The Secret PM Handbook
JULY 13, 2018
What are your goals? A product organization has three overarching goals: Deliver great value to our customers. Do it quickly, efficiently, and with high quality. Do it better over time. A product organization that achieves those goals is much more likely to be successful. Your methodology, your process, is a means to an end. It's not the end in itself.
Hutwork
JULY 10, 2018
Most on the customer side of product development don’t see the long days and hard nights that go into creating an amazing product. Your product’s success is much like an iceberg. The bulk of the berg (what actually happens) lies beneath the calm waters and your customers see only the shiny tip (your product) sticking out. The following infographic depicts what you can expect to experience when creating your product.
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Intercom, Inc.
JULY 9, 2018
Shipping product fast and often means more opportunities for Sales to delight customers and engage with prospects. But your sales team needs a lot more than an email on launch day to maximize the opportunities that product launches present. Here at Intercom, Sales Enablement is responsible for ensuring sales reps have the skills and resources they need to capitalize on product launches.
280 Group
JULY 10, 2018
For our next installment of the Women in Product Management Series I interviewed Corey Fiedler, VP and Head of Product Management at Broadridge. To read the entire series on Women in Product Management make sure to sign up for our newsletter. What attracted you to Product Management? My first role after graduating with my M.B.A was as a project manager for a small Fintech company where I was employee number 15.
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.
UserVoice
JULY 10, 2018
The latest generation of entrepreneurs has contributed its share of buzzwords and mantras to the business lexicon with mixed results. We all now know “unicorns” aren’t just mythical horses. “Disruption” is a legitimate strategy for a company trying to break into a new market… and a legitimate fear for those already making money there. And, of course, we know the best way to hone your business.
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Intercom, Inc.
JULY 11, 2018
The problems people encounter in their lives rarely change from generation to generation. The products they hire to solve these problems change all the time. If you’re building a new product, it’s because you believe you can create a better solution that people will want to use because it delivers a better outcome. A strong understanding of the outcome customers want , and how they currently get it, is essential for you to succeed in product development.
The Product Guy
JULY 12, 2018
Guest Post by: Eric Kiang (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Paul Hurwitz]. A product manager has a tough role, there are many responsibilities and arguably all of them are important. However there is one thing every product manager must do, but often times it gets overlooked or forgotten. A product manager needs to talk to their customers, period.
Clever PM
JULY 12, 2018
Even though it’s been around as a formal role in software organizations for nearly 20 years (or more, depending on who you talk to), Product Management still struggles with a lot of definition problems — what is the role, how do we grow, when do we get promoted and to where, etc. One of the […].
UX Studio
JULY 11, 2018
Want to improve shopping cart abandonment rates in your online store? Not sure why your customers leave the site before the last step? A question we often hear: what are some web checkout page best practices? Are there some rules to follow? So many articles cover the rules. For us, Rule Number One is: Don’t just blindly follow these. Always study the audience and design your web checkout process specifically to their needs.
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Intercom, Inc.
JULY 9, 2018
Shipping product fast and often means more opportunities for Sales to delight customers and engage with prospects. But your sales team needs a lot more than an email on launch day to maximize the opportunities that product launches present. Here at Intercom, Sales Enablement is responsible for ensuring sales reps have the skills and resources they need to capitalize on product launches.
Miro
JULY 12, 2018
Building products in distributed teams: 12 learnings from our first meetup in SF Reshaping Teamwork: Building & Scaling Products with Distributed Teams San FranciscoJune 20 On June 21, we hosted the first-ever “Reshaping teamwork” meetup in San Francisco. Together with our guests Eventbrite’s Pete Lim, Upwork’s Jessica Tiwari and Pivotal’s Aloka Penmetcha, we talked about building products in […].
The Product Guy
JULY 9, 2018
Thank you to everyone who attended the latest roundtable meet-up of The Product Group and discussed Breaking Into Product Management and debated Featured Product, Emissary.
Mind the Product
JULY 11, 2018
Consultant Özlem Yuce discusses the importance of team diversity when building products, and the impact of a non-diverse team on product development. Wet Suits and Shirley Cards. Not so long ago the prevailing wisdom for developing products for women was to “pink it and shrink it”. Nowhere was this clearer than with wet suits. Designed to fit men like a glove, women were left with uncomfortable, ill-fitting garments that didn’t protect them the same way.
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.
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 10, 2018
In order to make bootstrapping work, you need to be scrappy, ruthlessly prioritizing your actions and avoiding non-essential expenses. Having one tool that helps you do all your most important work – sales, marketing and support – makes life so much easier. We’ve been pretty vocal about our love for Intercom as we’ve grown Ad Reform and Userfeed , our profitable, bootstrapped SaaS businesses over the last year.
Pragmatic Marketing
JULY 12, 2018
Here is a reader story about horrible pricing. Unfortunately this is far too common. I thought you might appreciate my recent foray into a pricing battle with my horse boarding facility. A lady lives on and owns a gorgeous horse farm. She agreed to let me board my horses for $250 month per horse. The barn is basic, not fancy and with no other amenities other than a sand arena, so that was a fair price.
ProductBoard
JULY 12, 2018
Today we announced our Series A: an $8M round of funding led by Kleiner Perkins, one of the world’s most iconic venture capital firms, with participation from inspiring product visionaries – the founders of Intercom, InVision, and Envoy. Below I’ll speak to how we got here and where we’re headed. You can also check out the official release announcement.
Mind the Product
JULY 12, 2018
This week’s Product Warrior podcast, supported by Mind The Product, discusses the concept of the Lean methodology and helping teams adopt an experimental approach. Silicon Valley Lean startup coach Tristan Kromer helps product teams to move fast through experimentation. He writes articles and e-books at [link]. In this episode I chat with Tristan about: What is Lean?
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The Accidental Product Manager
JULY 9, 2018
We do love our Doritos Image Credit: 0Four. When we think about all of the exciting product manager jobs that are out there, one of the ones that always seems to come to mind are the people who are in charge of the big soft drink products. One of the largest is Pepsi and those product managers must be working hard every day to try to keep the market share that they have and win even more.
Pragmatic Marketing
JULY 12, 2018
Here is a reader story about horrible pricing. Unfortunately this is far too common. I thought you might appreciate my recent foray into a pricing battle with my horse boarding facility. A lady lives on and owns a gorgeous horse farm. She agreed to let me board my horses for $250 month per horse. The barn is basic, not fancy and with no other amenities other than a sand arena, so that was a fair price.
Revulytics
JULY 11, 2018
Oracle’s sales tactics have garnered attention recently, with a series of high-profile stories alleging that the tech giant is using audits to force cloud products on customers in exchange for a break on compliance costs. The end game is that even if they don’t want it, or use it, cloud adoption is reflected in Oracle’s numbers. For people who have been in this space for a while, this news is less interesting for its reminder of Oracle being Oracle (or even for its demonstration of the difficult
The Product Coalition
JULY 13, 2018
TGI Friday’s TGI Fridays have wholeheartedly embraced the rapid change in the digital ecosystem. They have probably paid more attention to offsite experiences than the rest of their competitors in the casual dining space and are now able to offer a sophisticated, personalized experience to diners. TGI’s customers can use Alexa to order their food and also pay for their order through Amazon Pay.
Speaker: Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product, Statsig
Experimentation is often seen as an aspirational practice, especially at smaller, fast-moving companies who are strapped for time and resources. So, how can you get your team making decisions in a more data-driven way while continuing to remain lean and maintaining ship velocity? In this webinar, Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product at Statsig, will teach you how to build an experimentation culture from the ground-up, graduating from just getting started with data-driven development to operating
Product Club
JULY 7, 2018
Product Manager interviews are like running the gamut: you need to impress everyone from engineering to design (and sometimes execs too!). As a result, attempting to prep for the wide range of varying questions you might face is daunting. Faced with that challenge, one exercise can be extremely helpful: a product deep dive. Running a product deep dive builds your knowledge and insight around the product and provides a foundation to build on.
Miro
JULY 10, 2018
What you need to know about human perception to be great at presentations One of the most important factors that contribute to a team’s efficiency is communicating your ideas in the right way. Visual presentations (which can be easily created in RealtimeBoard) are probably the most widespread way to share your ideas, so we decided […]. The post What you need to know about perception to be great at presentations appeared first on RealtimeBoard Blog.
Roy Madden
JULY 10, 2018
Join the Feedly Lab. The Feedly mobile app was created during the Google Reader shutdown storm. During the past 5 years, the app has delivered on its promise and helped millions of curious minds connect to their favorite sources and topics on the go. Today we are launching an initiative called the Mobile+AI Lab. In our minds, this is an opportunity to work with you, the Feedly community, to create a faster, simpler, and smarter Feedly.
The Product Coalition
JULY 9, 2018
Companies spend pots of money on several marketing channels, reaching out to customers to sign up to their service. But does it make sense to throw 10$,15$ or 20$ ads at a new customer, when they only stick around for a few days or months? The answer is probably no. So before spending money on acquisition, it’s essential to fix your churn (“leaking bucket”) and check your retention rate.
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Product Innovation Educators
JULY 9, 2018
Becoming a product leader is simpler than you might think. If you have ever had to explain what you do as a product manager to people you work with, you are in good company. Most product managers find this necessary. Further, the role means different things in different organizations. The leaders of your organization may have a perspective of the role that is not really accurate, or as I have seen more often, they don’t understand the leverage the role provides them.
Balsamiq
JULY 13, 2018
We recently began doing 1-on-1 video interviews as part of a user research initiative, which we described in a post a few months back called User Research: How to Start Talking to Your Users. It's been such a rewarding process to spend an hour with a real customer talking about their real problems and how they use Balsamiq for a real use case. This is the kind of thing that analytics will never tell you.
Product Warrior
JULY 9, 2018
As a lean startup coach, Tristan Kromer coaches product teams all over the world to experiment and improve their product or business model. He blogs at [link]. In this podcast we chat with Tristan to get his insights and framing of using lean methodology in day to day product management. As always a big thank you to MindTheProduct and Knowit for supporting us.
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