Intercom, Inc.
APRIL 13, 2018
Great SaaS sales reps can change your entire business. The best ones are efficient, motivated, effective, and creative in how they operate on a day-to-day basis. They have a knack for identifying quality prospects, making strong impressions quickly, and closing deals that seem out of reach. So what is it about these SaaS sales reps that differentiates them from the rest?
Product Talk
APRIL 11, 2018
I get asked all the time, “How much time should we spend in discovery ?”. I have two problems with this question. First, it assumes you do discovery first and then delivery second, which is not true. You should be discovering and delivering all the time. Second, it implies that there is an answer that is true in all situations. There isn’t. You need to do enough discovery to mitigate unacceptable risk.
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Alchemer Mobile
APRIL 11, 2018
Editor’s note: As a follow up to the article from Ashley Sefferman that was written for the 280 Group blog last month, this month we’ve invited Roger Snyder from 280 Group to discuss how to turn the data these metrics provide into real insights to better manage your product strategy. In last month’s article , we learned about 25 different mobile product metrics that can help you better understand customer activity and engagement, conversion and retention, and revenue sources.
UserVoice
APRIL 10, 2018
Constantly comparing yourself to your peers might be silly when you’re in high school, but in the work world, it’s a different story. Keeping tabs on the competition in business isn’t a petty affair. Your company’s ability to know what other players in your market are up to is essential to hold onto your current customers and achieve the growth your stakeholders are counting on.
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.
Intercom, Inc.
APRIL 11, 2018
Like many great inventions, messaging wasn’t born out of necessity. One of the earliest sightings of real-time computer messaging was through a time-sharing operating system built at MIT, the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS), which ran on an IBM 7090: CTSS was a primitive form of email that allowed up to 30 users to send messages asynchronously.
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Mind the Product
APRIL 11, 2018
It pays to be ruthlessly simple about your value proposition. While humans are emotional beings, the reality is they’re more likely to come to your product or service to achieve a clear transactional benefit. Acquire and convert more users by perfecting the most direct path to realizing that benefit. Here we look at a case study of a flash sale platform in the UK called Wriggle ( [link] ) that shows us that simplifying value propositions is an ongoing process that’s key to growth.
UserVoice
APRIL 10, 2018
Constantly comparing yourself to your peers might be silly when you’re in high school, but in the work world, it’s a different story. Keeping tabs on the competition in business isn’t a petty affair. Your company’s ability to know what other players in your market are up to is essential to hold onto your current customers and achieve the growth your stakeholders are counting on.
The Product Guy
APRIL 13, 2018
In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Michael Robinson, lead a conversation around “Product Processes”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Check it out… 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 University
APRIL 7, 2018
When you combine strategic and tactical requirements, you can end up with a bowl of spaghetti or a layer cake. The layer cake approach makes the relationship between strategic and tactical requirements simple for everyone to understand and, believe it or not, a more appetizing dish for the masses. The Playbook: Define requirements using a layered approach to ensure high-fidelity context that makes the WHO, WHAT and WHY elements perfectly clear before you define the technical HOW product requirem
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Mind the Product
APRIL 9, 2018
I love building enterprise systems, because you get to work with your customers/users every day and literally see their lives change as you release new features. In my case, at Zalando , these are systems for fashion buying, supply chain management, inventory management and procure-to-pay processes (e.g. paying our suppliers for merchandise we bought from them).
First Round Review
APRIL 9, 2018
Anita Hossain has a gift for turning conversations into community. Throughout her career, she's found ways to help leaders cut through the small talk and surface what matters.
The Product Guy
APRIL 8, 2018
Thank you to everyone who attended the latest roundtable meet-up of The Product Group and discussed Lean AI w/ Guest Expert, Chris Butler , and debated Featured Product, Clarifai … And, also, thank you to our awesome sponsors who make everything possible…
Mironov Consulting
APRIL 7, 2018
I speak/write incessantly about the importance of product managers talking directly with their users and buyers (collectively “customers”), not mediated through Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, User Experience, or stray notes posted to Salesforce. Direct listening, learning, channeling, empathizing, understanding. Especially at enterprise software companies, though, I meet product managers who never interview any actual users of their products, and who only meet buyers during sale
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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.
Mind the Product
APRIL 10, 2018
Have you ever worried about knowing what to do next for your product? Often, the qualitative and quantitative data you have on hand about your product can provide only a fuzzy outline of what is happening and it can be challenging to know if you’re heading in the right direction. While product managers have a variety of techniques to cope with this ambiguity, from the Mind the Product slack channel to thunderdome-like meetings, one powerful solution is product review.
Pragmatic Marketing
APRIL 9, 2018
Many companies these days claim to be “customer focused,” but there are numerous different ways to engage with clients. Methods include surveys, user group meetings, net promoter scoring, customer advisory boards, reference programs, social media groups, hosted conferences and many more. But how are such programs resourced and measured, and, most important, which programs generate the most value?
The Product Guy
APRIL 13, 2018
Guest Post by: Furqan Hameed (Mentee, Session 5, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Michael Robinson]. Challenge. It is easier to implement scrum at an earlier stage of an organization where it is just beginning to scale. The same cannot be said about large and complex enterprises. With passage of time it becomes more and more challenging to make the transition from traditional waterfall method to agile practices.
Userzoom
APRIL 12, 2018
Here at UserZoom we’re all about bringing the maximum amount of learning to people at any stage of their UX development. Hence we’re bringing you these regular UX beginner’s guides, aimed to help all the newbies of the UX testing world. This is also why we’ve started using words like hence to make us sound learned. This week: card sorting! How does card sorting work?
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.
Mind the Product
APRIL 13, 2018
Sailesh Panchal, CTO at digital payments firm Orwell Group, is an unusual soul. He’s earned the gravitas he emanates from decades in software architecture and technology leadership. However, what makes him stand out is a background in dance and acting, an Equity Card [the hard-won actor’s union card], and appearances in film and TV. This seemingly contradictory background in acting has, he tells me, helped his business leadership in many ways.
Clever PM
APRIL 12, 2018
When most people talk about “vision” they’re evoking a concept of long-term planning, setting big and brash goals that you might or might not achieve, but which set a “north star” by which you can plot the course of your product and company. And while that’s an extremely valuable use of the term, I’ve recently […].
The Accidental Product Manager
APRIL 9, 2018
IKEA is designing products to be modified by their customers Image Credit: Lee Haywood. As product managers we believe that we are reasonably smart people. We know what our customers want. That means that we work with our development teams, design a product development definition, and then we create products that will solve problems for our customers.
Miro
APRIL 12, 2018
Making sense of big data: How OneEvent helps organizations keep their facilities safe and efficient Here at RealtimeBoard, we are passionate about helping other companies be more productive and streamline their product development. We also try to follow them closely on their way to success and share their insights with our readers. Today, we are […].
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Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.
UX Studio
APRIL 10, 2018
Sometimes designers are so busy designing a navigation structure, they forget that most of the people won’t even give a try to the menu. They will just leave your app, if they can’t do what they want on the screen they are. In our recent project with RisingStack we found this problem two times. Let me show it to you. The product: a microservices app.
The Product Coalition
APRIL 10, 2018
Every now and then, it’s interesting to ask: What does a Product Manager (PM) do? The answer of course has some take on: They juggle managing products and people. They need to have technical/processual skills as well as those lauded, but ever elusive, leadership skills. On the people front, there are potential challenges working with different personality types and working styles.
UserInterviews
APRIL 11, 2018
Start your user research early, getting to understand the key pain points you need to solve, instead of asking if users like your solution.
Roadmunk
APRIL 12, 2018
Surprise! It’s a bonus episode of Product to Product ‘s second season , a podcast for / by product people! Listen to the episode below: As we continue to explore the human side of product this season, we’ve paired up with Mike Belsito and Michael Sacca (same first name!), the hosts of Rocketship.FM , for this episode. Rocketship is a podcast that dives into everything from product to growth, design to management and everything in between.
Traditional PM struggles with the complexities of platform ecosystems. B-MAP framework tackles this challenge. B-MAP goes beyond features, focusing on building, managing, adapting, and partnering to foster a thriving platform ecosystem.
UX Studio
APRIL 10, 2018
In this UX case study we show how we designed Sport360.fit. People are paying more attention to maintaining a healthy lifestyle in Dubai as well, but choosing healthy recipes and the right exercise plan can really take a lot of time. Sport360.fit aims to make their audience healthier by listing all the information they need in one place. The scope & the team.
Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog
APRIL 9, 2018
Aaron Allsbrook, Chief Technology Officer at ClearBlade, shares his experience developing industrial IoT solutions at scale. He also talks about the power of Edge Computing and how ClearBlade is leveraging this approach to develop complex industrial applications. Subscribe on iTunes | Android | Stitcher | Tunein | Google Play Topics we discuss in this episode: […].
Product Innovation Educators
APRIL 13, 2018
Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. Agile, Kanban & Scrum for product management in different contexts. Consumer goods, SaaS, enterprise products and others have different product and project management needs. This article describes a few differences and provides a brief introduction to agile-oriented product development… [link]. 8 brand management principles successful product managers sho
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