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Not All Metrics Have to Be Actionable (Gasp!)
ProductCraft
AUGUST 16, 2019
Everyone loves a good metric. As product managers, we probably proudly proclaim that we are getting better at making decisions based on data rather than gut instinct. How everyone gathers, visualizes, and uses information — in product management and beyond — has certainly changed for the better over the years. In the past, we were. Read more » The post Not All Metrics Have to Be Actionable (Gasp!
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How product teams can build effective customer feedback loops
ProductBoard
AUGUST 13, 2019
A lot of companies know how to collect customer feedback. But the real struggle is knowing how to create continuous feedback loops that provide valuable, actionable information that can inform strategic objectives. In this article, we’re going to see: How continuous feedback loops can improve your product The best ways to collect customer feedback How to engage customers with surveys What to do.
How to Reduce the Product Backlog Size
Roman Pichler
AUGUST 13, 2019
Split the Product Backlog. Faced with an overly long and detailed product backlog, investigate if it does describe one cohesive product. Over time, products can serve an increasingly heterogeneous market and provide a large number of different features, some of which may not be used by all users. If that’s the case for your product, then reduce the product backlog size by unbundling one or more features and releasing them as products in their own right, like Facebook did with Messenger in 2014.
How To Get Promoted In Product Management
Speaker: John Mansour
If you're looking to advance your career in product management, there are more options than just climbing the management ladder. Join our upcoming webinar to learn about highly rewarding career paths that don't involve management responsibilities. We'll cover both career tracks and provide tips on how to position yourself for success in the one that's right for you.
8 Tips for Building an Executive-Facing Roadmap
ProductPlan
AUGUST 13, 2019
Product roadmaps shouldn’t be created with a one-size-fits-all approach; each audience needs varying levels of detail and transparency. The dates you show customers may not be the same ones shared internally, the product development team requires more granularity than salespeople, and a customer-specific roadmap prunes away anything irrelevant to the client in question.
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Automated customer service should be personal
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 13, 2019
Automated customer service isn’t a new concept. We’ve all navigated our fair share of automated phone menus or interacted with support bots to get help. But much has changed, both in usability and customer perception. Voice recognition technology has improved, AI solutions can interpret customer feedback, and chatbots have started to answer the questions they receive, not just pass them off to a human.
Product Management: Leading by Trust
Product Management Unpacked
AUGUST 15, 2019
Greg Coticchia, the executive director of Carnegie Mellon University’s new Master of Science in Product Management program, was recently a guest on The Pitchwerks Podcast , a weekly audio show hosted by Scot MacTaggart that talks about sales, marketing and startups. During the show, the dynamic duo discusses some of the nuances related to a career in product management including why leading by trust is critical for being a great product manager.
How the cloud is reshaping small business productivity
Lead on Purpose
AUGUST 10, 2019
Guest post by Shyamal Parikh According to a research by Cisco, cloud data centers will process 94% of workloads by 2021. Businesses are changing the way they work.
Platform Management by Brandon Chu
Mind the Product
AUGUST 16, 2019
At #mtpcon San Francisco, Brandon Chu, VP of Product at Shopify, provides some insight into what he considers the most interesting challenge in his career: managing platforms. In this talk he shares what platforms can mean for our product strategies, and what his team learned as they discovered how to build a platform at Shopify. What are Platforms?
Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Lean UX author Jeff Gothelf on why design must have a seat at the table
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 15, 2019
? ?. If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. Author Jeff Gothelf sees this all the time in his work as a consultant for medium- and large-sized companies, and it inevitably leads to a culture clash where designers feel unvalued.
1 in 100 #prodmgmt
The Product Guy
AUGUST 13, 2019
Not too long ago I had the pleasure of sitting down with 100PM to talk about my product management experiences and journey. I cover a lot of ground in this podcast, from founders as product people to effective product training to MUCH MORE! Check it out @ [link]. Enjoy! Jeremy Horn. The Product Guy.
Scrum First Principles
The Product Coalition
AUGUST 12, 2019
TL; DR: Scrum First Principles Popularized by Elon Musk, utilizing first principles thinking to solve problems in an innovative, creative, and less biased way has proven popular in the tech community. Given that its sibling empiricism is an integral part of Scrum as a framework, applying Scrum first principles thinking is also a useful exercise. Learn more about how to Elon Musk the Scrum Guide.
The Daily Standup is Broken, What Should You Do Now?
Mind the Product
AUGUST 12, 2019
The standup meeting, or daily scrum, as a team information-gathering staple has evolved into dogma , and especially tech dogma, over time. Not only did it seem like everyone was doing standups as their default way of conveying project context, it felt like there wasn’t an alternative. This was the path of the agile startup, midsize business, and the looking-to-feel-smaller enterprise for many years.
Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know
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.
Practical techniques for increasing team success
Lead on Purpose
AUGUST 15, 2019
Practical techniques for increasing team success Teamwork is a key factor when it comes to creating workplace success. No doubt individuals with incredible talent can accomplish great things on their own.
Focus on the Product Team and Everyone’s Legacy
The Product Guy
AUGUST 13, 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.
Can Product Work Be Done Remotely?
ProductCraft
AUGUST 13, 2019
A lone engineer codes feverishly in a dimly-light room, drinking a caffeinated beverage and typing until their hands hurt. That dimly-light room is located in their home, the perfect environment for writing code. That’s probably what you’d see if I asked you to visualize what an engineer looks like at work. Either that or someone. Read more » The post Can Product Work Be Done Remotely?
Enabling Outcome-Oriented Product Organisations Through OKRs by Sonja Mewes
Mind the Product
AUGUST 16, 2019
While most product people can agree on the attributes of an effective goal, turning them into tangible results is a different story. Goals quickly lose their effectiveness when product teams are not able to link them to the actions of their daily work. However, before you join in the OKR hype, it makes sense to take a couple of steps back. In this MTP Engage Hamburg talk, I use the learning journey of the (fictional) start-up Analytico to walk through the stages of getting started and scaling ob
Exploring PerfDog Whitepaper 2024: Unlock the Power of Performance Testing
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Key Takeaways Robust Platform & Multi-System Support: Brief introduction to PerfDog's extensive compatibility across various operating systems and hardware platforms including Android, iOS, PC, gaming consoles and more. In-Depth Performance Metrics: Quick view of the extensive range of metrics for system, graphics and rendering, user experience, in-depth analysis, and more.
NerdWallet’s CEO on Navigating the Shift from First-Time Founder to Seasoned Exec
First Round Review
AUGUST 13, 2019
NerdWallet co-founder and CEO Tim Chen reflects on the arc of his journey as founder after more than a decade of company building. He shares the six mindset shifts he needed to make to transition from entrepreneur to executive as his startup scaled, weaving together a collection of lessons that will be invaluable for any founder finding themselves at this very same crossroads.
Clear Product Outcomes
The Product Guy
AUGUST 11, 2019
How can you have a great product if everyone is not on the same page. One of the great problems is overcoming the challenge of communication clear product outcomes. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Don Ross.
Are Watch Product Managers Almost Out Of Time?
The Accidental Product Manager
AUGUST 12, 2019
Change is happening and watch product managers need to learn to deal with it Image Credit: Barron Fujimoto. So here’s an interesting question to kick things off: do you wear a watch? Not all that long ago, the answer to this question would have been pretty much “yes” for everyone. I mean, how else were you going to be able to tell what time it was?
How to use email marketing to improve product adoption
Mixpanel
AUGUST 12, 2019
At Mixpanel, we use our product internally to track critical business metrics. We “dogfood” it as much as we can: to measure product use at the account level with Group Analytics , onboard new customers using Mixpanel Messaging , and test subject lines in our blog newsletter. But until recently, we had to rely on Marketo for some email campaigns where “dogfooding” Mixpanel wasn’t the best option.
Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them
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.
NerdWallet’s CEO on Navigating the Shift from First-Time Founder to Seasoned Exec
First Round Review
AUGUST 12, 2019
NerdWallet co-founder and CEO Tim Chen reflects on the arc of his journey as founder after more than a decade of company building. He shares the six mindset shifts he needed to make to transition from entrepreneur to executive as his startup scaled, weaving together a collection of lessons that will be invaluable for any founder finding themselves at this very same crossroads.
What exactly does a Product Manager do? Redefining Product Management function
NextBigWhat
AUGUST 10, 2019
There has been an array of definitions for the product management role – mostly derived from the standard one (shown below), which I believe isn’t the most accurate definition of Product Management role as of today. Product Management Role Definition (courtesy Atlassian blog). That is, product management intersects between UX, Tech and Business functions.
Andreas Klinger on why remote teams have an unfair advantage
Miro
AUGUST 15, 2019
Andreas Klinger on why remote teams have an unfair advantageThe number of remote teams is growing, and they have specific needs. In this market, AngelList, a platform for startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups, has a special position — it has a remote team spread all over the world and also creates digital products for other distributed companies.
Food Delivery Service Market in Japan
freshtrax
AUGUST 13, 2019
Thanks to convenient food delivery services like Uber Eats, Grubhub, DoorDash, and Postmates, we can order food almost anywhere and anytime in the United States. Although the food delivery service market in Japan differs a bit from the United States, residents of major cities in Japan often use quick-and-easy food delivery services to enjoy meals, from lunch at noon to boba tea at midnight.
Product Management Careers: Job Prospects, Pathways, and Must-Have Skills (2024)
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The product management job market in 2024 reflects the fast-growing and ever-evolving nature of the field. For product managers looking to future-proof their careers and take advantage of new opportunities, staying informed about the professional landscape is a smart move. In this comprehensive career guide from Regis College, you’ll learn about: The current job outlook for product managers in 2024 Six professional pathways and the average salaries for these roles in the U.S.
Staying Connected is Key to Your Startup’s Survival — Here’s How to Nail Internal Comms
First Round Review
AUGUST 14, 2019
Even the smallest startups have a lot to gain from getting internal comms right. We've rounded up the Review's six most effective tactics for crafting crystal-clear messaging and facilitating feedback from your most important audience.
The Problem is The Choice: The Frontier of A/B Testing
AB Tasty
AUGUST 14, 2019
Do you run A/B tests on your website? Are you sure you're making the best decisions when it comes to statistical certainty, loss and gain? This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as The Problem is The Choice: The Frontier of A/B Testing.
Product manager vs. project manager: What’s the difference?
ProductBoard
AUGUST 16, 2019
French poet, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, once said, “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” You may interpret this in a way that’s directly meaningful to you. But I think at its core is the idea that leadership and alignment come from creating a vision, setting a course.
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