list of requests. Requests that come from everywhere: a feature needed to close a deal, an idea from the dev team, a list of open items from support, and on and on and on. And everytime we have a meeting, we walk away with another list of requests. What’s missing for many product managers—perhaps most—is first-hand experience.

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ProductCraft

APRIL 10, 2019

This week on Product Love, I talked to one of the first bloggers in the world. Really. Michael Sippey, the VP of Product at Medium, started writing online in 1995 with a blog called “Stating The Obvious.” He is also the former VP of Product at Twitter and CEO of TalkShow Industries. It makes sense. The post Product Love Podcast: Michael Sippey, VP of Product at Medium appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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BrainMates

APRIL 9, 2019

One Product Manager superpower we have is the ability to constantly context switch between big and small, future and present, general and specific. This is an admirable quality. And, it can make it very difficult to focus on any one thing. The Product Management role requires us to look for opportunities that no-one else has seen, to scan the horizons as explorers, seeking the problems and points of friction that have been left untouched until now.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 9, 2019

For a product manager to be successful, they must be viewed as both credible and trustworthy. Without that confidence, product managers can get stuck in an ongoing cycle of attempting to quash doubts by revisiting topics over and over again because they haven’t secured buy in on various ideas, projects and initiatives. A lack of trust from developers and engineers creates endless second-guessing, challenges and sometimes even a refusal to follow through on requests, which becomes a huge ti

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Pragmatic Marketing

APRIL 9, 2019

Much of what product managers do on a daily basis is prioritize a long list of requests. Requests that come from everywhere: a feature needed to close a deal, an idea from the dev team, a list of open items from support, and on and on and on. And everytime we have a meeting, we walk away with another list of requests. What’s missing for many product managers—perhaps most—is first-hand experience.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 11, 2019

Meet Dmitrii?—?the main person in the Product team for Dashly. People like Dmitry are usually called Product Managers., they are responsible for new features, product development and only they decide if users really need this or that feature (jk, they make customer development based decisions). And this is Elena. Those of you who read our book already know her Elena is a Product Marketing Manager.

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Mixpanel

APRIL 12, 2019

I’m Rakhi Parekh, a Senior Product Designer at Mixpanel, and I’m responsible for our product’s end-to-end user experience. Fundamentally, Mixpanel is a tool for answering questions about user behavior, and I help people find these answers as quickly as possible. Below, I’ll share how I do this by using data to understand customer motivation.

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AB Tasty

APRIL 9, 2019

Check out our latest product innovation, 'Image Matchmaker', the AI-powered dynamic widget that makes optimizing your product page images a breeze! This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as Introducing: Image Matchmaker.

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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ProductCraft

APRIL 11, 2019

There’s a principle in the field of industrial operations called the bullwhip effect, which posits that upstream supply chain variability has an amplified downstream impact. Like the crack of a whip, the energy originating at the handle becomes intensely concentrated by the time it reaches the bitter end. So intense, in fact, that the cracking. The post Is Continuous Deployment Causing Your Users Continuous Stress?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 11, 2019

How we used the Superhuman’s Product-Market Fit model to learn what to build and whom to target A few months back I read an amazing Blog post by Rahul Vohra about how Superhuman was able to reach Product-Market Fit. The normal approach to this is “I’ll know it when I get there” but that doesn’t actually help you to get there (or work out how far along you are).

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DemandMatrix

APRIL 12, 2019

The pressure is still mounting on B2B Marketing teams to stop being just another cost centre and turn into a core performance driven function. As a result of this, sophisticated data sets and custom Marketing and Sales intelligence is becoming the new need of the hour. Better business intelligence that offers a strategic advantage and enables the goals of multiple teams within an organization can pave the way for smarter, quicker decisions that generate higher returns.

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