The Product Guy
OCTOBER 30, 2017
From The Best Product Person of 2016, Chris Butler, …. Looking Forward. 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. Take a moment and congratulate The Best Product Person of 2016: Chris Butler. ( tweet ).
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
As demonstrated with her TED talk we are all cyborgs now Amber Case has a pretty unique perspective on how technology impacts people’s’ lives. With clients, Amber regularly has to reign in their ideas – such as the smart fridge, which she sees leading us towards the Dystopian kitchen of the Future. Petnet.io is another example she conjures up, which is supposed to feed cats and dogs remotely.
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Product Innovation Educators
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. Join me at the annual PDMA conference, Chicago Nov 12-15. Five educational tracks and 30+ sessions. I’m co-presenting with John Spero from Praxair on how organizations effectively and simply accelerate their product capability.
First Round Review
OCTOBER 31, 2017
Patty McCord created the famed 'Culture Doc' that became Netflix's foundation. Here, she talks about how to make honesty everyone's default.
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
The Product Guy
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Addi Regev, lead a conversation around “Agile in the Real World”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! View the live stream…. 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.
Product Management Today brings together the best content for product management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Product Innovation Educators
OCTOBER 30, 2017
Adding win-loss analysis to your product management toolbox may be the single most effective change you can make. I love it when listeners suggest topics to explore on this podcast. One of those is win-loss analysis. This traditionally is considered a sales tool to understand why a customer chose or rejected a product. However, savvy product management groups recognize it as vital analysis for improving products and the customer experience.
Product Management University
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
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The Product Guy
OCTOBER 28, 2017
If you are a great product person looking for a great product job, or vice versa, check out our job board. Thousands of employers across all areas of product, from management to design, from digital to physical, are looking to fill positions from our community. Each week we highlight some of the recently posted openings. Check out this week’s newest, below….
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
Our team is building a product for just one person. Unbelievable! Who is this person? His name is Eric. Eric is a senior developer at a medium-sized software company. With a smooth career path and eight years industry experience, Eric is considered a successful engineer. Eric loves coding and is passionate about new products. Radiohead is his favorite rock band.
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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
UX Studio
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
Working on a product without a decent product vision resembles going into the street with eyes closed. To advance a product (or life) direction helps keep things going and makes actions meaningful. On the other hand, a Product Owner has the responsibility for leading and guiding others as well. The PO needs to keep business plans and customer requests in mind while motivating everyone to work towards a common goal.
Product Management University
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
The B2B Product Manager Magazine October 2017 is now available. In this issue we discuss the value of listening as one of the most overlooked sales skills, and the value of business conversations. We also examine product usability and its impact on revenue, plus sales demo tips. Be sure to check out our brand new lineup of advanced training programs.
Generation Focus
OCTOBER 31, 2017
A/B testing is a crucial element in any startup foundation. Even the big dogs on the block use it. For example, in 2012, a Microsoft employee working on Bing came up with an idea for how to display ad headlines. Unfortunately, the idea was pushed to the bottom of the priority list by program managers working on the project. Six months later an engineer saw the project, and noticing the low cost of writing the code for it, decided to do a bit of A/B testing.
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
What do you do when your customer is not your user ? Courtney Wylie , VP Product and Marketing at MentionMe, talks to ProductTank London about how to deliver value for all parties by building a business model which aligns with the interest of your users. Don’t Keep a Special Swimlane for Client Requests. You have to be realistic. Some client requests are OK.
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Clever PM
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
During this year’s ProductCamp Seattle, I sat in on a great presentation by Dave Manningsmith where he discussed several dysfunctions of the daily standup ceremony (or “ritual” as he referred to it) that so many of us participate in on a daily basis. And it really made me think a lot about just how badly […].
Tim Herbig
OCTOBER 31, 2017
While my full wrap-up of this week’s Productized Conference I wanted to share an interesting thought with you, which got presented by Atlassian’s Claire Drummond and Dragana Boras. When their team recently rolled-out the excellent new version of Confluence, they established a <5 opt-out rate from the new design as their KPI to optimize for in the … Continue reading "Why your next KPI to optimize for should be an opt-out rate".
Balsamiq
OCTOBER 30, 2017
Gregory Wolanski is an active writer about UX and recently published an article about his use of Balsamiq called "When and how I use Balsamiq". In it, he calls Balsamiq "an elegant digital napkin.". The post focuses on how it can be used to quickly sketch out alternate views for design proposals without getting hung up on unimportant details. Gregory writes "I can use the time I would spend on exploring 3 approaches in high fidelity to explore 7 paths in Balsamiq.".
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 31, 2017
As a product manager, one of your key goals is to solve your customers’ problems. Listening to your customers is the best way to get to know their problems and current methods, and then you can brainstorm for a solution. But how do you start? The process of working up an idea and developing it into a workable product isn’t linear and straightforward.
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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.
UserInterviews
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
Create a screener survey right from the start to capture the very best study participants
The Product Coalition
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
Would you want to be the smartest person in the room? What if you had the choice between that and having the most emotional intelligence in the room? Now layer on that you would be the primary decision maker in the room. What would you pick now? The answer shouldn’t be and isn’t so clear. Most things in life aren’t black and white; they are gray. Personally, I would want to have both, some combination that works for my personality.
Revulytics
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
It’s a familiar storyline these days. Software customers have many choices and high expectations, and as such, even the most established installations could fall to a more agile competitor. It’s against that backdrop that the term “customer-obsessed” has ascended in importance. What does it mean to be customer-obsessed? As Cliff Condon of Forrester Research makes the analogy in this video , i t’s like being that really intense sports fan, and the customer is your team. “ You need to be able to r
Johanna Rothman
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
I have finally finished recording the videos for my writing workshops. See. Writing Non-Fiction Workshop 1: Enhance Your Business and Reputation (Q1 session starts Jan 2018). Writing Non-Fiction Workshop 2: Secrets of Successful Non-Fiction Writers (Q1 Session starts Jan 2018). The first workshop is about building a habit of writing. If you want to help people see the value in your writing, this workshop will help you express it.
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.
The Accidental Product Manager
OCTOBER 30, 2017
Has Twitter lost control of its most valuable asset? Image Credit: Pietromassimo Pasqui. Hopefully you are well aware of just who Twitter is. The micro blogging service has over 313 million monthly users (just think about adding that to your product manager resume). If you turn on just about any television program, they are always talking about what is being discussed on their Twitter feed.
dscout People Nerds
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
Leadership consultant Lisa Stefanac on knowing when to push and when to pause.
Bryce York
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
The cloud is a *terrible* backup strategy! Let’s cover why and what you should be doing instead. (spoiler, you need a dedicated backup solution ). Have you ever wiped a hard drive? Or had a virus clean out all your data? If you’re anything like me, I bet you have. Of course, this is a much rarer thing than it was in the mid-2000s. Remember the days before Dropbox and other cloud services?
TSIA
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
Whether you’re in a traditional industrial equipment, hardware, or healthcare technology company, digital transformation is having a drastic impact on the way your business is run. We’ve explained the details of each step along this transformation journey in our ebook, “Why Services is the Big IoT Opportunity for Hardware Manufacturers,” but what does that mean for executives who need to know how to approach the implications of the Internet of Things (IoT) from a high-lev
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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.
UserInterviews
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
Create a screener survey right from the start to capture the very best study participants
Balsamiq
OCTOBER 30, 2017
Gregory Wolanski is an active writer about UX and recently published an article about his use of Balsamiq called "When and how I use Balsamiq". In it, he calls Balsamiq "an elegant digital napkin.". The post focuses on how it can be used to quickly sketch out alternate views for design proposals without getting hung up on unimportant details. Gregory writes "I can use the time I would spend on exploring 3 approaches in high fidelity to explore 7 paths in Balsamiq.".
Bain Public
OCTOBER 29, 2017
This year, by partnering with Founder Fuel , Founder Institute and D3 Innovation Center I set a lofty goal to undertake pro bono advisory work. I gave over a hundred hours of advisory services in the startup interest. Including to individuals, fast scaling tech companies and incubator groups. I did so for the pedagogic value of enhancing my product and business related skill sets.
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